Top 11 Influencer Marketing Agencies in Los Angeles

Last Updated: August 12th · 11 Agencies ranked

Steph Payas
Written by Steph Payas
Chief Marketing Officer
Brian Sorel
Reviewed by Brian Sorel
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In Los Angeles you expect the agency at the shoot, and that expectation sorts this field in a way a directory listing will not. The two highest scorers here are branch offices of firms run from New York: enormous creative capability, and no Los Angeles client on the published record. The shops headquartered in this city are the ones holding the studio proof, and one agency below is both. Disney Pixar, FOX, Lionsgate, Universal, Nickelodeon, Amazon MGM and Activision have each briefed somebody on this list, and the campaigns behind those names are the part worth reading twice.

Overview
#AgencySpecialityScoreLocation (HQ)
2 Ogilvy New York Brand-scale creative 84 /100 New YorkNY
3 Edelman New York Earned-media campaigns 83 /100 New YorkNY
4 Open Influence Los Angeles Film and TV launches 69 /100 Los AngelesCA
5 We Are Social London Socially led creative 66 /100 LondonUnited Kingdom
6 VaynerMedia New York Organic social creative 58 /100 New YorkNY
7 Seed Marketing London Live campus activations 55 /100 LondonUK
8 HireInfluence Los Angeles Experiential activations 52 /100 Los AngelesCA
9 Ubiquitous Los Angeles Short-form creator buying 45 /100 Los AngelesCA
10 WE ARE KOMODO London Launch activations 38 /100 LondonUnited Kingdom
11 Allison Worldwide New York Earned media and reputation 36 /100 New YorkNY
Ogilvy logo

Ogilvy

84 /100
New York, NY Global network agency, WPP

Ogilvy has been in business since 1948 and is the flagship agency of the WPP network. Its global headquarters is in New York. The Los Angeles office is in Playa Vista, a few minutes from the Culver City lots.

What it sells is the idea, plus the network to put that idea into every market on the same day. For a launch where the idea carries the risk rather than the media plan, that is the shape of partner: senior creative direction, production at scale, and people who have run a campaign at your size before.

Its studio work runs through Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City. Prime Video's Staraoke was staged with 500 drones flown over a crowd of 2,000 invited fans. Its biggest US result is CeraVe, where the Michael CeraVe Super Bowl campaign reports 32B earned impressions, more than 2,000 media articles, a 25% sales increase and #1 share of voice on the night. Dove's #TurnYourBack reports 54m video views and 567K+ engagements.

Best for a launch that has to make news everywhere at once.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 24/25
Client Impact 24/25
Industry Recognition 16/25
Revenue & Growth 20/25

Services Ogilvy offer

  • Ambassador Program Management
  • B2B Influencer Programs
  • Community Management
  • Compliance & Disclosure Management
  • Content Repurposing & Editing
  • Crisis & Reputation Management
Edelman logo

Edelman

83 /100
New York, NY 6,000-plus people, 28 countries

Edelman is a communications firm founded in 1952 and run out of New York, where its global headquarters sits. The Los Angeles office is at Columbia Square on Sunset Boulevard, a purpose-built floor on the old CBS lot with rooms for shooting video and recording podcasts.

A creator programme here sits inside a wider communications engagement: strategy, press and social planned together, briefed together and measured together. For an entertainment marketer that means the content and the coverage come off one plan, and the building itself can make the content.

Xbox is the entertainment work on the record. Halo Master Piece, staged at the Saatchi Gallery for the Halo Infinite launch, reports 18M social views, 302K engagements and 97% positive sentiment. Halo Wars 2 reports 575M reach and 4.2M views. At full scale, Progresso Soup Drops for General Mills reports 12.83B earned media impressions, a 47-point gain in brand association and a 27% rise in soup brand choice.

Best for a campaign that has to earn coverage, not just views.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 22/25
Client Impact 25/25
Industry Recognition 16/25
Revenue & Growth 20/25

Services Edelman offer

  • Ambassador Program Management
  • B2B Influencer Programs
  • Community Management
  • Competitor Influencer Audits
  • Compliance & Disclosure Management
  • Content Repurposing & Editing
Open Influence logo

Open Influence

69 /100
Los Angeles, CA 51-200 people, entertainment-led

Open Influence was founded in 2013 and is run from Los Angeles. The office on Beverly Boulevard is the only address it publishes anywhere; New York, Chicago, London, Milan and Hong Kong appear on its list as city names.

