The fastest growing digital marketing agencies on the 2026 Inc. 5000
These are digital marketing agencies that made the 2026 Inc. 5000, Inc. magazine’s ranking of the fastest growing private companies in America. Sixteen of them. What niche is each one in? What offer are they selling? How are they keeping clients while everyone else is replacing them? And what are they doing that the agencies stuck at the same revenue every year are not?
We sat down with these owners for long form, on camera interviews where they walk through exactly how they grew, what they charge, how they deliver, and how they scaled past the ceiling. Every interview is below, free to watch.
The agencies, and the interviews
Each owner sat down for a full length filmed interview: the niche, the offer, the pricing, the team, and how they hold on to clients. Their numbers are their own.
Churches
Brady Sticker
ChurchCandy
$175K+ MRR
Signed 108 clients in a single month serving churches, and crossed seven figures at 25.
Painting contractors
Austin Houser
Base Coat Marketing
-$2K to $89K MRR in 11 months
Launched, then got a brain tumor diagnosis eight weeks later. Built it anyway.
Auto repair shops
Kelsey & Jen Outram
LIFT Auto Repair Marketing
$128K monthly recurring revenue
Joined Seven Figure Agency in mid-2021 with a small book of auto repair clients and built one of the fastest growing agencies in the program.
HVAC & home services
Josh & Brittany Crouch
Relentless Digital
102 clients, about $4M ARR
Josh Crouch built Relentless Digital from a side hustle he ran on his lunch breaks into an agency serving 102…
Plumbing & HVAC
Mandeep Singh Bhalla
Grow Nearby
$190K MRR / 80 clients
Mandeep Bala took Grow Nearby to 80 clients and $190K MRR using monthly client visits, a weekly podcast, and zero cold outreach.
Martial arts schools
Cris Rodriguez
Grow Pro Agency
$30K to $72K/mo with 130 clients
Fixed her pricing, packaging, and numbers after COVID took 30% of her clients, then more than doubled Grow Pro Agency.
Moving companies
Travis Weathers
Rotate Digital
$5M revenue this year
Travis Weathers had one moving company client and a testimonial he could use on every sales call.
Realtors
Tim Chermak
Platform Marketing
$300K/month recurring revenue across 220+ clients, one realtor per market
Tim Chermak built Platform Marketing into a $300K-a-month agency serving realtors nationwide, holding 1 to 2 percent churn for years.
Tree service companies
Wesley Smith
Tree Service Digital
$65K monthly recurring revenue across 50 clients
Wesley Smith rebuilt Tree Service Digital after losing his biggest client into a 50 client, $65K a month agency for tree companies.
Roofing & home services
Tim Brown
Hook Agency
$500K+ monthly recurring revenue
Tim Brown went to school for web design, cut his teeth at somebody else's agency, then spent three years…
Also on the 2026 list
Interviews with these agencies are in the works.
Chiropractors
Stephanie Dove Blake
Social Sparrow
Long form interview coming soon.
Damage restoration
Kevin Wilke
Water Restoration Marketing
Long form interview coming soon.
Physical therapy
Neil & Amy Trickett
Practice Promotions
Long form interview coming soon.
Eric Thomas
Rival Digital
Long form interview coming soon.
Stephen Edwards
AAMP
Long form interview coming soon.
IT service providers
Nate Freedman
Tech Pro Marketing
Long form interview coming soon.
What the fastest growing agencies do that stagnant ones don’t
Five patterns that show up in nearly every one of these agencies.
They picked one niche and went all in
Churches. Dojos. Painters. Plumbers. Chiropractors. Auto repair shops. Physical therapists. Not one agency on this list sells to “local business.” Every one of them sells to a specific industry, which is why they can charge more, deliver faster, and get referred inside a network that already knows them.
They kept clients instead of chasing new ones
Growth on this list is compounding, not churning. Cris Rodriguez rebuilt her pricing and packaging and more than doubled. Tim Chermak has held 1 to 2 percent churn for years across 220+ clients. Retention, not reach, is what puts an agency on this list four years running.
They productized the offer
The same service, delivered the same way, at a price the market understands. That is what let Brady Sticker sign 108 clients in a single month and Josh and Brittany Crouch get to 102 clients and roughly $4M a year. You cannot scale custom work.
They built a team that runs it without them
Every owner here moved from doing the work to owning the company. The account management layer, the SOPs, and the hiring came before the revenue, not after it.
They stayed in the room
Multiple owners on this list have made the Inc. 5000 two, three, and four years in a row. That is not a lucky year. That is a system, applied consistently, with a peer group that keeps them honest about the numbers.
Officially recognized by Inc.
Seven Figure Agency itself ranked No. 3,349 on the 2026 Inc. 5000, its fifth consecutive year on the list, alongside the 16 member agencies above. Read the announcement or browse the full 2026 Inc. 5000 list.
Rankings as published in the 2026 Inc. 5000. Seven Figure Agency was named No. 3,349 on the 2026 Inc. 5000, its fifth consecutive year on the list.
Want to build one of these?
Every agency on this page started somewhere less comfortable than where they are now. The difference was a niche, a system, and a room full of owners doing the same thing.