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  • There Is No Limit

    3Q/DEPT has been helping innovative businesses succeed since 2008. Through 3Q's assistance, brands such as Square, ModCloth, SurveyMonkey and Eventbrite have evolved from up-and-comers to industry leaders! For more information on the services we offer visit https://3qDept.com/contact today - it could be your...

    Top Services:

    • SEO
    • Media Buying
    • Social Media Marketing
    • eCommerce
    • Digital Marketing
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    500 - 999
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • The Best Creative Experiences

    Digital Kitchen is a global creative agency that excels in crafting captivating stories and immersive experiences to engage and move audiences...

    Top Services:

    • Content Marketing
    • Branding
    • Video Production
    • Advertising
    • Social Media Marketing
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
    Portfolios Count
    4 Projects Listed
  • For People. For Progress.

    Pastilla is a full-service agency based in Los Angeles. We partner with public agencies, nonprofits, and global brands to turn complex missions into clear brand and digital experiences that build trust and move communities to action...

    Top Services:

    • Branding
    • Design Services
    • Graphic Design
    • Web Design
    • Web Development
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $185/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
    Portfolios Count
    18 Projects Listed
  • Your Partner in Growth

    Ignited is a dynamic marketing and business consultancy rooted in the start-up era. With a founding team that led the turnaround of Activision, we bring unparalleled expertise in driving measurable growth. Our unique blend of strategic consulting and digital communications empowers our clients to gain a...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Marketing
    • Advertising
    • Content Marketing
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Video Production
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    Location
    Manhattan Beach, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
    Portfolios Count
    6 Projects Listed
  • We Make Smart Brands Smarter.

    Hawthorne Advertising is a full-service brand response advertising agency headquartered in Los Angeles. We are woman-owned, privately held, independent and innovation driven...

    Top Services:

    • Advertising
    • Direct Marketing
    • Content Marketing
    • Digital Marketing
    • PPC
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Performance Creative with Brand Appeal

    TVGla IS A DIGITAL-FIRST PERFORMANCE CREATIVE AGENCYWe work with leading brands who need a partner capable of producing and managing high-touch, high-volume performance creative in rapidly moving environments...

    Top Services:

    • Creative Services
    • Digital Marketing
    • Digital Strategy
    • Branding
    • Social Media Marketing
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    Location
    Culver City, California
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Empowering Global Game Marketing

    PocketWhale is a creative and marketing agency promoting video games across mobile, PC, and console platforms. With offices in the United States, Germany, France, and Japan, the agency delivers tailored global marketing campaigns that include video ads, influencer collaborations, and PR strategies...

    Top Services:

    • Social Media Marketing
    • Public Relations
    Location
    Beverly Hills, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Love Growth. Hate Waste.

    Tinuiti is the largest independent fullfunnel performance marketing agency in the U.S., managing over $4billion in media spend across search, social, commerce, TV/audio, and affiliate channels. With 1,200+ employees and locations across North America, the agency blends media expertise, data science, and...

    Top Services:

    • Media Buying
    • Digital Marketing
    • eCommerce
    • Video Marketing
    • PPC
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    1000 & Up
    Average Hourly Rate
    $150/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Built to Flow

    Hot Lava* melts the friction between ideas, people, AI, and execution so the best ideas actually get made...

    Top Services:

    • Creative Services
    • Branding
    • Design Services
    • Video Production
    • Logo Design
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • The Social Media Agency Behind the Best Brand Social Shannels

    Founded in 2008, Movement Strategy is an independent, full-service, social-led creative agency, dedicated to helping brands build the best social media channels. Our growing team of social media experts and content creators span across LA, NY, and Denver, identifying leading trends and leveraging the power of...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Marketing
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Public Relations
    • Branding
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $125/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • On the Right Side of Change

    Gray Area is a premier full-service marketing & branding agency specializing in emerging industries...

    Top Services:

    • Social Media Marketing
    • Video Marketing
    • Content Marketing
    • Digital Marketing
    • Email Marketing
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Building Tomorrow's Products With AI Today

    Day One Technologies is an AI Development specialist, creating intelligent products that are futuristic and user-centric. In three years, we've successfully served industries from FinTech to TravelTech across various markets, offering innovative solutions backed by AI, machine learning, and more. Our services...

    Top Services:

    • AI Development
    • Mobile App Development
    • Web Development
    • UI/UX Design
    • Web Design
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $25/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
    Portfolios Count
    4 Projects Listed
  • Full-Service Healthcare PR Agency

    Merryman Communications is an award-winning, boutique, full-service PR agency specializing in healthcare. Our clients range from some of the most exciting healthcare start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and all are served by senior-level teams that have been there and done that. We have been described as the...

    Top Services:

    • Content Marketing
    • Digital Marketing
    • Public Relations
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Web Development
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    Location
    Redondo Beach, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Our Creative Portfolio Smarter Results Across the Web.

    Design Sketchers is a comprehensive digital marketing service provider, dedicated to transforming your vision of online presence into a remarkable reality. Our emphasis lies in cultivating robust customer engagement strategies, ensuring an impactful and immersive online experience for your audience...

