Fifty years of agency-founding data, visualized.
Out of 36,408 agencies with a self-reported founding year in our directory, 66.7% were founded after 2015, and 48.5% in the last five years alone. The creator economy, COVID-era brand retooling, and the rise of no-code ad tooling have collapsed the cost of launching a shop - and the chart below shows exactly what that looks like.
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