Top Influencer Marketing Agencies in Canada

Last Updated: October 26th · 10 Agencies ranked

Steph Payas
Written by Steph Payas
Chief Marketing Officer
Brian Sorel
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A Canadian creator and a Canadian audience are different selection criteria. Before choosing an agency, define the people your campaign needs to reach and where they can buy or use the product. Add province and language requirements where they affect the brief, then ask how the agency will assess audience fit.

That choice shapes the creative work. A Quebec food campaign may need a different brief and approval process from a national product launch. If your programme includes French and English content, establish who writes it, who reviews it and how the message should change for each audience.

Campaign evidence should answer the same questions. Look for the target market, the creator’s role and the basis of the result. A Canadian office can support coordination, while a case from another country can show execution experience. Neither detail replaces evidence about the audience in your proposed campaign.

We built this list for managers making those decisions. Compare the agencies’ published work, then use a shared brief to test their recommendations. The strongest proposal for your brand will connect audience choices with usable content and reporting that supports your next campaign decision.

Overview
#AgencySpecialityScoreLocation (HQ)
2 Ogilvy logo Ogilvy New York Brand-scale creative 79 /100 New YorkNY
3 Viral Nation logo Viral Nation Mississauga Enterprise social programmes 61 /100 MississaugaON
4 DEPT Agency logo DEPT Agency Location not disclosed AI marketing systems and social production 60 /100 Location not disclosed
5 We Are Social logo We Are Social London Socially led creative 60 /100 LondonUnited Kingdom
6 House of Marketers logo House of Marketers London TikTok mobile acquisition 54 /100 LondonUK
7 Pepper logo Pepper London Creator campaigns reported against plan 54 /100 LondonUnited Kingdom
8 Weber Shandwick logo Weber Shandwick New York Creator ideas with earned media 43 /100 New YorkUnited States
9 FleishmanHillard logo FleishmanHillard St. Louis Creator and earned media campaigns 41 /100 St. LouisUnited States
10 inBeat Montreal 40 /100 MontrealQC
11 Fourth Floor logo Fourth Floor Bristol Gaming creator campaigns 38 /100 BristolUnited Kingdom
Ogilvy logo

Ogilvy

79 /100
New York, NY Global network agency, WPP

Ogilvy has a Toronto office and delivers influencer work through its social and communications teams. Its case studies are useful for a Canadian buyer deciding how creator content should contribute to an idea also appearing in other media.

Hellmann’s UK food-waste campaign made the product itself part of the explanation. A temperature-sensitive mayonnaise jar showed when a fridge was cold enough. TikTok and Instagram creators demonstrated the idea, while outreach involved brand fans and food-waste campaigners. The complete campaign secured more than 160 pieces of online and print coverage.

For airline LEVEL, creators recommended places and experiences around Barcelona Pride. A guide supported the sponsorship, alongside outdoor advertising and parade activity. The programme reported a 39% revenue increase and an 18% bookings uplift during the campaign. The guide’s engagement rate was 20%.

The practical strength in these examples is a creator role that people can understand without a long explanation. Ogilvy is relevant when a Canadian campaign needs product education or audience participation to carry across different media. The brief should make the intended audience and language requirements explicit before that shared creative idea is developed.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 24/25
Client Impact 24/25
Industry Recognition 16/25
Revenue & Growth 15/25

Services Ogilvy offer

  • Ambassador Program Management
  • B2B Influencer Programs
  • Community Management
  • Compliance & Disclosure Management
  • Content Repurposing & Editing
  • Crisis & Reputation Management
Viral Nation logo

Viral Nation

61 /100
Mississauga, ON Enterprise, social commerce

Viral Nation is headquartered in Toronto and provides managed influencer campaign delivery alongside its software. Its published work shows the operational demands of coordinating creator activity around a major event and sustaining an entertainment brand’s advocacy programme.

Rocket Money’s Super Bowl campaign combined content before, during and after the event with paid support and community management. The agency coordinated 38 creators and reported 247M content views. A live campaign team helped connect the publishing schedule with conversations unfolding around the event.

