Our expert analysts researched and ranked the top branding agencies in California that help businesses form a strong identity and foster customer loyalty. You can filter listings by team size, reviews, budget and city to find the right fit for your business needs.

Best California Branding Agency Rankings

8 Companies - Rankings updated: September 10, 2026

Every agency on DesignRush meets evaluation criteria around expertise and client feedback to empower informed choices. Some listings include paid partnerships.

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  • VSA Partners

    We believe creative is currency. And we help brands turn it into business growth.

    VSA is a brand strategy and creative agency. We believe creative is currency, and we help brands turn it into business growth. By bringing strategy, design and marketing together, we build brand systems and campaigns that deliver speed to market, cultural relevance and measurable performance...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Design Services
    • Content Marketing
    • Web Design
    • Web Development
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    100 - 249
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
    Portfolios Count
    20 Projects Listed

    VSA Partners Services

    • Branding
    • Design Services
    • Content Marketing
    • Web Design
    • Web Development
    • Video Production
    • Digital Marketing
    • Advertising
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    • Google Cloud
    • Chime
    • FactSet
    • BNY
    • Affirm
    • SAPPI
    • Invenergy
    • Northern Trust
    • McAfee
    • Nike
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    5.0 5.0 (3)

  • Hawthorne Advertising

    We Make Smart Brands Smarter.

    Hawthorne Advertising is a full-service brand response advertising agency headquartered in Los Angeles. We are woman-owned, privately held, independent and innovation driven...

    Top Services:

    • Advertising
    • Direct Marketing
    • Content Marketing
    • Digital Marketing
    • PPC
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up

    Hawthorne Advertising Services

    • Advertising
    • Direct Marketing
    • Content Marketing
    • Digital Marketing
    • PPC
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Video Production
    • Branding
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    • LeafFilter
    • Western Digital SanDisk
    • Credit One Bank
    • Los Angeles Times
    • Angie's List
    • Netspend
    • Norton LifeLock
    • Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    • Gerber Life Insurance Company
    • GuideWell Connect
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile
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    5.0 5.0 (1)

  • Gershoni

    Expert Dream-Builders

    Gershoni Creative Agency's diverse team of professionals partners with brands to unleash their potential. We specialize in empowering new brands and revitalizing legacies, utilizing our cross-industry experience to help organizations. From revolutionary startups to venerable institutions—achieve ambitious...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Print Design
    • Logo Design
    • Advertising
    • Content Marketing
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up

    Gershoni Services

    • Branding
    • Print Design
    • Logo Design
    • Advertising
    • Content Marketing
    • Digital Marketing
    • Digital Strategy
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile, its website, and other relevant accounts
    • Google
    • Deloitte
    • San Francisco Art Institute
    • Laura Chenel
    • Women's Media Center
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile

    Gershoni Reviews & Testimonials

    • Samuel Gesten
      Samuel Gesten Review from Google
      5.0 ★

      Samuel Gesten's Review Sourced from Google

      Amy is the best. If you have the opportunity to work with her company take it!

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    3.7 3.7 (6)

  • Sans Serif

    Your Favorite Meeting of the Day.

    Solving complex communication challenges and making it feel easy. We make brand-aligned communication beautiful, intuitive, strategic, and effective...

    Top Services:

    • Graphic Design
    • Web Design
    • Creative Services
    • Logo Design
    • Digital Strategy
    • Show more
    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $250/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up

    Sans Serif Services

    • Graphic Design
    • Web Design
    • Creative Services
    • Logo Design
    • Digital Strategy
    • Branding
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile, its website, and other relevant accounts
    • Autodesk
    • Applied Materials
    • BILL Holdings Inc
    • Charles Schwab Corporation
    • Cisco
    • Intuitive Surgical, Inc
    • Johnson Controls
    • Kateeva
    • Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile
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  • Oui Will

    We Make Your Brand Just the Way You Imagine!

    Oui Will is a digital agency that builds influential brands and innovative digital products with a focus on the "Tech for Good" sector. The agency operates in San Diego and Paris and has received over 20 awards in the past year...

    Top Services:

    • Product Design
    • Logo Design
    • Digital Services
    • Branding
    • eCommerce Development
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    Location
    San Diego, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $300/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up

    Oui Will Services

    • Product Design
    • Logo Design
    • Digital Services
    • Branding
    • eCommerce Development
    • Web Design
    • UI/UX Design
    • Web Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • Software Development
    • Digital Strategy
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile, its website, and other relevant accounts
    • Rivian (Electric Adventure Vehicles)
    • Kanarys (Diversity
    • Grand Image
    • Amaió Swim
    • Burton Studio
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  • EIGHT25MEDIA

    Designing Success Through Strategic Web Solutions.

    EIGHT25MEDIA is a leading web design firm in Silicon Valley, ranked #1 in 2017. Their strategic approach to web design focuses on technology companies, media publications, and e-commerce. They specialize in strategic consulting, web design and development, and digital marketing and branding...

