Pacific Life
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 1868
- Employees
- 1001-5000
- Offices
- 2
About Pacific Life
Pacific Life is an American financial services company whose Consumer Markets Division includes an in-house Creative Services and Video Production team. Based at the company’s Newport Beach headquarters, the multidisciplinary group supports enterprise branding, advisor outreach, consumer marketing, and financial-product communications.
The internal team operates as a full-service creative partner across the development and delivery of visual communications. Its work spans early-stage concepting, mood boards and storyboards through to video production, editing, motion graphics, brand design, copywriting, and UX/UI design. The studio creates material for both independent financial advisors and retail consumers while maintaining visual consistency across Pacific Life’s marketing ecosystem.
Creative capabilities
- Full-lifecycle commercial and corporate video production
- 2D and 3D motion graphics and animation
- Brand identity, visual systems, and digital collateral
- Financial-product storytelling and explainer media
- Campaign development, social creative, and interactive web content
- Sales-enablement graphics and digital presentations for financial advisors
The team develops television and digital commercial spots, educational motion graphics, product-launch materials, and brand narratives. It also works with external advertising agencies and production partners on multi-channel campaigns, helping align creative execution across digital, social, and broadcast formats.
Pacific Life’s creative output includes its long-running humpback-whale advertising and signature idents, which combine marine imagery, CGI ocean effects, and motion design around the company’s established visual symbol. Reported campaign work also includes “The Power of a Promise,” “What Matters Most,” and explainer and visual-design assets for the Pacific Admiral VUL 2 product launch.
As part of a broader life insurance, annuities, retirement-income, institutional-investment, workforce-benefits, and reinsurance business, the in-house studio translates complex financial subjects into accessible marketing and educational communications.
More about Pacific Life
Heritage and brand history
- Pacific Life was founded in Sacramento in 1868 as Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California. Former California Governor Leland Stanford served as its first president and held Policy No. 1.
- The company moved its corporate headquarters to Newport Beach in 1972, commissioning its modernist campus at 700 Newport Center Drive from architect William Pereira.
- In 1997, Pacific Life adopted a mutual holding company structure and introduced its humpback-whale symbol. The identity was designed posthumously by Saul Bass and Herb Yager.
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Where Pacific Life is based
- 700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660-6397Newport Beach, California, United States
Newport Beach office
HeadquartersGlobal corporate headquarters and Creative Services studio base for the Consumer Markets Division.
- 6750 Mercy Road, Omaha, NE 68106Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Omaha office
Operational and administrative hub for insurance operations, annuity processing, policyholder support, and administrative facilities.
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