Coverage · West Coast · Tier 1

Guerrilla street marketing in Los Angeles.

Wheatpaste, murals, stencils, and pole-stickers across Los Angeles, from Downtown LA, Arts District, Silver Lake. Permitted walls, hand-installed, GPS-stamped photo proof.

Beyond Street Media street install
Los Angeles · West Coast
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  • 6Neighborhoods on route
  • 7-10dBrief to first install
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  • 0Municipal removals on record
What we do in Los Angeles

Street-level marketing, printed and installed by us.

Guerrilla marketing puts your brand on Los Angeles streets where people actually walk — sidewalk stencils, hand-painted murals, pole snipes, poster walls, and interior takeovers, printed and installed by one crew. No media-owner middleman, no billboard rates: every placement is permitted, hand-applied, and photographed the day it goes up.

Poster-only brief? The paste-up detail, wall inventory and floors live on wheatpasting in Los Angeles.

  1. 01
    Brief & route

    You send the brand, dates, and audience. We map the Los Angeles corridors where that buyer actually walks and price off the published floor.

  2. 02
    Scout & secure

    Crews scout walls on foot, then lock every surface in writing: owner agreement, BID-cleared scaffold, or permitted hoarding. The paper trail ships with the photos.

  3. 03
    Print & install

    We print in-house and hand-install from dawn, moving neighborhood to neighborhood. Tier-1 dispatch means same-week turnarounds on print-ready creative.

  4. 04
    Document

    Every placement shot wide, mid, and detail, GPS-stamped on install day. The wrap deck lands within five business days with the full proof set.

Proof · Printed in-house · Installed by our crew

Guerrilla marketing in Los Angeles, priced in the open. Proof included.

Stencils, posters, stickers, murals, and interior installs across Los Angeles. Send the brief; a scoped quote comes back inside 24 hours, with a GPS-stamped photo of every placement when the run wraps.

  • Quote in under 24 hours
  • No discovery call. The brief is the call.
  • Printing & Installation under one roof

Brief us · Quote in under 24 hours

Start your Los Angeles campaign.

Straight answers · Los Angeles

What buyers ask before they brief us.

Are you a guerrilla marketing agency in Los Angeles?

Yes. Beyond Street Media is a guerrilla marketing agency headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, with a standing Los Angeles crew that scouts and installs on the ground instead of flying in for the week. The formats we run here are wheatpaste posters, sidewalk stencils, hand- painted murals, snipes and pole stickers, and interior poster programs. Posters go up on private walls and construction hoarding with the owner's written consent collected before paste day. No posters go on utility poles, traffic signs, Metro surfaces or municipal right-of-way. Documented Los Angeles work on file includes 204 placements for Lone Fox across a 28-day run, plus the Los Angeles leg of the Sézane campaign. Campaigns start at $3,500 for posters and $2,500 for stencils, printing and installation included, with a scoped quote back inside 24 to 48 hours. Every wall is photographed wide, mid and detail with GPS coordinates on install day.

Which Los Angeles neighborhoods do you run guerrilla campaigns in?

Eleven neighborhoods across four LA media markets. Downtown LA and the Arts District carry the heaviest brick, scaffold and warehouse wall inventory, plus floor graphics inside the warehouse blocks. Silver Lake runs editorial poster walls on Sunset Junction; Echo Park runs the same work on Echo Park Avenue and the Sunset corner by the lake, and both corridors held Lone Fox's 204-poster run over 28 days before it carried east to York Boulevard in Highland Park. Melrose and Fairfax cover the streetwear and fashion corridors, including drop weeks. Hollywood and West Hollywood sit closest to studios, agencies and post houses, mostly scaffold and hoarding. Venice and Santa Monica hold the Westside beach and retail frontage. Sézane pasted on Sunset Boulevard, Momentous wrapped a full construction-hoarding perimeter for 90 days, and Bloomeffects stamped chalk sidewalk stencils overnight. Name the buyer and we route the corridors instead of the county.

What does a Los Angeles street marketing agency charge?

