Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in Los Angeles. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
Recently founded means a recorded 2023–2026 founding year and no recorded parent, acquirer or public-company status. These companies are not labelled startups without that separate classification.
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92 of 2,372 tracked companies have open roles.
339 of 2,372 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 370 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 42.0% of disclosed capital, while 85.7% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $2.15B | 140 | 35 |
| 2017 | $602.9M | 121 | 39 |
| 2018 | $1.93B | 110 | 32 |
| 2019 | $304.91M | 107 | 20 |
| 2020 | $1.35B | 127 | 38 |
| 2021 | $375.84M | 101 | 40 |
| 2022 | $1.57B | 87 | 51 |
| 2023 | $505.62M | 64 | 37 |
| 2024 | $331.58M | 41 | 24 |
| 2025 | $257.58M | 17 | 16 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
448 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in media & entertainment company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Adobe Ventures and Rackhouse Ventures and others.
Backed by .
Backed by S32.
Backed by Ares Management and Flexpoint Ford and others.
Backed by .
Backed by Makers Fund and Maximum Frequency Ventures and others.
Backed by Fidelity Investments and Sequoia Capital and others.
Backed by Alibaba Group and 21st Century Fox and others.
Backed by Google and Procter & Gamble and others.
Backed by Yahoo and GIC and others.
Backed by Nexon.
Backed by Alibaba.
Backed by Public Investment Fund.
Backed by Global Emerging Markets and Falcon Capital Management and others.
Backed by Verizon.
Backed by SparkLabs Global Ventures and New Enterprise Associates and others.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 5 reporting entities from 6 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Los Angeles market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
None of 5 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 5 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOX ↗1754301 | $16,300.0m | $2,293.0m | +14.1% | — | — |
| Snapchat ↗1564408 | $5,931.4m | $-460.5m | -7.8% | — | — |
| WEBTOON ↗1997859 | $1,382.7m | $-345.9m | -25.0% | — | — |
| LiveXLive ↗1491419 | $114.4m | $-18.7m | -16.4% | — | — |
| Cinedigm ↗1173204 | $78.2m | $3.8m | +4.8% | — | — |
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Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.
| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
|---|
Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the Los Angeles companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
109 of the 2,372 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (4.6%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 465,598 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| TikToktiktok.com | 2,464,743,690 | 100 | 59.7% |
| Disney+disneyplus.com | 319,027,649 | 95 | 28.9% |
| Snapchatsnapchat.com | 225,276,532 | 92 | 43.6% |
| IGNign.com | 122,885,386 | 88 | 73.8% |
| Ticket Masterticketmaster.com | 95,582,653 | 86 | 70.3% |
| WEBTOONwebtoons.com | 55,552,801 | 80 | 78.8% |
| Comic Book Resourcescbr.com | 41,918,994 | 74 | 91% |
| Fandangofandango.com | 36,061,744 | 81 | 75.4% |
| Pluto TVpluto.tv | 32,548,162 | 71 | 55.4% |
| Breitbartbreitbart.com | 28,166,346 | 68 | 77.3% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
148 of these companies (6.2%) publish at least one Android app — 230 apps in all, carrying 11.5B installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok - Videos, Shop & LIVETikTok | 4.5B | 4 | Social |
| SnapchatSnapchat | 4.1B | 4.2 | Communication |
| Camera KitSnapchat | 860.3M | 3.7 | Tools |
| Disney+Disney+ | 567M | 4.3 | Entertainment |
| TickTock-TikTok Live WallpaperTikTok | 409.8M | 4.7 | Tools |
| PlutoTV: Stream Free Movies/TVPluto TV | 285.3M | 3.7 | Entertainment |
| WEBTOON: Manga, Comics, ManhwaWEBTOON | 178.5M | 4.6 | Comics |
| TikTok StudioTikTok | 96M | 4.6 | Video Players & Editors |
| Ticketmaster－Buy, Sell TicketsTicket Master | 51.4M | 2.4 | Events |
| TikTok Shop Seller CenterTikTok | 49.5M | 4.3 | Shopping |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q1–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Platforms | 59 | 5.2B | TikTok - Videos, Shop & LIVE 4.5B | |
| Online Photos | 13 | 5B | Snapchat 4.1B | |
| Communication Apps | 4 | 5B | Camera Kit 860.3M | |
| Tv Networks | 5 | 605.4M | Disney+ 567M | |
| Ott Video | 45 | 327.5M | PlutoTV: Stream Free Movies\/TV 285.3M | |
| Book Tech | 6 | 179.5M | WEBTOON: Manga, Comics, Manhwa 178.5M | |
| Online Event Ticketing | 11 | 131.5M | Ticketmaster－Buy, Sell Tickets 51.4M | |
| Film & Tv Studios | 9 | 50.2M | The Walking Dead: Season One 28.6M |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 218 of 230 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
30 companies hiring · $8.4B disclosed funding
Explore in RadarCommon revenue models; a company can use more than one.
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Paramount, bought another, Warner Bros. Discovery, in a $110 billion mega-merger...
