Media & Entertainment Industry Landscape of Los Angeles
2,372 Media & Entertainment companies in Los Angeles, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, what the news is about and which skills employers want. Updated September 2026.
Who leads Media & Entertainment in Los Angeles
Shows the top‑ranked Media & Entertainment firms in Los Angeles by hiring activity, funding size, and media coverage, with 2,372 companies tracked and 92 currently hiring.
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TikTok11last posted Jun 2026
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Scanline VFX11last posted Jul 2026
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INEOS10last posted Jun 2026
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AGBO9last posted Jun 2026
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Snapchat9last posted Jun 2026
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Walt Disney Animation Studios8last posted Jun 2026
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Los Angeles Times7last posted Jun 2026
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Penske Media Corporation7last posted Mar 2026
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Quibi$1.8BSeed · Mar 2020
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Create Music Group$615MPE · Mar 2026
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Village Roadshow Entertainment Group$480MConventional Debt · Oct 2015
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Stem Disintermedia$292.5MVenture Debt · Jul 2023
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Genies$286.5MSeries C · May 2022
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Moonbug Entertainment$265MSeries A · Jul 2020
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FOX$4BFY2024 filing
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WEBTOON$320.9MFY2024 filing
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Skybound$107.6Msnapshot Dec 2023
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Cineverse$16.3MFY2025 filing
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MeWe$2.6Msnapshot Dec 2023
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Allenmedia Tv2,300tracked employees
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candle media1,000tracked employees
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Archinect789tracked employees
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Room 8 Studio700tracked employees
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Trailer Park Group575tracked employees
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Paramount26.9%544 tracked events
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WildBrain3.3%66 tracked events
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Ateliere1.3%26 tracked events
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QYOU Media1.1%22 tracked events
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Fox Sports12,532articles in the window
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Breitbart971articles in the window
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ClutchPoints903articles in the window
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ATTN:738articles in the window
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Pluto TV647articles in the window
See all 2,372 Media & Entertainment companies in Los Angeles
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How the Media & Entertainment ecosystem in Los Angeles grew, 2016–2025
Displays the yearly count of new companies founded from 2016 to 2025, peaking at 140 in 2016 and falling to 17 in 2025.
The Media & Entertainment market map of Los Angeles: what these companies actually do
Breaks down the types of products these firms create and their revenue models, highlighting the largest sub‑categories such as consumer digital (1,017 firms) and the most common models like advertising (1,106 firms).
The biggest kinds of Media & Entertainment company, by how many we track.
- Consumer Digital1,017 companies · $8.4B raised · 30 hiring
- Enterprise Tech465 companies · $2.1B raised · 19 hiring
- B2C E-Commerce329 companies · $2.8B raised · 10 hiring
- Enterprise Software173 companies · $546.8M raised · 6 hiring
- Marketplaces124 companies · $226.5M raised · 2 hiring
- SaaS106 companies · $234M raised · 6 hiring
- Loneliness Economy77 companies · $295.2M raised
- Internet First News Publishers77 companies · $330M raised · 3 hiring
- Video on Demand77 companies · $2.3B raised · 3 hiring
- Media & Entertainment SaaS65 companies · $145M raised · 4 hiring
- Blockchain in Media and Entertainment56 companies · $678.2M raised · 2 hiring
- Passion Economy46 companies · $492.6M raised · 2 hiring
Monetization
How Media & Entertainment companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
Funding, M&A and the deals moving Media & Entertainment in Los Angeles
Lists 1,350 corporate events over the past two years, including key people moves, mergers and acquisitions, lawsuits, regulatory actions, and earnings reports.
- M&AParamount, bought another, Warner Bros. Discovery, in a $110 billion mega-merger...2026-04-24
- M&AIn 2024, Viant acquired IRIS.TV for $10 million to enhance its proprietary content classification capabilities.2026-04-16
- FundingTikTok, owned by ByteDance, has confirmed plans to invest €1bn in constructing its first data centre in Finland.2026-04-15
- M&APlaylist, the powerhouse behind fitness giants ClassPass and Mindbody, has finalized a transformative merger with EGYM valued at $7.5 billion.2026-03-31
- M&AWildBrain sells 41% Peanuts stake to Sony for C$630 million Goodmans LLP acted for WildBrain Ltd. in connection with the sale of its 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings LLC to Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.2026-03-31
- M&ARandom House Worlds, the Penguin Random House division used to acquire BOOM! Studios, continued the assimilation of the acquisition with a series of personnel moves and reporting changes.2026-03-24
- M&AAllen Media Group’s local TV stations in ten markets to Gray Media in a $117 million deal in August.2026-03-06
- FundingNow it has replenished its budget for further deals via a $450m round of equity and debt capital.2026-03-05
- LayoffsAbout 70 jobs will be cut across Atlanta and Los Angeles.2026-04-30
- ContractsBanijay Kids & Family has announced an agreement with Cloudco Entertainment to manage the Care Bears YouTube channels globally.2026-04-23
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Media & Entertainment company in Los Angeles was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
| Acquirer | Target | Deal value | Status | Date |
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| Warner Bros Discovery | $110B | Announced | 2026-07-01 | |
| BET+ | undisclosed | Announced | 2026-06-01 | |
| undisclosed | Completed | 2026-05-05 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-05-04 | ||
| $110B | Announced | 2026-04-27 | ||
| undisclosed | Completed | 2026-04-24 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Provides details on specific events such as IPO filings, leadership changes, product launches, and contract wins for the companies in the sector.