It is a studio agency and it reports like one. A client agrees the target before the campaign runs and gets delivery measured against that target in the same document afterwards, so you see the size of the beat rather than only the size of the number. That is the document a distribution meeting can actually use.

Disney Pixar's Lightyear premiere landed organic impressions at 709% of goal, an 11.95% organic Instagram in-feed engagement rate and 40M+ followers targeted. FOX's Extracted reality launch ran 100+ creators and 200+ unique assets to 148.5M impressions and 7.5M engagements. Lionsgate's Ballerina reports 14M views and 337K engagements. Universal's Ma held a 4.5% engagement rate against a 1.5% KPI. Subaru at the Los Angeles Auto Show reports 10.8M impressions and 9.2M video views.

Best for a premiere with a date on it.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 17/25
Client Impact 24/25
Industry Recognition 11/25
Revenue & Growth 17/25

Services Open Influence offer

  • Ambassador Program Management
  • B2B Influencer Programs
  • Competitor Influencer Audits
  • Event & Experiential Activations
  • Influencer Campaign Management
  • Influencer Campaign Strategy
We Are Social logo

We Are Social

66 /100
London, United Kingdom 1,300 people in 19 offices

We Are Social is a social agency founded in 2008 and run globally out of London. Its Los Angeles office is on Wilshire Boulevard, one of three North American offices it publishes with a street address, alongside New York and Toronto.

The work is genuinely inventive: hashtag mechanics, in-game formats, stunts built for a platform rather than adapted to one. That is what a launch which has to be talked about is buying, and it travels further than a media plan does.

Activision, headquartered in Santa Monica, is the local client. For Call of Duty's SOAP Codes, dropping a soap emoji in a stream earned players a weapon skin, and the mechanic returned 5M engagements at 87% positive sentiment. The Call of Duty Grime Map reports 656K organic views and a 93% engagement uplift on Twitter. Netflix's Speak like El Patron tie-in with Babbel reached 33M people, $1B in media coverage value and 100K downloads on launch day.

Best for a campaign that has to enter the conversation in its first week.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 23/25
Client Impact 12/25
Industry Recognition 11/25
Revenue & Growth 20/25

Services We Are Social offer

  • Brand Planning
  • Branded Content
  • Campaign Strategy
  • Competitor Analysis
  • Creative Campaign & Concept Development
  • Cultural Intelligence
VaynerMedia logo

VaynerMedia

58 /100
New York, NY Independent, 1,000-plus people

VaynerMedia was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York. Its Los Angeles operation sits on Schaefer Street in Culver City, and is one of the few VaynerMedia cities with an office page of its own.

The method starts in the comments. The team reads what an audience is already saying about a brand on organic social, builds the creative out of that, then puts paid behind whatever earns attention on its own. For a brand whose category conversation is loud and fast, that is a very different starting point from a brief written in a boardroom.

Jimmy John's turned organic social listening into new limited-time menu items and reports 4.7B earned impressions alongside 6.9M social impressions. Mug Root Beer, revived for a Gen Z audience, reports +1B social impressions and +500K new followers. Opendoor reports 2x the consumers reached and 2x the engagements of the year before.

Best for a brand that wants the feed to write the brief.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 20/25
Client Impact 6/25
Industry Recognition 12/25
Revenue & Growth 20/25

Clients

  • Durex
  • Indeed
  • Jimmy John’s
  • Mug Root Beer
  • Opendoor
Seed Marketing logo

Seed Marketing

55 /100
London, UK Gen Z and culture-led, live experiences

Seed Marketing was founded in 2012 and runs from London, on Paul Street. Its Los Angeles base is a NeueHouse membership in the Bradbury Building downtown.

It builds things people physically attend. Campus tours, pop-ups, ticketed nights, competitions with a queue outside: the creator layer sits on top of an event rather than standing in for one. If your brief involves a room, a line outside it and content coming out of both, this is a specialist rather than a generalist.

Prime Video's Perfect Addiction competition drew 7,000 applications, 20.5K social engagements and 4K new Instagram followers. Spotify's Greasy Tunes reports 56.7M impressions, a 14K+ waitlist, four sold-out days and 2.7K tickets claimed. Lululemon's Club600 counted 1M steps taken, 1,600 endorphin rushes and 82.9% of the room saying they would come to another. Its strongest US programme is Adobe Express Back to School, which activated 6 hero campuses, engaged 5,345 students and converted at 47% on average.

