Mobile Marketing Agency for Los Angeles
Where mobile gaming meets the creator economy and your best user is one TikTok away.
Admiral Media is a 100% remote specialist paid user acquisition agency serving mobile gaming, creator apps, entertainment in Los Angeles. We run the full UA stack across Apple Search Ads, TikTok, Meta and Google UAC for Los Angeles app teams that need to move the install curve, not tell a story about it.
Admiral Media is a 100% remote specialist paid UA agency serving mobile games, subscription apps and fintech clients in Los Angeles. Apple Search Ads, TikTok, Meta and Google UAC. €500M+ managed spend, 150+ mobile brands shipped, 4.9 on Clutch across 44 verified reviews. Los Angeles-specific: 200+ mobile gaming studios in greater la, #1 us market for creator-led app campaigns.
What we have learned growing apps in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the center of gravity for mobile gaming studios outside of Finland and the undisputed capital of creator-driven app discovery. Audiences live inside TikTok and Instagram, creative fatigue hits in three weeks, and the studios that win here treat UGC sourcing as a supply chain. If your app sells on vibe, LA is where the media mix starts.
How we partner with teams like yours in Los Angeles
Star Chef 2: +45% ROAS with AI creatives
A mobile gaming client operating in the same space as Los Angeles mobile gaming brands. The engagement opened with a Signal Capture audit, rebuilt the creative testing framework and restructured the conversion-value schema. Real case, real outcome, written up on admiral.media.
How we work alongside your team
Every Los Angeles client runs on the same remote operating framework. One discipline, paid user acquisition, executed across the channels that actually move your install curve.
Apple Search Ads
Keyword strategy, bid architecture, and creative sets across Search Tab, Today Tab, and Search Results. Post-ATT conversion value schema included.
TikTok Ads for Apps
Hook-format-variable creative testing, Spark Ads amplification, and conversion value tuning for iOS and Android UA.
Meta App Campaigns
Advantage+ App Campaigns, AAA structure, creative velocity at two to three iterations per week, and SKAN-native bid strategy.
Google UAC
Asset group architecture, tROAS and tCPA strategy, and creative set rotation tuned to the learning phase.
Playable and Video Creative
Production across playable ads, short-form video, UGC, and motion, with every asset mapped to a retention hypothesis.
Attribution and Measurement
AppsFlyer and Adjust MMP configuration, SKAN conversion value design, and probabilistic modeling for post-ATT iOS.
The conversations we are having right now in Los Angeles
Pattern-level observations from running paid UA for Los Angeles app clients and across the wider region. These are what the quiet quarterly reviews actually cover.
UGC is the default format
Creator-style video outperforms studio production by 40-60% on hook rate for LA gaming and streaming apps. Admiral briefs a global remote creator network for our LA clients to keep output compounding.
TikTok Spark Ads carry the load
Boosting organic-styled creator posts beats pure paid production in the LA market. We budget around what is earning natively, not around what was filmed.
Seasonality around premieres
UA for entertainment and creator apps spikes and drops around tentpole releases. We forecast flight plans against studio calendars, not evergreen curves.
How we actually run UA with our Los Angeles partners
Five phases. Every engagement, every geo, every genre. The loop is why we can diagnose a payback problem in 30 minutes and fix it inside 30 days.
Signal Capture
Install attribution, cohort signals, creative tagging, and conversion value schema design so every dollar is measurable before it gets spent.
Creative Velocity
A structured hook, format, and variable matrix with weekly iteration cadence and written stop-loss rules.
Audience Modeling
Lookalike layering, exclusion logic, and seed audience design so scale does not dilute payer quality.
ROAS Forecasting
LTV curves, payback period modeling, and bid strategy tuned to each geo and genre window.
Scale Architecture
Channel diversification, budget reallocation rules, and the operating model that makes scale repeatable rather than lucky.
The kind of relationship we want with you
The best performance marketing partner we have worked with. Their AI creatives deliver consistently better results.
A few more teams we have helped grow
Every one of these is a named, written case study on admiral.media. Metrics stated are the publicly documented outcome.
StoryBeat: double impact in half the time with AI
Questions founders in Los Angeles ask us early on
Does Admiral run creator and UGC campaigns for Los Angeles apps?
Yes. Creator sourcing, briefing, Spark Ads amplification, and whitelisted Meta posts are all inside the scope for LA mobile gaming and creator-economy apps. We tie every creator deliverable to measurable installs, not reach metrics.
Which ad platforms matter most for LA mobile game UA?
For Los Angeles mobile gaming clients, TikTok Ads for Apps, Meta App Campaigns, and Apple Search Ads carry the majority of spend, with Unity Ads and AppLovin layered in for casual and hypercasual titles. The mix depends on genre and target ROAS window.
How fast can a Los Angeles gaming studio see results?
CPI stabilization and creative hit rate lift appear inside 30 to 45 days as platform learning completes. Full LTV-based optimization emerges by day 60 to 90. Anyone promising ROAS lift in the first two weeks is measuring something that is not your P&L.
How long before an agency delivers real results?
Early signals including CPI stabilization and creative hit rate lift appear inside 30 to 45 days as the ad platform learning phase completes. Full LTV-based optimization and compounding scale emerge at day 60 to 90. Any agency promising ROAS lift in the first two weeks is measuring the wrong window.
What does Admiral cost?
Flat management fees tied to deliverables, plus optional performance bonuses. Percentage-of-spend pricing is not offered because it misaligns incentives as budgets grow. Engagement sizes typically open from €15,000 per month in managed media and scale from there.
What makes Admiral different from a full-service agency?
Specialist depth. We do not run lifecycle email, we do not build brand campaigns, and we do not pretend to be a full-service shop. We do paid user acquisition for mobile games, subscription apps, and fintech, at a depth most agencies do not reach.
Running Multi-Market UA?
Admiral serves paid UA clients remotely wherever mobile games, subscription apps and fintech cluster. If your footprint spans several cities, these are the peer markets we can support alongside Los Angeles.
Let’s talk through your growth plan in Los Angeles
30 minutes with one of our senior UA partners. No pitch deck, no slides. We will look at your numbers, share what we are seeing in Los Angeles, and leave you with three real things to try, whether or not we end up working together.
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