Top 5 Entertainment & Media Design Agencies in Los Angeles for 2026

Entertainment and media clients bring a specific complication most other categories on this site don't: IP, licensing, and talent relationships that a design agency has to navigate alongside the actual deliverable. A studio building for a streaming platform or a record label needs to understand how a brand extends across trailers, social clips, and a title sequence — not just a homepage. The five agencies below have all built for real entertainment and media clients, with names that only show up when a studio has actually worked inside that world.

Best for
Start with the kind of client you are.

Engagements where creative taste and IP concerns sit in the same room.

SidebenchSony Pictures, NBCUniversal, Imagine Entertainment, Legendary Entertainment and United Talent Agency.

The 5 agencies
Full profiles, in list order.

Sidebench

Best for: A media or entertainment company that needs a product partner comfortable moving between creative and technical stakeholders.

Sidebench's entertainment client list runs through major studios and talent agencies — the kind of names that require navigating both a creative team's taste and a legal team's IP concerns in the same engagement.

Website: sidebench.com
Clients: Sony Pictures, NBCUniversal, Imagine Entertainment, Legendary Entertainment, United Talent Agency
Model / Platform / Where: Product strategy, UX/UI design, and development for entertainment and media companies; Santa Monica, CA
Budget signal: Positioned for a funded studio or agency, not an independent creator's first project.
Skip if: You need a narrow visual-identity project only — Sidebench's entertainment work tends toward full product builds, not standalone branding.

Omelet

Best for: A brand that wants its identity to extend into original content, IP, or a licensing relationship, not just a static visual system.

Omelet was founded by three former ad-agency creatives and a Hollywood entertainment lawyer, and that mix still shows in its structure — separate divisions for original content, experiential activation, and co-owned brands, built specifically to work inside entertainment's IP and licensing logic.

Website: omelet.com
Clients: HBO
Model / Platform / Where: Brand strategy, advertising, and original content development; Culver City, CA
Budget signal: Campaign-scale pricing built around media and content production, not a standalone brand project.
Skip if: You need a self-contained visual identity system and nothing else — Omelet's strength is extending a brand into content and experience.

Pill Creative Studio

Best for: A media company that needs branding handled with corporate-identity rigor rather than a fast, informal logo pass.

Pill Creative's media client work reads more corporate-identity than entertainment-scrappy — the studio leads with naming and messaging strategy before any visual work begins, a slower process than most entertainment-adjacent branding shops use.

Website: pillcreative.com
Clients: NBCUniversal
Model / Platform / Where: Brand strategy, identity design, and web/UX; West Hollywood, CA (second office in New York)
Budget signal: Mid-market pricing suited to a full identity engagement rather than a quick logo refresh.
Skip if: You need fast turnaround tied to a production timeline — Pill Creative's process is deliberate and strategy-first rather than quick-turn.

72andSunny

Best for: A brand with real media spend that wants a campaign built to move culture, not just a rebrand.

72andSunny operates at advertising-agency scale, and its work sits at the intersection of brand and entertainment — campaigns built to function as cultural moments in their own right, the kind of work that shaped its back-to-back industry Agency of the Year wins.

Website: 72andsunny.com
Clients: Nike, Adidas
Model / Platform / Where: Brand strategy and advertising campaigns; Los Angeles, CA (Playa Vista), with sister offices in Amsterdam, New York, and Sydney
Budget signal: National campaign-scale pricing, well above a standalone brand or content project.
Skip if: You need brand guidelines with no media budget attached — 72andSunny is built for culture-moving campaigns, not standalone identity work.

Sunlight Media

Best for: An artist, label, or media-adjacent institution that wants one dependable local partner across web and digital presence.

Sunlight Media's client list runs through a major record label, a globally known recording artist, and two large Los Angeles universities — a spread that reflects a generalist studio comfortable with both entertainment personalities and institutional stakeholders.

Website: sunlightmedia.org
Clients: Atlantic Records, Gary Numan, USC, UCLA
Model / Platform / Where: Web design, app development, and digital marketing; Los Angeles and Santa Monica, CA
Budget signal: Accessible for an individual artist or smaller label; scales for a larger institutional engagement.
Skip if: You need deep specialization in entertainment IP and licensing specifically — Sunlight Media's value is breadth across services, not a media-industry-specific legal or licensing practice.

Comparison
The facts side by side.

Facts for all 5 agencies: where, entertainment focus, named entertainment & media clients, budget signal
#	Agency	Where	Entertainment focus	Named entertainment & media clients	Budget signal
1	Sidebench	Santa Monica	Product strategy, UX/UI, development	Sony Pictures, NBCUniversal, Imagine Entertainment, Legendary Entertainment, United Talent Agency	Funded studio or agency
2	Omelet	Culver City	Brand strategy, advertising, original content	HBO	Campaign scale
3	Pill Creative Studio	West Hollywood (+ New York)	Brand strategy, identity, web/UX	NBCUniversal	Mid-market
4	72andSunny	Playa Vista	Brand strategy & ad campaigns	Nike, Adidas	National campaign scale
5	Sunlight Media	Los Angeles & Santa Monica	Web, app & digital marketing	Atlantic Records, Gary Numan, USC, UCLA	Accessible, scales up

Where each agency's entertainment work sits A filled dot means a named client or a focus stated in the agency's profile on this page. An empty dot means none is named, not that the agency can't do the work.

Agency	Film & TV	Talent agencies	Music	Original content & IP	Ad campaigns	Brand identity	Product & web build
Sidebench
Omelet
Pill Creative Studio
72andSunny
Sunlight Media
Agencies	3	1	1	1	2	1	3

What to Weigh in Entertainment and Media Specifically

Scale of engagement is the clearest divider. Sidebench and 72andSunny both work at a level where the client has real budget and internal stakeholders — a studio's product team, a global brand's marketing department — and that shows up in campaign-scale or full-product-build pricing. Omelet sits in a related but distinct lane: its value is specifically in extending a brand into original content or IP, which matters most for a company that wants to license characters, shows, or talent partnerships alongside its identity.

Pill Creative Studio and Sunlight Media serve a different kind of entertainment client — an individual artist, a label, or a company that needs branding or web work handled well without requiring campaign-level spend or content production infrastructure.

We built this list from public portfolios and named clients, and no agency paid for its position.

FAQ

Why does entertainment and media need agencies with industry-specific experience?

Licensing, IP, and talent relationships add a layer most other industries don't have. An agency that's worked with a studio or label before understands how a brand needs to extend across content, social clips, and merchandising — and how to navigate the legal review that comes with it.

What's the difference between hiring an advertising agency and a branding studio for an entertainment client?

An advertising agency like 72andSunny or Omelet builds campaigns with media spend behind them, often extending into original content. A branding studio like Pill Creative Studio focuses on the identity system itself — the foundation those campaigns run on top of.

Do I need a Los Angeles agency for entertainment work specifically?

It helps. Proximity to studios, labels, and talent agencies means these firms already understand the industry's pace and stakeholder structure. That said, several agencies elsewhere on this site work remotely and could still handle entertainment-adjacent brand or product work if licensing and IP aren't the primary concern.

How much should I expect to pay for entertainment branding or campaign work?

It varies enormously by scope. A brand identity project with a studio like Pill Creative Studio costs far less than a full advertising campaign with 72andSunny or Omelet, which involves media production and placement on top of the creative work itself.