Matchstick Social has been voted Best Ad Agency in The Post and Courier's 2026 Charleston's Choice Awards. It is the Charleston agency's third consecutive Charleston's Choice win and its second straight in the advertising category, following Best Promotions Company in 2024.
CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Matchstick Social, a Charleston, South Carolina advertising agency, has been voted Best Ad Agency in The Post and Courier's 2026 Charleston's Choice Awards. It is the agency's third consecutive Charleston's Choice win and its second in a row in the advertising category.
Charleston's Choice winners are selected by public ballot across dozens of local business categories. Matchstick Social took Best Promotions Company in 2024, then Best Ad Agency in 2025 and again in 2026. The agency has also won Charleston City Paper's Best of Charleston three times and took two AMA Spark Awards in 2023.
Matchstick Social has been in business for 13 years and is owned by partners Amber Ludeman and Rachel Davis. The agency handles brand identity and design, website design and development, paid media on Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Pinterest, organic social media management, SEO, email marketing, and photography and videography, all in-house.
Most of that work is built around one idea: the pieces should talk to each other. A typical prospect arrives with a freelancer running ads, someone else posting to social, a web developer who is unreachable, and an SEO vendor nobody has met. Matchstick Social replaces that with a single team working off one strategy, with monthly reporting tied to revenue and lead quality rather than impressions.
"The recognition is meaningful, but what matters most is the impact we have on our clients' businesses," said Amber Ludeman, Partner at Matchstick Social. "We bring strategy and execution under one roof and hold ourselves accountable to the numbers that matter."
Paid media accounts get manually optimized several times a week rather than set on autopilot, and organic social content is shot on location by the agency's own photographer and videographer. The agency works with clients across construction, healthcare, ecommerce, real estate, hospitality, retail and professional services, from downtown Charleston out to Mount Pleasant, Summerville and the islands.
"Charleston has no shortage of great marketers, so this recognition means a lot," said Rachel Davis, Partner at Matchstick Social. "We're most proud of the trust we've built with clients, many of whom have been with us for years. That trust is earned by consistently showing up and doing great work."
Matchstick Social is at 1350 Ashley River Road, Suite 500, Charleston, SC 29407, and is accepting new client engagements.
About Matchstick Social
Matchstick Social is a growth marketing and branding agency headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. Owned by partners Amber Ludeman and Rachel Davis, the 13 year old agency offers brand identity and design, website design and development, paid media across Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Pinterest, organic social media management, SEO, email marketing, and in house photography and videography for B2C and B2B clients. Matchstick Social has won The Post and Courier's Charleston's Choice Awards three years running, taking Best Promotions Company in 2024 and Best Ad Agency in 2025 and 2026, and has been named a Charleston City Paper Best of Charleston winner three times.
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