Hire Event Staff at the LA Marathon
Eleven8 provides expo booth staff, brand ambassadors, production assistants and finish area hosts for the brands and businesses working LA Marathon weekend, March 6-7, 2027, with one crew at the Dodger Stadium expo and another at the Century City finish. Request a staffing quote today.
LA Marathon Brand Staff for a Two-Site Race Weekend
Eleven8 provides event staff at the LA Marathon for the brands, exhibitors and local businesses working race weekend. The 2027 race, formally the ASICS Los Angeles Marathon, is on Sunday, March 7, with a two-day Lifestyle Expo and the LA 5K at Dodger Stadium before it. About 27,000 runners registered in 2026, from every state and 63 countries. Unlike most big-city races, this one does not finish where it starts. It leaves Dodger Stadium and ends 26.2 miles later on Santa Monica Boulevard at Avenue of the Stars in Century City, so a company needs brand ambassadors in Los Angeles at two sites on opposite sides of town.
The expo is where runners collect their race numbers, and there is no pickup on race morning, so everyone comes. It is held outdoors, in one of the stadium's parking lots, and in 2026 it ran from 10 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. An open-air expo is not a convention hall. There are no walls, the sun is on your product by midday and the wind picks up in the afternoon. Our crews weight the tent, keep stock shaded and cold, and wear hats. We work at Dodger Stadium through the baseball season and know how its lots and gates operate.
Race day brings a problem that is particular to Los Angeles. The course runs from downtown through Hollywood, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, and the streets it uses are closed from early morning, some of them into the evening. For those hours the city is cut in two, and a person who lives on one side cannot simply drive to a job on the other. We assign each position to staff who live on the right side of the closures, set the finish crew's call time before the roads shut and tell everyone which route to take.
The race also passes thousands of front doors. Restaurants, gyms, shops and hotels along the route find a crowd outside for most of the morning, and many of them set up a cheer party or a sampling table on their own property. We provide street teams and hosts for those as well. They are small jobs, two or three people for four hours, and we treat them with the same care as a large tent at the finish.
The race itself belongs to its organizer, The McCourt Foundation, which runs number pickup, gear check, aid stations, medals and the course with a very large volunteer force. We do none of that. Our staff work in the space you have arranged, and they plan for heat: the 2026 race was warm enough for the organizers to shorten the day for some runners. To get a price, complete the quote form on this page with your sites, dates and hours.
Separate LA Marathon Crews for the Start and the Finish
We run our 11-step process twice at the LA Marathon, once at each end of the course. An expo crew works Dodger Stadium on Friday and Saturday, and a finish crew works Century City on Sunday. Both use one briefing document and one uniform, but each has its own lead, call time and route to work, because the two sites are a long drive apart even on a day when the roads are open.
One account manager plans both sites with you and stays with the job until the wrap-up report, supported by our operations office at no added charge. When the closure map is published they tell each person which streets to avoid. Your messages and the crew's run on separate channels, so a change to the sample count or the tent position reaches the right lead at once.
Staff check in by geo-location when they arrive and walk the space with their lead. Expo tents are ready 30 minutes before opening. On Sunday the finish crew reaches Century City before the closures begin and is set up well ahead of the first professional finishers, who come in a little after nine. A group chat joins both leads and any team at a business along the course.
LA Marathon Staff Routine for Expo Days and Race Day
Eleven steps, followed at both ends of the courseEvent Staffing Roles at LA Marathon
Our Lifestyle Expo Booth Staff work your tent at Dodger Stadium on the two days before the LA Marathon. Every runner comes through to collect a race number, and Saturday adds the families from the LA 5K and the kids' run. Staff greet people, show the product, take sign-ups or payments and keep the tent stocked and shaded through a long day in an open parking lot. About four in ten runners are doing their first marathon, so they answer simple questions patiently and never talk down to anyone.