Best for a campaign that needs people to show up somewhere.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 16/25
Client Impact 24/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 15/25

Services Seed Marketing offer

  • Content Repurposing & Editing
  • Event & Experiential Activations
  • Influencer Campaign Management
  • Influencer Campaign Strategy
  • Influencer Content Briefing
  • Influencer Discovery & Vetting
HireInfluence logo

HireInfluence

52 /100
Los Angeles, CA Full-service, experiential activations

HireInfluence was founded in 2011 and works out of three US offices: Austin, Los Angeles and New York. The Los Angeles one is on South Sepulveda Boulevard, on the west side, close to the Culver City lots.

It builds a concept per brief rather than booking against a roster, and the portfolio leans hard on character-led video for networks and franchise brands. That habit matters if the thing being marketed already has a world attached to it and the creator content has to live inside that world without breaking it.

The Burbank record is the reason to shortlist it here. Nickelodeon's TMNT relaunch at Walmart reports 389K engagements, 10.5M impressions and a $0.15 cost per engagement. Viacom's Blue's Clues 25th anniversary reports 4.5M reach, 6.1M impressions and 5.4M video views. MTV's #MyMTVStyle reports 217K engagements and 16.1M impressions. Its largest campaign is Grammarly: 214M impressions, 33.1M video views and $15.9M in earned media value.

Best for a franchise with a world the content has to live inside.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 14/25
Client Impact 23/25
Industry Recognition 3/25
Revenue & Growth 12/25

Services HireInfluence offer

  • Ambassador Program Management
  • Competitor Influencer Audits
  • Compliance & Disclosure Management
  • Content Repurposing & Editing
  • Custom Technology & Platform Development
  • Event & Experiential Activations
Ubiquitous logo

Ubiquitous

45 /100
Los Angeles, CA Independent, TikTok-first

Ubiquitous was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles. It is the youngest agency on this page, and the offer is narrow on purpose: short-form video, TikTok first, bought and reported on cost per thousand.

That is a specific thing to buy. You are not buying a strategy deck, you are buying volume at a price, with the CPM printed next to the view count. For a consumer brand still testing whether creators can move a product at all, it is the fastest way to find out.

Bloom Nutrition, headquartered on South Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, took 5.5M+ views at a $1.47 CPM and the product reached Amazon bestseller. Lyft reports 8.1M views at a $4.31 CPM with Google search volume spiking behind it. Wienerschnitzel, the Southern California hot-dog chain, reports +42M impressions and specials that sold out. On the music side, Sleepy Hallow reached 420M Spotify streams and #53 on the Billboard Hot 100 in three months.

Best for a brand that wants views at a price it can defend.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 19/25
Client Impact 20/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 6/25

Clients

  • AutoSky
  • Bloom Nutrition
  • BlueChew
  • Gratsi
  • Litter-Robot
  • Lyft
WE ARE KOMODO logo

WE ARE KOMODO

38 /100
London, United Kingdom Independent, three offices

WE ARE KOMODO was founded in 2017 and runs from London. It publishes three offices, London, Sydney and Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles one is on North Maple Drive in Beverly Hills.

Its speciality is the drop: beauty, fashion and lifestyle launches treated as events rather than as posting schedules. Creators, the press moment and retail timing get planned as one thing, which is the shape a product launch in this city usually needs to take.

The PUMA x Fenty Creeper launch reports 8.1M reach, 3.2M impressions and 4.6K link clicks. Maybelline's Fireworks Mascara launch, run as a live brand activation, reports 114M reach, 6.5M views and 610K engagements. Penhaligon's Alula campaign reports 19.6M impressions at a 1.93% engagement rate. Selfie Leslie's global digital programme reports an 8.9x return on ad spend, 14.1M TikTok views and +63K followers gained.

Best for a product drop that has to feel like an event.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 13/25
Client Impact 12/25
Industry Recognition 0/25
Revenue & Growth 13/25

Clients

  • Marriott Hotels
  • Maybelline
  • Penhaligon’s
  • PUMA
  • Selfie Leslie
Allison Worldwide logo

Allison Worldwide

36 /100
New York, NY Global communications network

Allison Worldwide was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in New York. Its Los Angeles office is on South La Cienega Boulevard and carries its own direct line.

It is an earned-media shop first. Creators sit inside a communications programme, and the result comes back as coverage, sentiment and what people said afterwards rather than as delivery against a media buy. For a brand whose real problem is reputation, or a repositioning that has to be believed before it can be bought, that is the right unit of measurement.