In 2024, Viant acquired IRIS.TV for $10 million to enhance its proprietary content classification capabilities.
TikTok, owned by ByteDance, has confirmed plans to invest €1bn in constructing its first data centre in Finland.
Playlist, the powerhouse behind fitness giants ClassPass and Mindbody, has finalized a transformative merger with EGYM valued at $7.5 billion.
WildBrain 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.
Random 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.
Allen Media Group’s local TV stations in ten markets to Gray Media in a $117 million deal in August.
Now it has replenished its budget for further deals via a $450m round of equity and debt capital.
About 70 jobs will be cut across Atlanta and Los Angeles.
Banijay Kids & Family has announced an agreement with Cloudco Entertainment to manage the Care Bears YouTube channels globally.
Top 10 categories among 1,350 recorded events in the 24-month window.
3 companies with recorded IPO activity
121 tracked people moves
Resignation Previously Head of North America and global gaming business marketing
Appointment Chief Financial Officer
Appointment Vice President, Development-Animation
Departure
Appointment Chairman
Promotion co-CEO
Promotion Chief Product Officer
Appointment Head of IP Business
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Fitness SaaS management platform
Advanced intelligence layer
Ad format
Ad format
Advertising Format
Vertical Video / Short‑form Content
AI marketing platform
Short‑form Video
19 recorded customer wins
Customer: FinlandData Center
Customer: warner bros. discoveryEntertainment
Customer: westernForestry
Customer: netflix
Customer: FIFA
Customer: metaTechnology
10 companies with reported reductions
70 rolescost reduction
1,000 rolescost reduction
2,000 rolesmerger
Scale not stated rolesAI automation
Scale not stated rolescost reduction
24 rolescost reduction
84 recorded events
Australian Government
approval requestedFCC
HSR waiting period expiredHart-Scott-Rodino Act
Approved for saleFederal regulators
28 tracked suits
merger blockingCivil · Filed
nonpublic information leakageCivil ·
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 89 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paramount→Warner Bros Discovery | Announced | 2026-07-01 | $110.0B |
| Paramount→BET+ | Announced | 2026-06-01 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Paramount→skydance | Completed | 2026-05-05 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Paramount→warner bros. discovery | Announced | 2026-05-04 | Not stated in snapshot |
| warner bros. discovery→Paramount ↗ | Announced | 2026-04-27 | $110.0B |
| skydance→Paramount ↗ | Completed | 2026-04-24 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
2,368 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 3,492-posting snapshot covers 153 employers.
100 tracked postings mention remote work.
1,375 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 3,492 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 431 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| FOX ↗ | 10,400 |
| Allenmedia Tv ↗ | 2,300 |
| Penske Media Corporation ↗ | 1,018 |
| candle media ↗ | 1,000 |
| Archinect ↗ | 789 |
| Room 8 Studio ↗ | 700 |
| Trailer Park Group ↗ | 575 |
| Create Music Group ↗ | 350 |
959 founders and chief executives across 690 companies.
Ex-Founder Edit Builder. UCLA BS 2010
MeatEater, TCG, Crunchyroll, Goldman Sachs, UBS, The Walt Disney Company. Duke University BA 2001, Harvard Business School MBA 2008
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
Utah Tech University, ex-Ciger Asset Management, ex-Ccc Information Services, Stanford University, 2005
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
121 profiles with education records.
22 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
152,052 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Los Angeles · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 24,430 |
| 2021Q3 | 28,776 |
| 2021Q4 | 25,066 |
| 2022Q1 | 28,905 |
| 2022Q2 | 28,885 |
| 2022Q3 | 26,568 |
| 2022Q4 | 28,450 |
| 2023Q1 | 34,213 |
| 2023Q2 | 31,728 |
| 2023Q3 | 31,070 |
| 2023Q4 | 32,147 |
| 2024Q1 | 41,145 |
| 2024Q2 | 37,046 |
| 2024Q3 | 40,067 |
| 2024Q4 | 37,734 |
| 2025Q1 | 60,672 |
| 2025Q2 | 38,573 |
| 2025Q3 | 45,564 |
| 2025Q4 | 36,303 |
| 2026Q1 | 41,361 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
2,019 recorded company events across 74 companies; percentages use that event total.
Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Los Angeles · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
United States comparison coverage
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| national security strategy | 7,175 | 3,278 | 119% |
| multilateral diplomacy | 6,485 | 4,608 | 41% |
| stablecoin fx impact | 4,033 | 1,689 | 139% |
| countries | 3,733 | 1,827 | 104% |
| conceptual rock albums | 3,591 | 321 | 1019% |
| vaccine decision-making | 3,211 | 1,746 | 84% |
| investment deal | 3,146 | 1,669 | 88% |
| anti-vaccination sentiment | 3,125 | 1,647 | 90% |
| vaccine misinformation impact | 3,057 | 1,614 | 89% |
| parental vaccine concerns | 3,047 | 1,651 | 85% |
| tariff negotiations | 14,005 | 20,941 | -33% |
| college playoffs | 4,839 | 12,634 | -62% |
| nba team legends | 2,094 | 11,286 | -81% |
| historic nba games | 780 | 11,264 | -93% |
| ncaa updates | 4,556 | 10,676 | -57% |
United States comparison coverage
territories, disputed islands, tariff negotiations
37.9% critical · 26.3% positiveinflation reports fx, currency intervention policies, investment deal
36.2% critical · 42.9% positivenba expansion teams, nba team legends, historic nba games
35.2% critical · 44.2% positiveMedia & Entertainment coverage tagged Los Angeles. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
Compare demand signals in Los Angeles’s newsflow with the media & entertainment categories mapped to each signal.
