Top 10 influencer marketing agencies in Canada in 2026

This is a list of 10 Canadian influencer marketing agencies doing genuinely good work in 2026, with their most interesting recent cases.

How we selected these 10 influencer agencies

Our team at Tiger Finder reviewed Canadian influencer marketing agencies against three criteria, using published case studies and award archives. To make the list, an agency had to meet all of the following:

• Canadian headquarters. The agency is headquartered in Canada, with active client work in Canadian markets.
• A published, measurable case study. At least one campaign the agency has published itself, with real numbers attached. We did not take metrics from third-party roundups or competitor listicles.
• Verified recognition. Awards or rankings we could trace back to the body that gave them, including the Globe and Mail's Canada's Top Growing Companies, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Cannes Lions, and the Global Franchise Awards.

We're not ranking these agencies one to ten. Each one is the best at something different.

1. Viral Nation (Mississauga, ON)

🏆 Nomination: Best Enterprise Influencer Marketing Agency

Viral Nation is the biggest creator marketing business headquartered in Canada, founded in 2014 by Joe Gagliese and Mat Micheli. In 2022 it raised CAD $250M led by Eldridge with Maverix Private Equity, a minority investment that valued the company at roughly CAD $650M and put Todd Boehly on the board.

Clients confirmed at the time of that raise include Coca-Cola, Disney, Hasbro, Meta, Tencent, Tim Hortons, Uber, and Anheuser-Busch.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. e.l.f. Cosmetics had a problem most brands would love to have. Its Marriage Material Lip Duo had sold out in minutes on the first drop, leaving a community loudly demanding a restock.

The hard part was making the comeback feel like a fresh moment rather than a repeat, and converting that pent-up demand before it cooled off.

The campaign. Viral Nation built the restock around the community's own excitement. The lead creator behind the lip duo stepped in as e.l.f.'s CEO for a Day, concentrating the whole launch into one creator-fronted moment.

The people who had asked for the product back became part of the story instead of the audience for an ad.

The results. The restock went #1 on TikTok Shop in the US across all categories, sold out in 10 hours, and pulled 18.9M views in 24 hours from just 10 posts. Viral Nation notes that rankings and sell-through were reported by the platform during the launch window.

The recognition. Viral Nation made the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in 2023 and again in 2025, landed on Canada's Top Growing Companies in 2021, and partnered with Cannes Lions on a new creator-economy initiative in 2024.

What sets them apart

Nobody else in Canada operates at this scale. Viral Nation runs strategy, talent representation, social creative, community management, and brand safety as one system. That's why enterprise clients with complicated portfolios end up here.

If your campaign needs to land in fifteen markets at once and survive a legal review, this is the shortlist of one.

Find them on LinkedIn: Viral Nation

2. Clark Influence (Montreal, QC)

🏆 Nomination: Best Quebec and Bilingual Influencer Agency

Clark Influence is the Montreal agency that made French-language creator work its whole identity, with a Toronto office added in 2022. Co-founder Nicolas Bon writes much of the agency's published work himself.

The Globe and Mail named Clark Influence to Canada's Top Growing Companies 2025, at #189 out of 400.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. Sobeys was launching a new slushie flavour called Xtraslush at its Dépanneurs Voisin convenience stores in Quebec. Convenience store drinks are an impulse purchase, so awareness on its own was worthless. The campaign had to physically move people through the door.

The campaign. Clark activated six Quebec content creators, mostly on TikTok, with support on Instagram and YouTube. Each one promoted the same offer: turn up wearing an orange wig, get the drink free.

It's a silly hook, and that's exactly why it worked. An orange wig is a costume and a photo op. It's also a reason to bring your friends along.

The results. The campaign reached 1.7 million people with a 7.54% engagement rate, which is roughly triple what retail campaigns usually manage. Sobeys used social to drive footfall into physical stores, and got it.

