18 Best Food and Beverage Marketing and Advertising Agencies in 2026

Why Food and Beverage Ads Are Their Own Job

Food and drink brands have a problem most categories don't: people can't taste the product through a screen. The ad has to do it for them.

• Appetite comes first. The product has to look good enough to want right now: the pour, the crunch, the steam.
• Most sales happen in stores. Many food brands sell through grocery and Amazon, so the ad has to drive retail sales, not just site visits.
• Products are cheap and bought often. A $6 snack can't support a $60 cost per purchase on the first order. The math depends on repeat buys and subscriptions.
• Formats wear out fast. Food content is everywhere on social, so new angles matter more than another recipe video.

So we ranked agencies by how clearly their own sites show work that sells food and drink online: ads, paid social, creator content and the sites they send people to. Food and beverage specialists rank first. Branding and packaging studios are at the bottom, because they're a different kind of help.

TL;DR: Top Food and Beverage Advertising Agencies

Biddyco: UGC, motion and static Meta ads for food and drink brands like Momofuku, Rishi Tea and Nuts.com, from one US-based senior team on a flat monthly retainer.

Barrel: A New York CPG commerce agency behind Shopify sites, retention and creative for McCormick, Waterloo and Kite Hill.

Firebelly Marketing: A food and beverage-only social agency in Indianapolis, with paid social from $4,000 a month plus media.

Flighted: A New York Meta agency that says it spends $6 million a month on the platform, with DTC food clients like Cometeer.

Pilothouse: A full-funnel DTC agency with creative in house and food clients like Chamberlain Coffee and Cane Brew.

The Agencies at a Glance

Key Advantages of a Food and Beverage Agency

• They know how to make food look good on a phone. Food styling, lighting and the first second of a pour are skills, not luck.
• They plan for retail. The good ones measure what ads do for store and Amazon sales, not just site purchases.
• They've seen the category's angles. Taste tests, recipes, ingredient call-outs and "better than the snack you eat now" comparisons all behave differently. A specialist knows which ones to try first.

With that in mind, here's the full ranked list.

1. Biddyco

UGC, motion and static Meta ads for food and drink brands

Biddyco is a creative agency for Meta ads for brands spending $100K to $5M+ a month on paid social. Food and beverage is one of our biggest categories: we've made ads for Momofuku, Rishi Tea, Nuts.com, Huel, MUD\WTR, Four Sigmatic and ZBiotics. See 14 of them in our food and beverage ad examples.

We make UGC, motion graphics, UGC and motion hybrids and static ads, so a food brand gets genuinely different ads: a creator taste test, an animated snack pile-up, a static that sells the offer. Our US-based senior team handles strategy, scripting, casting, editing, animation and design in house. We work on a flat monthly retainer, not a percentage of spend, with no annual contract. New files land every 2 to 4 weeks, and we aim for one round of feedback.

Services: UGC Video Ads, Motion Graphics Ads, UGC and Motion Hybrids, Static and GIF-Style Ads, CTV and YouTube Spots, Creative Strategy

Standout Clients: Momofuku, Rishi Tea, Nuts.com, Huel, MUD\WTR, ZBiotics

Best For: Food and beverage brands spending $100K+ a month on Meta that want a specialist creative team alongside their media buyers.

Why Choose Biddyco:

• Food and drink ads across UGC, motion and static from one team
• Flat fee, so scaling a winner doesn't raise your creative bill
• Results like Momofuku's 6x and ZBiotics' 4x growth in Meta spend

2. Barrel

Shopify sites, retention and creative for CPG food brands

Barrel is a New York CPG commerce agency, founded in 2006, that works with DTC-led and retail-first food and beverage brands. It designs and builds Shopify sites, runs email and SMS, SEO and CRO, and has a digital creative studio for campaigns and content. Its food work includes a multi-brand Shopify launch for McCormick & Company and an omnichannel relaunch for Waterloo Sparkling Water.

Services: Shopify Design and Builds, Email and SMS, CRO and Testing, SEO, Subscriptions and Bundles, Digital Creative Studio

Standout Clients: McCormick & Company, Waterloo, Kite Hill, Once Upon A Farm, Bobo's

Best For: Food and beverage brands that want the site, subscriptions and retention side handled by a CPG specialist, alongside their ad partners.

