Agencies worth talking to if you are shortlisting a digital marketing partner in Tampa, with what each one does and where it is based. Healthcare, real estate, home services, financial services and tourism businesses shape much of the demand in the Tampa Bay area.
We publish this page, so rather than scoring ourselves against the agencies below, here is what we do and you can judge for yourself.
We get businesses found on Google and named inside AI answers. SEO, content and the website itself, handled by one team rather than three vendors.
Koramangala, Bengaluru, IndiaPublished by SEO Sadhu · we publish this page, so we have kept ourselves out of the ranked list below.Four things decided who made it, and one thing decided how we present ourselves.
An operating office in the city, not a nameplate address on a national website.
Everything we list comes from the agency's own site. Anything they do not publish is marked Not disclosed.
Agencies that are visibly better at something specific, rather than listing every service in existence.
Named clients published by the agency, not logo walls with no names attached.
Sorted by nothing in particular. Anything an agency does not publish is marked Not disclosed rather than guessed at.
| Agency | Tampa location | Best for | Core services |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunn&Co | Ybor City, Tampa, FL 33605 | Consumer, restaurant and sports brands wanting integrated creative, video and media | Brand positioning, Integrated advertising and design, Broadcast and video production, Social media, Website UX and development, Media planning and SEO/SEM |
| ChappellRoberts | Ybor City, Tampa, FL 33605 | Healthcare, sports and real-estate brands wanting branding plus integrated advertising | Branding, Integrated advertising, Research and insights, Media buying, Website development, Video and content studio |
| Actuate Media | Ybor City, Tampa, FL 33605 | Businesses whose main need is paid search and technical SEO | SEO and GEO, Google and Microsoft Ads, Social media advertising, Programmatic and OTT, Website design and development, Social media management |
| Brick Media | Ybor City, Tampa, FL 33605 | Brands wanting a social-media-first agency | Social media management, Paid social advertising, Content production |
| McKay Advertising + Activation | Ybor City, Tampa, FL 33605 | Franchise restaurant brands, from quick-service to fast-casual | Franchise marketing, Media buying, Creative and branding, Email and CRM, Web development, Brand activation |
| Trickey Jennus | Downtown, Tampa, FL 33602 | Organizations needing brand strategy plus media planning and management | Brand strategy, Creative development, Media strategy, Media management, Paid search, display and social, Digital marketing |
| HCP Associates | Channelside, Tampa, FL 33602 | Organizations wanting research-led marketing strategy and planning | Research, Strategy, Brand development, Creative and campaigns, Marketing consulting |
| thirteen05 creative | North Hyde Park, Tampa, FL 33606 | Small and mid-size organizations needing a custom website plus SEO and PPC | Web design and development, Ecommerce sites, SEO, AI search optimization, Google Ads management, Hosting and maintenance |
| Digital Neighbor | West Tampa, Tampa, FL 33607 | Small businesses and ecommerce brands wanting SEO, local SEO and paid media | SEO and AI SEO, Local SEO, PPC and social ads, Web design, Email and content marketing, Reputation management |
| Mediagistic | New Tampa, Tampa, FL 33637 | HVAC, home-services and outdoor power equipment companies | Website design and SEO, Paid search and Local Services Ads, Social and content, Reputation management, TV, radio and OOH media buying, Co-op and channel marketing |
Ten agencies serving Tampa, each with a clear speciality. Descriptions are drawn from each agency’s own website.
Tampa's established creative and advertising agencies cluster in and around Ybor City, with others downtown and in Hyde Park, and their published work leans toward restaurant franchises, healthcare systems and the city's pro sports teams. Many of the agencies that rank for Tampa searches are national firms with location pages, or use shared-workspace addresses downtown and in Westshore, so they are not on this list.
Dunn&Co is a full-service advertising agency on South 22nd Street working across strategy, creative, production, digital and media. Its portfolio is mostly consumer brands, restaurants and Tampa Bay sports teams.
ChappellRoberts is a branding and advertising agency on East 8th Avenue in Ybor City. Its published work is mostly healthcare systems, professional sports teams and residential communities.
Actuate Media is a paid-advertising and SEO agency with an office on North 22nd Street in Tampa, plus offices in Seattle and Orlando. It also builds websites on several platforms.
Brick Media calls itself a social-first agency and works out of Ybor City. Its clients include Tampa Bay nonprofits, hospitality businesses and professional-services firms.
McKay describes itself as a franchise marketing agency that works only with food brands, from an office on East 7th Avenue. It handles media buying, creative, CRM and web for multi-unit restaurant concepts.
Trickey Jennus is an advertising agency on North Franklin Street downtown, covering brand strategy, creative and media. Its homepage quotes testimonials from grocery, healthcare and public-sector clients.
HCP Associates describes itself as a marketing consulting and full-service creative agency, based in the Joseph Garcia International Center in Channelside. It stresses research, planning and measurable objectives.
thirteen05 creative is a web design and digital marketing studio on West Gray Street focused on custom websites. It also offers SEO, AI search optimization and Google Ads management.
Digital Neighbor is a digital marketing agency on North Armenia Avenue built around SEO, paid media and web design. Its homepage case studies cover lumber and ecommerce clients.
Mediagistic is an agency on Hidden River Parkway specializing in HVAC, home-services and outdoor power equipment brands. It combines digital marketing, traditional media buying and co-op marketing programs.
Six questions worth asking whoever you shortlist.
Strong at D2C performance marketing does not mean strong at B2B SEO. Shortlist for your actual bottleneck.
The people who pitch are often not the people on the account. Ask, and ask how many other clients they carry.
Ask for a redacted monthly report. If nothing in it connects to inquiries or revenue, expect an awkward month four.
Buyers now ask assistants before search engines. Ask how they get clients named in those answers.
Notice period, and whether your ads account, analytics and website stay in your name when you leave.
Nobody controls Google. A promised position means they misunderstand that, or expect you to.
This page is published by SEO Sadhu, an SEO agency in Bangalore. We have put ourselves in a separate featured card above rather than ranking ourselves against the agencies in the list, because scoring yourself first on your own page is not a ranking.
The agencies are presented in no particular order of merit. Every fact about them comes from their own website, checked in September 2026.
Think we have got something wrong about your agency, or want to be removed? Email seosadhu@gmail.com and we will fix it.
What people ask us while they are shortlisting.
Send us the agencies you are considering and what you are trying to achieve. We will tell you honestly which of them fits your problem, even when the answer is not us.