    Top Services:

    • Web Development
    • Graphic Design
    • Logo Design
    • Digital Marketing
    • Content Marketing
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    Location
    Modesto, California
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $1000/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
    Portfolios Count
    2 Projects Listed
  • Fully Scalable Digital Growth Agency.

    Pactx is dedicated to partnering with you on your digital transformation journey and we pride ourselves in being the anti-agency. Your success is our success! Change is hard but your competitors are not sitting idly by waiting for you. To evolve we must continually improve, learn, and grow and PactX will help...

    Top Services:

    • SEO
    • Digital Marketing
    • eCommerce
    • CRO
    • Email Marketing
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    Location
    San Clemente, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $200/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
    Portfolios Count
    3 Projects Listed
  • Were An Experiential Agency

    Were Cogs & Marvel, an agency that blends meticulous planning (Cogs) and creativity (Marvel) to create powerful experiences on behalf of our clients. Were specialists in experiential, which means we create in-person experiences for brands and their audiences...

    Top Services:

    • Event Marketing
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Public Relations
    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • A Visual Content Creation Agency

    Creative Compound is a West Hollywood based visual content agency that crafts scalable, branded photo and video libraries alongside full-scale commercial production. With over a decade of experience, the studio helps brands from startups to Fortune 500sconnect with audiences through authentic and engaging...

    Top Services:

    • Content Marketing
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Advertising
    • Digital Marketing
    • Video Production
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    Location
    West Hollywood, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Behind the curtains, ahead of the curve.

    Lightdrop is a Los Angeles growth partner, founded in 2011, that builds the marketing infrastructure ambitious brands run on and then operates it. Behind the curtains, ahead of the curve. We work embedded in owner-operated businesses across strategy, creative, technology, operations, and business development...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Marketing
    • Advertising
    • CRO
    • PPC
    • Graphic Design
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    Location
    Los Angeles, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $300/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Paid search and paid social advertising agency.

    Growth Pilots is a digital marketing agency based in San Francisco that specializes in paid search and paid social advertising...

    Top Services:

    • Advertising
    • Social Media Marketing
    • PPC
    • Digital Marketing
    • SEO
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • AI Marketing Accelerator.

    Looking to increase your company's profits? Marketri is here to help! Our strategic marketing consulting and Fractional CMO firm works on an outsourced basis with early-stage and middle market B2B companies, offering predictive, measurable programs that are designed to push growth. Let us guide you today...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Marketing
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Email Marketing
    • CRO
    • Content Marketing
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Average Hourly Rate
    $199/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Web Design, Development and Marketing Agency

    This Los Angeles based company is not your average web design and marketing company, LiveWebMedia is an avant-garde web and interactive media agency founded in 1998 in Southern California...

    Top Services:

    • eCommerce
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Digital Marketing
    • PPC
    • Web Design
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    Location
    Laguna Beach, California
    Number of Employees
    50 - 99
    Average Hourly Rate
    $125/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Reach Your Audience on the Wing.

    Wingman Media is a Los Angeles-based media planning and buying agency whose expert growth marketing services have earned them an incredible spot in the Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Private Companies of 2022 list. We help all kinds of companies, whether they're just starting up or already established - by...

    Top Services:

    • PPC
    • Advertising
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Media Buying
    • Web Design
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    Location
    Westlake Village, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • A Global Consultancy That Helps Clients Find Uncommon Growth in the Face of Disruption.

    At Prophet we help our clients grow by harnessing the collaborative power of design to bring ideas to life. Our team believes great design is the result of a multidisciplinary approach; where business strategy influences brand expression & where customer needs define new & engaging brand experiences...

    Top Services:

    • Content Marketing
    • Digital Marketing
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Logo Design
    • Branding
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    250 - 499
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Dedicated to the Success of B2B Tech Brands

    Founded in 1995, 10Fold is offering solutions to B2B tech companies in the areas of networking, IT security, cloud storage, Big Data, enterprise software, AppDev solutions, wireless, and telecom award-winning public relations services...

    Top Services:

    • Content Marketing
    • Public Relations
    • Video Production
    • Social Media Marketing
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    Location
    Walnut Creek, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Accelerating Growth Through AI-Powered Performance Marketing

    Direct Agents is an independent, minority-owned digital marketing agency that specializes in performance-driven customer acquisition solutions. Founded by first-generation immigrants, Direct Agents celebrates its 19th year in business this year...

    Top Services:

    • Digital Marketing
    • CRO
    • PPC
    • Social Media Marketing
    • eCommerce
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    Location
    Culver City, California
    Number of Employees
    100 - 249
    Average Hourly Rate
    $250/hr
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up
  • Independent, Full-Service Creative & Media Agency

    At Cutwater, we hone and sharpen a brand into something more distinctive so it has a better chance of cutting through, being heard, and standing apart. Because we believe that distinctive brands are the ones more people care about. And because we know distinctive brands are the ones that drive growth and...

    Top Services:

    • SEO
    • Package Design
    • Advertising
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Media Buying
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    Location
    San Francisco, California
    Number of Employees
    Under 49
    Minimal Budget
    $50,000 & Up

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