    Top Services:

    • Web Design
    • Web Development
    • UI/UX Design
    • Digital Strategy
    • Creative Services
    • Show more
    Location
    San Jose, California
    Number of Employees
    100 - 249
    Average Hourly Rate
    $149/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up

    EIGHT25MEDIA Services

    • Web Design
    • Web Development
    • UI/UX Design
    • Digital Strategy
    • Creative Services
    • Branding
    • Content Marketing
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile, its website, and other relevant accounts
    • WeWork
    • Machine Zone
    • NEXTracker
    • Cloudian
    • and others.
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile

    EIGHT25MEDIA Reviews & Testimonials

    • Jordan Ambron
      Jordan Ambron Review from Google
      5.0 ★

      Jordan Ambron's Review Sourced from Google

      EIGHT25MEDIA has been a pleasure to work with. Gishan and his team have been incredible throughout the process and post-launch of the website. They are the best web development team I've ever worked with. I could not recommend them enough. They are #1 in a lot of review for a reason. They are responsive, knowledgable, and go above and beyond for their clients. We love our website.

    • Malinga Fernando
      Malinga Fernando Review from Google
      5.0 ★

      Malinga Fernando's Review Sourced from Google

      EIGHT25MEDIA was responsible for our business web design. They helped us end-to-end with our design, strategy and SEO. The whole Customer Success team has been incredibly helpful and responsive to the questions our team have had. Their advice and guidance has been thorough and concise. We would definitely recommend EIGHT25MEDIA to others.

    • Megan Folkman
      Megan Folkman Review from Google
      1.0 ★

      Megan Folkman's Review Sourced from Google

      My company had a pretty horrible experience with this company! They overpromised and underdelivered, the project management experience was clunky, confusing and repetitive, there was a lot of work on the part of the client to complete (when you're paying $25K you'd expect it to be seamless). Topics during conversations were forgotten, instructions had to be repeated multiple times. Upon completion, we allowed one of our freelancers access to the coding and she deemed it "lazy coding." The whole experience was very unfortunate!

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    3.7 3.7 (9)

  • Marketri

    AI Marketing Accelerator.

    Looking to increase your company's profits? Marketri is here to help! Our strategic marketing consulting and Fractional CMO firm works on an outsourced basis with early-stage and middle market B2B companies, offering predictive, measurable programs that are designed to push growth. Let us guide you today...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Marketing
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Email Marketing
    • CRO
    • Content Marketing
    • Show more
    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $199/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up

    Marketri Services

    • Digital Marketing
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Email Marketing
    • CRO
    • Content Marketing
    • SEO
    • Branding
    • Public Relations
    • Digital Strategy
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile, its website, and other relevant accounts
    • Accel Management Group
    • Fres-co System USA
    • Delaware Valley Trusts
    • FourQ
    Data sourced from the agency's DesignRush profile

    Marketri Reviews & Testimonials

    • David Bradshaw
      David Bradshaw Review from Google
      5.0 ★

      David Bradshaw's Review Sourced from Google

      As a client of Marketri, we at Northstar PMO continue to be thoroughly impressed with their strategic marketing services. From the outset, we valued their structured and methodical approach to truly understanding the nuances of our business. This deep dive allowed us to formulate a comprehensive and tailored marketing plan that perfectly aligned with our goals. The quality of the materials and content our Marketri team produced for us has been exceptional. Thanks to their expertise, we now have a significantly more polished and professional online presence. We are seeing real, tangible results from these efforts. We also want to acknowledge the people behind the success. A special thank you to the Founder, Debra Andrews, for her consistent support and strategic oversight. Furthermore, the collaboration with our delivery team, Katie and Brita, is outstanding. They are consistently responsive, insightful, and truly felt like an extension of our own team. Northstar PMO highly recommends Marketri to any organization seeking a knowledgeable, collaborative, and results-oriented marketing partner.

    • Steven Collins
      Steven Collins Review from Google
      5.0 ★

      Steven Collins's Review Sourced from Google

      As an earlier stage company, we were in need of expertise in building our marketing strategy, presence and brand, but did not have the ability to invest in building out a full marketing function. The Marketri Fractional CMO offering has been perfect for us as we have been able to leverage best in class expertise at a fraction of the cost of a full internal marketing function. During our engagement with Marketri, they helped us develop a full strategy to build out our brand consistent with our deep-seated mission, vision and values. Among many other things, Marketri helped us build out a fully functional website and web presence. Their social media experts got us firmly established as a social media powerhouse in our space, creating valuable exposure for the company. Their digital expertise and adoption of technology is superb. They also have provided us the tools needed to grow and expand our business in a strategic manner, and the ability to measure results. The entire team is super impressive, providing valuable advice and expertise, while also extremely pleasant to work with. They listen, collaborate, advise and implement with exceptional skill. They have my highest recommendation!

    • Lanie Raphael
      Lanie Raphael Review from Google
      5.0 ★

      Lanie Raphael's Review Sourced from Google

      We have partnered with Deb Andrews and her team for the last few years. They did an amazing job helping us navigate the process of rebranding and identifying our 'voice' for our marketing style. Each year, we work together to layout a roadmap for our content strategy and they keep us on track during our regularly scheduled meetings. The Marketri team is very collaborative and truly an extension of our team.

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    5.0 5.0 (16)

  • Innovation Protocol

    Transformative Brand Strategy and Design

    Innovation Protocol is a brand strategy and design consultancy that develops insights-driven brand systems and activations to help clients articulate their identity and significance. They offer a wide range of services, including brand research, system development, and creative design, while collaborating...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Digital Strategy
    • Graphic Design
    • Web Design
    • Market Research
    • Show more
    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $300/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up

    Innovation Protocol Services

    • Branding
    • Digital Strategy
    • Graphic Design
    • Web Design
    • Market Research
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    • Stretto
    • Centura
    • MNX Global Logistics
    • Megatrax
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    5.0 5.0 (1)

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