Best Social Media Marketing Agencies in 2026

Likeable has run social for brands since 2006, when Dave and Carrie Kerpen founded it in New York. In 2025 longtime executive Honey Cantrell bought it back from 10Pearls, and it now describes itself as female-led and employee-owned. Its compact offer covers social strategy, photo and video production, community management, and paid social combined with influencer work, for clients such as Peloton, Capital One, Hilton and Great Wolf Lodge.

Sociallyin sells only social: strategy, community listening, in-house production through Sociallyin Studios, paid social, influencer sourcing, a LinkedIn social selling team and a newer Reddit practice. Samsung Display has outsourced its social operation to the agency for seven years, and three of its community managers handled about 270,000 comments for Carnival. Founded by Keith Kakadia in 2011 and now based in Atlanta, it holds a 4.8 Clutch rating across more than seventy reviews.

Fresh Content Society, founded near Chicago in 2014 by former community manager Scott Emalfarb, is organic-first and unusually comfortable with trucks, tools, coatings and rentals. It reports more than 95 million organic video views for LINE-X and roughly 250 million for PEAK antifreeze, alongside consumer work for KFC, Samsung and Hilton. Senior strategists run every account, and it tells clients to expect organic traction in 60 to 90 days.

Viral Nation began in Toronto in 2014 as a creator talent agency and grew into a full social and creator marketing company, backed by a $250M financing round in 2022. It runs influencer campaigns, organic social, community management and paid social on its own software: CreatorOS for creator workflow, VN Secure for brand-safety screening and SocialAI for analytics. Clients include Amazon, Google, Samsung, Uber and Walmart, and it reports 69.2M views for one Uber programme.

Favoured is an employee-owned London agency, founded in 2019 by George Sharpe and Andy Willers, that buys paid social on Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and Snapchat and makes the creative in-house, from UGC-style clips to motion graphics. It reports £500K in Durex UK sales from TikTok and 49% more Teapigs sales through Meta ads. It holds a 4.6 rating across 39 Clutch reviews, and a $1,000 minimum keeps it open to smaller brands.

farsiight is a Brisbane paid media agency, set up by brothers Josh and Ben Somerville in 2017, that runs paid social on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn next to Google Ads, with performance creative made in-house so ads can be refreshed quickly. It holds a 5.0 average from 80 Clutch reviews, reports a 3.5-year average staff tenure, and works with Simpro, Go1, BlackMilk Clothing and EHP Labs. It also publishes original research on Australian B2B paid media.

Firebelly has run social from Indianapolis since 2001 and now works exclusively with food and beverage brands. Its small team, about fourteen people led by founder Duncan Alney, handles social strategy, short-form video, creator and UGC programmes, paid social and a newer retail media practice. One launch combined founder storytelling, creators over 40 and geo-targeted ads around Publix stores; the agency reports peak weekly Publix sales up 462% and notes a price cut contributed.

Social Driver is a Washington, DC agency founded in 2011 by Thomas Sanchez and Anthony Shop that pairs social and digital marketing with website builds and policy-style communications. Its work spans the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, Society for Science and the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, and for convenience chain Dash In it reports average monthly engagement of 20% on Instagram. MBE, DC CBE and NGLCC certifications help buyers with supplier-diversity targets.

Admiral Media is a Dubai-based agency that makes the ads and buys the media in one team, running paid social, paid search and app-store optimisation for mobile apps, gaming, ecommerce and dating brands. It lists app clients such as Fastic, NeuroNation, ChatPDF and TIER, and offers AI creative packages with a stated starting price per ad. It holds 49 Clutch reviews at 4.9 and a $5,000 minimum, and works with international clients remotely.

Brenton Way is a Los Angeles growth agency whose social media marketing sits alongside SEO, paid advertising, influencer marketing and digital PR. It names plastic surgery and aesthetic clients on its own site, including SY Aesthetics and Nassif MD, and also serves technology and consumer brands. Clutch shows 42 reviews averaging 5.0, with communication and proactiveness cited most, and a $5,000+ minimum. It has offices in Los Angeles and New York.

LYFE Marketing, founded in Atlanta in 2011, makes social media management about 70% of its work and publishes its prices: social management and advertising start at $600 a month, with typical management running $650 to $1,000 depending on platforms and posting frequency. It covers content creation, scheduling and monitoring across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest and X, and says it has worked with more than 5,000 businesses.

Good Rebels traces its roots to a Madrid creative boutique founded in 1997 and now runs as a hub of specialist teams covering social media and engagement, performance media, analytics, design, content and PR, with staff across Spain, the UK and Mexico. Its client list leans toward large brands such as Repsol, Telefónica, Toyota, Santander and Decathlon, and its software arm, Kuantik, released an AI Rank tool at the end of 2025.

White Rivers Media is an independent Mumbai agency, founded in 2012, whose craft is social: always-on content, creator programmes, short video and campaigns backed by media buying. A large part of its work is film and streaming marketing, including releases such as RRR and Netflix shows such as Delhi Crime, for clients including Netflix India, Disney Star and Sony LIV. Its Capital-Z unit researches Gen Z behaviour to feed creative.

Schbang is a founder-owned Mumbai agency, launched in 2015, that grew past 1,000 staff by building social content and campaigns on top of in-house film production, media buying, research and technology teams. Its clients include Tata Neu, Tata Capital, Akasa Air, Britannia and Mentos. In 2022 it said 90% of its business came through retainers, with typical fees between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 15 lakh a month.

Clearwater is a Melbourne agency founded by Glenn Lockwood in 2012 that blends social strategy and creative with paid media across Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube. Its social portfolio includes Häagen-Dazs, Old El Paso, Betty Crocker and Kumon, and it took first place for Best Use of Search at the 2025 Global Search Awards. It holds a 5.0 rating from 11 reviews and works with government, education and charity clients as well as retail.