New York City’s marketing industry thrives at the intersection of finance, media, and innovation, offering brands unrivaled access to global media networks, high-profile campaigns, and cutting-edge digital strategies.
New York City is a powerhouse in finance, media, fashion, and advertising. Home to Wall Street, global media giants, and top consumer brands, it’s a hub for both corporate leaders and fast-growing startups. The city’s Silicon Alley has fueled innovation in fintech and e-commerce, attracting brands seeking cutting-edge marketing strategies.
This environment has shaped a marketing industry that excels in both traditional and digital approaches. NYC agencies are known for high-profile, integrated campaigns, leveraging deep media connections and sophisticated brand storytelling. With nearly every major PR and advertising firm in the city, brands gain access to expansive media networks and global amplification opportunities. Meanwhile, the city’s startup scene has driven the rise of agile digital agencies specializing in influencer marketing, performance-driven advertising, and rapid brand scaling.
NYC agencies masterfully blend classic brand-building with modern digital tactics. They create multi-channel campaigns that incorporate PR, social media, influencer marketing, and experiential activations—an approach ideal for brands looking to make a bold statement. This is why Times Square campaigns and media-driven product launches are common strategies for companies seeking mass visibility.
For fintech, e-commerce, and fast-evolving industries, agencies focus on performance marketing, AI-driven targeting, and growth hacking to optimize customer acquisition. Given NYC’s financial sector dominance, many agencies also specialize in B2B marketing, crafting strategies that navigate complex sales cycles and regulatory landscapes while delivering measurable ROI.
With top global brands headquartered in NYC, local agencies have extensive expertise in large-scale launches, crisis management, and trend-driven marketing. The city’s fast-paced media environment means they excel at staying ahead of cultural shifts and leveraging real-time opportunities to maximize brand relevance.
NYC-based marketing agencies offer unparalleled expertise in high-stakes, competitive industries. Whether launching a global brand campaign or executing a targeted fintech strategy, these agencies combine strategic storytelling with data-driven insights to deliver impactful results.
With one of the world’s highest concentrations of marketing firms, NYC agencies have direct access to top media outlets, key industry influencers, and premier creative talent. Their strong ties to finance and venture capital also make them valuable partners for brands looking to scale. While NYC agencies often come at a premium, the exposure, press coverage, and strategic partnerships they facilitate can significantly accelerate business growth.
Headquarters
New York, New York
Founded
2009
Company Size
25
Catch New York is a growth agency that provides strategic, creative, digital, media, and analytical marketing services for clients of all shapes and sizes. Since its founding in 2009, the agency has served a disparate mix of clients including Nike and HPE, the Carlyle Group and Fortress Investments, as well as Northwell Health, Curaçao Tourist Board, Loews Hotels, Eau Palm Beach, Cardtronics, Harris Interactive, And1, Avia, and the Partnership for a Healthier America, among many, many others.
Specialized Sector Agency (Hospitality Marketing)
Headquarters
New York, New York
Founded
2011
Company Size
50
We are a boutique, interdisciplinary digital agency that works with hospitality brands to fulfill their unique potential in the digital space. Located in the heart of Soho in New York City, our team of experts balance the most striking design, the best content, and the most effective performance. Our approach starts with the foundation of a strong brand narrative that will inspire customers from the discovery of the brand, all the way through brand advocacy. We communicate this narrative through an interconnected digital system of branding, social, content, and website. This approach to brand narrative makes the difference at key points of conversion, enriches the on-property experience, and pushes engagement after guests have left. Our expertise in this industry has us well-aware of the rising competition in travel. The strengths that differentiate us from other agencies are what will differentiate your brand from the competition, setting you apart in an increasingly saturated market.
Headquarters
Brooklyn, NY
Founded
2014
Company Size
2
Melty Cone is a video production company in NYC providing video marketing services in New York and worldwide! Our videos get you more customers because video marketing works. Video accounts for 80% of all internet traffic. As a video marketing agency our main goal is to get your core messages in front of your target audience in attention grabbing, effective videos that will engage and attract clients and customers.
We create marketing, advertising, commercial, corporate, social, digital, animated, explainer, educational, internal, customer testimonial, tutorial and mobile videos for companies, businesses, agencies, brands, organizations, nonprofits, and startups across all industries. Our videos are made for social (Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, TikTok), web, mobile, TV, email and live events. As a full-service video production company, we make videos from start to finish; from creative idea conception to final video delivery. Our entertaining, engaging, informative, beautiful marketing videos help you engage, impress and get more customers, clients, investors, employees and donors.
Being located in NYC, we work with the best crew employees and actors in the world, outside of LA. The crew and actors/models are the most important part of a video shoot and elevate the video to a much more professional level that viewers will notice. Many of our crew and actors have attended the best film schools in the world and have worked on big budget commercials, movies and television shows. This higher quality is what differentiates us from other video production companies.
We are a minority owned business that values great service, diversity, transparency, collaboration, authenticity, strong client relations, honesty, and delivering quality video content on-time.
Known is built on a foundation of two decades of data science, advanced analytics and pioneering technology, all of which power our acclaimed strategy and world-class creative teams. We’re setting a new standard for modern marketing by leveraging the most sophisticated end-to-end operating system for the most innovative brands in the world. The result? Marketing that is predisposed to succeed and scientifically optimized to profoundly impact our clients’ businesses. We do what we do in the most efficient, effective and transparent ways -- and we have a lot of fun doing it, together.
