Top 10 influencer marketing agencies in the US in 2026

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

How we selected these 10 influencer agencies

Our team at Tiger Finder reviewed US influencer marketing agencies against three simple criteria, using industry award archives and published case studies from the past 24 months. We used the same approach for our list of influencer marketing agencies in Europe. To make the list, each agency had to meet all three:

• US presence: Headquartered in the US, with active client work across American markets.
• Recent measurable case study: At least one published case study from 2024, 2025, or 2026 with real numbers, like views, impressions, conversions, or sales.
• Verified industry recognition: Recognition earned recently through major awards or standout campaign results. Awards referenced include the Shorty Awards, Ad Age A-List, MUSE Creative Awards, the AMA Spectrum Awards, and the U.S. Agency Awards.

We're not ranking the agencies one to ten. Each one is great at something different, and that's the point.

1. Ubiquitous (Salt Lake City, Utah)

🏆 Nomination: Best TikTok Influencer Marketing Agency

Ubiquitous is a data-driven influencer marketing agency that specializes in viral TikTok and short-form campaigns measured on hard metrics like CPM. Their client list includes Lyft, Disney, Crocs, GNC, Starbucks, and Amazon.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. BlueChew, an ED telehealth product, needed brand awareness on a platform full of younger users, while staying clear of restricted health claims.

The campaign. Ubiquitous ran a creator program built around a single North Star metric: CPM. They sourced creators with a mostly male, 25-and-over audience, then optimized the whole program to keep cost per thousand views as low as possible. Keeping that number low comes down to two things: smart UGC on TikTok and a clear handle on TikTok influencer rates before you sign anything.

The results. Over 37 million views at a $5.47 CPM across roughly five months. The 30-day test alone drove 10.42M views at a $7.20 CPM.

What sets them apart

A 13,000+ creator network plus a real-time data platform lets Ubiquitous keep CPMs low even at large scale. If you care about TikTok reach for the money, you're already watching them.

Find them on LinkedIn: Ubiquitous 

2. The Outloud Group (Detroit, Michigan)

🏆 Nomination: Best YouTube Influencer Agency

The Outloud Group is a full-service influencer marketing agency, working since 2008, that specializes in evergreen creator programs on YouTube and podcasts for high-growth consumer brands. Clients include AG1, Fiverr, KitchenAid, and Vinted.

The standout influencer campaign case study

The challenge. AG1 needed to justify its premium price when, to a shopper, it looks like any other greens powder on the shelf.

The campaign. Outloud built an always-on YouTube program with hundreds of creators a month. Instead of one big launch, creators educated their audiences through honest, ongoing endorsements at scale.

The results. 216 million views, 20,000+ conversions, and 9.3 million engagements from the ongoing, multi-million-dollar program. That's the kind of compounding result a one-off campaign can't touch. 

What sets them apart

18+ years of performance data plus premier YouTube, TikTok, and Meta partnerships make them specialists at evergreen, ROI-driven creator programs. If you want a creator engine that runs for months, not a single spike, this is who you call.

Find them on LinkedIn: The Outloud Group 

3. The Influencer Marketing Factory (New York and Miami)

🏆 Nomination: Best Short-Form Influencer Agency

The Influencer Marketing Factory is a global short-form influencer agency, headquartered in the US, that specializes in coordinated TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube product launches. Clients include Google, Hasbro, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Amazon, Unilever, and Hyundai.

The standout case study

The challenge. Hyundai needed to launch the new Santa Fe SUV with social-native buzz rather than a traditional car ad.

The campaign. The agency flew creators to the launch event in New Mexico and had each one make platform-tailored content across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

The results. 1.2M Instagram impressions, 160k TikTok views, 22.5k YouTube views, and 231k Instagram likes, reaching a combined audience of 10M+ followers. 

What sets them apart

They've earned a TikTok Agency Partner badge and ranked #340 overall on the 2023 Inc. 5000 (and #23 in Marketing and Advertising). Their short-form expertise runs deep across music, CPG, and automotive. When a launch needs to feel native on three platforms at once, this is the team.

Find them on LinkedIn: The Influencer Marketing Factory

4. HireInfluence (Houston and Austin, Texas)

🏆 Nomination: Best Experiential Influencer Agency

HireInfluence is an award-winning, white-glove full-service influencer agency (founded 2011) that specializes in experiential ideas and high-production creator campaigns. Clients include Microsoft, Target, Walmart, Coca-Cola, Southwest Airlines, McDonald's, Oreo, Grammarly, Meta, MTV, and Ricola.

The standout case study

The challenge. Grammarly wanted broad, credible reach across multiple platforms with top-tier creators, handled end to end.

The campaign. HireInfluence ran a managed program with 133 top-tier lifestyle influencers across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

The results. 214 million impressions, 33.1 million views, and $15 million in earned media value. 

The recognition. Named Influencer Marketing Agency of the Year in 2023 and 2024 (per its Ad Age agency profile), and Digital Marketing Agency of the Year at the 2025 U.S. Agency Awards.

