Top Cleveland Advertising Agencies

Researched by:Goodfirms Research TeamUpdated:September 11, 2026

Goodfirms has reviewed 19 Cleveland Advertising Agencies as of September 2026. The top-ranked firm is Brokaw (0.0 stars, 0 verified reviews, $150 - $199/hr, founded 1992, Cleveland). Across the category, the median hourly rate is $75, median client rating is 0, and 16% of firms employ 50+ members. Explore the vetted Cleveland Advertising Agencies companies below, compare their strengths, and connect with the provider best suited to your requirements.

You need to understand your business's requirements before you choose the services from an online advertising company in Cleveland. Determining your marketing needs before picking from Cleveland's top advertising companies would be best. A criterion that you should analyze first is how their marketing strategies match your company's requirements. Secondly, you can appoint them a small task to ensure hiring them will be fruitful for your firm. Moreover, deciding on a budget is also crucial, as spending on an agency that does not match your needs is not worth it. Goodfirms has listed below the best advertising agencies in Cleveland with their services and client reviews to make it feasible for you to examine and pick among them.

19Verified firms
$75/hrMedian hourly rate
0 ★Median rating
16%Have 50+ members

Goodfirms has verified 19 Cleveland Advertising Agencies - part of 8,082+ Advertising Agencies & Ad Companies, each passing Goodfirms' 4-step verification process (background check, client interviews, portfolio audit, ongoing quality review). Listings marked "Sponsored" are agencies that pay for premium placement - sponsorship does not affect star ratings or review content.

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List of the Top Cleveland Ad Agencies

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  • Brokaw Inc., named Agency Spotter’s #1 Advertising Agency in the U.S. this past January 2018, is a global marketing, advertising, and design firm that specializes in helping brands rise above the blah blah—including GE Lighting, Sbarro, Great Lakes Brewing Company, Tim Hortons, PURELL, TravelCenters of America, and Cayman Jack Margaritas. A former Ad Age Small ... read Brokaw reviews & insights

    $150 - $199/hr
    50 - 249
    1992
    Cleveland, United States
  • We hang out at the intersection of brand and digital Marcus Thomas is a fully integrated marketing communications agency focused on audience insight, idea generation and alternative delivery. We focus our digital DNA and organize our research, account service, creative, media and public relations teams in four communities of practice: CPG, B2B, Home & Garden ... read Marcus Thomas LLC reviews & insights

    $100 - $149/hr
    50 - 249
    1937
    Cleveland, United States
  • We bring together innovative thinkers and advocates in creative ways that benefit our clients and help them achieve success. Our clients gain access to a vast network of unique and influential leaders who we draw on for ideas and different perspectives and who often serve as our partners. Our team provides you with a “one-stop ... read R Strategy Group reviews & insights

    NA
    10 - 49
    Cleveland, United States
  • Advance Ohio is an exciting digital company with a start-up personality that provides a suite of cutting-edge solutions that help a wide range of businesses reach their marketing goals. We use data to implement industry-proven solutions to drive measurable results for our customers. Advance Ohio is part of Advance Local, the leading provider of news ... read Advance Ohio reviews & insights

    NA
    250 - 999
    2016
    Cleveland, United States
  • Hoffmann Murtaugh is a leading independent, woman-owned media agency with offices in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Harrisburg, and Rochester. We amplify media plans. The Hoffmann Murtaugh media team has collective experience that spans various industries and media disciplines, with expertise in a wide array of targets, markets, product lines, and campaigns for national and local clients alike. ... read Hoffmann Murtaugh reviews & insights

    NA
    10 - 49
    2004
    Cleveland, United States
  • shark&minnow is a business & marketing consultancy that makes the complex simple. Core offerings include: research & insights, strategic planning, design & marketing communications. The firm was founded by husband & wife duo, Chief Executive Officer Hallie Bram Kogelschatz and Chief Strategy Officer Eric Kogelschatz (veteran marketers of brands such as Cadillac, Ford, Progressive Insurance, ... read Shark & Minnow reviews & insights

    NA
    2 - 9
    2013
    Cleveland, United States
  • Avalanche creates bespoke marketing campaigns that drive real results.We work with clients across the globe, but our headquarters are in Cleveland—a city of innovation, resilience, and community.Located in beautiful Cleveland, OH we work with clients around the globe. We're not your run-of-the-mill agency. We focus on getting our clients results. Period.

