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Social Studio LA is an ad agency dedicated to primarily servicing Black and Brown-owned small businesses
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SOCIAL STUDIO LA
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SSLA'S NEWSLETTER OF BURIED TREASURE
46%
Minority groups own 46% of all small businesses in California, yet face disproportionate challenges in starting and maintaining their businesses
2x
Black and Latinx-owned businesses face more barriers than white-owned businesses to accessing financial capital.
73%
While all small businesses have faced challenges maintaining since the pandemic, 73% of black-owned small businesses anticipate needs for financial help.
$193 B
As of 2023, minority-owned small businesses contributed $192.8 billion in economic output and supported over 2.5 million jobs annually.
Why we exist
We understand the challenges your business may be facing when it comes to funding, especially given the current political climate and the still lingering effects of the COVID pandemic.
Resources Are Limited
For Minority-Owned Businesses
Fighting Cultural Exploitation
Los Angeles often gets stigmatized as a non-industrial city because of the volume of high-profile celebrities and industries connected to the county, but at its heart, it's a city that's kept alive by the entrepreneurial spirit of the Angelenos building small businesses to help solve the problems and needs of their communities.
Because of this, we created Social Studio LA, a social media and branding agency committed to servicing Black and Brown-Owned small businesses.
SSLA was founded by Phillip Barnett, a 15- year advertising veteran who spent his career delivering award-winning campaigns for some of the world's largest brands.
SSLA was born as a solution to a problem. Global corporations use our culture as a commodity without giving anything back to the communities creating the entertainment, music, language and style that inspired the visuals and energy of their ads.
Instead of continuing to sit back and watch as brands profit off our talent, SSLA is taking all of the strategies and executions these brands use and pouring them into the small businesses that make Los Angeles one of the world's cultural centers. We deliver world class social and brand development scaled to levels that fit where your brand is and optimized to get your brand where it wants to be.