The recognition. Clark also ran the City of Montreal's Vision Zéro road safety campaign, activating six creators across 47 posts and stories and collecting more than 1,756 signatures on the city's safety charter. Getting people to sign a municipal charter through Instagram is a genuinely hard ask.

What sets them apart

Quebec is the largest French-speaking market in North America, and it does not respond to translated English campaigns. Clark builds with French-first creators from the brief onwards.

That matters more than it used to. Since June 1, 2025, Bill 96 has required French to be markedly predominant in commercial advertising in Quebec, and legal commentary reads those obligations as reaching branded posts aimed at Quebec consumers.

Find them on LinkedIn: Clark Influence

3. inBeat (Montreal, QC)

🏆 Nomination: Best TikTok and UGC Performance Agency

inBeat is the Montreal agency built around paid micro-influencer content at volume. 

Clients include Disney, New Balance, Nordstrom, Nissan, Hopper, Hurom, and Linktree.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. Deux par Deux, a Montreal kids' fashion brand, needed content and social proof at a volume no in-house team could produce. Children's fashion is also a category where parents trust other parents far more than they trust a brand photoshoot.

The campaign. inBeat ran an Instagram micro-influencer programme, contacting 400 to 500 micro-influencers to build the shortlist and converting that into a working roster.

The economics here are the interesting part. Contacting hundreds of creators to sign dozens is expensive if you do it manually, which is why inBeat built tooling for it.

The results. inBeat reports 50 to 60 collaborations and more than 100 creative assets produced for the brand.

The recognition. inBeat is a certified TikTok partner, and also certified with Meta and Google. Its case library includes non-Canadian performance work for Hurom and Prose.

What sets them apart

Most agencies treat UGC as a content line item. inBeat treats it as a media buy, testing creator videos as ad creative and scaling whatever wins.

If your growth problem is creative volume rather than reach, that distinction is the whole ballgame. Worth reading alongside our guide to UGC on TikTok.

Find them on LinkedIn: inBeat

4. The Influence Agency (Toronto, ON)

🏆 Nomination: Best 360 Digital and PR Agency

The Influence Agency launched on April 1, 2017 and now runs out of 213 Sterling Road in Toronto's west end. The Globe and Mail profiled it at roughly 45 staff, tripled since 2020, with income up 543% between 2018 and 2021.

Clients include Jamieson Vitamins, Staples, Rakuten Kobo, Napoleon, and UNICEF. Minimum project spend runs $10,000 to $25,000.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. RedTag wanted to become the default booking site for Canadians aged 18 to 35. That's a crowded fight against every travel aggregator on the internet, and price comparison alone wasn't going to win it.

The campaign. The agency sent three real-life best friends from Toronto, all fashion and lifestyle creators, on a Las Vegas trip booked entirely through RedTag.

Victoria, Tee, and Mel documented every step, from the booking itself through to flights, hotels, restaurants, and the ziplining in between, across Instagram posts and stories. Each also wrote two blog posts, angling Vegas as a food destination and an activity destination rather than a party one.

The friendship was the point. Three friends planning a trip together is exactly the buying occasion RedTag wanted to own.

The results. The campaign delivered 403K organic reach, 500K organic impressions, 100K organic engagements, a 33% engagement rate, and 13K organic blog views. The agency also reports 100% positive brand sentiment across the campaign.

A 33% engagement rate is very high. It reflects a small, tight creator set with genuinely invested audiences rather than a broad paid push.

The recognition. The agency has been named to Canada's Top Growing Companies twice, and holds an AdCann award, Summit Creative Awards in 2022 and 2023, and a Toronto Star Readers' Choice win.

What sets them apart

This is the agency to call when influencer work needs to plug into everything else. Creator content, SEO, paid media, PR, and photography sit under one roof, and the case studies show them used together.

Find them on LinkedIn: The Influence Agency

5. Influicity (Toronto, ON)

🏆 Nomination: Best Data-Led Influencer Agency

Influicity is the Toronto agency founded by Jon Davids in the mid-2010s, working with Warner Bros. and Walmart, alongside Bank of America.