Signal percentile − supply percentile = gap in percentile points. Positive gaps highlight questions to investigate. A high signal can reflect spending pressure or access friction, as well as potential demand.
The comparison is relative to the signal families on this page. A supply percentile of zero means the lowest relative reading, not zero companies. It is a prioritisation clue, not measured market size or unmet demand.
Signal and mapped-supply percentiles, their gap, and change in the signal’s article share.
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| Signal family | Signal percentile | Supply percentile | Relative gap | Gap (points) | Signal share vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator economy ↗Demand Driver | 41.7 | 0.0 | +41.7 | +31.8% | |
| Streaming & OTT ↗Adoption Shift | 83.3 | 50.0 | +33.3 | +46.0% | |
| Box office & theatrical ↗Demand Driver | 87.5 | 100.0 | -12.5 | +98.2% | |
| Gaming & esports ↗Demand Driver | 25.0 | — | No matching category | — | — |
| Layoffs & income shocks ↗Spending Pressure | 12.5 | — | No matching category | — | +7.2% |
Showing all 5 signals. Select a family for its history and mapped categories.
All 12 city readings for these demand families in the comparison geography. Los Angeles is highlighted.
Each city’s reading is a share of its own coverage. Rows cover all of the United States for this page's signal families; Los Angeles is marked.
Streaming & OTT · Box office & theatrical · Creator economy
Streaming & OTT · Creator economy · Box office & theatrical
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Creator economy
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Creator economy
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Creator economy
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Creator economy
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Gaming & esports
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Gaming & esports
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Box office & theatrical
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Creator economy
Streaming & OTT · Layoffs & income shocks · Creator economy
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Creator economy
Creator activity can pull tooling, monetisation and brand-deal demand around it.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 36 | 10.88 |
| 2024Q4 | 60 | 17.34 |
| 2025Q1 | 106 | 14.42 |
| 2025Q2 | 51 | 14.83 |
| 2025Q3 | 86 | 23.52 |
| 2025Q4 | 53 | 22.07 |
| 2026Q1 | 66 | 22.93 |
Streaming adoption can pull content, platform and monetisation demand with it.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 162 | 48.98 |
| 2024Q4 | 166 | 47.98 |
| 2025Q1 | 338 | 46.0 |
| 2025Q2 | 150 | 43.62 |
| 2025Q3 | 331 | 90.52 |
| 2025Q4 | 167 | 69.54 |
| 2026Q1 | 198 | 68.8 |
Theatrical swings can move where content money goes next.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 49 | 14.81 |
| 2024Q4 | 29 | 8.38 |
| 2025Q1 | 52 | 7.08 |
| 2025Q2 | 49 | 14.25 |
| 2025Q3 | 111 | 30.36 |
| 2025Q4 | 46 | 19.15 |
| 2026Q1 | 44 | 15.29 |
Gaming engagement can pull platform, publishing and esports demand.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s media & entertainment market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 5 | 1.51 |
| 2024Q4 | 14 | 4.05 |
| 2025Q1 | 20 | 2.72 |
| 2025Q2 | 18 | 5.23 |
| 2025Q3 | 10 | 2.73 |
| 2025Q4 | 17 | 7.08 |
| 2026Q1 | 22 | 7.64 |
Layoff cycles can pull discretionary spend back toward value offerings.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s media & entertainment market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 20 | 6.05 |
| 2024Q4 | 39 | 11.27 |
| 2025Q1 | 67 | 9.12 |
| 2025Q2 | 28 | 8.14 |
| 2025Q3 | 50 | 13.67 |
| 2025Q4 | 8 | 3.33 |
| 2026Q1 | 24 | 8.34 |
Los Angeles media & entertainment coverage
Information Communication & Society
48 citations in the snapshot
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
28 citations in the snapshot
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
23 citations in the snapshot
Journal of Communication
22 citations in the snapshot
Los Angeles coverage of this page's demand families
| Keyword | Recent articles | Prior articles | Share change |
|---|---|---|---|
| broadcast television | 25 | 8 | 345.9% |
| film debuts | 73 | 25 | 316.6% |
| netflix | 44 | 28 | 124.2% |
| emmys | 62 | 40 | 121.2% |
| episode cameos | 21 | 16 | 87.3% |
| talk show guests | 15 | 14 | 52.9% |
Share changes describe coverage in the stated comparison periods, not search demand or market size.
Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 6 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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