Why Choose Barrel:

• Deep food and beverage client list
• Shopify and retention expertise
• Connects online and retail sales

3. Firebelly Marketing

Social and paid social for food and beverage only

Firebelly Marketing is an Indianapolis agency that calls itself the social media growth partner for food and beverage brands. It makes studio and UGC content, works with creators and runs paid social, plus retail media on Amazon and retailer platforms. It says its program for PaleoNola lifted peak weekly sales at Publix by 462% during the brand's launch there.

Services: Paid Social, Studio Photo and Video, UGC, Motion Graphics, Creator Marketing, Retail Media

Standout Clients: PaleoNola, Filmland Spirits, The Pretzelry, Relax Wines, R-C Ranch

Best For: Emerging food and drink brands that want content, creators and paid social from one specialist, especially around a retail launch.

Why Choose Firebelly Marketing:

• Food and beverage only
• Published pricing: full-funnel ads from $4,000 a month plus media
• Retail launch experience

4. Flighted

Meta media, creative and landing pages for DTC brands

Flighted is a New York performance agency and Meta partner that pairs media buying with in-house ad creative and landing pages. It says it spends $6 million a month on Meta and makes more than 1,000 creatives a month, for brands spending $20K to $500K+ a month on paid social. It isn't food-only, but its DTC food and drink clients include Cometeer and Outerseas, which it says hit 3.3x ROAS in month one.

Services: Meta, Google and TikTok Ads, Ad Creative, Landing Pages

Standout Clients: Cometeer, SimplyGoodCoffee, Flintts Mints, Stars & Honey, Outerseas

Best For: DTC food and drink brands spending $20K to $500K+ a month that want media and creative from one team.

Why Choose Flighted:

• Large Meta spend under management
• Creative and landing pages in house
• DTC food clients

5. Pilothouse

Full-funnel DTC with creative in house

Pilothouse, in Victoria, British Columbia, keeps creative, paid media, email and SMS, and CRO under one roof, buying across Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok and Amazon. It has worked with Kellogg's and General Mills, and Cane Brew says Pilothouse helped it grow into a million-dollar business.

Services: Ad Creative, Creator Content, Video and Photo, Landing Pages, Paid Media, Email and SMS

Standout Clients: General Mills, Kellogg's, Chamberlain Coffee, Cane Brew

Best For: Established DTC food and beverage brands that want creative, media and retention from one agency.

Why Choose Pilothouse:

• Full-funnel services
• Big food clients
• Creative and media together

6. Blue Bear Creative

Social for restaurants and food brands

Blue Bear Creative is a Denver social media agency for food and beverage brands, mostly restaurant chains and CPG. It produces content with an in-house food stylist, runs a UGC creator pool and buys Meta, TikTok and Pinterest ads.

Services: Social Strategy, Video and Photo, UGC Creator Pool, Influencer Management, Paid Social

Standout Clients: Smashburger, Noodles & Company, Bud Light, Purely Elizabeth, Teriyaki Madness

Best For: Restaurant chains and food brands chasing younger customers on TikTok and Instagram.

Why Choose Blue Bear Creative:

• Food and beverage focus
• In-house food styling
• Restaurant and CPG clients

7. The Shelf

Creator content turned into paid ads

The Shelf is a performance influencer agency with a food and beverage practice. It casts creators, builds a library of usage-cleared content and runs it as paid ads through the creators' accounts, tied to Amazon, retail and DTC sales. It says one paid cycle for Papa Murphy's drove more than 11,000 tracked purchases at a CPA under $1.

Services: Creator Casting, Recipe and Taste-Test Content, Creator Ads (Allowlisting), Brand Lift Studies, Studio Production

Standout Clients: Papa Murphy's, BuzzBallz, Knorr, Peelz Citrus, St Pierre Bakery

Best For: Grocery and retail food brands that want creator content working as paid ads.

Why Choose The Shelf:

• Creator ads at scale
• Usage rights handled
• Retail-focused measurement

8. Fat Earth

Performance marketing from the Red Antler family

Fat Earth is the performance marketing agency of Red Antler Group, combining paid media, lifecycle marketing and brand-led creative. Its food and drink work includes Graza, SkinnyDipped and Back to the Roots.

Services: Paid Media, Integrated Campaigns, Email and SMS, Creative Strategy and Design

Standout Clients: Graza, SkinnyDipped, Back to the Roots, Ayoh!

Best For: Brand-led food and beverage startups that want performance media with polished creative.

