Los Angeles Marketing & Creative Agency

We Make Cool Sh*t Los Angeles

Los Angeles is the hardest market in the world to stand out in. It is also, if you can do it, the highest-leverage market in the world to stand out in. The brands that break through here don't do it by spending more — they do it by being more interesting, more culturally fluent, and more honest about who they are. That's not a formula. It's a creative standard. And it's the one we've been meeting for years.

RPM Creative is a full-service marketing and creative agency serving Los Angeles, California. We're based in Oceanside — close enough for real collaboration, far enough from the LA agency echo chamber to still think clearly. Our client work includes campaigns and brand builds for global entertainment companies, major music labels, lifestyle and consumer brands, and some of the most recognized names in the industry. We bring that experience and that perspective to every LA brand we partner with.

Our Work Speaks the Language of Los Angeles

Los Angeles agencies pitch on relationships and case studies. We'd rather show you what we've actually built. Our campaign work for Live Nation — the world's largest live events company — required building creative systems and event marketing assets that could hold up at scale, across dozens of shows and venues, for audiences that have already seen everything. Our work for major music labels including Sony/RCA and Warner Music Group required creative that lived inside the cultural moment for artists at the top of their field.

We built the tour marketing creative for the Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, and Spin Doctors summer tour — a project that required honoring the legacy of three iconic acts while positioning the tour for a new generation of live music fans. We built campaign creative for Slipknot, where the expectation of visual intensity and conceptual depth is baked into the brand's DNA. We produced the Pokémon x Post Malone collaboration creative, where two massive cultural properties had to coexist in a visual system that felt inevitable, not forced. We've worked on campaigns for Paramount Pictures, Sundance, CBS, and The Fillmore. We built Honda Civic Tour creative and handled Jason Mraz and Bob Marley brand campaigns.

The point isn't the names. The point is that we've been doing the real work, at the real level, for clients who have options. LA agencies have great pitch decks. We have the portfolio.

What We Build for Los Angeles Brands

Brand identity and creative strategy. Campaign development from concept to execution. Music and entertainment marketing — tours, releases, artist brand development, event creative. Streaming and content brand creative. Web design and digital experiences. Social media strategy and content creation. Lifestyle and consumer brand marketing. Influencer and partnership campaign creative. Merchandise and product design. Brand consultation for businesses in growth or transition.

Los Angeles is also home to a massive ecosystem of ambitious businesses that aren't in entertainment — DTC brands, hospitality concepts, wellness companies, tech startups, fashion labels, and professional services firms all competing in a market with the highest concentration of design-literate consumers anywhere. If you're building something in LA that wants to compete at the top of its category, we want to be part of it.

Why Work With an Oceanside Agency for an LA Brand?

Because the best agencies for LA brands aren't always in LA. The creative culture in Los Angeles can be insular in ways that hurt the work — too many agencies building for each other rather than for the audience. We're close enough to collaborate on-site and far enough to stay honest. We've built LA-level work from the San Diego coast for years. The timezone is the same. The drive is manageable. The perspective is different, and in this market, perspective is everything.