Strong on both Core Competencies and 360-Performance. These firms have proven track records, deep specialisation, and solid client outcomes. Default recommendation for most buyers.
Top Media Buying & Planning Agencies
Goodfirms has reviewed 3,799 Media Buying & Planning Agencies as of September 2026 across 102 countries. The top-ranked firm is SmartSites (4.9 stars, 16 verified reviews, $100 - $149/hr, founded 2011, Jersey City). Across the category, the median hourly rate is $37, median client rating is 4.8, and 17% of firms employ 50+ members. Explore the vetted Media Buying & Planning Agencies companies below, compare their strengths, and connect with the provider best suited to your requirements.
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List of the Best Media Buying Companies & Planning Firms
The LMB Marketing Group is dedicated to helping businesses thrive through personalized, data-driven marketing strategies. We act as an extension of your team, providing big-business expertise tailored to your unique needs. Our hands-on approach ensures long-term growth, focusing on building lasting partnerships and delivering measurable results. We don’t just execute campaigns; we craft strategies that ... read Upwynn Marketing reviews & insights
$50 - $99/hr2 - 92024Orlando, United StatesDMI is purpose-built to reinvent business for a connected world. Customer-centric and agile in all that we do, we drive modern transformation through a unique, integrated approach to innovation, UX, web, and app development, omni-channel commerce, analytics and machine learning, IoT, and secure device and app management.
$150 - $199/hr1,000 - 9,9992002Bethesda, United StatesIngenia is a digital-first marketing agency that helps brands use technology to find and connect with their clients. We create value through technology and inspired creativity, and most importantly, we deliver this with great service. It might sound cliché, but it drives everything we do. The business of building a strong brand has changed. If ... read Ingenia Agency reviews & insights
$50 - $99/hr50 - 2492002Boulder, United StatesWHAT WE DO: Inspired by the simplest element in the universe, Hydrogen Advertising harnesses the power of simplicity to help local, regional and international advertising clients succeed. HOW WE DO IT: Simple: with strategy, creative, and marketing. Our 3C’s strategic method leads us to a key takeaway that is ownable, relevant and stands out from ... read Hydrogen reviews & insights
$50 - $99/hr10 - 492001Seattle, United StatesMarketing is no longer about selling. It’s about connecting. Merely pushing out content to mass audiences isn't enough. We create success by establishing and sustaining shared connections. But how? Our ideas are derived from smart leaders who’ve honed their expertise in the most relevant way possible — helping clients succeed over and over again. GreenRubino ... read GreenRubino reviews & insights
$100 - $149/hr50 - 2491977Seattle, United StatesThe Martin Group is a leading integrated communications firm headquartered in downtown Buffalo with offices in Rochester and Albany, NY. At The Martin Group, our thinking doesn’t just sit and think. It moves—consumers to take action, people to care and organizations forward. It motivates people. To buy. Sell. Act. Act differently. Different changes minds…and then ... read The Martin Group reviews & insights
< $25/hr50 - 2492001Buffalo, United StatesBrandmint is a content-first advertising and digital marketing agency that focuses on helping businesses grow through strategic storytelling and performance-driven campaigns. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Rochester, New York, the company specializes in creating integrated marketing ecosystems that combine content creation, paid advertising, and brand strategy to drive measurable results. The agency offers a ... read Brandmint reviews & insights
< $25/hr2 - 92014Rochester, United StatesWe are an integrated marketing agency that helps our clients discover and amplify the compelling truth in their brands and then share those truths through powerful, varied experiences across all media and throughout the customer journey. Ultimately, we create PathwayBrands that build trust, show the way and inspire confident decisions. And we’ve been doing it ... read Burdette Ketchum reviews & insights
$25 - $49/hr10 - 491996Jacksonville, United Statesredpepper is a creative agency and Innovation Lab. We started evolving in this direction years ago, when agencies everywhere were trying to understand how to keep up with changing technology. This was our way of diversifying. We knew the ever-changing marketing landscape was not something to try to tame, but to make friends with, and ... read redpepper reviews & insights
$50 - $99/hr10 - 492001Nashville, United StatesBe Authentic /// Brasco /// is an award-winning creative agency that engages audiences through purposeful brand strategy, advertising campaigns, and metric-driven execution. We like to say "Be Authentic", a mantra that motivates our team, real relationships and develop unique brand experiences that make an impact. Armed with 10 years of client successes in a variety ... read Brasco /// reviews & insights