For Disney Theatrical Group’s Broadway shows in New York, the programme included continuing advocacy, gifting and a Creator Day experience. The agency reports 172K clicks, while Creator Day content generated more than 30M impressions. The visit gave creators access to the shows and material to share with their audiences.

These cases suit a buyer whose Canadian programme needs coordinated publishing and a team able to respond during delivery. The relevant distinction is the work around the post: arranging the experience, supporting distribution and managing audience responses. A clear audience brief lets those activities serve the campaign’s intended Canadian viewers and commercial objective.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 19/25
Client Impact 22/25
Industry Recognition 5/25
Revenue & Growth 15/25

Services Viral Nation offer

  • Ambassador Program Management
  • Community Management
  • Crisis & Reputation Management
  • Custom Technology & Platform Development
  • Event & Experiential Activations
  • Influencer Campaign Management
DEPT Agency logo

DEPT Agency

60 /100
Location not disclosed Digital agency with technology and marketing teams

DEPT has a Toronto office and manages influencer campaigns including casting, production and distribution. Its work gives Canadian buyers a concrete example of how creator selection changes the way a product is explained.

For BISSELL in the Netherlands, Germany and France, the agency matched cleaning products with pet, family and home-content creators. Product education preceded an open creative brief, letting demonstrations appear within everyday routines. More than 30 local creators contributed to the campaign, which reported 15.5M organic impressions. Humour and before-and-after content gave the products visible jobs to do.

Its eBay work joined creator activity with the brand’s Love Island sponsorship and wider social programme. The published programme reported 217M impressions and 76K organic engagements. Those totals cover the combined activity rather than an isolated set of influencer posts.

DEPT is worth considering when the product needs to be seen in use and the resulting content must also serve the brand’s social channels. For a Canadian brief, its approach to matching a product with a creator’s routine offers a useful basis for discussing audience fit, language and the material required for distribution.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 17/25
Client Impact 4/25
Industry Recognition 19/25
Revenue & Growth 20/25

Industries DEPT Agency serve

  • Retail
  • Fashion

Platforms DEPT Agency cover

  • TikTok
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
We Are Social logo

We Are Social

60 /100
London, United Kingdom 1,300 people in 19 offices

We Are Social has a Toronto office and brings creator delivery into its social creative work. The agency’s published campaigns show different ways to turn an existing behaviour into a brand story people want to watch or repeat.

Barilla’s Italian rooftop-tennis film brought Roger Federer to meet the girls behind a popular lockdown video. They played tennis and ate together. The ambassador film recorded 35M views and 1.8M YouTube watch hours, giving the food brand a story built around an encounter and a shared meal.

For Pringles, the can became a prop for a TikTok challenge. Creators introduced playful uses and invited people to make their own videos. The wider challenge accumulated 4.7B views. Its reported scale includes audience contributions as well as the content that introduced the idea.

This is relevant when a Canadian campaign depends on participation, so the central action must be clear to the intended audience. The cases offer different creative choices: an encounter worth following, or a format people can recreate. We Are Social suits brands willing to make that audience behaviour part of the production brief.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 23/25
Client Impact 12/25
Industry Recognition 11/25
Revenue & Growth 14/25

Services We Are Social offer

  • Brand Planning
  • Branded Content
  • Campaign Strategy
  • Competitor Analysis
  • Creative Campaign & Concept Development
  • Cultural Intelligence
House of Marketers logo

House of Marketers

54 /100
London, UK Founded by former TikTok staff

House of Marketers is based in London and has documented Canadian campaign delivery through Invoice Fly. The agency pairs creator production with paid distribution, with product demonstrations that help viewers understand a practical use before taking action.

Invoice Fly’s programme included Canada among its named markets. Creators showed the invoicing app to tradespeople and service-business audiences, with paid activity supporting distribution. The campaign reported 70K downloads and more than 2K paying monthly subscribers across the full market group. Those totals describe the combined programme.

For printer brand Pantum, creator demonstrations appeared across markets including South Africa, the UAE and Turkey. The agency reported 3.63M organic views and 1.31M boosted views. Keeping those measures separate makes the case useful when comparing creator reach with the additional audience bought through paid media.

