Creative Studio · Campaigns for Finance Brands

Creative campaigns that make finance impossible to ignore.

Turning complex financial products and brands into campaigns people actually stop scrolling for.

I'm Evelina: ex-financial advisor, ex-Dow Jones, now running an AI-powered creative studio for advisors, fintechs, and wealth platforms. 10+ years across finance and marketing taught me what your prospects worry about at 2am, because they used to say it to me across a desk.

I take on a small number of finance and fintech brands at a time. Every account gets the full obsession or nothing.

Evelina, creative strategist and founder of Los Angelena
1.7s

The average time a prospect gives your ad before scrolling. Your entire pitch lives or dies right there.

10+yrs finance + marketing
<2 wksbrief to live ads
140+languages via AI

Sound familiar

You have probably said one of these out loud this month.

"Our ads feel stale."
"We need better hooks."
"Can someone make this launch exciting?"
"Our deck looks terrible."
"Our product is amazing but nobody understands it."

Every one of those is a creative problem. Not a budget problem, not a targeting problem. More spend will not fix a hook nobody stops for. That is the entire reason this studio exists.

Trusted by top companies · 10+ years finance + marketing experience

Dow JonesDow Jones
Northwestern MutualNorthwestern Mutual
Intuit QuickBooksIntuit QuickBooks
Trust & WillTrust & Will
Investor's Business DailyInvestor's Business Daily
Retirement SuiteRetirement Suite
Oleada FinancialOleada Financial

Creative capabilities

Your creative department, without the headcount.

Great financial products deserve great creative. This is organized the way a marketing team actually asks for things, not the way freelancers list services.

01

Campaign Creative

The assets that go live and spend money. Built around one insight, produced in enough variations to actually learn something.

  • Meta ads
  • LinkedIn ads
  • Static ad sets
  • AI commercials
  • Campaign concepts
  • Hook development
  • Creative testing roadmaps

02

Brand Storytelling

The words that make a complicated product feel obvious. Written for people who are deciding whether to trust you with money.

  • Landing pages
  • Sales messaging
  • Website copy
  • Founder positioning
  • Launch messaging
  • Email sequences
  • UGC scripts

03

Visual Creative

Everything a finance brand needs to look like it belongs next to the consumer brands in the same feed.

  • AI video
  • Avatar spots
  • Presentation design
  • Investor decks
  • Webinar graphics
  • Social carousels
  • Motion and animated charts

04

Creative Direction

The thinking that happens before anyone opens a design file. This is the part most brands are actually missing.

  • Campaign planning
  • Creative briefs
  • Messaging workshops
  • Competitor creative audits
  • AI content systems
  • Team creative reviews

And yes, all of it is built with SEC, FINRA, and IAR guidelines in mind.

About me

I've sat on both sides of the money conversation.

There are thousands of talented designers and AI creators. There are very few who can also speak fluent finance. I sold financial plans face to face, wrote for newsroom deadlines, and now run AI-powered creative inside fintech. That combination doesn't really exist twice.

  • Marketing Director, Retirement SuiteCurrent · Owning growth for a retirement-planning platform
  • Marketing Director, Oleada FinancialCurrent · Growth for a fee-only fiduciary practice
  • AI Consultant, Intuit QuickBooksCurrent · Training business owners on AI adoption
  • In-House AI Video Expert, Dow JonesNewsroom-grade storytelling, deadline-tested
  • Investor's Business DailySame newsroom muscle, finance met editorial speed
  • Growth Marketing, Trust & WillEstate planning fintech, performance marketing
  • Financial Advisor, Northwestern MutualLicensed. Real clients, real objections, real closes

I've heard the objections firsthand

"I'll think about it." "My brother-in-law handles my money." "Is now really the time?" I closed against those lines for a living. Now I write hooks that answer them before they're spoken.

Newsroom-trained, not agency-trained

Dow Jones and IBD taught me to make complex financial ideas clear, fast, and credible under deadline. That's exactly what a 1.7-second feed demands.

I don't just use AI. I teach it

As a QuickBooks AI consultant, I train business owners on AI adoption. That depth shows up in production: avatar video, iteration speed, and cost your competitors can't match.

Evelina, founder of Los Angelena

The story

Evelina, from Los Angeles.

Say it out loud and you'll hear it: Los Angelena is my name folded into my hometown. I grew up in LA, I work from San Diego now, and I've never lived more than a few miles from the Pacific.

That coastline shaped how I work. The best California brands, the ones you find in Santa Monica and La Jolla, are proof that relaxed and rigorous can coexist. Sun-washed on the surface, obsessively crafted underneath. That's the standard I hold my creative to.

The finance side came first, though. Before the ad accounts and the AI studios, I was the person across the desk asking families about their retirement fears. I never forgot how those conversations actually sound. Every ad I make still starts there: a real person, a real worry, and the words that finally make them feel understood.

Evelina · Founder, Los Angelena

The table

Trained by people with receipts.

I didn't build this craft alone. I trained as a creative strategist under operators who've spent millions of their own money on ads and made it back multiples over. Their playbooks show up in every ad I ship.

