Best Advertising Agencies in Los Angeles (2026)

Introduction

Los Angeles has 12 advertising agencies that stand out in 2026, split between network offices owned by Omnicom and Publicis and independents that have held on to large accounts for years. The list below covers both, chosen for recent campaigns, 2025 and 2026 recognition, and the depth of their client rosters.

The city’s agency map is shaped by cars and entertainment. Toyota, Lexus, Honda and Kia all run their US advertising through agencies on the Westside or in El Segundo, and gaming and streaming clients keep Hollywood shops such as Battery busy. Toyota also runs separate Hispanic and Asian American campaigns through Los Angeles specialists. The bigger change came from the holding companies. Omnicom completed its acquisition of IPG on 1 December 2025 and retired DDB, FCB and MullenLowe over the first half of 2026, moving most of their offices into TBWA, McCann and BBDO. Deutsch, formerly an IPG agency, kept its name and now sits in the Omnicom Advertising Collective.

Every agency here has an active office in the Los Angeles area in 2026, which for this list includes Santa Monica, Culver City, Playa Vista, El Segundo and Long Beach. The list is unranked, since the right choice depends on your brief, budget and how you like to work.

The best advertising agencies in Los Angeles

1. TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles

Omnicom (TBWA) · Playa Vista · tbwachiatday.com

TBWA\Chiat\Day is the agency Jay Chiat founded in 1968, which merged into TBWA in 1995 and now runs offices in Los Angeles and New York. TBWA is one of the three global networks Omnicom kept after buying IPG, and it absorbed DDB and MullenLowe agencies in most markets during 2026. The Los Angeles office employs around 400 people.

Its 2026 work includes Levi’s “Backstory”, a Super Bowl film shot entirely from the waist down, which TBWA put forward as one of its Cannes Lions contenders. AdForum’s profile lists adidas, Nissan, Pepsi, Gatorade and Energizer among its clients. The network has seen a lot of change this year, so it is worth asking which teams sit in Los Angeles and which work across offices.

2. TBWA\Media Arts Lab

Omnicom (TBWA) · Los Angeles · mediaartslab.com

TBWA\Media Arts Lab is the agency TBWA built around a single client, Apple. It works from Los Angeles with teams in other Apple markets, and it added a Head of Strategy for Los Angeles and a Global Head of Music in mid 2026.

Recent work includes the Apple TV rebrand, with a simplified name and a new visual and sonic system, which was among TBWA’s 2026 Cannes contenders. Through 2026 it has also produced “Between Beats” for Apple Watch Series 12, a claymation Mac mini spot and “Clingers”, a film about web tracking. It does not take other clients, so it belongs on this list as a reference point for craft more than as an option for most briefs.

3. Deutsch LA

Omnicom Advertising Collective · Playa Vista · deutsch.com

Deutsch LA was part of IPG until Omnicom’s acquisition, and it is one of the agency brands Omnicom chose to keep, now grouped with GSD&M, The Martin Agency and others in the Omnicom Advertising Collective. Its office on West Jefferson Boulevard runs creative, design and paid media, and Rippling appointed it global paid media agency of record in 2026.

Dr Pepper is the best-known account. Deutsch turned a creator’s viral TikTok jingle into a College Football Playoff National Championship spot, and the brand collected six shortlists at Cannes Lions in June 2026, a record for it. Other clients include Taco Bell, Snapple, Canada Dry, Credit One Bank, PetSmart, Pizza Hut and Turo.

4. RPA

Independent · Santa Monica · rpa.com

RPA, founded as Rubin Postaer and Associates, is one of the largest independent agencies on the West Coast, with around 500 staff and its headquarters on Colorado Avenue. It has regional offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and Philadelphia and covers strategy, creative, media and customer experience in-house.

The agency is known for long relationships. It has worked with Honda for 50 years, ARCO and ampm for 30 and Farmers Insurance for 14, and it also handles Acura, Homes.com, Red Lobster and Southern California Edison. Its Effie wins include Honda “Project Courage”, Farmers Insurance and Apartments.com.

5. Team One

Publicis Groupe · Los Angeles · teamone-usa.com

Team One is Publicis Groupe’s agency for premium brands, created in 1987 to launch Lexus and still headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Chicago, New York, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Julie Michael has led it as president since 2015, and Ad Age named it a Best Place to Work in 2024 and 2026.

Lexus remains the core account, with recent work including a Miles Davis tribute recorded with Laufey. Other clients include Microsoft, The RealReal, Duckhorn Portfolio and Metabo HPT. The agency also runs Legacy Lab, a research programme on affluent consumers that clients can draw on.

6. Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles

Publicis Groupe · El Segundo · wearesaatchi.com

Saatchi & Saatchi’s US operation runs from three offices, New York, Dallas and El Segundo, and the Los Angeles office is the long-standing home of Toyota’s national advertising. It won a Silver Lion in Creative Strategy at Cannes 2026 for Ladywell’s “#UnCensorYourHealth”, a campaign about algorithms suppressing women’s health topics.

Toyota work in 2026 included two Super Bowl LX spots, “Superhero Belt” and “Where Dreams Began”, and the launch of the sixth-generation RAV4 in “What’s Your RAV4?”, made alongside Toyota’s multicultural agencies Burrell, Conill and Intertrend. Brands that want a single integrated team should ask how Toyota’s multi-agency model would apply to them.

7. David&Goliath

Innocean (Hyundai Motor Group) · El Segundo · dng.com

David Angelo founded David&Goliath more than 25 years ago, and Innocean, Hyundai’s agency network, acquired it at the end of 2017 while leaving it to run independently. It has offices in El Segundo and New York, and Fast Company named it one of its Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2026.

