Directory of brand consulting firms
Acuity Brandworks
Understanding how brand works is essential to building and protecting brand value that can help ensure long-term relevance, meaning, and loyalty. We believe that brand education is the cornerstone of empowering our clients to make intelligent decisions on strategy, design, and implementation. Our knowledge and expertise come directly from two of the industry's pioneers in branding – Saul Bass and Walter Landor. It's that knowledge we seek to share through the services we provide.
The Bloodhound Group
Brand and business management experts with track record of improving company financial performance by successfully introducing new products/services and or reviving mature or declining brands through line extensions or repositioning. Team applies deep management experience in brand management with Neuroscience insights to connect strategies to the emotional triggers that move people to action and superior financial results.
Brand Plume
Brand Plume is a strategy, naming, and messaging consultancy. We clarify what makes your brand authentic and unique, craft compelling language and verbal identities, and connect to your audiences with powerful, resonant content.
BrandingBusiness
Built on rigorous, evidence-based strategy and courageous ideas, we help B2B companies achieve breakthrough success via the inspirational power of their brands.
Bullhorn
We build impact brands with language and design. As a B Corp, we believe business should be a force for good. And a force for change.

Butchershop Creative
A full service integrated creative house in San Francisco
Catchword
Leading naming agency for 20 years and the #1 ranked naming agency on Clutch.co.
Character
Character is a branding and design studio with offices in New York and San Francisco.
Cibo
We founded Cibo to be a different kind of agency—one that offered the best of what classic advertising agencies could do, but in a company with capabilities fundamentally built for today’s experience-based, internet-driven economy.
Daake
Daake is a pivotal-moment brand agency. Our brand strategists, writers and designers help ambitious leaders transform what is — to what could be.
eatbigfish
eatbigfish is a global strategic brand consultancy specializing in challenger brands and business.
Evinex
We are a proven digital marketing agency focused on results. We offer the perfect set of digital marketing services to help you all the way, from visibility to conversion.
Fieldtrip
For bold clients looking to aim higher and tell their story—Fieldtrip is committed to building intelligent, design-focused solutions for your next evolution. We create brand experiences that motivate, inspire, and connect people.
FINIEN
FINIEN works with established companies and funded entrepreneurs on developing new brands.
Focus Lab
Focus Lab creates transformative B2B brands that resonate with their customers and stand out as industry leaders. Through a proven process, an all-senior team, and a shared commitment to create unforgettable experiences, they develop true partnerships that help B2B brands become their boldest, most original selves.
Free The Birds
A creative agency that elevates brands through beautiful thinking.
FutureBrand
FutureBrand is the Creative Future Company, a global brand consultancy. We define and deliver connected brand experiences.
GALTON Brands
GALTON Brands is creative brand development agency which covers the entire life-cycle of the brand, improving image, brand experience, corporate culture and communication. We are strategic partner for brands that pursue long-term advancement. We believe that the most successful brands are those that can adapt to change and strive for a long-lasting progress.
The Great Field
We are an independent creative company that specialises in building brands for people and organisations making a positive social impact. Each project we undertake is created by firstly gaining an understanding of our clients' objectives. Deliberately different from the traditional agency model, we're a small team by design. This means we're more agile, more hands-on and more client-focused. We are also an official 1% For The Planet business member.
High-Proof Creative
High-Proof Creative, an award-winning, full-service marketing & branding agency for the craft beverage industry provides services for companies nationally in a variety of areas, including design, website development, marketing strategy, social media, photography, SEO, and more.
House of Who
House of Who is an agency and arthouse that specializes in untangling complex problems of identity, creatively.
Ink & Key
Naming is hard. Get unstuck, get a name, and gain insight into your brand by working with our fun, creative team. We make sure you have a clear brand message so you don't waste time and money on marketing that doesn't work, then we help you develop and launch your amazing brand. Brand development shouldn't have to be complicated to be effective.
Interbrand
As a global brand consultancy, we know that growth is achieved through clear strategies, exceptional customer experiences, and world-class capabilities.
Landor
A global leader in brand consulting and design, Landor helps clients build agile brands that thrive in today's dynamic, disruptive marketplace.
Lexicon Branding
Lexicon Branding is a creative agency that specializes in brand naming and brand architecture.
Lippincott
We are a global creative consultancy. Part management consulting, part innovation and design agency, we help businesses succeed on the edge of change.
Liquid Agency
Liquid Agency creates compelling branded experiences across a wide range of touchpoints—experiences that people remember, respond to, and share.
Litwin Law
We offer cost-effective legal services to entrepreneurs, businesses, and financial institutions, including assisting branding agencies through the trademark search and clearance process.
Longitude°
Longitude° is a group of experienced hospitality branding advisors, strategists, innovators, and creatives. Since 2010, we've earned a proven track record of helping entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and management groups design inspiring hotels, resorts, restaurants, and hospitality brands.
Luxury Branding
Founded in 2002, Luxury Branding is a luxury hospitality consulting firm that conceives and operationalises mould-breaking strategies for the world's most distinctive hotel and travel brands.