SF
Sean Ferres

Copy Millions Blueprint. $1.4M of his own money into ads, $6M back out.

RP
Ray Pang

The People Playbook. Built an agency doing $700k/mo from a standing start.

MV
Matthew Volkwyn

Founder of the Copy Dojo.

KP
Kenneth Parkja

World-class copywriter.

What that training gave me is a process, not a template. Every concept on this page started the same way: find the belief the audience already holds but hasn't said out loud, then build the creative around it. You get that system applied to your brand, filtered through someone who actually held a securities license.

The work

Selected concepts. Flip the cards.

Every concept starts from something your prospect already believes but hasn't said out loud. Each card is a different angle, a different format, a different layer of the market.

A♦ 01

The Yacht Sale

He listed the yacht the same week the market dipped. The marina assumed the worst. His advisor knew it was a tax play.

Flip for the strategy →

The Yacht Sale

Format: AI avatar short / UGC confessional

The bit: A curiosity gap. The viewer assumes crisis; the reveal is strategy. Positions the advisor as the one who sees moves nobody else understands.

Curiosity hookHNWMeta video
K♦ 02

The Champagne Letter

A letter arrives with a bottle of champagne. Celebration or bad news? She won't know until Thursday's webinar.

Flip for the strategy →

The Champagne Letter

Format: Short-form webinar teaser

The bit: An open loop the ad refuses to close. The registration is the only way to find out. Built to drive webinar signups without a single "register now" cliché.

Open loopWebinarLead gen
Q♦ 03

The Golf Score Reveal

His handicap dropped 12 strokes after retiring. His portfolio strategy didn't change with him.

Flip for the strategy →

The Golf Score Reveal

Format: Talking head + b-roll, PDF lead magnet

The bit: Humor contrast: everything else in retirement improved, why not the plan? Ends on a downloadable guide in exchange for an email.

HumorLead magnetRetirees
J♦ 04

The Empty Gas Gauge

The gauge reads full until you tap the glass. Most retirement plans work exactly the same way.

Flip for the strategy →

The Empty Gas Gauge

Format: Visual metaphor spot, multi-variant

The bit: One striking image carries the whole message: no jargon, instantly compliant. Built for A/B testing across five different taps of the glass.

MetaphorA/B testedAwareness
10♦ 05

The Two Wine Glasses

Two glasses poured every evening for forty years. One conversation they kept postponing: what happens after.

Flip for the strategy →

The Two Wine Glasses

Format: Emotional brand spot

The bit: Estate planning sold through ritual, not fear. The warmth does what scare tactics can't. It makes the viewer picture their own kitchen table.

EmotionEstate planningBrand
9♦ 06

The Cracked Crystal Ball

There's a cracked crystal ball on his desk. It means he stopped pretending to predict the market and started planning around it.

Flip for the strategy →

The Cracked Crystal Ball

Format: Static meme + video hybrid

The bit: Radical honesty as the hook. "I don't predict. I plan." Differentiates instantly from every ad promising returns, and it keeps compliance smiling.

Honesty hookStatic + videoTrust

Hover or tap a card to flip it. Your brand gets the same treatment. The deck just needs new cards.

Watch these AI video ads in action.

Two live playlists from my channel. Real AI ad campaigns and avatar work for finance brands, exactly as they run in the feed.

Static work

Here are some image ads I've done for clients.

Static ads are half my product suite. Below: live brand work for retirement and fiduciary platform clients, alongside my Money Talks concept campaign, one insight ("nobody taught us how to talk about money") executed across every major static format Meta rewards.

Static ad: couple laughing over coffee
The reframe. Emotional benefit over feature. Romance vs. resentment.
Static ad: iceberg diagram
The diagram. An iceberg does the explaining. Zero copy wasted.
Static ad: anonymous confession card
The confession. Native social format. Reads like content, not an ad.
Static ad: couple holding moving box
The countdown. 1 lease, 2 salaries, 0 conversations. Math as tension.
Static ad: tabloid magazine cover parody
The tabloid. Pattern interrupt. Gossip energy for a taboo topic.
Static ad: message written on foggy mirror
The mirror. Rehearsed 47 times, said 0. The feeling everyone knows.
Static ad: friends at rooftop brunch
The crowd. Social proof inverted: everyone is avoiding the same talk.
Static ad: hand-drawn flowchart
The doodle. Hand-drawn loop of avoidance. Breaks the polished feed.
Static ad: expert quote card
The authority. A fiduciary says the quiet part. Instant credibility.
Static ad: checklist with salary unchecked
The checklist. Everything gets discussed before salary. One red box.
Static ad: restaurant bill folder
The standoff. The bill lands, nobody moves. Comedy in six words.
Static ad: iMessage group chat screenshot
The group chat. "Totally fine!" It was not fine. Native UI, real dread.
Static ad: retired couple testimonial
The testimonial. Client work: retirement platform. Trust at a glance.
Static ad: tablet with roadmap visual
The product shot. Client work: premium fintech aesthetic. Three lines, whole pitch.
Static ad: the retirement scoreboard checklist
The scoreboard. Client work: redefines winning retirement beyond the money.

