Two Good Agencies.
Different in the Right Ways.
Kobe Digital is a Los Angeles digital marketing agency offering paid media, social media advertising, email marketing, web design, and video production services for e-commerce and consumer brands.
This comparison exists to help you decide. We'll tell you what they do well, where we differ, and which option is likely the better fit for your situation. We'd rather you make the right choice — even if that's not us.
What They Offer
LA-based, e-commerce and consumer brand focus
Kobe Digital is positioned around performance marketing for e-commerce and consumer brands from their Los Angeles base, with video production as part of their offering.
Where Sidestreet Is Different
Broadcast journalism production background
Kobe Digital offers commercial video production alongside their performance marketing. Sidestreet's production comes from a broadcast television background — NBC News, ESPN, regional news — which produces different storytelling instincts and production discipline. For brands where video quality and narrative authenticity matter beyond commercial advertising output, that distinction is real.
PR and crisis communications
Sidestreet operates a dedicated PR and crisis communications practice. Kobe Digital's model is performance marketing and production. Media relations, crisis preparedness, and earned media strategy aren't part of their scope.
Full-service beyond e-commerce
Kobe Digital is positioned around e-commerce and consumer brands. Sidestreet serves professional services, healthcare, faith communities, construction, and regional businesses across broader category types.
Church media practice
Sidestreet has a dedicated practice for faith communities. Kobe Digital serves commercial e-commerce and consumer clients.
How to Decide
Kobe Digital is probably the right choice if: you're an LA-based e-commerce or consumer brand that needs performance marketing — paid social and search — paired with commercial video production.
Sidestreet is probably the right choice if: you need broadcast-quality production storytelling rather than commercial advertising video, want PR/crisis communications capability, or your business isn't in the e-commerce or consumer brand category.
If you're genuinely unsure, talk to both of us before committing. Any agency worth working with will give you a straight answer about whether they're the right fit — and so will we.