Main & Rose
We know there are many ways to tell your story. As a collection of seasoned branding and marketing execs with pedigrees from some of the most influential agencies, brands and media companies, we work with you to tell your story for significant, lasting impact.

Marchio
Hello, we're Marchio. We help willing brands make a lasting mark.
Metaforce
The Special Forces of Marketing
MiresBall
For category leaders—and those who aspire to lead—MiresBall provides trusted creative expertise drawn from 35+ years of work with global brands. With a balance of passion and pragmatism, we give organizations the confidence to aim higher and achieve more.
Motto
We help companies take their brand to the next level. In a world full of mediocrity, let’s make your brand matter.
Moving Brands
Moving Brands is an independent, global creative and innovation partner that works with the world's most interesting businesses – from startups to Fortune Global 500.
Namestorm
Namestorm is a European brand naming agency based in Munich/Germany. Since 2005, Namestorm has created names for more than 1,000 projects in all kinds of industries.
Noise 13
Noise 13 is a women-led strategy and design firm, building brands with a lifestyle lens for nearly 20 years.
Operative Words
I'm an award-winning linguist with 25 years of experience developing names. Operative Words is my agency. We specialize in succinct brand expression.
Part and Parcel
Part & Parcel is a Santa Monica-based design office specializing in idea-driven work that connects with people and rises above the crowded landscape.
Pentagram
Pentagram is the world's largest independent design consultancy. The firm is owned and run by 23 partners, each of whom are leaders in their individual fields.
Principals
Making brand a force for positive change.
Prophet
Prophet is a global brand and marketing consultancy with expertise in strategy, digital, design and customer experience.
PUSH Collective
PUSH Collective is a team of brand strategists and creatives, independently minded and independently owned.
REACTOR
We are creators of EPIC Brands, world champion designers and marketing strategists who never settle. E.P.I.C. Brands Engage People In Conversation, activate brand champions and ignite positive dialogue that will create connections and have lasting impact.
Red Antler
You're excited about your business. We make the world excited. We launch and grow businesses that challenge what is, and define what’s next. Brands that other brands want to be.
REVERED Agency
Braver, smarter ideas and hard work are what we're made of. We explore without prejudice, collaborate without ego, and ideate without fear. We believe in putting in the work to pair the right strategy with bold thinking to shape meaningful ideas that move people and business in fresh, productive, and more profitable ways.
River + Wolf
River + Wolf is a top ranked, New York City based naming agency with clients around the globe. Our naming experts and lawyers handle all aspects of naming, from strategy and name development through preliminary screening, full search, and registration.
Ryan Paonessa Design
Independent graphic design practice in North Alabama specializing in brand identity, web design & development, e-commerce, and more.
Saffron
To Saffron, brand is a means to an end. We ensure it delivers for our clients, from promise to reality. We make brand work.
Siegel+Gale
Siegel+Gale is a global branding company headquartered in NYC. Our core expertise spans brand development, brand strategy, design, and customer experience.
Smack Bang
We are a strategic and focused creative agency partnering with brands of the future. Brands that are looking ahead to elevate, disrupt, and make change.
We work globally out of Sydney, Australia, building and boosting brands to prepare them for success in tomorrow's market.
Small Town Folk
We are a multi-disciplinary creative studio with expertise in Branding, Design and Film. We bring ideas to life and create exceptional brand experiences.
Smith
Smith are an independent, UK-based brand, design, and marketing consultancy. We're a brand, design, and marketing consultancy obsessed with effectiveness. We use the power of brand and creativity to help you grow: online, offline, and in your audience's mind. We call it brand impact.
SomeOne
A globally established multi-discipline, full-service strategic brand design agency.
Partnering with startups and category leaders across multiple sectors, we instigate change, create distinctive Brand Worlds™ and (re)launch brands.
Sticky Branding
Sticky Branding is a strategic branding and business development consultancy.
Superunion
Superunion is a brand new agency with 200 years of experience. Launched in January 2018, Superunion was formed from five world-class businesses as an agency specifically designed to meet the diverse needs of clients today.
Sutton Strategy
Sutton Strategy delivers thorough linguistic checks—detailed, actionable linguistic reports drawing on respondents living in target countries around the world. Reports include information on pronounceability, negative meaning, and existing brands in the target countries.
Tanj
Tanj is a boutique brand language firm. We help brands say smart things that spark meaningful connections with the world.
Tessera Trademark Screening
Tessera provides elegant preliminary trademark screening research and analysis for companies that develop brand names.
Universal Favourite
The world is full of forgettable brands, but some brands change the way we think, feel and act. They make life easier, make us feel good. They take the essence of ordinary and turn it into something special. That's what we do.
Want
WANT Branding is a unique brand consultancy. We are a team of experts from branding, strategy, advertising, design & digital—even, ex-client side people too.
Wolff Olins
We partner with ambitious leaders to design radically better businesses.