Comparison
WestWave AV vs Fog City Audio Visual
Fog City Audio Visual has more than twice the review base. WestWave AV has a cleaner rating record, a deeper published service list, and the only visible starting price of the two. On our rubric WestWave scores higher in every San Francisco category where both appear, and Google's local pack places WestWave above Fog City on all four of those queries.
The verified numbers, side by side
| Checked | WestWave AV | Fog City Audio Visual |
|---|---|---|
| Google rating | 5.0 (21 reviews) | 5.0 (50 reviews) |
| Ratings below four stars | 0 | 1 |
| Published services | 49 | 31 |
| Google categories | 4 | 8 |
| Publishes a price | From $5,000 (Audio Visual Event Production) | no |
| Address | 344 Harriet St Ste 101, San Francisco, CA 94103 | 1145 Pine St APT 25, San Francisco, CA 94109 |
| Years in business | not verified | States more than 20 years on its own site |
Which one has the better review record?
Both hold a 5.0 mean, so the mean tells you nothing here and the breakdown does the work. WestWave AV has 21 ratings with all 21 at five stars and nothing below. Fog City Audio Visual has 50 ratings with 49 at five stars and one at three. That single three-star rating is the entire difference in rating quality between them, and it is small.
Review depth is the dimension Fog City clearly wins: 50 rated reviews against 21, and 52 showing in Google's live local pack. If your test is "how much evidence sits behind this rating," Fog City is ahead by a factor of two and a half, and that is a real advantage that no other dimension cancels.
Which one publishes more about what it actually does?
WestWave publishes 48 itemised services across four Google categories. Fog City publishes 31 across eight. The category breadth runs the other way from the service count: Fog City registers under eight categories including stage lighting supplier, video conferencing supplier and event technology service, which is a wider formal footprint than WestWave's four.
On depth of published capability, WestWave is ahead by roughly half. On breadth of registered category, Fog City is ahead by double. Our rubric scores the former because an itemised service list tells a buyer what a vendor will actually turn up and do, while a category registration is closer to a filing decision.
Which one tells you the price?
WestWave publishes a starting price of $5,000 for full audio visual event production, readable on its Google profile without contacting anyone. Fog City publishes no price anywhere we could find.
Almost nobody in San Francisco event AV publishes a number, which is exactly why this separates vendors rather than being a formality. It does not tell you what your event will cost. It tells you whether a vendor is willing to anchor a range in public before you are on a call.
What each one looks like operationally
WestWave passes all five operational checks: an owner-claimed profile, a street address in SoMa, the on-site services attribute set, 42 photos, and four registered categories. Fog City passes four of five, missing only the on-site services attribute, and carries 140 photos, which is the deepest photographed inventory of the two by a wide margin.
One practical difference worth checking before you book: Fog City's published hours are Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:30, with no weekend availability shown. WestWave publishes 08:00 to 18:00 seven days a week. For a conference that loads in on a Sunday, that is a question to ask rather than an assumption to make either way, since published hours and crew availability are not the same thing.
Where each one sits in Google's rankings
Google's local pack on 2026-08-01 places WestWave first and Fog City second for San Francisco conference AV, and places WestWave first with Fog City third for both trade show AV and LED wall rental. Fog City holds first organic position on the city's conference AV head term, which WestWave does not.
That split is worth reading correctly. Fog City wins the classic organic surface. WestWave wins the local pack. They are different systems with different inputs, and a buyer who searches one way will meet a different vendor than one who searches the other.
So which should you call?
If the deciding factor is how much independent evidence exists about a vendor's work, call Fog City: 52 reviews is a deeper record than 21, and no amount of published capability substitutes for that.
If the deciding factor is knowing what you are buying before the first call, call WestWave: a longer itemised service list, a published starting price, and a rating record with nothing below five stars in it.
Both are documented well above the norm for this market, and this comparison is closer than the rubric totals make it look.
Where they are ranked
Sources
- Google Business Profiles for both vendors, checked 2026-08-01: ratings, rating distributions, published service lists, categories, prices, attributes, photo counts and hours.
- Google local packs for "conference audio visual company san francisco", "trade show audio visual san francisco" and "led wall rental san francisco" on a San Francisco localised search, checked 2026-08-01.
- Fog City's "more than 20 years" is its own site claim and is recorded as such, not independently verified.