A Canadian software or functional-product brief could use these examples to specify what the audience needs to see before clicking. House of Marketers is relevant when the job involves both explaining the product and distributing that explanation. Its cases support buying creator production and media activity together, with agreed reporting by market and channel.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 12/25
Client Impact 25/25
Industry Recognition 4/25
Revenue & Growth 13/25

Services House of Marketers offer

  • Ambassador Program Management
  • Community Management
  • Competitor Influencer Audits
  • Content Repurposing & Editing
  • Influencer Campaign Management
  • Influencer Campaign Strategy
Pepper logo

Pepper

54 /100
London, United Kingdom 11-50 people, travel and lifestyle creators

Pepper is a London agency with documented Canadian delivery in its Goodnotes launch campaign. It manages creator work with paid support, using familiar routines to explain what an app helps its audience do.

For Goodnotes, the agency worked with creators in study, journaling and lifestyle content. The programme covered Canada alongside Brazil, Germany, Mexico, the UK and the US. It reported more than 24.5M impressions and over 37K paid Meta link clicks across those markets. The product appeared in the activities of students and people using tablets to organise their work.

Xero Go used a related approach for a different audience in the UK. Entrepreneur and self-employment creators explained the app through short videos and stories, with paid boosting supporting the campaign. The content connected product features with the tasks prospective users already needed to complete.

Pepper suits an app team whose Canadian brief needs more explanation than a product mention can provide. The cases show how creator subject matter can shape that explanation. They also help a buyer define the organic posts, paid adaptations and audience reporting needed for a launch that spans several countries.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 15/25
Client Impact 23/25
Industry Recognition 7/25
Revenue & Growth 9/25

Industries Pepper serve

  • Travel & hospitality
  • Entertainment & media
  • Finance & fintech

Platforms Pepper cover

  • TikTok
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Weber Shandwick logo

Weber Shandwick

43 /100
New York, United States Global communications agency

Weber Shandwick has a Toronto office and manages influencer identification, creative development and delivery. Its cases give a Canadian buyer examples of content tied to an action the audience can take after watching.

The SKITTLES campaign redesigned a New York micro-apartment with Dani Klari, then used Caleb Simpson’s familiar apartment-tour format to introduce it. A giveaway offering a year of free rent attracted more than 17K applications. The creator format made the space easy to explore, while the offer gave viewers a specific reason to respond.

Brawny’s cleaning-service campaign used a celebrity breakup as the occasion for content about mess. Influencer collaborations ran with paid and organic social activity and a wider publicity effort. The campaign reported 1.8B earned impressions, with 97% of coverage outside the home category.

Those examples answer different buying needs: a promotion with an application mechanism and a product idea designed for wider attention. Weber Shandwick belongs on a shortlist when a Canadian brief needs creator content to connect with a public offer or communications plan. Define the response in advance so the team can build both the creative and the reporting around it.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 20/25
Client Impact 6/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 17/25

Industries Weber Shandwick serve

  • Food and beverage
  • Household goods
FleishmanHillard logo

FleishmanHillard

41 /100
St. Louis, United States Global communications agency

FleishmanHillard has a Toronto office and delivers influencer work alongside content and communications services. Its selected cases show how regional creators and a recognisable public figure can perform different roles within the same product campaign.

Tillamook’s farmer-support programme in the US paired Eva Longoria with food, farming and lifestyle creators. A fundraising effort gave the content a reason to discuss where the brand’s products came from. The agency reports 30% more sales among people exposed to regional influencer content. That comparison applies to the exposed audience group.

Lipton used a more concentrated occasion. A football player and his wife brined a turkey with iced tea, following an earlier dry-turkey moment. The couple’s content joined brand social activity and a giveaway. The campaign reported 3.2M TikTok views and more than 145M earned impressions.

For Canadian buyers, these cases are useful when choosing the role of national talent versus creators with a closer subject or audience fit. FleishmanHillard is relevant when the brief needs a product story with enough substance for both creator content and publicity, supported by measures suited to each part of the programme.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 17/25
Client Impact 7/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 17/25

Industries FleishmanHillard serve

  • Food and beverage

Platforms FleishmanHillard cover

  • TikTok

inBeat

40 /100
Montreal, QC Micro-creator, paid-social led

inBeat has a Montreal office and combines creator production with paid acquisition work. Its cases are useful for a Canadian buyer who needs a continuing supply of ad material and a process for deciding which versions deserve further spend.