What sets them apart

HireInfluence builds experiences rather than ads, with enterprise-grade FTC compliance and paid amplification baked in. If you want creator work that feels like a real moment, they have the production muscle for it.

Find them on LinkedIn: HireInfluence 

5. Moburst (New York, San Francisco, and Miami)

🏆 Nomination: Best App-Growth Influencer Agency

Moburst is a multiple-award-winning mobile-growth agency that specializes in influencer campaigns built for app installs and measurable performance. Clients include Samsung, Truecaller, Reddit, and Calm.

The standout case study

The challenge. Truecaller needed to break into the competitive US market, where carriers already offer free spam protection.

The campaign. Moburst ran a data-driven US campaign on TikTok and Instagram, pivoting in real time from tech creators to lifestyle creators when the data pointed that way.

The results. 7.2 million views and 367,000 engagements at just $0.04 per view and $0.82 per engagement. The campaign won a 2024 MUSE Creative Award. A separate PlugSports campaign drove 8,500+ app installs, a 227% jump in click-to-install rate, and an 85% drop in cost per install.

What sets them apart

Moburst measures influencer success in installs and sales, instead of vanity metrics. That focus matters because inflated numbers are easy to fake, so it helps to know how to tell if a TikTok influencer is fake before you spend a dollar. They've placed client apps in the Top 10 charts 225+ times and driven 140M+ installs. If your KPI is downloads, this is the agency built around it.

Find them on LinkedIn: Moburst

6. TopRank Marketing (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

🏆 Nomination: Best B2B Influencer Marketing Agency

TopRank Marketing is a 25-year-old B2B marketing agency that specializes in always-on B2B influencer programs on LinkedIn and beyond for enterprise tech. Clients include LinkedIn, Dell, Adobe, SAP, Sprinklr, and monday.com.

The standout case study

The challenge. Mitel had been testing influencer marketing in the business phone systems industry for years, but kept hitting the same wall: it couldn't drive consistent, scalable performance.

The campaign. TopRank built a proper influencer program around the problem. They identified a scalable influencer platform, then ran an influencer-promoted eBook alongside social, video, podcast, and blog content. The goal was simple: get the right content in front of the right buyers at the right time.

The results. 7.2M+ social media reach, 5,000+ landing-page visits, and a 270% increase in influencer placements over Mitel's previous in-house programs.

What sets them apart

TopRank pioneered B2B influencer marketing and co-publishes the annual B2B Influencer Marketing Report with LinkedIn. If your buyers are other businesses, you want the agency that proved this channel works for B2B.

Find them on LinkedIn: TopRank Marketing

7. Socialfly (New York, New York)

🏆 Nomination: Best Integrated Social and Influencer Agency

Socialfly is a female-founded New York agency that specializes in blending influencer marketing with social media management and paid media. Clients include Max, Samsung, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Nikon.

The standout case study

The challenge. Heading into Halloween, Max wanted to raise awareness for its premium catalog of eerie, spine-tingling films and own the scary-season conversation on social.

The campaign. Socialfly built a campaign called No Sleep October that leaned all the way into creepy. They brought in a mix of Instagram and TikTok creators, from artists and actors to producers, psychologists, and die-hard horror fans, who made content in both English and Spanish. Think a popcorn bucket shaped like a severed alligator head and skits that blur reality and fiction.

The results. 35 million impressions, 786K engagements, and 9.5 million video views, with a 7.5% engagement rate on TikTok, 3% on Instagram, and a 20% average view rate.

What sets them apart

Socialfly folds creator campaigns into a wider social and paid ecosystem, with whitelisting and amplification handled in-house. If you want influencer work that plugs straight into the rest of your social strategy, they're built for it.

Find them on LinkedIn: Socialfly 

8. Nativa (Phoenix, Arizona)

🏆 Nomination: Best Multicultural Influencer Agency

Nativa is a multicultural marketing agency (working since 2008) that specializes in bilingual, culturally relevant influencer programs reaching Hispanic and Black US audiences. Clients include Henkel's got2b, CarMax, Charmin, Kroger, the CDC, and HHS.

The standout case study

The challenge. got2b, a Henkel hair brand, wanted deeper engagement from multicultural consumers, specifically Hispanic and Black audiences, for its 2023 Wig Campaign.

The campaign. Nativa carefully selected diverse influencers from those communities and gave them creative autonomy within got2b's product guidelines. The creators showed the Glued Bonding Glue and Flash Glue Remover in fun, real wig-application videos across Instagram and TikTok.

The results. 72 influencer posts, 230,000+ impressions, and 13,000+ engagements, far past the original goals of 50 posts, 85,000 impressions, and 6,000 engagements. got2b also collected 100+ honest product reviews on its site.

The recognition. Won a Netty Award for Best Targeted Influencer Content Strategy, and Nativa has separately earned recognition at the AMA Phoenix Spectrum Awards.

What sets them apart

Nativa brings deep cultural fluency and a 12-year client relationship with Henkel. It's one of the few US agencies built specifically for multicultural creator marketing. If you need to reach these audiences authentically, generic agencies won't get you there.