It is also the only Canadian agency we found that publishes a performance guarantee: hit your goals or you don't pay. That's their stated offer, in their words, on their own site.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. Tip Top Tailors is a heritage Canadian menswear brand, and heritage is a polite word for old. It needed to reach a younger shopper without alienating the customers who already trusted it.

The campaign. Influicity built Style and Substance around in-store personal shopping sessions with creators, filmed inside Tip Top locations.

Putting the creator in the store solves two problems at once. It makes the content specific, and it shows the service that actually differentiates a tailor from an online retailer.

The results. Influicity reports 1.3M targeted impressions against the younger demographic and engagement at twice the category average. It also reports 461% earned media value against spend, and that figure is earned media value as calculated by the agency rather than audited return on ad spend.

The recognition. The CPM guarantee is the recognition here, in a sense. Very few agencies anywhere will put media outcomes in a contract.

What sets them apart

Influicity sells certainty, which is rare in this category. If you've been burned by a campaign that delivered impressions and nothing else, a guaranteed CPM is a very different conversation.

Find them on LinkedIn: Influicity

6. Influence Marketing (Mississauga, ON)

🏆 Nomination: Best Experiential Influencer Agency

Influence Marketing is a Mississauga-based agency that builds campaigns around physical activations. The live event comes first, and creator content is built to feed it.

Porsche cars Canada, L'Oréal Luxe, and Ferrara Candy are confirmed clients.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. Ferrara needed Canadians to actually taste Nerds Gummy Clusters Rainbow. Candy is a product where a single sample converts better than any amount of advertising, so the brief was a distribution problem dressed up as a marketing one.

The campaign. Influence Marketing ran the Yummy Gummy Tour nationwide with two teams working in parallel: a 12-foot arcade truck for major events, and a bike team for smaller local activations.

The bike team is the clever bit. Trucks reach festivals, bikes reach the streets around them, and together they cover a city properly.

The results. The agency reports more than 1.6m samples distributed in three months, 7.48m+ impressions, 2.15m+ interactions, 63+ bike activations and eight major events.

The recognition. The agency's client list spans L'Oréal Luxe, Porsche Cars Canada, Nestlé, and Mattel.

What sets them apart

Almost nobody in Canadian influencer marketing owns physical activation properly. If your product needs to be tasted or physically handled, an agency that can staff a truck and a creator programme at once saves you managing two vendors.

Find them on LinkedIn: Influence Marketing

7. Blend PR (Toronto and Montreal)

🏆 Nomination: Best Beauty Launch Agency

Blend PR runs bilingual teams out of Toronto and Montreal, with roughly 16 years in the market and Chris Binet as President. It has become the default choice for global beauty brands entering Canada for the first time.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. The Inkey List, a UK skincare brand with real momentum at home, was launching in Canada from a standing start. No Canadian press or creator relationships, and no shelf awareness to build on.

The campaign. Blend PR handled media and influencer relations together over six months, treating editorial coverage and creator content as one launch push rather than two campaigns.

The results. Over the six-month launch, Blend PR reports 56 pieces of earned media reaching more than 15,133,180 people, with an estimated ad value of $453,995.40. On the creator side it reports more than 86 influencer Instagram posts reaching over 1,083,781 people, at an estimated ad value of $46,513.43.

Every figure there is earned media and estimated ad value as reported by the agency, which is a more generous unit than revenue or return on ad spend.

The recognition. Blend PR launched a third Korean skincare brand into Sephora Canada in March 2026, which tells you the beauty retail relationships are current rather than historical.

What sets them apart

A Canadian beauty launch is a specific skill. You need bilingual press and retail relationships at Sephora and Shoppers, plus creators working in two language markets, all landing in the same window.

Blend PR has done it enough times to have the sequence down.

Find them on LinkedIn: Blend PR

8. Rose PR (Montreal and Toronto)

🏆 Nomination: Best Lifestyle PR-Led Influencer Agency

Rose PR was founded by Ashley Rosenberger and runs bilingual teams from 317 Place d'Youville in Montreal and 99 Yorkville Avenue in Toronto.

