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714 Media Learned to Think Like a Magazine - Then Sold the Instinct
A former magazine editor built a small Fullerton agency around an unfashionable advantage: knowing what makes a story worth someone else’s attention.
Big Hype Marketing Built a Small Agency for the Jobs Brands Usually Split Five Ways
Its name promises noise. Its case studies reveal something quieter: a 13-person shop stitching strategy, design, content, code and distribution into one operating system for growing brands.
Streamline Connections Bet the Sale on a Human Conversation
While advertising chased clicks, this small Southern California firm kept betting on eye contact. Its public record reveals a hands-on customer-acquisition shop where campaigns, sales training and telecom enrollment meet.
The Little Agency That Makes a Place Feel Famous
The ACE Agency found a durable niche in a slippery business: it sells attention for places people can actually enter. Parks, museums, restaurants and shopping districts become the medium - and the measuring stick.
Reveille Puts Public Attention in the Sky
The Costa Mesa agency makes serious institutions visible with the instincts of a publicist, the hands of a design shop, and a taste for ideas too large to ignore.
Parcon Put a Marketing Department Behind the Fractional CMO
The Orange County firm has a tidy answer to fragmented marketing: pair a virtual CMO with the people who buy the ads, make the content, shape the message and fix the path to purchase.
The $80 Shortcut From Classroom Theory to Client Work
At Cal State Fullerton, a student chapter has built a practical answer to the entry-level experience trap: charge less than a textbook, open the room to every major, and put real clients on the other side of the table.
Firecracker PR sells a plan for getting noticed
A technology company can explain every feature and still leave a reporter cold. Firecracker PR has built its business around closing that gap - with five ways to turn expertise into a story.
Rocket Launch knows why a $400 pineapple is news
A California agency turns familiar things into fresh stories: a luxury pineapple, a guitar built like a supercar, and a county fair with a million-dollar media plan.
Creative Press and the art of making less look like more
An Anaheim printer won an art-book category limited to one, two, or three colors. Its story is a useful reminder that a longer list of features is no substitute for knowing what to do with the ink.
Titan Public Relations makes the first client real
At Cal State Fullerton, a student-run agency trades pro-bono PR for something a classroom cannot supply: a client with an actual problem. The lessons include a barbershop move, a clothing drive and one missing screenshot.
The Covington sells a home. The interesting part is what comes next.
In Aliso Viejo, a nonprofit retirement community puts cottages, care and a resident-led academy on the same campus. Its proposition is compelling - provided you read the price in more than one place.
House of Designers turns the pre-show into the show
A drifting championship, a food trade show, and a video-editing app share an Orange County creative partner. House of Designers connects the thing that catches your eye with the thing you do next.
Mouse Graphics knows a menu can be a taco
A Costa Mesa print shop turns artwork into things people can hold, unfold, walk past, and bolt to a wall. Its taco-shaped menu explains the business better than a list of printers ever could.
Graphics360 and the price of “I need it today”
A family-owned Santa Ana print shop sells business cards, banners, and vehicle wraps. Its more revealing product is the human attention between an uploaded file and a very public mistake.
PurpleZ sells the marketing department you don’t have
A website, a search campaign, a video crew: PurpleZ puts them on the same brief. The Orange County agency’s offer is simple to understand - and worth examining one handoff at a time.
Sheena Marie and the $1,500 question: what happens after the click?
Her marketing business puts websites, paid campaigns and customer care under one roof. The revealing detail is what happens after someone shows interest.
PS Design knows a logo can’t fix a confused company
Before the new colors came the awkward questions. Inside the California studio turning company identities into systems people can actually use - and sometimes unwrap.
Communications LAB brings the freeway meeting to your cul-de-sac
Coffee, doorhangers and a working knowledge of public hearings: this Orange County agency makes big infrastructure projects a neighborhood conversation. Its record also shows where persuasion reaches its limits.
LightHouse Graphics sells the work behind a working website
From a home-care redesign to a vacation brand’s booking ambitions, the Irvine agency connects design, development and marketing. Its most revealing work starts with the problems a prettier homepage cannot solve.
DGVC gives familiar characters a new place to live
From Powerpuff Girls patterns to a café racer’s color palette, Dan Georgopoulos builds identities that travel beyond the logo. His Orange County studio makes its case in the objects people wear, carry, buy, and ride.
ONE NINE Architecture Has Plans for the Leftovers
The California design firm connects office renovations, custom interiors and nonprofit work. Even its fabric scraps get another assignment.
Twelve12 Takes the Brand All the Way to the Taco Cart
The Irvine agency connects strategy, design and production for businesses that need the pieces to agree. Its work runs from Mexican catering to commercial property and a rock-star speaker launch.
Lori Stinson Spent 24 Years Moving Freight. Now She’s Moving Small Businesses Into AI
After two decades inside the unforgiving machinery of logistics, Lori Stinson is bringing an operator’s instinct to AI - fewer shiny demos, more systems that make Monday morning work.
Scott Shreeve Put Primary Care on the Employer's Payroll - Then Took It Nationwide
An emergency doctor learned that the waiting room was often the last stop in a much longer systems failure. His response was an unusual business lesson: when patients would not buy a new care model one by one, sell the architecture to the employer.
The Team That Sells You Its Enemies' Teeth
How a franchise named after a kids' movie became a $1.4 billion bet on live sports, youth hockey, and 100 acres of Orange County real estate.
Ian Asher
He was the first DJ to go big on TikTok, then a French singer's decade-old song became his loudest moment. Ian Asher on trusting his gut, ignoring the noise, and building a career that outlasts the algorithm.
Vistify, Inc
Vistify, Inc is a Santa Ana, California restaurant-technology company whose flagship platform, vMenu, turns static digital menu boards into centrally controlled, software-defined menus for multi-unit and quick-service restaurant brands. The cloud platform lets operators design menus with a drag-and-drop Menu Builder, push changes to thousands of screens in real time, sync pricing with point-of-sale systems in under 30 seconds, and monitor what is actually displaying across every location. Founded in 2015 as Embed Digital and rebranded to Vistify in March 2025, the company serves brands including Craveworthy Brands, WaBa Grill, Urban Plates and Urbane Cafe, and is led by CEO Michael Mathieu.
Todd Watts
Todd Watts is the co-founder and CEO of PatientFi, an Irvine, California fintech that lets patients pay for elective and out-of-pocket healthcare in monthly installments at the point of care. Since starting the company in 2017, he has built a platform that has helped roughly 320,000 patients qualify for more than $3 billion in care across aesthetics, fertility, dentistry, ophthalmology and audiology, reaching a $140 million annual revenue run rate and 130 employees. A former J.P. Morgan investment banker with a Yale MBA, Watts was named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 Pacific Southwest winner.
Taylor Holiday
Taylor Holiday is the founder and CEO of Common Thread Collective (CTC), one of the most respected eCommerce growth agencies in the DTC (direct-to-consumer) space, serving 230+ brands totaling $2.3B+ in annual online revenue. A former minor league baseball player drafted by the New York Yankees, Holiday went from a 100-square-foot office above a bakery in Old Towne Orange, California to building a fully remote agency of 70-150+ people. He is also a partner at 4x400, a brand acquisition holding company, and one of the most influential voices on Twitter/X in the eCommerce world, known for contrarian takes, deep analytical frameworks, and a relentless focus on profitable growth.