Sunset Locations

What Sunset Locations does

Sunset Locations is a privately-held movie and film location library founded in 2000, operating from 8730 Sunset Blvd. Suite 485 in West Hollywood, California. The company represents private properties — including industrial, commercial, and residential real estate such as architectural buildings, mansions, apartments, lofts, restaurants, hotels, and stores — to the entertainment industry throughout the Los Angeles area. Many listings are exclusive to the platform, and the inventory is organized across categories including Agriculture, Commercial & Retail, Entertainment & Leisure, Governmental, Industrial, Institutional, Natural Terrain, Parks & Gardens, Ranches & Farms, Residential, Sports Facilities, and Transportation.

The company's core product is a gated website platform (sunsetlocations.com) that requires entertainment industry professionals to request an account before browsing the property library. Each property is showcased through categorized browsing and dedicated photo galleries supporting multiple pages of images per listing. The platform is operated as a single unified product with no disclosed API, mobile app, or third-party integrations. Underlying technology appears to be a custom PHP-based property database with template rendering, as evidenced by server-side warning messages visible on listing pages.

Sunset Locations employs a membership-based, sales-led go-to-market model targeting entertainment industry professionals including film studios, television productions, independent filmmakers, commercial photographers, and advertising agencies. Revenue is generated through membership/access fees on a recurring-subscription basis, though pricing is not publicly disclosed and is negotiated on a per-client basis. The company operates as an independent entity with no disclosed parent company, institutional investors, funding rounds, or management team details.

Name

Sunset Locations

Legal name

Sunset Locations

Website

https://sunsetlocations.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sunset Locations is a privately-held, membership-based location library founded in 2000 that represents private properties in the Los Angeles area to film, television, and commercial photography production clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Film Location Services

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Locations Services (Scouting, Permits, Management) (MPADAFAE)

Keywords

• Film location library
• Private property scouting
• Entertainment location services
• Movie location database
• Film production locations

Headquarters

HQ city

West Hollywood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Membership/Access Fees: The company operates a gated platform requiring account approval for access to property listings, indicating a subscription or membership-based revenue model where entertainment industry professionals pay for access to the location library.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Sunset Locations operates a gated Movie and Film Location Library that catalogs private properties for the entertainment industry throughout the Los Angeles area. It represents industrial, commercial, and residential properties — including architectural buildings, mansions, apartments, lofts, restaurants, hotels, and stores — with many listings exclusive to the platform. Access requires account approval, and customers pay membership or access fees negotiated on a per-client basis.

Product overview

Sunset Locations operates as a single unified product—a Movie and Film Location Library platform. The service provides the entertainment industry access to a curated database of private properties available for filming, including residential properties (Modern, Traditional, All-American styles), commercial spaces (industrial, retail), hospitality venues (restaurants, hotels), and architectural buildings. The platform serves as the central offering with no additional modules, add-ons, or related products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunset Locations Location Library A comprehensive, membership-gated film and television production location database representing private properties to the entertainment industry throughout the Los Angeles area. Features industrial, commercial, and residential properties including architectural buildings, mansions, apartments, lofts, restaurants, hotels, stores, and exclusive listings available nowhere else.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Reel Locations: Reel Locations operates a similarly curated, membership-based library of private residential and commercial properties for film, TV, and photography shoots in the Los Angeles area. It is a direct competitor to Sunset Locations with overlapping exclusive-listing inventory and the same gated, professional-only access model.
• Location Connection: Location Connection represents a large inventory of private homes, estates, and architectural properties for location scouts across the LA market. It targets the same film/TV/commercial photography customer base as Sunset Locations with a comparable B2B-only, vetted-member access pattern.

Emerging players

• Giggster: Giggster is a peer-to-peer marketplace for filming and photoshoot locations, letting property owners self-list and book productions online. It competes with Sunset Locations on the property-rental side of the value chain but uses a tech-enabled, open-marketplace model rather than curated exclusivity.
• Peerspace: Peerspace is a digital marketplace that lets hosts list unique venues (homes, studios, rooftops) for film/photo and event bookings. While its primary use case is events, its film/photo offering overlaps Sunset Locations' photo-commercial segment and represents a tech-forward adjacent substitute.

Others

• The Location Guide: The Location Guide is a UK-based international directory and publication for film commissions, location services, and libraries worldwide. It is an industry navigator and ecosystem participant rather than a direct competitor, but it serves the same film location services customer as Sunset Locations.
• FilmLA: FilmLA is the official film office for the City and County of Los Angeles, handling permits, coordination, and liaison work for productions. It is not a commercial competitor but is an ecosystem enabler whose permitting data and relationships shape the same LA production market Sunset Locations serves.
• California Film Commission: The California Film Commission is the state-level office that promotes California as a filming destination and assists productions with permitting and incentives. It complements rather than competes with private location libraries, while shaping the demand environment for Sunset Locations' LA-centric offering.

Broad incumbents

• ProductionHUB: ProductionHUB is a broad B2B marketplace for crew, equipment, and services across film and video production, including a locations directory. It competes with Sunset Locations indirectly by aggregating many producers' location search workflows onto one platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sunset-locations

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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