The MorumBIS stadium rebrand for BIS produced 150+ media articles at 93% positive sentiment. Kimpton's Flipping the Travel Influencer Stereotype reports 2.1B global media impressions and 700K influencer impressions. Tillamook's Butternaise sold out in two minutes and took 2,528 press placements. Corona's Global Plastic Fishing Tournament reports 2.2M media mentions at 90% positive sentiment. Lingokids reports 800M+ impressions, 30M YouTube views and 9M app downloads globally.

Best for a brand whose result is measured in what got said about it.

Score breakdown
Creative Quality 0/25
Client Impact 10/25
Industry Recognition 7/25
Revenue & Growth 19/25

Clients

  • AFSP
  • BIS
  • Booking.com
  • British Basketball League
  • Corona
  • Dexcom

How to choose an influencer marketing agency in Los Angeles

You can shoot in this city on a Tuesday and have the content live by Friday. That is what a Los Angeles shortlist is for, and it is also the trap: proximity to a studio lot is easy to mistake for a track record on one. Four questions turn this list into three names.

Ask who is actually in the Los Angeles office

An address on a contact page is a lease, not a staffing plan. Some of the firms here run their whole business from the city. Some run it from London or New York and keep a floor here. Both can be the right answer for you, and neither tells you who will be on your account.

What you want is the org chart for your brief: who sits in Los Angeles, who sits elsewhere, and which time zone the person answering your Friday email is in. Ask for names and titles rather than a headcount. Ask whether the strategist at the pitch is the strategist on the work, and whether anyone from the team will be at the shoot.

Ask for the campaign they ran for a brand based here

Every agency on this page has an office in the metro. Not every one has a client in it. Those are separate facts, and only the second tells you they have worked a studio release calendar, a Burbank legal review, or a talent deal with a manager who had other plans for their client that week.

So ask for the closest published match run for a brand headquartered in Los Angeles. If the nearest thing is a campaign from another market, that is a fair answer. Ask them to say so out loud, then ask what carries across and what does not.

Ask what the headline number counts

Entertainment work skews toward impressions, potential reach and earned media value, because that is what the category has always bought. Those are the least useful figures on any page. Potential reach is who could have seen the content. Earned media value is a price the agency put on coverage nobody bought. A hashtag total is not campaign delivery.

Take one campaign, one platform, one window, and ask for the result for that. Ask what was paid and what was organic. Ask for the ticket, the signup, the stream or the sale sitting underneath the view count, and who measured it.

Ask what the rate card covers, and what the shoot costs

Production is where a Los Angeles budget goes sideways. A quote that arrives as a single number hides which part of it is growing, and creator rates here are not the rates you were quoted for the same brief somewhere else.

Ask every shortlist for the same lines: creator fees, the agency fee as a share of them, and what gets billed separately for paid amplification, usage rights, location and production. Then ask what the same brief would cost run out of a different office, and why.

Deal-breakers

Walk away from an agency that will not separate paid delivery from organic. Walk away from one that quotes earned media value as though it were revenue, or a hashtag total as campaign delivery. Walk away from anyone who cannot name a campaign in your category and say what it returned, or who will not put creator fees and agency fees on separate lines. And walk away from anyone whose Los Angeles presence turns out to be a mailing address once you ask who works there.

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There is no list price, and a Los Angeles address does not add a line to the invoice by itself. Cost is set first by the creators you book, whose fees scale with audience size, exclusivity and how long the content stays live, and then by what the agency charges on top. Production is the variable that catches people out here: a shoot day with talent, a crew and a location costs what a shoot day costs, whoever books it. Ask every shortlist for the same lines: creator fees, the agency fee as a share of them, and what gets billed separately for paid amplification, usage rights and production.

Only if the work needs a room, a lot or a crew. Shoots, premieres, press days, retail activations, a creator who has to be on set at seven in the morning: those are real reasons to want people in the city. Creator sourcing, negotiation, briefing and reporting are not, and an agency two time zones away will do them just as well. Work out which half of the job has to be local before you filter on geography, because filtering first is how a good partner gets cut for having the wrong postcode.