    $100 - $149/hr
    10 - 49
    2017
    Cleveland, United States
  • Lake Digital® is a preferred B2B digital partner for global brands, achieving measurable growth with inbound marketing and sales, search engine marketing, paid media and data integrations. As a HubSpot Solutions Partner for 7+ years, the team at Lake Digital supports clients with results-driven campaigns, finding and scaling revenue opportunities, measuring performance and facilitating high-value ... read Lake Digital reviews & insights

    $100 - $149/hr
    2 - 9
    2017
    Cleveland, United States
  • Recess Creative is a full service, digital advertising and integrated marketing agency in Cleveland, OH. We're a collection of energetic problem solvers, hell-bent on creating insight-driven solutions that yield measurable results for our clients. Great Work Takes “Whatever It Takes.” For us, that’s meant camping out at truck stops for “impromptu” chats with long-haulers. Or ... read Recess Creative reviews & insights

    $50 - $99/hr
    10 - 49
    2009
    Cleveland, United States
  • TWIST is a full-service agency. Our ideas influence culture, create conversations, advance objectives and energize commerce. We consult, advise, plan and imagine with our clients to help them identify, claim, expand and defend their market position. We are adventurous spirits and fearless thinkers. We are the architects of the big, must-have conversations for brands, causes, ... read TWIST Creative, Inc. reviews & insights

    $50 - $99/hr
    10 - 49
    2000
    Cleveland, United States
  • Nesnadny + Schwartz’s standing as one of the most influential and innovative design firms in the country has fueled the extraordinary growth of the company. Over the last decade, their work has been hailed internationally as “ground breaking.” Their clients’ projects have been honored with more than 1,700 international, national, and regional awards in the ... read Nesnadny + Schwartz reviews & insights

    NA
    2 - 9
    Cleveland, United States
  • But our founding in 2007 was certainly no laughing matter. With baby number three and a recession on the horizon, we launched with one client and a hankering to create elegant, flexible and bold web sites, marketing pieces and identity systems right here in Cleveland, Ohio. Born and bred. Yes, we stayed.

    NA
    2 - 9
    2007
    Cleveland, United States
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    ROJEK Consulting is a leading marketing consulting firm specializing in the advertising industry search and sourcing as well as agency performance review services recognized within the industry for our expertise.We help our clients make confident decisions when hiring their advertising agencies and marketing suppliers of all types, resulting in high performance teams who love to ... read Stewart Marketing LLC dba Rojek Consulting reviews & insights

    $200 - $300/hr
    10 - 49
    1990
    Cleveland, United States

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    • Trusted for our core values based approach
    • Excellent track record for client-agency success
    • Viewed as best in class industry experts
  • Linear Creative is full-service, independent marketing agency in Cleveland, Ohio with an expanding office in Columbus to serve our growing client base. We make the marketing process easy for our clients. We can act as a support arm to your marketing department. Or, we can act as your entire marketing department. From à la carte ... read Linear Creative reviews & insights

    $25 - $49/hr
    2 - 9
    2003
    Cleveland, United States
  • thunder::tech is an integrated marketing agency that works across industries throughout the middle-market. Our team members specialize in website development, social media strategy, marketing automation, web optimization, digital advertising, print collateral, logo & identity design, video & animation, and content strategy.