Why Choose Fat Earth:

• Brand and performance together
• Strong food startup clients
• Media and lifecycle in house

9. The Food Group

WPP's food and beverage agency

The Food Group is a food and beverage marketing agency owned by WPP, with more than 50 years in the category. It covers strategy, creative, paid and social media, culinary development and shopper marketing, for both consumer and foodservice audiences.

Services: Campaigns, Photo and Video, Paid and Social Media, PR, Culinary Development, Shopper Marketing

Standout Clients: Hellmann's, Campbell's

Best For: Large food manufacturers and foodservice brands that want one agency for consumers, operators and shoppers.

Why Choose The Food Group:

• Food and beverage only
• Holding company resources
• Foodservice and shopper expertise

10. Crew Marketing Partners

Campaign creative for food and drink, US and Canada

Crew Marketing Partners works across the food and beverage space from Dallas, Toronto and Vancouver, with leaders who came from P&G, Frito Lay and McCain. It covers brand, packaging, campaigns, social and influencers, and offers a fractional team that includes media.

Services: Strategy, Brand and Packaging, Campaigns, Social, Influencers, Production, Shopper Marketing

Standout Clients: Sunrype, PAM, Lee Kum Kee, Earth's Own, Panago

Best For: Mid-size and national food brands in the US and Canada that want campaign creative backed by CPG-trained strategists.

Why Choose Crew Marketing Partners:

• Food and beverage only
• Big CPG backgrounds
• US and Canada coverage

11. JT Mega

A food advertising agency since 1976

JT Mega, in Minneapolis, calls itself a food advertising agency and has worked with consumer, foodservice and ingredient brands for 50 years. It has its own photo studio, test kitchen and video team, and plans and buys media, including CTV.

Services: Campaigns, Digital and Social, CTV, Media Planning and Buying, Photo and Video, Packaging

Standout Clients: Cargill, Ripple, UV Vodka, Columbus Craft Meats, Leroux Liqueurs

Best For: Established food, beverage and foodservice brands that want a food-only ad agency with its own studio and media team.

Why Choose JT Mega:

• Food only, for decades
• In-house studio and test kitchen
• Media buying included

12. Native Labs

Actor-led UGC and TV spots at fixed prices

Native Labs is a Los Angeles studio that scripts and shoots UGC-style ads and TV spots in house with actors, for Meta, TikTok, YouTube and CTV. It publishes its packages: from $4,000 a month for 12 videos, with a 3-month initial term.

Services: Performance UGC, TV Spots, Static Ads, Re-Edits, Photography

Standout Clients: Farmer's Fridge, Tovala

Best For: Food brands that want actor-led UGC and CTV spots at a fixed monthly price.

Why Choose Native Labs:

• Everything shot in house
• Published pricing
• Social and TV from one studio

13. UMAI Marketing

Social and branding for small food brands

UMAI Marketing is a women-owned Austin agency for consumer product brands, most of them small food and drink companies. It does branding, packaging, social content, social ads and email.

Services: Branding, Packaging, Social Media, Social Ads, Content, Email

Standout Clients: Mother-in-Law's Kimchi, Serenity Kids, Uncharted Coffee, Sfoglini, Canteen Spirits

Best For: Early-stage food and drink brands that need social content, ads and email on a boutique budget.

Why Choose UMAI Marketing:

• Food-heavy client list
• Brand and social together
• Boutique team

14. Foodie Tribe

Influencers and short-form video for food brands

Foodie Tribe, from Miami, is part influencer agency and part creative agency, focused only on food and beverage. It says it works with a network of 3,000+ creators and makes TikTok and Reels video, with paid social as an add-on.

Services: Influencer Campaigns, TikTok and Reels Video, Social Media Management, Content, Branding

Standout Clients: Has worked with McDonald's, Perdue, Goya, Boar's Head and Fage

Best For: Food and restaurant brands that want creator content and influencer reach more than performance ads.

Why Choose Foodie Tribe:

• Food and beverage only
• Large creator network
• Short-form video focus

15. Sterling-Rice Group

Culinary innovation and advertising

Sterling-Rice Group is an independent, women-owned agency in Boulder, founded in 1940, with culinary, insights, brand, advertising and media teams. It works with food makers, commodity boards and restaurants.

Services: Insights, Innovation, Culinary, Brand, Advertising, Media

Standout Clients: Almond Board of California, Brewers Association, Snooze A.M. Eatery

Best For: Food manufacturers, commodity boards and restaurant brands that want product innovation and advertising from one agency.