Two of them. Open Influence is run from its Beverly Boulevard office and publishes no other street address anywhere. Ubiquitous was founded here and is a Los Angeles company. The rest are offices of firms run from somewhere else: Ogilvy, Edelman, VaynerMedia and Allison Worldwide out of New York, We Are Social, Seed Marketing and WE ARE KOMODO out of London, and HireInfluence across Austin, Los Angeles and New York. A branch is not a reason to cut an agency. It is a reason to ask which of its people sit in it, and what they are accountable for.

Who they work for. A talent agency represents the creator and is paid to get that creator booked, so its job is to sell you their roster at the best rate for them. An influencer marketing agency works for the brand: it picks talent against your brief, negotiates against you rather than for the creator, runs the content and reports the outcome. In this city the two sit close together and plenty of people have worked both sides. Ask which side of the table your partner is on before the first call, because it changes every recommendation that follows.

Look for a street address on the agency's own contact or locations page rather than a city name in a footer. Then ask who sits at it: names, titles and the accounts they run. Ask whether the office has its own phone line. Ask where your day-to-day contact will physically be, where the person who signs off creative sits, and who is on the call sheet if you shoot. None of that is a trick question, and an agency with a genuine Los Angeles team answers it in one email.

Both answers exist on this page and they cost different amounts. Some of these firms have edit suites and shoot space in the building and will deliver finished film. Others brief creators to shoot on their own phones, which is often the right call and is not the same service. Decide which one your campaign needs before you brief, then ask each shortlist to say plainly what it produces in-house, what it subcontracts, and who holds the insurance and the location permits on the day.

No. It means less of what the model reads is on the public record. An agency with no awards scores nothing on industry recognition even when its campaigns work, and an agency that keeps client results confidential scores lower on client impact than one that publishes freely. Read a score as a measure of what you can verify before you sign, not as a verdict on the work.

Because it publishes the page. NeoReach is featured rather than ranked, and it carries no score in the list for that reason. Los Angeles is one of the offices on its own list, alongside Orlando, San Francisco and Austin. Every figure quoted about its work comes from its own published case studies, on the same terms as everyone else's. The ranking below it is ordered by the model, and the agency at the top of that ranking is not NeoReach.

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Ranking methodology explained

Every agency on a NeoReach ranking is scored out of 100. On this list that is four dimensions worth 25 each: three read off public records, one judged against a written rubric. A low score means the public record behind an agency is thin, which is not the same as saying its campaigns are weak. Plenty of good agencies publish very little.

Every agency here is scored out of 100, four dimensions worth 25 each, and no dimension outweighs another.

Client impact, industry recognition, and revenue and growth are read off public records: the brands an agency has published work for, how many of its cases carry a quantitative result, its awards and press, and its team size, tenure and office footprint. Creative quality is the one judgement in the model, made against a written rubric applied to every agency in the same order.

Membership is the Los Angeles test: an office in the metro, confirmed against the agency's own contact or locations page, plus more than one published campaign carrying results.

Where two agencies finish level, the higher client impact score goes first, because that dimension is built out of published evidence.

The campaign facts in each entry come from the agency's own case studies, read in August 2026. Where a figure is potential reach, a paid-media impression count or a media value the agency worked out for itself, the entry names it as that.

NeoReach publishes this page. It is featured at the top rather than ranked on it, and carries no score here for that reason.

Why these 4 for this list

A Los Angeles marketer building a shortlist is asking four things, and only one of them is whether the work looks good. Creative quality is whether anyone would stop scrolling. Client impact is whether a result was measured and published at all, and here it separates the offices that do work in this city from the ones that only sit in it. Industry recognition is the only outside opinion in the model. Revenue and growth is whether the room on Wilshire or Sunset can call on people elsewhere once your campaign outgrows it.

Creative Quality /25
Campaign originality, content innovation and creative execution, read off published case studies, the awards a body of work has taken and the campaign formats an agency actually runs
Client Impact /25
Measurable results delivered to clients: return, engagement, reach, revenue. Counted from the named brands an agency has published work for, how many of its cases carry a quantitative result, and how many client categories that work spans
Industry Recognition /25
Validation from outside the agency: awards weighted by tier, platform partnerships, tier-one press and conference presence
Revenue & Growth /25
Business scale and trajectory: team size band, years in market and office footprint

What is not counted

Anything an agency will only say in a pitch. Unpublished results, client logos with no campaign behind them, and awards entered but not won. Where an agency has nothing a dimension can count, it lands on that dimension's floor, and its entry says so.

The rubric is fixed, not set against whichever agency happens to lead. The same record earns the same points for every agency on the page, NeoReach included.