Local Businesses and Brands Hiring LA Marathon Staff
Our LA Marathon clients fall into three groups. National sportswear, nutrition, drink and wellness brands take space at the expo and the finish and want outgoing people who can explain a product quickly. Los Angeles businesses on or near the course, from Sunset Boulevard restaurants to Beverly Hills retailers and Century City hotels, hire a few staff for a morning to make the most of the crowd at their door. Charities with a team in the race use our hosts to welcome their runners at the finish. Several of these companies are already planning for the summer of 2028 with us, and our LA 2028 staffing page explains how.
Eleven8 is an independent staffing agency. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Los Angeles Marathon, The McCourt Foundation, ASICS, Dodger Stadium or the Los Angeles Dodgers. "Los Angeles Marathon" and "LA Marathon" are trademarks of their owner. We provide event staff to the brands and businesses working race weekend. All marks belong to their owners and are used for identification only.
How to Book LA Marathon Event Staff
Spectator Sampling Teams at the LA Marathon
The LA Marathon is unusually welcoming to beginners. Roughly 41% of the 2026 field had never run a marathon, and the 5K and kids' run fill the stadium with strollers on Saturday. That changes how a brand should talk. Our experiential staff skip the jargon, ask what the runner is worried about and give a straight answer, whether the question is about blisters or where to meet family afterward.
Staffing Services
Explore our wide range of staffing solutions
Promotional & Experiential Staff
Trade & Conference Staff
LA Marathon Staffing Agency for Race Weekend Activations
Good With First-Time Marathoners
We accept about 3.5% of applicants, and for the LA Marathon we choose the ones who are encouraging by nature. A large share of this field is running 26.2 miles for the first time and is nervous at the expo and overwhelmed at the finish. Staff who listen, smile and keep things simple do far more for your brand here than staff who recite features.
Ready for an Outdoor Expo
The LA Marathon expo is in a stadium parking lot, not a hall, so we send people who are used to working outside all day. They know to shade the product, drink water, secure anything the wind can move and keep a tent looking tidy on asphalt. On Sunday the same habits apply at the finish, where the morning starts cool and can be hot by eleven.
Polite, Punctual and Well Briefed
A runner who has trained for months notices carelessness. Our staff arrive on time, in clean uniform, knowing your product and the weekend's schedule. They can tell a visitor when the expo closes, what time the half marathon starts and where the family meeting area is, because we brief them on the event as well as on your brand.
Fully Insured for Street Events
All our staff are covered by our insurance, and we supply certificates when the organizer, the stadium, the city or a property owner on the course asks for them. That is useful to a small business hosting its first cheer party as much as to a national brand, and it removes one of the tasks that tends to be left until the last week.
Expo, Course and Finish Covered
Your weekend may include a tent at Dodger Stadium, a table outside a store in West Hollywood and a hospitality space in Century City. We staff all three under one account manager, with a lead at each, so the uniform, the message and the reporting match, and you are not coordinating separate suppliers across a city with half its streets closed.
On Call From Friday to Sunday
Our operations team answers from the first expo setup on Friday morning until the last case is loaded on Sunday afternoon, the small hours of race morning included. If a delivery is late, a staff member is stuck behind a closure or the forecast jumps ten degrees, there is someone awake to reroute, replace or add people.
The LA Marathon gives a brand two days with every runner at Dodger Stadium and one morning with the whole city on the sidewalk. We cover both ends of the course with Los Angeles staff who can get to their posts when the streets are closed and who are kind to people on a hard day. If you also follow the touring races, see our Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series staffing. Otherwise, send a staffing request with your sites and hours.
Elevate Client Feedback
Robert N.
Top Notch Service
They were professional. Polite. Hard working. Friendly. And got the job done. Will definitely use them again.
EK C.
It was a great pleasure that I can work with you. All Elevate members successfully led KCON. I hope everything goes as well in future events as it did this time! If i ever go to LA for events, I will definitely reach out to you :)
Eugene R.
We were really happy with the team everyone was incredibly helpful and nice to work with. Thank you for selecting such professional people for our event!
LA Marathon Staffing Questions
Elevate Blog
Get an Instant Quote
Thank you for your submission!
Our Team will contact you regarding your staffing needs momentarily.