Why Choose Sterling-Rice Group:

• Culinary team in house
• Long food history
• Innovation and advertising together

16. Garnish Studios

Food photo and video that feeds your ads

Garnish Studios is a Brooklyn creative agency for CPG, pet and wellness brands, best known for food and beverage photography and video. It doesn't run ads, but brands use its assets in them: Sanzo says some of its top-performing ads came from Garnish's work.

Services: Photography, Video Production, Social and Content Design, Campaign Concepts, Brand Strategy

Standout Clients: Welch's, Oishii, Forager Project, Brami, Sanzo

Best For: Food brands that need premium photo and video to feed their ads and channels.

Why Choose Garnish Studios:

• Food styling and production
• Assets that work in ads
• Strong emerging-brand clients

17. Gander

Branding and packaging for food and drink

Gander is a Brooklyn branding studio with a portfolio heavy in food and beverage. Its packaging work for Yellowbird and Smallhold has won The Dieline awards.

Services: Strategy, Identity, Packaging, Photo and Video Art Direction, Web Design, Campaigns

Standout Clients: Graza, Yellowbird, Smallhold, Drumroll, Stiller's Soda

Best For: Emerging food brands that need a brand and packaging built for shelf and feed before they scale ads.

Why Choose Gander:

• Award-winning packaging
• Food-heavy portfolio
• Brand built for social

18. Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR)

Global branding for the biggest food names

JKR is a global branding agency in New York and London, behind well-known identity work for Burger King, KFC and Coca-Cola. It's a rebrand partner, not an advertising agency, but it's often on the shortlist for large food and drink brands.

Services: Brand Strategy, Identity, Design Systems

Standout Clients: Burger King, KFC, Coca-Cola, Stella Artois, Impossible

Best For: Big food and drink brands planning a full rebrand.

Why Choose JKR:

• Iconic food rebrands
• Global reach
• Design systems built to scale

How to Choose a Food and Beverage Advertising Agency

Decide What You Actually Need

Food agencies do very different jobs. Some make ads, some buy media, some run influencers, and some design packaging. If your problem is that your Meta ads aren't selling, a packaging studio won't fix it.

Ask How They Measure Retail

If most of your sales are in stores or on Amazon, ask how the agency connects ads to those sales. Site purchases alone will undercount what your ads do.

Look at the Ads, Not the Logos

Ask for real ads they made for food and drink brands, and what happened after they ran. A big logo on a website can mean one photo shoot five years ago.

Check How They Keep Ads Different

Food content blends together fast. Ask how they come up with new angles, formats and creators, not just new recipes. See creative diversity on Meta.

Do the Pricing Math

Low-priced food products leave little room for fees. Compare a flat fee with a percentage of spend at today's budget and at double it. More in what a creative agency for Meta ads costs.

Choosing the Right Partner for Your Food Brand

The agencies on this list range from food-only social shops and performance agencies to culinary agencies and branding studios. The right one depends on whether you need ads, media, influencers or a brand, and where your customers actually buy.

Biddyco is a CPG creative agency for food, beverage and consumer brands spending $100K to $5M+ a month on Meta, making UGC, motion, hybrid and static ads with a US-based senior team, on a flat fee. For more, see our 32 CPG ad examples, the Meta Ads Statistics hub, or book an intro call.

FAQ

What is the best food and beverage advertising agency?

It depends on what you need. For Meta ad creative, Biddyco makes UGC, motion and static ads for food and drink brands. Barrel builds Shopify sites and retention programs for food brands. Firebelly Marketing and Blue Bear Creative are food-focused social agencies that also buy media. The Food Group and JT Mega are long-running food-only agencies.

What does a food and beverage marketing agency do?

It plans and makes marketing for food and drink brands: ads, social content, influencer campaigns, packaging, media buying and retail promotions. Most agencies specialize in a few of these, so check which ones a shortlist actually does.

How much does a food and beverage marketing agency cost?

Among agencies that publish pricing, Firebelly Marketing's ads start at $4,000 a month plus media, and Native Labs' video packages start at $4,000 a month. Larger agencies usually price by project or retainer.

Should a food brand use a food specialist or a performance agency?

A food specialist knows the category's angles and retail channels. A performance agency knows the ad platforms deeply. Many brands get the best of both by pairing a creative partner that knows food ads with strong media buyers.

What kinds of ads work best for food and beverage brands?

Ads that make people want the product right now: taste tests, creator reactions, ingredient call-outs and comparisons with what people eat today. Mixing UGC, motion and static formats helps reach different buyers. See our food and beverage ad examples.