$50 - $99/hr10 - 492008Raleigh, United StatesWe’re a little different from a traditional marketing agency. We don’t just meet with your team for one hour and prescribe a healthy dose of digital advertising. Instead, we examine over 20 marketing & PR channels, integrate your existing data, develop and rank viable ideas for each channel, then create a phased marketing strategy to ... read Nettra Media reviews & insights
NA2 - 92018Fresno, United StatesAt The Firm Public Relations & Marketing, our unique combination of big picture thinking, smart people, creative ideas and the unrelenting drive to see your company succeed makes us an invaluable and powerful partner. Our staff of senior level consultants quickly immerses themselves in your business, develops a targeted and customized strategy and mobilizes at ... read The Firm Public Relations & Marketing reviews & insights
NA50 - 2491993Las Vegas, United StatesThere are plenty of agencies to choose from. There are plenty of creative creators creating awesome creations. And quite a few of those creators proudly call Satori home. Yet what makes Satori, Satori, is our ferocious customer service. When you call, we answer. We get it. You’ll need someone you can depend on for quality ... read Satori Marketing reviews & insights
NA10 - 492007Houston, United StatesWe provide big agency talent, experience and service, without the big agency attitude, layers and exorbitant fees. We are firm believers in complete transparency and zero pretense. It's a business model that has worked very well for us over the past forty-plus years. A true partnership, where there are no walls, no secret agendas and ... read Creative Dimensions reviews & insights
NA10 - 49Cincinnati, United StatesBA specializes in innovative and measurable advertising campaigns to engage families via retail (QSR & CPG), healthcare (hospitals & wellness products) as well as digital TV, family entertainment and sporting goods. In addition to traditional advertising services and shopper marketing, DBA provides integrated expertise in emerging social and digital media including branded entertainment, digital TV ... read Daniel Brian Advertising reviews & insights
NA50 - 2491992Rochester Hills, United StatesSWIDIA is a performance marketing agency that helps modern companies grow. We bring together the best-in-class to help solve your growth bottlenecks with full-funnel testing and engaging ad creatives. This provides your brand a foundation to produce results at scale.
NA10 - 492018Chicago, United StatesAmeredia is a cross-cultural marketing communications firm that partners with brands to extend their marketing communications within niche, high-growth, consumer segments like Hispanics, Asians and Europeans. The award-winning tradigital agency is uniquely positioned to manage multicultural brand growth utilizing traditional and digital channels to cover the broad spectrum of America's ethnic demographics. Talk to us ... read Ameredia reviews & insights
NA2 - 92003San Francisco, United StatesWe do everything you’d expect from a creative agency; we’ve just erased the lines between the strategy, media and creative departments. Everyone on our team has fully functioning left and right brains, so we all wear multiple hats. No tight-fitting knit beanies, however. Those are stupid. If we haven’t met, we are Most Likely To. ... read Most Likely To reviews & insights
NA10 - 49San Francisco, United StatesWe’re not here to steal the show; simply here, to keep you looking good. At our core, we’re problem solvers; and more accurately, challenges. Problems don’t exist; challenges do. And we are experts at eliminating these challenges by analyzing the situation, diagnosing the cause and applying a solution. As financial analysts, we want to know ... read Arm Candy reviews & insights
NA10 - 492019Dallas, United StatesWE ARE A CERTIFIED MINORITY AND WOMAN-OWNED AGENCY THAT IS COMMITTED TO DELIVERING AUTHENTIC AND CULTURALLY RELEVANT DIGITAL STRATEGIES AND COMPELLING STORYTELLING CAMPAIGNS THAT RESONATE WITH MULTICULTURAL AUDIENCES. OUR CORE OBJECTIVE IS CENTERED ON ORGANICALLY ENGAGING AND CONNECTING WITH YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE, ENSURING THAT YOUR INVESTMENT IN US TRANSLATES INTO TANGIBLE, LASTING RESULTS THAT POSITIVELY ... read SDP DIGITAL reviews & insights
NA2 - 9Los Angeles, United StatesAdvantage Interactive is a results-driven digital marketing agency specializing in performance marketing, brand strategy, and full-service digital solutions. With expertise in both cutting-edge digital strategies and proven traditional marketing techniques, we engineer success for businesses across industries. Our services include SEO, PPC, social media marketing, web development, content creation, and conversion optimization, ensuring our clients ... read Advantage Interactive reviews & insights
$25 - $49/hr2 - 92024Tampa, United StatesWe are knowledgeable but curious, diverse but united, joyful but hard to satisfy, consistent but experimental, wide-ranging but focused, respectful but irreverent, successful but encouraging of failure, wise but forward thinking. Founded in the summer of 2020, and run by volunteers across all departments, SDTF’s mission is to promote Saatchi as a progressive institution by ... read Saatchi & Saatchi reviews & insights