For Greenpark Sports, the agency worked with sports, gaming and lifestyle creators to produce short videos. It varied hooks and calls to action, then used the content in Meta and TikTok advertising. The case reports a 70% lower cost per install and daily installs at 6x the earlier level. Ad spend also rose during that campaign.

Custom haircare brand Prose needed content reflecting different hair experiences. inBeat organised recurring UGC production and iterated on the material that performed well. The programme delivered more than 450 assets with over 100 creators, giving the brand a range of product stories to test.

This is a fit for an acquisition team buying production and iteration as an ongoing service. The cases show why a brief should specify the variations required, the intended paid uses and how the next creative round will respond to performance. Canadian audience requirements should guide both casting and media targeting.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 13/25
Client Impact 15/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 12/25
Fourth Floor logo

Fourth Floor

38 /100
Bristol, United Kingdom Gaming creator campaigns

Fourth Floor has a Toronto office and specialises in creator campaigns for games and entertainment. Its published work combines creator access with ideas that give existing communities something to watch, make or share.

For PowerWash Simulator, the agency used global creator outreach with paid and earned activity, including access around the game’s launch and updates. The campaign generated more than 200 pieces of Twitch and YouTube content. Gifting supported the outreach, while the continuing release schedule gave creators further reasons to return to the game.

Warframe’s Duviri Paradox launch enlisted Colin Furze to build a machine that moves like a Warframe. Separately, creators decorated printed Duviri masks, and the design file was shared for community use. The paid streams reported more than 50K concurrent viewers, with paid YouTube viewership at 123% of target. The target comparison describes delivery against the plan.

Fourth Floor suits a Canadian gaming team that needs creator relationships to extend beyond a launch announcement. These cases show the value of access and usable participation materials. The buyer can scope the release moments, creator content and community activity together, with reporting that distinguishes livestream audiences from video views.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 18/25
Client Impact 8/25
Industry Recognition 3/25
Revenue & Growth 9/25

Industries Fourth Floor serve

  • Games

Platforms Fourth Floor cover

  • YouTube
  • Twitch

How to choose an influencer marketing agency for Canada

Write the Canadian audience into the brief before naming platforms or creators. Specify where the product is available and which customers you want to influence. Add province, language or other audience requirements when they matter to the offer. A national label can hide a narrow distribution footprint, so make the commercial boundaries clear. The agency should be able to explain how each casting recommendation serves that audience.

Review audience evidence with the actual campaign lead. Ask what location and language information is available for the proposed creators and how recent it is. Look at the posts that attract the audience you want, including the questions people ask about products. A creator’s Canadian address helps identify where they work; it does not establish where every viewer lives. Agree how audience fit will be checked before outreach becomes a commitment.

If the campaign needs French and English content, put the writing and approval process in the scope. Decide who supplies product language and who can approve a creator’s adaptation. Ask to see relevant work and have the agency explain how it handled the creative review. Build time for those decisions into the schedule. The objective is content that makes sense to its intended audience while preserving the product information the brand needs to communicate.

Choose a case that resembles the work you are buying. A retail opening can show local casting and event coordination. A continuing ambassador programme can show how a product appears across repeated posts. An app campaign can help you discuss paid distribution and conversion tracking. Ask which market the example covered, what the agency controlled and how its result was measured. Keep a multi-country total separate from any specifically Canadian outcome.

Set the content rights around your likely use. If your team wants to publish creator assets on brand channels or run them as ads, include that use in the quote. A campaign intended to expand into another market needs a separate discussion about territory, audience and adaptation. Confirm who supplies the finished files and how approval works for later edits. This lets your team compare the practical value of the deliverables alongside the posting plan.

For budget comparisons, issue the same scope and request a clear breakdown. Identify agency work and creator compensation, then show paid media separately. Ask how language versions, product shipping and extra review rounds affect cost. Have each agency name its reporting deliverables and the person responsible for answering performance questions. Compare the commitments behind the price, including the choices your team will need to make during production.

