Best Branding Agencies in 2026

Landor lists 30 offices on its website: 12 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 8 in the Americas and 10 in Asia-Pacific, from Mexico City and Toronto to Jakarta and Tokyo. It is a subsidiary of WPP. Fitch, a retail and experience design firm, was merged into it in 2020, and the combined business traded as Landor & Fitch until November 2023, when it returned to the single name Landor with a new identity that refers to its founding by Walter Landor on a ferry boat in San Francisco. Over the five years before the rename it added the sonic branding firm amp, the workspace and architectural designer BDG and the motion design studio ManvsMachine.

Design Bridge and Partners lists 16 studios, including Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Shenzhen, São Paulo and a Madrid studio covering Spanish-speaking America, and says it employs 900 people. It was launched by WPP in 2023 from the merger of Design Bridge, a packaging and brand design specialist, with Superunion; at launch it reported about 850 people working across 12 countries, with John Morris, formerly Design Bridge's chief executive, as group CEO. Work featured on its site includes Fortnum & Mason, Tanqueray No. TEN in collaboration with Alessi, Marabou and Hardin's Creek.

Prophet describes itself as a growth and transformation consultancy in which brand strategy sits alongside marketing, customer experience and digital work. Its site states 15 office locations, listing cities that range from Atlanta, Austin and Richmond to Riyadh, Zürich and Shanghai, and more than 600 staff. The firm has added capabilities by acquisition, including the purchase of JBi Digital to expand end-to-end digital delivery. Unlike the holding-company networks, Prophet's site names no parent company. Other listed offices include Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Chicago, Hong Kong and Singapore. The model suits clients who want brand decisions tied to growth targets rather than a design refresh alone.

Interbrand states that it has 14 hubs and operates in 75 countries; named hubs include New York, London, Tokyo, Seoul, Cologne, São Paulo and Mumbai. It says it pioneered brand valuation in the 1980s, the practice of putting a financial value on a brand as a business asset, and now presents that work as brand economics. After Omnicom's acquisition of Interpublic, Interbrand became part of Omnicom Branding, led by chief executive Mark O'Brien. Work shown on its site includes LEGO, Kia, Allianz, Juventus and MINI. Its Best Global Brands ranking of 100 brands, published annually, was led by Apple in its 2026 edition.

Lippincott was founded in 1943 and is part of the Oliver Wyman group, which places it inside a management consultancy rather than an advertising holding company. It lists nine offices: New York, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul. Clients presented on its site include Coca-Cola, Samsung, Starbucks, Delta, Campbell's, DuPont and Nokia, as well as the renaming of The Humane Society as Humane World for Animals. Its portfolio leans towards corporate and business-to-business identity programmes and brands undergoing large organisational change.

Siegel+Gale lists seven offices: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai and Tokyo. Its positioning rests on the claim that the simplest brands win, and its services cover strategy, design, naming, brand-led change, activation and business analytics, with industry practices in healthcare, financial services, technology, manufacturing and energy. It publishes research under the World's Simplest Brands label, including a 2026 business-to-business edition. The firm is part of Omnicom Branding alongside Interbrand and Wolff Olins. Case studies featured by its New York office include the U.S. Army, CVS Health, SAP and H&R Block.

Koto describes itself as five studios on three continents, in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin and Sydney. Its team directory lists 152 people, with James Greenfield as chief executive in London. Work shown on its site includes projects for Instagram, Amazon, Microsoft, Fitbit and Tripadvisor, reflecting a focus on technology and digital-first brands. Koto has announced the acquisition of Stereo Creative, which it describes as a 60-person creative studio with teams in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Dubai. The deal adds campaign and content production to Koto's identity and digital design work.

Pentagram is independently owned by its designers: its 23 partners are all practising designers, and each acts as the main contact for their own clients. It works from four offices, in London, New York, Austin and Berlin. Recent projects shown on its site include identities and design for Alpha Bank, Thames Tideway, the BFI London Film Festival, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and MTA Arts & Design, which illustrates its strength in cultural, civic and institutional clients as well as companies. The partnership model means clients deal directly with a senior designer rather than an account team.

Saffron Brand Consultants works from four offices, in London, Madrid, Vienna and Tokyo. It describes itself as a global brand consultancy focused on disruptive thinking for ambitious brands, and its site features work made with Repsol, Meta, the V&A, Amazon Ads and YouTube. It is smaller than the network consultancies, which suits clients who want a senior team and a strategy-led process without the overhead of a holding-company agency. The office mix gives it an unusual base in Spain, Austria and Japan for a firm of its size.

Wolff Olins is a global brand consultancy with locations in New York, London, Los Angeles and San Francisco, led by chief executive Sairah Ashman. It is part of Omnicom Branding with Interbrand and Siegel+Gale. Its published work includes identities and brand programmes for Uber, TikTok, Patreon, Instacart, Lloyds, LG Electronics, Decathlon, The Met, The Economist and the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team. Its about page names more than 50 team members. The firm is associated with expressive identity systems for technology platforms and cultural institutions, delivered by a relatively compact team.

Further is the name DesignStudio adopted in September 2025, when it combined with the motion design studio Analog and the immersive experience studio Pixel Artworks. In the announcement, Paul Stafford wrote that DesignStudio had started about 15 years earlier. The group lists studios in London, New York and Dubai. DesignStudio was known for sports, entertainment and consumer technology brands, and the clients Further names include Airbnb, the Premier League, Riot Games, Penguin Random House, British Airways, UFC, Microsoft and EA SPORTS. The merger adds motion and physical experiences to brand identity work.

Jones Knowles Ritchie, usually shortened to JKR, says it has worked with brands since 1990. Its website lists two offices, at the Tea Building in Shoreditch, London, and on Spring Street in New York. The firm is best known for consumer, food and drink identities, and the case studies on its site include Burger King, Coca-Cola, KFC, Walmart, Intuit, Yahoo, Mozilla, Uber, Paramount and Stella Artois. It ranks last here only because the ranking rewards office count. Its work centres on distinctive assets such as logos, packaging and typography that are recognisable in stores and on delivery apps.