Running Fish

San Diego, California, United States
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Website design, SEO, and hosting for San Diego's local business sectors

Runningfish is a San Diego web design agency built around website design, redesign, and ongoing technical work, pairing WordPress development with technical SEO, local SEO, and content SEO. Google Ads management, email newsletters, and managed web hosting round out the service list, giving clients a single place to build a site and keep it running.

Work spans industries including architecture and design, automotive, breweries, cannabis, e-commerce, health and wellness, home services, and insurance and financial. The agency has operated in San Diego since 2003.

23
YEARS IN BUSINESS
4
SERVICES

Capabilities

Services

What these services involve

Content Marketing
Content strategy and production designed to attract and convert audiences.
Email Marketing
Email campaigns and lifecycle flows to retain and convert customers.
Social Media Management (SMM)
Ongoing social content planning, publishing, and community management.
Website Optimization
Improvements to speed, UX, SEO foundations, and site performance.

Agency details

Founded
2003 (23 years)

Awards & Recognition

Agency List award: TOP 10%, Web Design, California, 2026AGENCY LISTTOP 10%WEB DESIGNCALIFORNIA24 of 248 assessed2026

Measured by Agency List

Agency List award: TOP 25%, Email Marketing, United States, 2026AGENCY LISTTOP 25%EMAIL MARKETINGUNITED STATES614 of 2997 assessed2026

Measured by Agency List

Agency List award: TOP 25%, Digital Marketing, California, 2026AGENCY LISTTOP 25%DIGITAL MARKETINGCALIFORNIA220 of 1005 assessed2026

Measured by Agency List

Agency List award: TOP 25%, Social Media Management (SMM), California, 2026AGENCY LISTTOP 25%SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT (SMM)CALIFORNIA162 of 793 assessed2026

Measured by Agency List

Agency List award: TOP 25%, Website Optimization, California, 2026AGENCY LISTTOP 25%WEBSITE OPTIMIZATIONCALIFORNIA165 of 736 assessed2026

Measured by Agency List

Agency List award: TOP 25%, Email Marketing, California, 2026AGENCY LISTTOP 25%EMAIL MARKETINGCALIFORNIA83 of 391 assessed2026

Measured by Agency List

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  • TOP 25% Web Design · United States · 11 of 57 assessed · 2026

About this agency on Agency List

Running Fish holds an Agency List Score of 93 out of 100.

That score is higher than 79% of the 36,920 agencies Agency List has assessed so far.

The Agency List Score measures how well an agency documents its work in public: named clients, quantified outcomes, and whether those outcomes are attributed to the agency rather than to the client.

It does not measure client satisfaction, price, or availability.

How the Agency List Score is measured

How awards are earned

An Agency List cohort is one category or service in one country, region or city, and an award is issued only where that cohort holds enough assessed agencies to express the band being claimed.

Running Fish holds 7 Agency List awards.

Its strongest is top 10% of 248 assessed Web Design agencies in California, ranked 24, earned in 2026.

A top 10% award requires a cohort of at least 20 assessed agencies; this one holds 248.

An award is dated by the year it was earned and does not expire, while a standing changes as the rest of the cohort changes.

Assessment date

Agency List assessed Running Fish in August 2026, reading 4 pages published on runningfish.net.

The score reflects what Running Fish had published by that date; anything published since has not been read.

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