In July 2023 it won agency of record for both NARS and Drunk Elephant, two Shiseido beauty brands, in the same month. It added 11 new clients that year. Others include Ardell, Athena Club, Yves Rocher, Gold Bond, and On.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. UNIQLO was opening its first store in Quebec, billed at the time as the biggest UNIQLO in Canada. The Japanese retailer has been going since 1949 and now runs over 1,000 stores worldwide, so this was a flagship moment.

Then the timing turned awkward. The opening landed at the start of COVID's second wave, which is the worst possible moment to ask people to come stand in a clothing store.

Rose PR had to build awareness ahead of the launch and on the day itself, then hold it afterwards.

The campaign. Rose PR sent a press advisory three weeks out to announce the opening date, then seeded 70 tier-A media contacts and creators with invitations to pre-opening tours of the store.

The health restrictions are what make this one worth studying. Rose PR ran the tours in groups of four and stretched them across a full day, 9am to 9pm, so all 70 guests got a proper look without the store ever filling up.

On opening day it made sure cameras from every major city news outlet were on site.

The results. Over five weeks the campaign produced 55 earned media stories and more than 30 million impressions across Quebec and Canada. Coverage ran in the Globe and Mail, La Presse, Elle Québec, Journal de Montréal, CTV News Montréal, and Radio-Canada's Tout un matin.

The creator side of those tours delivered 468 social posts and stories worth 3,600,000 impressions.

The recognition. Winning agency of record for NARS and Drunk Elephant in a single month is the strongest signal on this list. Global beauty brands do not hand Canadian representation to agencies they haven't stress-tested. PR In Canada also ranked Rose PR among top-performing Canadian PR agencies in Q3 2023.

What sets them apart

Rose PR comes at influencer work from the press side, which shows up in the creator relationships. Beauty editors and beauty creators overlap heavily in Canada, and an agency that works both gets access a pure influencer shop doesn't.

Find them on LinkedIn: Rose PR

9. Consultus Digital (Toronto, ON)

🏆 Nomination: Best Agency for Small and Local Businesses

Consultus Digital is the Toronto agency co-founded in 2017 that applies creator content to local service businesses, the category most influencer agencies won't touch because the budgets are small.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. Tonic Eye Care is a community optometry clinic in midtown Toronto led by Dr. Kelly Lee, competing for patients against chains and well-funded independents. Vision therapy is also a service most parents have never heard of, so the ads had to explain and persuade at once.

The campaign. Consultus ran a straight test: static ads against UGC video ads, using two real Toronto mothers talking about their own experience of the clinic.

Then they scaled whatever won. Two ad hooks, tested against each other, with the top combination taking the budget.

The results. The UGC video ads generated 410 leads at a 4.52% click-through rate, against 2.40% for the static ads. Consultus describes the UGC creative as nearly twice as efficient.

The recognition. Consultus is a certified Google Partner. In 2022 the federal government selected it as a delivery partner for the Canada Digital Adoption Program, and it has since built Digital Growth Plans for nearly 100 Canadian small and medium businesses.

What sets them apart

Every other agency on this list works with consumer brands. Consultus works with an optometry clinic, a self-storage facility, a campground, and a personal injury law firm.

Those categories barely register in creator marketing. The creator pool is thin, and the content has to explain a service instead of showing off a product.

Find them on LinkedIn: Consultus Digital

10. We Are Social (Toronto, ON)

🏆 Nomination: Best Global Agency for Canadian Brands

We Are Social is a socially-led creative agency with 1,300 people across 19 offices on four continents. It opened in Toronto in November 2019 at 28 Atlantic Avenue, entering Canada through a partnership with Vision7 International that placed the team inside Vision7's Toronto campus alongside Cossette and Citizen Relations.