Ways to work together

Three ways in, depending on what you need made.

Every engagement is scoped to the brand, the category, and how fast you need to be in market. The call is where we figure out which one fits.

One-time sprint

Alpha

Find your unfair advantage.

A focused creative sprint for a launch, a new offer, or a first real test. You come out with a full concept set and enough variations to learn something in week one.

  • Creative strategy session
  • Audience and messaging audit
  • Competitor creative teardown
  • Static ad set, ready to run
  • AI video concepts
  • Hook and primary text variations
  • Editable files, yours to keep
Talk through a sprint →

Monthly retainer · Most requested

Momentum

Your outsourced creative department.

A continuous pipeline of fresh concepts and finished creative every month, so your feed never goes stale and your testing never stalls waiting on assets.

  • Monthly creative strategy call
  • Static ad sets
  • AI video ads and avatar spots
  • UGC scripts and carousel concepts
  • Landing page and sales messaging
  • Presentation refreshes
  • Creative testing roadmap
  • Direct access between calls
See if it fits →

Fractional creative director

Market Leader

Creative leadership, on your team.

For fintechs and platforms that already have marketers but need someone owning the creative point of view across every channel and every launch.

  • Everything in Momentum
  • Creative direction across channels
  • Launch campaigns
  • Pitch and investor decks
  • Conference and event graphics
  • Executive LinkedIn positioning
  • Brand messaging systems
  • Quarterly campaign planning
  • Team creative reviews
Start the conversation →

You are buying creative capacity and creative thinking, not a fixed list of files. Scope and investment get set on the call, once I know what you are actually trying to launch.

The gameplan

Brief to live ads in under two weeks.

No agency bloat, no six-week "discovery phase." A studio-sized loop where the audience, not a conference room, decides which creative gets the budget.

01

Ideate

Audience research, angle development, and creative briefs grounded in how wealthy prospects actually think about money.

02

Script

Hook, body, and CTA, all written with SEC, FINRA, and IAR guidelines in mind and compliance-reviewed before anything gets produced.

03

Produce

AI video with a brand-matched avatar or b-roll, plus static ad sets built for every feed placement. Polished, on-brand, days-not-weeks to market.

04

Test cheap

New hooks launch as low-budget tests. The duds die for pocket change; the numbers say which angles earn a real budget.

05

Feed winners

Proven hooks get the money, the iterations, and the placements. Budget goes where the audience already said yes.

06

Report

ROAS, CPL, and hook-level learnings in plain English, plus the next iteration cycle already queued up.

Luck is a volume game with a scoreboard. We play it on purpose.

Why it works

The unfair advantages, itemized.

Advisor-brain targeting

I know the difference between what a prospect says and what they mean, because I closed them in person. That instinct is in every hook.

Compliance-safe by default

Scripts and supers written with SEC, FINRA, and IAR guidelines in mind. I know what gets flagged and how to say it compliantly anyway.

A studio, not a hand-off chain

Strategy, script, AI video, static design, editing, and reporting all sit with the same person. No telephone game, nothing lost between a strategist and a designer who never spoke.

140+ languages, zero reshoots

AI avatar technology lets advisors and fintechs reach clients in their native language without another production budget.

Built for Meta's Andromeda era

Meta's Andromeda update changed how creative gets retrieved and ranked. Ads now need semantic clarity and audience signal baked into the creative itself, not just the targeting. Every asset I build is structured to work with that retrieval model, not against it. Most agencies are still making 2023 ads.

Fair questions

Asked before, answered here.

What does a creative studio do that an agency doesn't?

An agency sells you management. A studio sells you the work itself: the concepts, the scripts, the video, the static sets, the campaign thinking. I can run media too, but the reason to hire Los Angelena is the creative. Most finance brands don't have a media problem. They have a creative problem, and their ads all look like each other.

Will the ads pass financial services compliance review?

Every script is written with SEC, FINRA, and IAR guidelines in mind. Hooks, supers, disclaimers, and CTA language are reviewed before production. I have a working knowledge of what typically gets flagged and how to say it compliantly anyway.

Do AI videos look professional or obviously artificial?

The bar has moved dramatically. Well-directed AI avatars now outperform many self-shot advisor videos on watch time and trust metrics. I select, configure, and direct avatars like a live shoot: lighting, pacing, delivery, and brand alignment all factored in.

Can you run the ads, or just make them?

Both. Full-service campaign management covering Ads Manager setup, targeting, budget pacing, creative testing, and reporting. Or production-ready assets handed to your in-house media buyer. Your call.

Do you work with fintechs, or just advisors?

Both. My background spans financial advisors, retirement platforms, estate-planning fintech, and wealth coaching brands. If your audience thinks about money, I can market to them.

What does the 15-minute call actually cover?

You bring your current ads (or the fact that you don't have any). You leave with a read on where your creative leaks money and what I'd test first. Worst case, you're fifteen minutes older with a free diagnosis.

Let's talk

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