Yellow Banana

What Yellow Banana does

Yellow Banana is a small, privately held creative services agency headquartered in Oslo, Norway, founded in 2014. The firm provides a bundled set of marketing and creative offerings including consultation, site design, brand marketing, photography, film production, and creative content production. With 11-50 employees and a single Oslo-based operation, the company operates as a boutique creative studio serving clients requiring integrated marketing communications and visual content development.

The service portfolio spans the full creative value chain, from upstream strategy consultation and site design through downstream production of photography, film, and creative content. The firm is led by Managing Director Nick Sampson. The business model is services-based: revenue is generated through project-based and retainer engagements for clients commissioning creative work, with no disclosed proprietary technology, software product, or platform infrastructure identified in available data. The agency appears to compete on creative talent, client relationships, and execution quality rather than on technology differentiation or scalable IP.

No customer logos, named accounts, segment mix, pricing, funding, or financial disclosures are available in the input. The firm has no disclosed partnerships, M&A activity, regulatory actions, or expansion into adjacent verticals. The data picture is one of a small, established Norwegian creative agency operating with a traditional services model in a competitive local market, with no observable signals of technology investment, geographic expansion, or strategic repositioning.

Name

Yellow Banana

Website

https://yellowbanana.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Yellow Banana is a small private creative agency in Oslo, Norway, founded in 2014, offering consultation, site design, brand marketing, photography, film production, and creative content services to clients across Norway.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Yellow Banana provides consultation, site design, brand marketing, photography, film production, and creative content services to organizational clients. The firm delivers strategic, media, content, and creative concept work packaged as integrated marketing projects rather than standalone software or products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Consultation Services Strategic and creative consultation provided to organizational clients as part of Yellow Banana's creative service portfolio.
• Site Design Website design services delivered to organizational clients as a discrete creative deliverable.
• Brand Marketing Brand marketing services for organizational clients covering strategy and campaign development.
• Photography Photography services produced for organizational clients as part of marketing and campaign deliverables.
• Film Production Film and video production services delivered to organizational clients, including advertising film (reklamefilm) work.
• Creative Content Creative content production including animation, art direction, and campaign asset development for organizational clients.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Pol: Norwegian creative agency delivering advertising, brand, and content work for major Scandinavian brands. Closely comparable to Yellow Banana in service mix and target customer profile.
• Netlife: Norwegian digital-focused agency delivering site design, branding, and digital content. Highly comparable to Yellow Banana's site design and brand marketing capabilities.
• TRY (formerly Apt): One of Norway's largest full-service creative/advertising agencies, offering brand strategy, campaign development, film, and digital — directly comparable to Yellow Banana's full-service creative offering, but at significantly larger scale.
• NoA (Nordic Operations Arena): Pan-Nordic creative and digital agency group with Norwegian roots, offering brand, design, and content services. Comparable creative offering with broader Nordic geographic reach than Yellow Banana.
• Anti (Anti Reklame): Oslo-based creative agency focused on advertising campaigns, brand work, and content production — a direct Norwegian competitor with overlapping services.
• Kitchen: Oslo-headquartered creative agency producing campaigns, film, and brand work for Norwegian clients. Directly overlaps with Yellow Banana's film production and brand marketing services.

Broad incumbents

• Snøhetta: Oslo-based design and branding powerhouse spanning visual identity, spatial design, and creative content. Comparable in brand and creative content work, though operating at much larger scale and broader scope.
• McCann Norway: Norwegian arm of global network McCann, offering advertising, brand strategy, and content. Competes with Yellow Banana for the same Norwegian brand clients but with global network resources.
• Ogilvy Norway: Norwegian office of global agency Ogilvy, delivering brand, advertising, and content services. Comparable service offering but with the scale, methodology, and international reach of a global network.

Emerging players

• Anorak: Norwegian creative and content agency producing campaigns, branded content, and film. Comparable in service mix and boutique positioning, though typically operating at smaller scale than Yellow Banana.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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