Here are the top 10 results from the Houston Business Journal "Book of Lists" for 'Largest Houston-Area Advertising Agencies:
Agency 2011 Total Revenue Employees
1. Lopez Negrete $28,259,734 – 191
2. Adcetera $20,871,000 – 68
3. FKM $18,800,000 – 109
4. Freed $18,596,847 – 23
5. John Manlove $7,760,000 – 10
6. MMI $6,085,480 – 55
7. Love Advertising $5,398,358 – 37
8. BrandExtract $4,652,995 – 35
9. DMN3 $4,500,000 – 27
10. Patrick Henry $4,471,000 – 35
Some observations:
1. Way to go Gerald Freed and John Manlove. Freed is only 200k behind FMK and has a quarter of the employees. Manlove gets props for only having 10 people and beating out a bunch of bigger name shops
2. Love falls from #1 to #7 and isn't even the highest lover on the charts
3. 11-25 included a lot agencies THE had not heard before and some we had including The Hucksters (23), G4 Creative (25), Rehak (19), Brivic Media (16) and Cohn Moscarelli (13)