Clients across the network include Netflix, Samsung, adidas, and Google.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, headquartered in Toronto, was trailing on brand awareness with younger travellers. Millennials and the generation below plan trips through social rather than search, and the brand was not landing there.

Then a gift arrived unannounced. In May 2024 a one-year-old named Kate raised her hand on TikTok when her family asked whether she wanted to go to Four Seasons Orlando. The clip went viral, and the memes followed within hours.

The campaign. Four Seasons had days to respond before the moment passed. We Are Social built a reply that made the baby's trip real, turning Kate into the world's youngest luxury brand ambassador for one week only.

The team stitched the original clip together with footage of Four Seasons Orlando staff preparing for her arrival, then produced a hero video of the actual visit. Requests from the comments were written into her itinerary, and the agency answered comments around the clock while the story ran.

The results. #FourSeasonsOrlando drew more than 556M organic views across the campaign. The work delivered over 1.9M TikTok engagements and 18.5K new TikTok followers for Four Seasons, alongside coverage in Buzzfeed, Rolling Stone, TMZ, The Independent, and USA Today.

We Are Social also reports more than $10M in earned media value.

The recognition. Four Seasons Baby, created by We Are Social Toronto for Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, won a Bronze Lion at Cannes Lions 2025 in Social & Creator: Real-Time Response. It had also been shortlisted in a second Social & Creator category, and it was one of nine Lions won by Canada that year.

What sets them apart

Every other agency here is Canadian-owned and Canadian-run. We Are Social is the one entry that can take a single brief and land it in Canada and eighteen other markets at the same time, which matters if you are a Canadian brand with international ambitions.

Find them on LinkedIn: We Are Social

What does this list tell you about Canadian influencer marketing in 2026?

Canadian influencer marketing is a bilingual, mid-sized market where specialists outperform generalists. Three patterns stand out across these ten agencies.

👉 Quebec is a separate market, and the agencies that treat it that way win. Clark Influence, Rose PR, Blend PR, and Influence Marketing all run bilingual. Since June 1, 2025, Bill 96 has required French to be markedly predominant in commercial advertising in Quebec, and francization obligations kick in at 25 employees.

Translating an English campaign into French satisfies nobody. Quebec creators have their own reference points, and audiences notice immediately when a brand doesn't.

👉 The market is growing steadily. Statista estimated Canada’s influencer-advertising market at approximately US$579 million in 2024, forecasting an 11.48% CAGR to about US$895 million by 2028. A later We Are Social and Meltwater Canada report estimated influencer-marketing spend at $660 million, up 13.8% year over year.

👉 Canada is where a global brand tests before it scales. DataReportal's Digital 2026 report counts 33.0M social media user identities in Canada, at 82.1% of the population, with 38.2M internet users at 95.1%. TikTok alone reaches 16.6M adults there.

That's a wealthy, heavily connected, bilingual market small enough to run a real test in. Blend PR's beauty launches and inBeat's UGC programmes both exist because brands use Canada exactly this way.

💡 Pro tip for brand-side marketers:

When you shortlist agencies, ask for three recent case studies and check the unit on every number. Earned media value and estimated ad value are not revenue, and an agency reporting 461% EMV is telling you something quite different from 4.6x ROAS. Also ask how they benchmark influencer rates in Quebec specifically, since French-market pricing is thinner and less transparent than English Canada.

A note on this list

If you think we missed someone exceptional, reach out: hello@tigerfinder.com.

If you're hiring outside Canada, we've done the same lists for top influencer marketing agencies in the US and top influencer marketing agencies in Europe.

What unites these ten agencies is top-notch creator casting. Every campaign here works because someone picked particular influencers for a particular reason, and the reason is always more interesting than the follower count.

That decision is also the hardest part of the influencer marketing job and the easiest one to rush.

Tiger Finder is built for that decision. You describe the creator you need in plain English, and it searches what actually happens inside TikTok videos rather than hashtags and bios. Engagement data sits in the results too, so inflated accounts stand out before they reach your shortlist. Try it for free!