Digital marketing agencies in San Francisco that AI assistants recommend

Name: AI assistant recommendations: Digital marketing agencies in San Francisco, November 2026
Creator: AIGROW
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Ignite Visibility is named most, in 42% of 36 answers.

The ranking

AI Recommendation Rate

1Ignite Visibility42%
95%: 27 to 58%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
67%
Gemini
58%
Questions
4 of 4
Avg. position
2.3
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Claude and Gemini
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from Claude and Gemini
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from Gemini
Is this your business?
2Thrive Internet Marketing Agency39%
95%: 25 to 55%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
100%
Gemini
17%
Questions
4 of 4
Avg. position
2.5
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Claude
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from Claude and Gemini
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from Claude
Is this your business?
3Jives Media33%
95%: 20 to 50%
ChatGPT
100%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
4 of 4
Avg. position
1.5
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from ChatGPT
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from ChatGPT
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
4Victorious25%
95%: 14 to 41%
ChatGPT
58%
Claude
0%
Gemini
17%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
2.1
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from ChatGPT and Gemini
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from ChatGPT
Also written Victorious SEO
Is this your business?
5Directive Consulting25%
95%: 14 to 41%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
75%
Gemini
0%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
3.1
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Claude
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from Claude
Is this your business?
6WebFX25%
95%: 14 to 41%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
75%
Gemini
0%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
3.7
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Claude
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from Claude
Is this your business?
7Straight North19%
95%: 10 to 35%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
33%
Gemini
25%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
1.9
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Gemini
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from Claude and Gemini
Is this your business?
8LYFE Marketing17%
95%: 8 to 32%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
25%
Gemini
25%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
2.5
Named in answers to
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Gemini
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from Claude and Gemini
Also written Lyfe Marketing
Is this your business?
9Disruptive Advertising17%
95%: 8 to 32%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
33%
Gemini
17%
Questions
4 of 4
Avg. position
3.7
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Gemini
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from Claude
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from Claude and Gemini
Is this your business?
10Metric Theory14%
95%: 6 to 29%
ChatGPT
42%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
2.6
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from ChatGPT
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from ChatGPT
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
11CSTMR14%
95%: 6 to 29%
ChatGPT
42%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
3.8
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from ChatGPT
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
12Social Media 5511%
95%: 4 to 25%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
0%
Gemini
33%
Questions
3 of 4
Avg. position
2.3
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Gemini
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Gemini
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from Gemini
Is this your business?
13SmartSites11%
95%: 4 to 25%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
33%
Gemini
0%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
4.8
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Claude
Is this your business?
14Ignite Social Media8%
95%: 3 to 22%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
25%
Gemini
0%
Questions
1 of 4
Avg. position
1.3
Named in answers to
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from Claude
Is this your business?
15Ironpaper8%
95%: 3 to 22%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
0%
Gemini
25%
Questions
1 of 4
Avg. position
2
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Gemini
Is this your business?
16Propeller6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
0%
Gemini
17%
Questions
1 of 4
Avg. position
1
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Gemini
Is this your business?
17Socially Powerful6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
17%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
1 of 4
Avg. position
1
Named in answers to
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
18Secret Sushi6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
17%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
2
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from ChatGPT
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
19Colibri Digital Marketing6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
17%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
1 of 4
Avg. position
3
Named in answers to
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
20Upgrow6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
17%
Claude
0%
Gemini
0%
Questions
1 of 4
Avg. position
3
Named in answers to
- Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?, from ChatGPT
Is this your business?
21Voy Media6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
17%
Gemini
0%
Questions
1 of 4
Avg. position
4.5
Named in answers to
- Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?, from Claude
Is this your business?
22KlientBoost6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
8%
Gemini
8%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
5
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Gemini
Is this your business?
23Inflow6%
95%: 2 to 18%
ChatGPT
0%
Claude
17%
Gemini
0%
Questions
2 of 4
Avg. position
5.5
Named in answers to
- What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?, from Claude
- I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?, from Claude
Is this your business?

Open a row to see each assistant's share of its own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 20 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.

Digital marketing agencies in San Francisco: is this your field?

43different names in 36 answers, 20 of them only once. The assistants change their minds from one answer to the next.

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AI Visibility Index · November 2026

Asked about digital marketing agencies in San Francisco, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini named Ignite Visibility most often, in 42% of answers (its AI Recommendation Rate), then Thrive Internet Marketing Agency (39%). Across 36 answers they named 43 different businesses, 20 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in November 2026.

The AI Recommendation Rate is the fraction of the 36 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.

Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.

42% of answers named Ignite Visibility

Answers: 36
Businesses named: 43
Named only once: 20
Named by 2+ assistants: 7 of 23
Named again on a rerun: 54%

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What each assistant said

The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.

#	ChatGPT	Claude	Gemini
1	Jives Media100%	Thrive Internet Marketing Agency100%	Ignite Visibility58%
2	Victorious58%	Directive Consulting75%	Social Media 5533%
3	Metric Theory42%	WebFX75%	Straight North25%
4	CSTMR42%	Ignite Visibility67%	LYFE Marketing25%
5	Socially Powerful17%	Straight North33%	Ironpaper25%

Questions about digital marketing agencies in San Francisco

How AI assistants recommend digital marketing agencies

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini named Ignite Visibility most often, in 42% of 36 answers, then Thrive Internet Marketing Agency (39%) and Jives Media (33%). The names come from what the assistants answered to four buyer questions in November 2026; we have not checked that any of them is good, open or real.

Not always. ChatGPT named Jives Media most often (100% of its answers), Claude Thrive Internet Marketing Agency (100%) and Gemini Ignite Visibility (58%). 7 of the 23 listed businesses were named by two or more of them.

Each question was asked three times. Of the names an assistant gave for a question, 54% came back in two or more of those runs; the rest came up once. The 95% range beside each rate in the ranking shows how far it could move by chance.

Run the free checker: it asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok two of the Index questions for digital marketing agencies, with the category and the place already filled in, and shows every answer word for word. About 30 seconds, no sign-up. The page on how AI assistants recommend digital marketing agencies shows what an owner can work on. Nothing can guarantee that an assistant names you.

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The questions

Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.

1What is the best digital marketing agency in San Francisco?
2I want more customers for my small business in San Francisco. Which marketing agency would you recommend?
3Which agency in San Francisco is good at SEO and Google Ads?
4Which social media marketing agency in San Francisco would you recommend?

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The full method

What it measures: Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
Why the ranges matter: 36 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
One business, several spellings: Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
A name is wrong: If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.

Where the assistants look

The sites read most often, with web search on, before the assistants answer about this category in the United States. From the AI Source Map: 11 answers.

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