The World's Biggest Marketing Agency Cities
Top 20 cities by number of marketing agencies, 2026.
Ask a marketing exec to name the world's biggest agency cities and you'll hear New York, London, Los Angeles. But when you actually count the agencies, Sao Paulo, Brazil leads the list - and the top 10 is dominated by Brazil, India, and the Middle East. Here's the full ranking.
Full ranking
| Rank | City | Country | Agencies | Avg rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sao Paulo | Brazil | 736 | 4.89 |
| 2 | Karachi | Pakistan | 708 | 4.76 |
| 3 | Belo Horizonte | Brazil | 697 | 4.93 |
| 4 | Nagoya | Japan | 695 | 4.44 |
| 5 | Campinas | Brazil | 687 | 4.90 |
| 6 | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 686 | 4.91 |
| 7 | Delhi | India | 684 | 4.78 |
| 8 | Lagos | Nigeria | 679 | 4.82 |
| 9 | Indore | India | 670 | 4.84 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 662 | 4.80 |
| 11 | Porto Alegre | Brazil | 662 | 4.89 |
| 12 | Curitiba | Brazil | 658 | 4.88 |
| 13 | Tel Aviv | Israel | 632 | 4.89 |
| 14 | Recife | Brazil | 624 | 4.90 |
| 15 | Brasilia | Brazil | 624 | 4.88 |
| 16 | Nagpur | India | 623 | 4.87 |
| 17 | Shenzhen | China | 619 | 4.77 |
| 18 | Marrakech | Morocco | 619 | 4.90 |
| 19 | Casablanca | Morocco | 618 | 4.88 |
| 20 | Istanbul | Turkey | 604 | 4.81 |
| 21 | Izmir | Turkey | 604 | 4.85 |
| 22 | Pune | India | 601 | 4.80 |
| 23 | Mumbai | India | 587 | 4.78 |
| 24 | Lima | Peru | 582 | 4.79 |
| 25 | Florianopolis | Brazil | 580 | 4.93 |
Methodology
- • Dataset: marketing agencies on Pick an Agency with a valid headquarters city and country.
- • Filter: cities with at least 50 agencies, to exclude long-tail noise.
- • Ratings: average of each agency's overall_rating, excluding values below 2.0 (usually missing-data imports).
- • Refresh: updated daily from our live database.
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