$50 - $99/hr250 - 9991992El Segundo, United StatesStrike Marketing, is a full-service TEAM that is deeply engaged in the Houston market. For over a decade, our media-services agency has created strong networks and partnerships with a variety of clients in many different industries. We care about our clients, what they do and their missions. We have a long-term vision to become part ... read Strike Marketing reviews & insights
$25 - $49/hr10 - 492002Houston, United StatesMedia Link, Inc., has been providing advertising and strategic communication services for over 20 years. With 20+ years of knowledge and experience, we know how to connect the spots for each and every platform. We provide the research and data you need. After that, we create your message and make a fast delivery, from advertising ... read Media Link Inc. reviews & insights
$150 - $199/hr2 - 92001Rock Island, United StatesUSA Marketing Hub helps brands move beyond empty promises and into guaranteed visibility that actually delivers results. As a best PR agency and trusted digital PR agency, we provide article marketing services, cameo marketing, and times square marketing that place brands in front of premium audiences. With high-impact billboards hub campaigns and a focused usa ... read USA Marketing Hub reviews & insights
$300+/hr250 - 9992001Jersey City, United StatesUsing AI Tools
ChatGPT
Mark X Media is a Top Rated Digital Marketing Agency working with global brands & businesses with 7+ years of proven experience. businesses grow through data-driven SEO, performance advertising, social media marketing, web development, and creative design. Trusted by brands globally and ranked as the top digital marketing agency in Pakistan, Mark X Media brings ... read Mark X Media.Agency reviews & insights
$25 - $49/hr10 - 492019Wyoming, United StatesWhy Mark X Media.Agency?
- Provides Professional SEO Services
- No 1 digital Marketing agency
- Provides Professional Web Development services
CCOM Group is presented as an advertising and media firm with service offerings that span media planning and buying, public relations, digital strategy, social media marketing and video production. The company profile also lists multiple advertising formats, including connected TV/OTT, broadcast, out-of-home, print, programmatic and radio. The supplied evidence consists of these service categories without ... read CCOM Group reviews & insights
$50 - $99/hr50 - 2492001Miami, United StatesTEAM LEWIS is a global marketing agency built to inspire growth. It provides a full spectrum of marketing, communications and digital services to deliver tangible business impact for clients and causes. The company has offices throughout APAC, EMEA and North America.
$100 - $149/hr250 - 9991995San Diego, United Statesredthread is a creative advertising agency in the heart of the Silicon Prairie that solves unique brand challenges using innovation and collaboration. Forged in 2014, what began as freelance work for local businesses evolved exponentially into a full-fledged operation specializing in brand strategy, campaigns, video, design, social, and experiential marketing.
$25 - $49/hr2 - 92014Lincoln, United StatesAckermann Marketing & PR, ranked by PR Week and the Council of PR Firms as one of the top 100 firms in the United States for three consecutive years, is a nationally focused, full-service agency. Since its beginning, the firm has focused on delivering integrated marketing and communications services to assist clients in achieving their ... read Ackermann Marketing & PR reviews & insights
$100 - $149/hr10 - 491982Knoxville, United StatesDovetail solutions is a one-of-a-kind public relations, branding and positioning firm based in Denver. We specialize in strategic communications, crisis communications, issues management, media relations, social media, internal communications and our unique Strategic Community Investment. Our campaigns integrate our clients company into the communities they serve, promoting their business and leveraging their reputation. Our firm ... read Dovetail Solutions reviews & insights
< $25/hr2 - 92005Denver, United StatesAllison+Partners is a new kind of global communications agency. With 30 offices and more than 450 employees worldwide, we’re large enough to handle complex assignments, yet small enough to be nimble in our approach. With one global P+L, we can put the best people on our clients’ business, regardless of location. The agency is organized ... read Allison+Partners reviews & insights
NA10 - 492001Seattle, United StatesAM:PM PR is a family-owned public relations agency. We help organizations tell their stories, manage issues, market products and services, understand key audiences and execute effective communications strategies. Our practice centers on strategy with proven ability to develop effective key messages and tactics. Well-planned strategies, based on solid research and a deep understanding of key ... read AM:PM PR reviews & insights
NA50 - 2492010Portland, United StatesOur award-winning experience over 20 years can help your business go to the next level.Seattle Digital Marketing specializes in strategic digital marketing solutions. Our services include SEO, Digital Marketing, Google Ads, Social Media Management, and Web Design, and Branding.