Beyond Street Media publishes its floors instead of gating them behind an RFP. In Los Angeles, wheatpaste poster campaigns start at $3,500, sidewalk stencils at $2,500, snipes and stickers at $3,000, and floor graphics at $4,000, printing and installation included in each. Hand-painted murals start at $18,000, and a building-side wall prices up from that floor on size, location and how long the crew is on it. Expedited work, meaning 24 to 72 hours from brief to first wall, adds 80 to 150 percent. What moves a quote inside those bands is wall count, how tight the corridor is, print size and stock, crew travel between placements, and whether the run needs scaffold or hoarding access. Standard turnaround is 5 to 7 days from approved creative to the first wall. Send markets, a run window and a rough budget through contact, and the scope comes back in 24 to 48 hours. Full rate card at pricing.

Bloomeffects tulip sidewalk stencil in Los Angeles, CA by Beyond Street Media
Bloomeffects · Los Angeles
Los Angeles on the ground

Why street media works in Los Angeles.

Guerrilla marketing in Los Angeles works because the city has always had a creative relationship with public space, so a street-level campaign feels like it belongs to the visual energy of the city rather than imported onto it. A billboard is built for distance; street-level work is built for proximity. People see it walking to coffee, waiting for a rideshare, heading into a venue. Repeated exposure across a few streets is what makes a brand feel suddenly everywhere, which is why a 204-placement run like Lone Fox's across Silver Lake, Echo Park, and York Boulevard reads louder than the same budget scattered across the county. LA rewards mapping: think in clusters, not scattered placements. Whether the brief calls it guerrilla marketing, street marketing, or a Los Angeles poster campaign, it is the same crew, the same published floors, and the same placement-by-placement photo documentation. As a guerrilla marketing agency headquartered in Brooklyn with a standing Los Angeles crew, we run the format mix rather than reselling it.

Three reasons brands book us here

  • 1
    Four media markets in one city

    Westside, Eastside, Downtown, and the Valley each move differently. Downtown LA runs scaffold, warehouse walls, and floor graphics. Silver Lake and Echo Park favor editorial poster walls on independent storefronts along Sunset Junction and Echo Park Avenue. Highland Park carries the same read east on York Boulevard. Venice and Santa Monica reward beach-adjacent placement. The Arts District holds the heaviest brick block in the city.

  • 2
    Industry-adjacent audiences

    LA is the entertainment, fitness, beauty, and CPG capital. Street-level work here sits on the blocks where buyers, founders, and cultural producers already walk. The Momentous hoarding wrap ran 90 days on a residential corridor with three CrossFit boxes, two Pilates studios, and a climbing gym inside two blocks.

  • 3
    Crew that moves at LA distances

    LA campaigns require driving. Our crews route Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Venice on the same install day without compromising placement quality. Documented start-to-finish on a single 48-hour push when the brief demands it.

Where we run it · 6 neighborhoods

  • 01Downtown LA3rd St · Traction Ave corridor · poster walls, scaffold, floor graphicsBrick · scaffold · warehouseT1
  • 02Arts District3rd St · Traction Ave · brick poster walls, hand-painted muralsRaw brick · warehouse facadesT1
  • 03Silver LakeSunset Blvd · Sunset Junction · editorial poster walls, chalk stencilsPainted · independent storefrontsT1
  • 04Echo ParkEcho Park Ave · Sunset corner · poster walls, sidewalk stencilsPainted · storefrontsT1
  • 05VeniceAbbot Kinney · boardwalk · storefront posters, chalk stencilsPainted · beach-adjacent retailT1
  • 06Santa MonicaThird Street Promenade · storefront posters, chalk stencilsPainted · retail frontageT1

Surfaces, permits & timing

Surfaces

6 neighborhoods scouted weekly: 40+ poster walls, 12+ BID-permitted scaffold corners, 8+ mural-ready sites, plus interior partners. Brick, concrete, hoarding, and storefront.

Permit path

Los Angeles poster work runs on private property with the owner's written permission. We secure that paperwork on every campaign. The city enforces strict rules on public infrastructure: utility poles, traffic signs, Metro transit surfaces, and right-of-way are off-limits, and we never touch them. Removal of unpermitted work is complaint-driven and the timeline varies by district, which is why every wall we install sits on a signed owner agreement. The Downtown Industrial Zone, the Hollywood overlay, the Arts District zoning, and the Venice Coastal Zone each carry distinct facade-modification rules we track, and our crew keeps a current permit matrix for every active LA zip code.