Find them on LinkedIn: Nativa

9. Acadia (Atlanta, Georgia)

🏆 Nomination: Best Commerce-Driven Influencer Agency

Acadia is a performance-driven growth agency that specializes in connecting influencer and organic-social content to commerce outcomes across retail, marketplace, and DTC. Clients include Casey's, Wayfair, European Wax Center, and TRUBAR.

The standout case study

The challenge. Gen Z saw Casey's as a gas station, even though it's the fifth-largest pizza chain in the US by number of kitchens.

The campaign. Acadia built a Gen-Z-native social strategy full of absurdist humor and content chaos: flying a pizza to NYC for purist judges, leaning into pop-culture moments, and working with Midwest NIL athletes and NFL champion Cooper DeJean.

The results. A 24% lift in total Gen Z audience year over year, 8M+ organic impressions on TikTok and Instagram, and sales that doubled on Casey's 40th birthday.

The recognition. Won Gold and an Audience Honor in Brand Voice at the 18th Annual Shorty Awards (2026), and was named 2026 Ad Age A-List Media Agency of the Year, its fourth Ad Age honor.

What sets them apart

Acadia pairs creator content with full-funnel commerce and retail-media analytics, a rare blend that Ad Age has recognized again and again. If your goal is sales lift rather than reach alone, they speak that language.

Find them on LinkedIn: Acadia

10. Cogent World (New York, New York)

🏆 Nomination: Best Entertainment Influencer Agency

Cogent World is an entertainment marketing agency that specializes in celebrity partnerships, experiential activations, and sports sponsorship-led campaigns. With 500+ brand partnerships and 5,000+ campaigns to date, its work includes Modelo (Constellation Brands).

The standout case study

The challenge. Modelo wanted to own college football culture as the sport's beer of choice, going well beyond a standard logo sponsorship.

The campaign. Cogent brought Modelo's Full-Time Fans platform to life across the 2024 to 2025 college football season. 

Modelo became the first beer brand to secure naming rights to a college football game, the Modelo Vegas Kickoff Classic, with fan activations taking over Resorts World, Mandalay Bay, and Allegiant Stadium. 

Fans played college football video games, made computer-generated trading cards of themselves, and sampled new Modelo products.

The results. The program helped Modelo earn Sports Sponsor of the Year at the Sports Business Journal Awards. Jamie Miller, VP of Brand Activation at Constellation Brands, called the 2024 to 2025 campaign their most ambitious yet and credited Cogent's bold activations and seamless execution for helping win the award.

Our 2024–2025 college football campaign was our most ambitious yet, and Cogent was essential to its success. They brought our Full-Time Fans platform to life with bold activations and seamless execution that helped earn Modelo SBJ Sports Sponsor of the Year.
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—Jamie Miller, Vice President-Brand Activation, Constellation Brands

What sets them apart

Cogent specializes in turning cultural and sports moments into experiential, celebrity-fueled activations. If your brand wants to live inside a cultural moment rather than buy a logo placement, this is the agency.

Find them on LinkedIn: Cogent World

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

A few patterns are worth pulling out.

👉 Creative risk is what breaks through. The cases that won weren't the safe ones. Acadia flew a pizza to NYC and leaned into absurdist chaos. Socialfly went full horror for Max instead of cute Halloween. HireInfluence builds real-world experiences instead of standard posts. The pattern is that brands willing to be weird or bold outperformed polished, on-brief work.

👉 Performance accountability is the new normal. Look at the numbers on this list. Moburst reports cost per view. Acadia reports sales doubling. TopRank reports qualified leads. The strongest US agencies now tie creator work to outcomes a CFO would recognize, and that shift is making the whole channel more credible.

👉 The platform decides the playbook. TikTok, YouTube, app stores, and LinkedIn each reward completely different mechanics, which is why platform-native agencies keep winning. Ubiquitous optimizes TikTok CPM, Outloud runs evergreen YouTube, Moburst engineers for app-store installs, TopRank works LinkedIn. 

The takeaway: pick partners who live on your platform, because cross-platform instincts don't transfer.

💡 Pro tip for brand-side marketers:

Pick an agency that lives on your priority platform, because the playbooks don't transfer. TikTok rewards watch time and engagement, YouTube rewards evergreen depth, app campaigns are judged on installs. An agency with deep TikTok instincts won't automatically win on LinkedIn. The same logic applies to the creators themselves, since you pick the wrong TikTok influencer and even a big budget gets you nowhere.

A note on this list

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

What unites every agency on this list is the same bet about where marketing is heading. Consumers trust brand advertising less every year, while they trust creators more. The brand's own voice carries less weight than it used to, and the smartest agencies have responded by routing a brand's most important messages through the creators its audience already believes. 

These ten are the agencies doing that best in the US right now.

All of it starts with one hard step: finding the right creators. The credibility only transfers if the creator genuinely fits your audience, and that's where most of the work goes.

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