$50 - $99/hr10 - 491992Seattle, United StatesRLS Group is a full-service advertising agency located in Jacksonville, Florida offering marketing communications, Web site design, digital marketing, and public relations solutions. We bring together the creative energy and experience you need to help you achieve your advertising, marketing, website and social media marketing goals.
$25 - $49/hr2 - 92000Jacksonville, United StatesOur creative makes an impact, builds brands, and deliver results. We are a branding and strategy agency for forward thinking companies. We are an entrepreneurial creative agency. We are best suited for those who want to work directly with the principals, for companies who don’t have time to deal with bureaucracy, for those who insist ... read Lacayo Advertising reviews & insights
< $25/hr2 - 92005Jacksonville, United StatesHow creative help you to build a world-class business and brand that attracts greater wealth and opportunities.
NA02 - 9Topanga, United StatesThe Growth Shark digital marketing agency was created for forward-thinking marketers, entrepreneurs, business owners, and non-profits interested in learning more about brand storytelling, how to build a strong digital foundation to help you create a message that inspires. Whether you’re digitally savvy or a novice small business owner, we really think we can offer you ... read The Growth Shark reviews & insights
NA2 - 9Detroit, United StatesSocial Czars provides elite and discreet online reputation management and online repeutation repair services for global brands and C-suite executives.
NA50 - 249Jersey City, United StatesD&A Communications (D&A) is an equity-first, full-service integrated communications and public relations agency, based in San Francisco for over 30 years. Under the leadership of Darolyn Davis, D&A was among the first communications firms in the nation to explicitly integrate the core values of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) into all of its communications ... read D&A Communications reviews & insights
NA10 - 491996San Francisco, United StatesSW Marketing and Consulting is a bilingual, full-service marketing and advertising agency based in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, founded in 2017 by Jessica Jordan. The agency specializes in helping businesses connect with English- and Spanish-speaking audiences through strategic marketing, multicultural campaigns, and data-driven advertising solutions. SW Marketing and Consulting combines big-agency strategy with cultural expertise ... read SW Marketing and Consulting reviews & insights
$50 - $99/hr250 - 999Las Vegas, United StatesRHBlake is a top B2B Manufacturing marketing agency that's been helping organizations in the manufacturing ecosystem grow faster through more effective marketing strategies and programs.
$100 - $149/hr10 - 491987Beachwood, United StatesThe strength of a good story is not to be dwarfed even in an industry that thrives on numbers. We give reassurance that parties can sustain a relationship with the clients and stakeholders through good communication. We do not do mere promotions, we develop profound stories that clearly and consistently state what your value representation ... read ARRO Communications reviews & insights
$25 - $49/hr2 - 92013Florida City, United StatesUsing AI Tools
ChatGPT
OF-Defend is an online reputation defense and brand protection company helping businesses, founders, professionals, executives, and public figures build a stronger and more credible digital presence.We help clients understand how their names, brands, and businesses appear across search engines, online platforms, and AI driven discovery experiences. Our approach combines reputation management, search visibility, digital PR, ... read Of - defend reviews & insights
NA2 - 92024Sheridan, United StatesWhy Of - defend?
- Proactive Reputation Protection
- Stronger Search & AI Visibility
- Strategies Built Around Your Brand
Who We Are Medici + Maestro is a tenacious, tenured brand marketing agency that is rooted in rich legacy and expertise. Curious, cunning and creative, we activate marketing fueled by intersectional innovation. Why Medici? Medici refers to the famous Italian banking family that ruled Florence from the 15th to 18th century, and who were mostly ... read Medici + Maestro reviews & insights
$50 - $99/hr10 - 492013Norristown, United StatesInternet Marketing Ninjas is probably best known as the worlds best link building company. But we are a premier, full-service Internet marketing agency
< $25/hr50 - 2491999NYC, United StatesSimple Truth is a creative branding agency with a passion for helping our clients build their businesses. We spark audiences to action through clear and honest creative solutions. Let us help you harness your brand’s power for greater success.
$25 - $49/hr10 - 491996Chicago, United StatesGo West Design launched in 1997. We have a vast knowledge and experience in software applications, coding languages, browsers and one of the most important areas today: SEO – search engine optimization. Color, speed and design are our playground. Come play with us, we guarantee you will like it. We are always on the learning ... read GO West Design reviews & insights
$25 - $49/hr50 - 2491997Santa Fe Springs, United States
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Deeply specialised but with moderate market presence. Often the right pick when specialisation matters more than scale - boutique shops with deep technical chops.
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