When to run

Award-season weeks (January through March), Grammy Week (February), Coachella and Stagecoach (April), major studio release windows, and the sports calendar (Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Rams, Chargers, LAFC, Galaxy) reshape foot traffic in Hollywood, West Hollywood, the Arts District, and the Westside. Fashion weeks shift Melrose and Fairfax. LA's mild Mediterranean climate means no seasonal blackout; wildfire season (August through November) adds occasional air-quality contingency, and coastal June-Gloom fog can affect early-morning cure time.

From the field · Los Angeles & beyond

Extend the buy across California

Cross the city line.

Los Angeles briefs regularly extend into the rest of California. Same operator contract, same field log, different ZIP code. Pick a sibling market and we route the brief in 48 hours.

Oakland· 8 hoodsSan Diego· 9 hoodsSan Francisco· 9 hoodsSan Jose· 7 hoodsPasadena· 6 hoodsRiverside· 6 hoods

Pricing in Los Angeles

What the brief actually costs.

BSM publishes per-discipline floors, no RFP gatekeeping. Every Los Angeles brief starts from the same published rate card. Permits and scaffold pass through at cost, no agency markup.

Wheatpaste posters

Walls, scaffolds, hoardings · 5-7d leadFrom $3,500

Sidewalk stencils

Permitted corners · biodegradable medium · 14-21d weather windowFrom $2,500

Snipes + stickers

Poles, utility boxes, news boxes · corridor saturationFrom $3,000

Expedited

24-72h brief-to-install on any format above · Los Angeles crews on standby+80-150%+

Ranges vary by turnaround, size, location count, and service mix. Murals from $18k. Final quote in 24-48h.

Los Angeles · the answers

Buyer questions.

What Los Angeles brand managers ask on intake calls. Permit reality, lead time, minimums, photo proof. If your question isn't here, brief us directly.

Q · 01

How do I hire a guerrilla marketing agency in Los Angeles?

Send the brand, the neighborhoods you want, the run window, and a rough budget. A line-item scope comes back in 24 to 48 hours against published floors, and the first install lands 5 to 7 days after creative is approved. Beyond Street Media is an operator rather than a broker, so the same team that quotes the LA campaign prints it in-house and installs it with our own crew. Documented LA work on file includes Lone Fox, Sézane, Momentous, FashionPass, and Bloomeffects.

Q · 02

What guerrilla marketing formats can you run in Los Angeles?

Poster walls on private brick and construction hoarding, biodegradable chalk sidewalk stencils, floor graphics, hand-painted murals, snipes, interior poster programs, and poster campaigns. Published floors: sidewalk stencils from $2,500, snipes from $3,000, poster campaigns from $3,500, floor graphics from $4,000, interior programs from $5,000, hand-painted murals from $18,000. Print and installation are included in each.

Q · 03

Is street-level advertising legal in Los Angeles?

Yes, with the right consent per format. Poster work runs on private property with the owner's written permission, chalk stencils use temporary material, and public infrastructure (utility poles, traffic signs, transit, right-of-way) stays off every route. The legal framework varies by zoning district, and we keep a current compliance matrix for every active LA zip code. The full poster-specific rules live on our wheatpaste advertising in Los Angeles page.

Q · 04

How much does a street marketing campaign cost in LA?

Published floors: sidewalk stencils from $2,500, snipe posters from $3,000, poster campaigns from $3,500, floor graphics from $4,000, print and install included. Multi-neighborhood programs across Downtown LA, the Arts District, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Venice, Santa Monica, Hollywood, and West Hollywood price up from those floors. The number tracks print volume and crew days, not the brand on the poster. Expedited runs, meaning 24 to 72 hours from brief to first wall, add 80 to 150 percent. Poster-campaign specifics are on wheat pasting in Los Angeles. Final quote returns in 24-48 hours.

Q · 05

Which LA neighborhoods get the strongest street-campaign coverage?

Downtown LA and the Arts District hold the brick, scaffold, and warehouse inventory. Silver Lake and Echo Park run editorial poster walls and chalk stencils on independent storefronts. Highland Park extends that route east on York Boulevard and Figueroa. Melrose and Fairfax cover the streetwear and fashion corridors. Hollywood and West Hollywood serve entertainment-industry clients on scaffold and hoarding. Venice and Santa Monica hold the Westside beach and retail frontage. Eleven neighborhoods, four distinct media markets.

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5-7 day turnaround 100% photo proof on every install Refund if we miss the install window

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