Kia America is its longest-standing client. The 2025 campaign for the 2026 Sportage, built around a road trip and Steve Miller Band’s “Rock’n Me”, ran across TV, out-of-home and five social platforms. Other recent clients include the California Lottery, Smartfood, Jollibee and VIZIO.

8. Zambezi

Independent, woman-owned · Culver City · zmbz.com

Jean Freeman founded Zambezi in 2006, and it remains independent and woman-owned. It made the Inc. 5000 for the eighth time in 2026, with three-year growth of 20 per cent, and LBB included it in its “Indie Pulse” collection of independent agency work.

Its clients have included Google and Under Armour. Recent campaigns include The Honest Company’s flushable wipes, “Is for Every Body” for Club Pilates, a spot for the Minnesota Timberwolves and “Chase Something” for NFL Flag Football.

9. Conill

Publicis Groupe (Saatchi & Saatchi) · El Segundo · conill.com

Conill was founded in 1968 as the first Latino advertising agency in the US and now describes itself as one of the country’s largest cultural marketing companies. It is part of Publicis Groupe, works within Saatchi & Saatchi and shares its building on Aviation Boulevard in El Segundo, with a second office in Dallas.

Toyota is the main account. Conill makes the Hispanic-market side of Toyota’s national campaigns, including the 2025 4Runner launch “Into the Wild”, the December 2025 holiday film “Running Late” and spots for the all-electric line-up that launched in June 2026. It also works for Burger King, where a June 2026 campaign turned a football celebration into a debate about the Whopper.

10. Battery

Independent · Hollywood · batteryagency.com

Battery works from Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, with further offices in Chicago, Toronto and Shanghai. It has a strong position in games and sport, and ThinkLA has previously named it Boutique Agency of the Year.

Recent work includes “Quit Earth” for 2K’s Borderlands 4 in September 2025, an Apex Legends campaign with Chace Crawford, “Fight Teeth” for the Anaheim Ducks and “Farmcore” for Land O’Lakes. Royal Bank of Canada is a large account, including Super Bowl spots, and the client list also takes in Netflix, Hulu, Warner Bros. Games and Angel City Football Club.

11. Intertrend Communications

Independent · Long Beach · intertrend.com

Intertrend is an Asian American agency led by Julia Huang, with its main office on East Broadway in Long Beach and a second office in Plano, Texas. It has collected ANA Multicultural Excellence, Effie and 3AF awards over three decades, including the ANA Multicultural Excellence Grand Prize in 2024, the year 3AF also named Huang and the agency to its Hall of Legends.

Toyota is its largest client. In April 2026 Intertrend made the Asian American spots for the sixth-generation RAV4, directed by TWIN, alongside Saatchi & Saatchi and Conill. Other clients have included Chase, State Farm, AT&T, Nestlé and Nationwide. Long Beach is in Los Angeles County but further south than the other agencies here, which matters if you expect to be in the room often.

12. Walton Isaacson

Independent, Black-owned · Los Angeles · waltonisaacson.com

Aaron Walton and Cory Isaacson founded Walton Isaacson in 2005 with Earvin “Magic” Johnson. It is one of the largest Black-owned agencies in the US and specialises in work rooted in culture and multicultural audiences. Ad Age named it a Standout on its 2026 Agency A-List.

American Airlines hired it as its multicultural agency to reach Black travellers, covering strategy, campaign development, video and creator content. Its website was being rebuilt at the time of writing, so ask for a current client list and case studies.

What to look for in a Los Angeles advertising agency

Start with ownership and conflicts. Several Los Angeles agencies are tied to a single carmaker, and Innocean’s ownership of David&Goliath links it to Hyundai Motor Group. If you sell into an adjacent category, check what the agency’s largest client would allow before you brief it.

Ask how the holding-company changes affect your team. Omnicom’s integration of IPG moved people and offices around through 2026, and Publicis runs Toyota and Lexus work across several agencies at once. The people in the pitch should be the people on the account, and it is reasonable to ask for that in writing.

Look at how production is handled. Los Angeles agencies sit next to the deepest pool of directors, editors and post houses in the country, and some keep production in-house. Others commission it out. Both can work, but the choice affects cost, speed and who owns the raw footage afterwards.

Finally, ask how review and approvals run. A national TV campaign generates scripts, animatics, cuts and versions for every platform, and feedback often arrives from several markets at once. Agencies that keep the latest cut, the comments and the sign-off in one place lose less time to version confusion.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best advertising agency in Los Angeles?

It depends on the brief. On 2026 recognition, Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles won a Silver Lion at Cannes, Deutsch LA’s Dr Pepper work collected six Cannes shortlists, and Walton Isaacson was a Standout on Ad Age’s Agency A-List.

What happened to Deutsch LA after Omnicom bought IPG?

Deutsch kept its name. Omnicom retired DDB, FCB and MullenLowe in 2026 but placed Deutsch in its Omnicom Advertising Collective alongside agencies such as GSD&M and The Martin Agency, and the Los Angeles office continues to run accounts including Dr Pepper and Taco Bell.

Which Los Angeles agencies work for car brands?

Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles handles Toyota, with Conill and Intertrend making its Hispanic and Asian American campaigns. Team One handles Lexus, RPA has worked with Honda for 50 years and also handles Acura, and David&Goliath is Kia America’s agency. TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles has a long history with Nissan.

Are there independent advertising agencies in Los Angeles?

Yes. RPA is the largest on this list, with around 500 staff. Zambezi, Battery, Walton Isaacson and Intertrend Communications are also independent.

What is the difference between an advertising agency and a creative agency?

The line is loose. Advertising agencies tend to run paid campaigns across TV, digital and out-of-home, often with media planning attached, while creative agencies may focus more on brand ideas, content and experiences. For idea-led independents, see our list of the best creative agencies in Los Angeles.

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