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This is a short list of digital marketing agencies with an office in Salt Lake County, checked against each firm's own website and a second listing on October 27, 2026. Every firm here handles some mix of Google search, paid ads, websites and social media for local businesses. Nobody paid to be on it.
For a Salt Lake County small business, start with Rock Salt Marketing Cooperative or Found Local Marketing for Google search and Maps work, Stay Wild Digital Marketing or Soda Spoon Marketing for a new website plus ads, and Big Mouth Marketing if you run a restaurant or bar. Pivo Web in West Jordan focuses on Google Business Profiles for trades, Adtheon in Millcreek runs only paid social and search ads, AIM Digital Agency pairs digital work with KSL radio, and MWI fits businesses with several locations.
Rock Salt keeps its menu short: search engine optimization, paid search and websites built to rank. It lists a Salt Lake City address on Stringham Avenue near Sugar House and has separate service pages for local SEO and franchise marketing, which matters if you run one shop in Holladay or forty locations across the Wasatch Front. The homepage says it has worked with everyone from mom and pop shops to Fortune 500 companies. If most of your customers find you by typing a service and a city into Google, this is a good first call.
Found Local works out of 159 W Broadway downtown and builds its pitch around small businesses and nonprofits. The trades it names on its own site are painters, roofers, HVAC companies, landscapers, window cleaners, auto repair shops and med spas. The core of the work is your Google Business Profile, local search rankings and a site that loads fast on a phone, with social media, video and a CRM for follow-up on top. A roofer in West Jordan who wants the phone to ring more is the customer this firm describes.
Stay Wild has an office at 2079 S 1200 E in Sugar House and a second phone line for Park City. Most of its site is about building things: custom WordPress sites, logos and branding packages, and online stores on Shopify, WooCommerce or Wix. It also runs SEO, Google Ads and social media ads once the site is live. The portfolio leans toward trades, logistics, auto and professional services. Pick it if your website is old and you would rather hand the rebuild and the ads to the same people.
Soda Spoon sits on Bangerter Parkway in Draper and covers more ground than most shops its size: websites, SEO, Google Ads, social, email, public relations and even digital signage. The industries it lists include salons, spas, gyms, home services, legal and medical practices. It offers a free strategy session before you sign anything, which is a cheap way to hear how it would split a budget between search and social for your business. Good fit for an owner in Draper, Sandy or Riverton who wants one firm handling everything.
Big Mouth is a Salt Lake City agency whose client logos are mostly restaurants, bars and breweries, and Utah Business covered its launch as a hospitality marketing firm. It does the usual digital work, like social media, email, Google Ads and review management. It also handles the things a restaurant actually needs that most agencies skip: postcard mailers, loyalty apps, push notifications, print ads and private event promotion. If you own a restaurant on 300 South or a brewery in South Salt Lake, start here before you try a generalist.
Pivo Web is a small West Jordan firm built around the Google Business Profile: optimizing it, posting to it on a schedule, managing reviews, and keeping your name and address the same across local directories. It also does local SEO, social media, Google Ads, websites and traditional ads. The trades it names are HVAC, plumbers, dentists, salons, chiropractors, contractors, auto repair and landscaping. If you are a plumber in West Jordan or Riverton and your listing has not been touched in a year, this is the kind of firm that fixes that first.
Adtheon has an office at 4885 S 900 E in Millcreek, and it does one thing: paid ads. The platforms on its homepage are Facebook, Instagram, Google Ads, YouTube, Bing, TikTok, Pinterest and Reddit. It does not build websites or write blog posts. That makes it a good fit if your site already works and you know your customers are on social media, but you do not have the hours to test ad creative and adjust budgets every week. Ask how they report results, and whether they track sales or just clicks.
AIM's Salt Lake City office is at 55 North 300 West downtown, and its site carries a Bonneville International copyright with KSL stations listed on the page. Besides SEO, Google Ads, Local Service Ads, social and websites, it sells audio and video advertising, so a single plan can put your business on the radio and in search results the same month. Its homepage lists home services, auto, medical, dental and legal among the industries it serves. Worth a call if you have tried radio before or are thinking about it.
MWI lists an office at 625 South State Street in Salt Lake City alongside Phoenix and Hong Kong. Its pitch is aimed at multi-location businesses, and the industries on its homepage include gyms, self storage, restaurants, hotels, banks and treatment centers. Services are SEO, pay per click, web development, content, conversion rate work and public relations. A single coffee shop is not who this firm is built for. A business with four or more locations across the valley that needs each one to show up on Google Maps is.
We started from the firms that show up when someone searches for a marketing agency in Salt Lake City, then threw out most of them. A lot of the agencies ranking for that search are in Lehi, Pleasant Grove, Provo or Bountiful, and a few are national companies with a city page and a shared office address. Those can still be good firms. They just are not Salt Lake County agencies, and this list is for owners who want someone they can meet in person in Salt Lake City, Draper or West Jordan.
Each firm had to list an office in a Salt Lake County city on its own website, and a second source had to agree: a Clutch or Semrush directory profile, a job listing, or a news story. Each site had to load on October 27, 2026, and the services in each entry come from that firm's own pages. We did not copy star ratings, review counts, awards, client names or prices from anywhere, because those change and are easy to inflate.
The order is about fit for a local business with somewhere between one and a few dozen employees, not about size. Firms that mostly make TV spots, billboards and brand campaigns are on our list of Salt Lake City advertising agencies, and firms that mostly do search rankings are on our list of Salt Lake City SEO companies. We kept the overlap between the three lists small on purpose.
For most small businesses in the valley, the work comes down to four jobs. First is your Google Business Profile, the listing with your hours, photos and reviews that shows up on Google Maps when someone searches for a plumber in Murray. Second is your website, which needs to load fast on a phone and tell people what you do and where. Third is paid ads, usually Google Ads, Local Service Ads or Facebook and Instagram ads. Fourth is follow-up: email, text messages and making sure someone calls back the leads.
A good agency will tell you which of those four is broken first. A restaurant usually needs social media and email more than search. A roofer usually needs Google Maps and Local Service Ads more than Instagram. If an agency proposes all four at once before it has looked at your Google Business Profile and your call logs, ask why.
Marketing agencies are not the only option. Some owners in the valley run their own Google Ads after a weekend of learning, and our free AI 101 class for local business owners covers how to write ad copy and social posts with AI tools so you can do more of it in house. You can also put your business in front of local readers directly by listing it in our Local Directory for $49 a month.
The names overlap, but in Salt Lake City they usually mean different things. A digital marketing agency, like the nine above, runs the ongoing online work: search, ads, social, websites and email. An advertising agency is more likely to make a TV spot, a billboard on I-15 or a full brand campaign, and to buy media on KSL or in print. An SEO company works only on getting your site to rank in Google without paying per click.
If you are not sure which you need, look at where your last 20 customers came from. If most found you on Google, you want search help. If most came from word of mouth and you want more people to know your name, advertising will likely do more for you, and our guide to where to advertise in Salt Lake City walks through billboards, radio, print and newsletters. If you want to test reaching locals without an agency at all, you can buy an ad in a local newsletter like ours and see what it does before you commit to a retainer.
An agency is one way to spend a marketing budget. You can also run your own ads, sponsor a youth team, buy a booth at the Downtown Farmers Market, or advertise in local media. The Salt Lake Valley newsletter, which publishes this page, goes to about 2,400 Salt Lake County readers every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and we sell ads in it. We left ourselves off the list above because we are not an agency and we should not rank our own product. Current ad options and prices are on our advertise page, and if you are hiring you can also post a local job for $49.