Before appointing an agency, review its proposed creator shortlist against your audience definition. Ask the team to explain an inclusion and a rejection, then inspect a sample report. Decide how you will respond if content attracts attention outside the intended market. Avoid proposals that treat creator nationality as audience proof, leave language approvals unresolved or present global results as Canadian performance. The final plan should make those boundaries easy to check.

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Name the intended audience, product availability and action you want people to take. Add province or language requirements where they affect the campaign. Explain whether the agency is managing a launch, recurring creator relationships or content for paid use. Those decisions give the team a basis for casting and let you compare proposals against the same job.

Ask for the available audience-location evidence and its date, then review the content that attracts the relevant viewers. Creator nationality and residence are separate from audience geography. Agree what evidence is sufficient before outreach and what reporting will be available after publication. If a proposal includes a wider audience, have the agency explain why it helps your Canadian objective.

That depends on the audience you intend to reach. If both languages are in scope, define who writes the briefs and approves product language. Ask the agency to show relevant creative work and explain how it would adapt the message for each audience. Include the review process and required versions in the proposal so production time and cost are clear.

Give each agency the same audience, timing and deliverables. Request separate costs for agency work, creator fees and paid distribution. Identify usage rights, language versions, shipping and further review rounds where they apply. Ask what the reporting includes. The comparison should show which work is covered and how the quote changes if you extend the campaign.

A local office can be relevant to the way you want to work, but documented Canadian campaign delivery can also support a shortlist. This list admits competitors through either route. Review the proposed team and its responsibilities, including any local production needs. Campaign evidence should identify the target audience rather than relying only on where the agency is based.

Keep the reported total labelled with its full campaign scope. Ask whether a Canadian breakdown is available and whether it uses the same measurement window and definitions. If it is unavailable, use the case to discuss execution experience and request a reporting plan for your own market. Do not assign a share of a global result to Canada without evidence.

NeoReach is the publisher and appears first as Featured. It is neither ranked nor scored. Its Maybelline case explicitly covers the Canadian market, while the Netflix example includes Canada within a wider activation. Competitors follow the fixed Influencer Power Index order. The profiles keep campaign geography and the scope of reported results visible for comparison.

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Ranking methodology explained

Every agency on a NeoReach ranking is scored out of 100. On this list that is four dimensions worth 25 each: three read off public records, one judged against a written rubric. A low score means the public record behind an agency is thin, which is not the same as saying its campaigns are weak. Plenty of good agencies publish very little.

We reviewed live agency service pages, office or campaign geography evidence, and named creator case studies. Competitors qualify through a verified office or operating base in Canada, or documented campaign delivery in the market, together with published results for distinct named clients. Office presence and campaign geography are recorded separately. Results retain the source’s market and channel scope. Competitors are ordered by the unchanged Influencer Power Index across Creative Quality, Client Impact, Industry Recognition, and Revenue and Growth. NeoReach is the publisher and appears first as Featured. NeoReach is neither ranked nor scored on this list.

Why these 4 for this list

Creative Quality considers the published creator work. Client Impact assesses evidenced delivery and results. Industry Recognition reflects documented external recognition. Revenue and Growth considers established scale and growth signals. Use the scores alongside the Canadian audience, language and production requirements in your brief.

Creative Quality /25
Campaign originality, content innovation and creative execution, read off published case studies, the awards a body of work has taken and the campaign formats an agency actually runs
Client Impact /25
Measurable results delivered to clients: return, engagement, reach, revenue. Counted from the named brands an agency has published work for, how many of its cases carry a quantitative result, and how many client categories that work spans
Industry Recognition /25
Validation from outside the agency: awards weighted by tier, platform partnerships, tier-one press and conference presence
Revenue & Growth /25
Business scale and trajectory: team size band, years in market and office footprint

What is not counted

Anything an agency will only say in a pitch. Unpublished results, client logos with no campaign behind them, and awards entered but not won. Where an agency has nothing a dimension can count, it lands on that dimension's floor, and its entry says so.

The rubric is fixed, not set against whichever agency happens to lead. The same record earns the same points for every agency on the page, NeoReach included.