Splash EntertainmentNicolas Atlan · DepartureApr 2026
PlaylistKite (Fitness SaaS management platform)Apr 2026
Disney+Verts (Vertical Video / Short‑form Content)Mar 2026
EverTunePartner Connect (AI marketing platform)Feb 2026
Quixote~70 roles reported · cost reductionApr 2026
- Paramount+ subscribers v paramount, warner bros. discoverymerger blocking · FiledMay 2026
- RJ Cipriani v Jeff Shell, paramountnonpublic information leakageApr 2026
Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +8.5%, half slower.
Who is building Media & Entertainment in Los Angeles
Profiles 959 founders and CEOs across 690 firms, noting frequent alma maters like Stanford (19) and common prior employers such as Google (8).
University of Delaware BA 1995
Ex-Blend · University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business 2014
CEO Moonbug Entertainment, ex-Co-Founder NN, CSSE, CEO Goviral. University of Copenhagen MS 1995, Kingston University PhD 2000
Ex-CCO NFL, EVP Microsoft, President Alloy Digital, Founder & CEO Generate, CEO The WB Television Network. University of Texas at Austin BS 1989
ex-William Morris Endeavor, VP William Morris Agency, AOL, MTV Networks. Vanderbilt University BA 1991, Howard University School of Law JD 1996
CO-Founder & CEO SABEResPODER & Catalyst Capital, DecisionSky, Ex-Founder Coro Southern California.University of Southern California…
Ds Penske Formula E Team, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
University of Geneva
Ex-Kingsoft, Tencent. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 2003
- flagged as repeat founders14
- no repeat-founder flag767
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Who funds Media & Entertainment in Los Angeles
Summarizes 448 funding rounds since 2016 from 676 investors, with a typical round size of $3 million.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
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| Techstars | 9 | 6 | Oct 2023 |
| Upfront Ventures | 9 | 3 | Sep 2022 |
| Gaingels | 9 | 3 | Apr 2026 |
| Y Combinator | 7 | 4 | Nov 2022 |
| New Enterprise Associates | 7 | 3 | Aug 2023 |
| Evolution Media | 5 | 3 | Sep 2018 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 5 | 2 | Feb 2022 |
| Third Wave Digital | 5 | 1 | Jan 2020 |
| WndrCo | 5 | 1 | Apr 2023 |
| U.S. Department of State | 5 | — | Aug 2025 |
The typical round is $3M — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest Media & Entertainment funding rounds in Los Angeles
Highlights the biggest disclosed funding deals, including Snapchat’s $1.8 billion Series F round, and lists ten large recent rounds.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
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| Series Fmega-round | $1.8B | May 2016 | Fidelity Investments, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic +11 more | |
| Seedmega-round | $1B | Aug 2018 | Alibaba Group, 21st Century Fox, Sony Pictures +11 more | |
| Seedmega-round | $750M | Mar 2020 | Google, Procter & Gamble, Walmart +4 more | |
| Series Dmega-round | $485M | Dec 2014 | Yahoo, GIC, Kleiner Perkins | |
| Series Dmega-round | $400M | Jan 2022 | Nexon | |
| Series E | $200M | Mar 2015 | Alibaba | |
| Series C | $200M | Feb 2018 | Public Investment Fund | |
| Series B | $200M | Aug 2022 | Global Emerging Markets, Falcon Capital Management, ClearVue Partners | |
| Series C | $159M | Apr 2016 | Verizon | |
| Series C | $150M | May 2022 | SparkLabs Global Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Bond Capital +2 more |
69 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
- Seed$5MApr 2026
Seed$75kApr 2026
SeedundisclosedApr 2026
Series B$21MFeb 2026
How this industry appears in the news
Counts 152,052 news articles published in the last year about the sector, covering topics such as administrative divisions, geopolitical disputes, and international relations.
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87 Media & Entertainment companies here were named in the news over this period.
Watch Media & Entertainment coverage in United States as it happens
Prism follows these subjects story by story — which companies are named, what is said about them and how the tone moves.
Media & Entertainment jobs in Los Angeles: who is hiring and what they ask for
Shows 2,368 job postings from 153 employers in the past year, listing top skills like SQL and Python and a median advertised salary of $108 k per year.
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What Media & Entertainment employers in Los Angeles put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
- sql114▲
- python81▲
- excel56▲
- salesforce31▲
- typescript30▲
- docker26▲
- java24▲
- gcp24▲
- powerpoint22▲
- react20▲
- Manager$115k/yr (n=143)
- Senior$122k/yr (n=41)
- Lead$159k/yr (n=30)
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Where demand signals run ahead of mapped supply — Los Angeles
Every demand signal in Los Angeles’s newsflow, measured as a share of the city’s own coverage (2025-05-01 to 2026-05-01, against the year before), then scored beside family-matched supply — the companies in each signal’s mapped media & entertainment categories — as within-page percentiles. The gap is signal percentile minus supply percentile — a prioritisation clue in percentile points, not a market size.
The opportunity, in one view
Where the signals are loudest
Each city’s reading is a share of its own coverage, so a loud smaller city can outrank a large one; rows follow each story’s primary city tag. Rows cover all of the United States for this page's signal families; Los Angeles is marked.
showing the ten highest-signal cities of 12 readings.
Inside the three leading signals
Creator economy
the operating hypothesis
Creator activity can pull tooling, monetisation and brand-deal demand around it.
Streaming & OTT
the operating hypothesis
Streaming adoption can pull content, platform and monetisation demand with it.
Box office & theatrical
the operating hypothesis
Theatrical swings can move where content money goes next.
For who is hiring, raising and leading here, see this page’s leader boards and market map above.
Related research & where the coverage is heading
The research below carries both a media & entertainment term and this page’s geography in its title — context for the boards above, not proof of any single number. The keywords are the fastest-growing terms in Los Angeles coverage of this page's demand families, measured as a share of that coverage year-over-year so volume drift cancels.
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