Headquarters
New York, NY
Founded
2002
Company Size
69
Hello. We’re Yard NYC, a proudly independent, beautifully effective creative company that turns brands into cultural beacons. We create category-defining work that builds long term value for what we call 'brand beacons'.AdAge Small Agency Winner 2018, 2020 and 2021Some of the brands we've had the please to partner with include:Amazon, Athleta, Bed Bath and Beyond, Campari, Converse, Crate&Barrel, David Webb, Equinox, Gap, Isopure, John Varvatos, La Mer, Leesa, Nars, NYRR, Olly, P&G, Schutz, Tanqueray, Three's Brewing, Timberland, Tumi, USTA, Walmart
Headquarters
New York, New York
Founded
2001
Company Size
67
Whether it is a headline-grabbing publicity stunt in Times Square or a strategic brand partnership, at MAG we pride ourselves on finding new & exciting formats for connecting brands with their target audience. Product launches, digital integrations, and national tours are just a few of the ways we inspire audiences to act.
And we do it all in house.
Experiential Marketing We design and execute experiential marketing campaigns of all sizes, including stunts, national tours, pop-up shops, product launches, drive-to-retail tactics and B2B programs.
Event Production We produce every type of corporate event possible, among them Upfronts & Newfronts, cocktail receptions, galas, fundraisers, awards dinners & press events – handling all aspects from venue to scripting to stage management and everything in between.
Digital & Social Our approach integrates digital & social into every live event we produce. From microsites to Digital Brand Ambassadors, we ensure everything happening offline has an equal presence online. Through our partnership with leading Social Influencer Database, HYPR, we offer turnkey social influencer programs.
Specialized Sector Agency (Entertainment Marketing)
We’re a fully integrated creative and media agency born out of the world of culture and entertainment.We combine the art of design and storytelling with the science of data and technology to respond to the complex challenges brands face in today's fragmented landscape.Our work is about your audience and what gets them going. It’s about big ideas and real results. In real time.In a nutshell, we put the entertainment in advertising—creating experiences, brands, content, and campaigns that people actually seek out, enjoy, and share.
Specialized Sector Agency (Fashion Marketing)
Headquarters
New York, NY
Founded
2006
Company Size
24
VMGROUPE is a full-service agency unlike any other. We are your group. An extension to your internal team. Creating desire and achieving transformative growth for leading and high-profile brands. We service luxury and high-profile brands, specializing in beauty, fashion, jewelry, horology, fragrances, fine foods, wine & spirits, real estate, automotive, aviation, tourism, and hospitality.In this digital era, we deliver exceptional branding, memorable content, compelling storytelling, high conversion, and transformative growth. Elevating brands since 2006.
Headquarters
Patchogue, New York
Founded
2011
Company Size
26
fishbat is a New York City-based full-service digital marketing agency specializing in improving visibility, driving impact, and offering creative solutions to modern marketing challenges. We take a holistic approach to brand and marketing across all digital channels to offer strategic solutions that reach the right audience on the right channels at the right time with a message that connects and drives action.
Fueled by a deep seeded passion and creative spark, we are not your average full-service marketing agency. As individuals, we’ve been growing brands for over 20 years. From industry keynote speakers to Forbes contributors, our team consists of several well-established players in brand marketing and marketing communications—traditional, digital, and everything in between. We’re seasoned professionals who have no trouble helping your brand swim with the big fish, just like we helped Pepsi, The American Heart Association, Unaprol, Silver Fern Farms, Mattel, and many others like you.
We don’t just dive in without thinking. We put the user experience at the forefront of everything we do, working to ensure that we understand each user’s unique journey, all of their pain points, and what drives them to convert. We then infuse that strategic thinking into the foundation of every project, every campaign, and every piece of content we create.
Creating shareable, magic moments that inspire action is what we do best. Our strategic approach meets a solution-based mindset in each of our core digital marketing services.
When you team up with us, we become one with your company. We embrace your cause and invest our expertise and passion in devising strategies that ensure you are set up to reach your goals.
Headquarters
London, England
Founded
1996
Company Size
2721
Mother is one of the world’s most respected, independent creative companies. We started around one table with three people, all of whom shared the washing up. 26 years on, Mother has offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Shanghai and Berlin. From fast moving retailers and brands with global scale, to local jewels with local needs; we create ideas that are embraced by popular culture and deliver more powerfully as a result. Our ambition is to be a destination for the most creative minds in the world - this includes our clients.
Headquarters
New York, NY
Founded
2012
Company Size
35
We're a female-founded and led team of experts that's setting the new standard for how brands communicate and resonate through digital marketing. With offices in New York City and Miami, Socialfly has produced award-winning work for brands across all industries, including Girl Scouts, Discovery, WE tv, Conair, Slimfast, NEST Fragrances, 20th Century Fox and Univision.
Headquarters
New York, NY
Founded
2007
Company Size
37
Boucher + Co. is a digital strategy agency based in New York City. We create lasting impact for brands utilizing creative content, digital marketing strategy, and business consulting services. Driven by analytics, insights and tons of market research, our creative work reflects originality while staying focused on creating our clients long-term value.We help our clients make the right decisions in today's digital world. With a well-rounded team of diverse, creative in-house talent, B+C is servicing a wide span of consumer and business brands across a range of verticals. Strategic, creative, emotionally-compelling marketing is the foundation of what B+C delivers to clients everyday through our core competencies:Social Media Strategy & MarketingDigital Media PlacementPay-Per-Click AdvertisingSearch Engine MarketingEmail MarketingBrand Identity & Development
Headquarters
New York, NY
Founded
2011
Company Size
55
Based in New York City, THE CHARLES was founded by Aaron Edwards and Samantha Edwards in 2011. Driven by their respective passion for culture, creativity, business strategy, finance and technology, they sought to create a digital-first agency that would do things differently.Born and raised in St. Kitts, Charles Alfred Sealay was Samantha and Aaron’s great- grandfather. He was a popular man who transcended the boundaries of race and class inequality to make a success for himself and his family.Naming the agency after him, the siblings hope to leave a legacy behind for years to come.