    $50 - $99/hr
    10 - 49
    1999
    Cleveland, United States
  • We are a creative, design agency that tackles our clients’ business needs by providing visually engaging solutions. Our purpose is to use our talents to lift the burden of finding creative answers off the shoulders of our clients. By combining thoughtful ideas, good design and a collaborative approach with our clients, we help them achieve ... read JAC Creative reviews & insights

    $25 - $49/hr
    2 - 9
    2013
    Cleveland, United States
  • Creative marketing solutions that work. Marketing services should make you look good. Our technology-driven, cross-media approach will make you KNOWN. Grow your business with us. QUÉZ MEDIA MARKETING is proud to be a minority business enterprise (MBE)

    $50 - $99/hr
    10 - 49
    2009
    Cleveland, United States
  • Water Bear Marketing is the Advertising With Intelligence® ad agency leveraging our proprietary technology and targeting capabilities across the USA. We have a variety of advertising products in our AdPantry®, we offer a 24/7 accessible & transparent reporting dashboard, and from beginning to end, you get a team of both an Advertising Consultant and Campaign ... read Water Bear Marketing reviews & insights

    NA
    2 - 9
    2018
    Cleveland, United States
  • Launched in 2019 by founder Michael A. Robinson, Adept Creative is a premier full service digital marketing and design agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Our single-focused mission is to provide the most comprehensive offering of digital marketing services enhanced with cutting edge technology. Our team has years of marketing experience working in a number of ... read Adept Creative reviews & insights

    $100 - $149/hr
    2 - 9
    2019
    Cleveland, United States

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Ranked by a composite blending firm count (supply), average rating (quality), and average hourly rate (cost). Affordability is weighted highest (50%), so this surfaces genuinely affordable destinations - not just the biggest markets.

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USCleveland18$95/hr-48View firms
USCleveland
18 firms$95/hr
Value Score48 / 100

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Look for nearshore LATAM partners - same-day collaboration, similar time zones, and 50-60% cost savings vs domestic.

MXMexico~7h overlap
ARArgentina~6h overlap
BRBrazil~5h overlap
CACanada~8h overlap
If you're in Europe (CET/GMT)Recommended

Eastern Europe is your sweet spot - 1-2h time zone shift, EU GDPR alignment, and 40-50% lower rates than Western Europe.

PLPoland~8h overlap
UAUkraine~7h overlap
RORomania~7h overlap
ZASouth Africa~8h overlap

How firms are placed on the matrix

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X-axis (Core Competencies): Service Focus Ratio + Portfolio Depth + Quality + Experience
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Y-axis (360-Performance): Client Reviews + Market Presence + Goodfirms Score
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Missing signals are excluded from a firm's score, not substituted with defaults - weights redistribute across remaining inputs
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Recency decay over the last 18 months keeps stale reviews from dominating
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Eligibility floor: ≥ 1 published review in this category scope

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Cities with the best Value Score for advertising hiring.

Ranked by a composite score blending firm count (supply), average rating (quality), and median hourly rate (cost). Affordability is weighted highest (50%), so this list surfaces actually affordable destinations rather than just-big markets.

Mid-tier leader
Cleveland · $50-99/hr

4 firms in this tier - more than any other city. Top picks: Recess Creative, TWIST Creative, Inc., thunder::tech.

Top tier leader
Cleveland · $150+/hr

1 firms in this tier - more than any other city. Top picks: Brokaw.

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Every cell in the grid above is the count of firms in (place × hourly-rate tier). Firms are placed by their published hourly rate; those without a disclosed rate are not plotted.

Top company names per cell are surfaced by Value Score - a weighted blend of affordability (50%) + rating (35%) + review volume (15%).

The "Best" ribbon marks the cell in each row where firm density, ratings, and affordability line up best - the densest, highest-quality combination.

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Value Score · per firm
ValueScore = 0.50 × Affordability
+ 0.35 × Rating
+ 0.15 × Review Volume
// All sub-scores normalized 0-100
// Affordability = (1 - rate/$200) × 100
// Rating = (rating - 3) / 2 × 100
// Volume = log10(reviews+1)/log10(200) × 100

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