20 Best Video Production Companies (2026): Prices and Locations

If you want the short answer, the video production companies with the strongest verified track records in September 2026 are Sparkhouse, VeracityColab, Casual Films and Vidico, each with 58 or more Clutch reviews at 4.8 or higher. Which one suits you still depends on the job. For a steady flow of brand and social video, look at Lemonlight and Vidico, and for the single ad that has to land, Sandwich or Umault. Demo Duck and Epipheo are the explainer specialists, while Indigo Productions or MultiVision Digital make sense for a shoot in New York. I work at Moonb, a dedicated creative team, and Moonb is the first entry, so read that one knowing my bias.

I checked the other 19 entries against each company’s own site and its Clutch profile in September 2026, most recently on September 17. For each one I noted where it is based, what it says it is and which clients it names, whether it publishes a price or a minimum, whether it sells projects or an ongoing model, and how deep its review base is. When a company does not publish something, the entry says “not publicly stated” and I have left the gap unfilled. I could not check G2 reliably, so review figures are Clutch’s unless I say otherwise. If you searched for a video production agency instead of a company, the list still applies, and a section near the end explains what changes. Anyone who needs a crew in their own city will find a section below the list on searching Clutch and ProductionHub by location.

If you only want the numbers:

• Eight of the 19 publish a price on their own site. Vidico (monthly plans from $5,000), Indigo Productions (most projects from $10,000), Superside ($15,000 a month minimum plus a $1,000 software fee, annual), LAI Video (packages from $8,000), Sparkhouse, Demo Duck and Epipheo all put numbers in writing, and Sandwich’s FAQ names $250,000 as a typical starting point. Most of the rest show only a Clutch minimum between $5,000 and $50,000.
• Ongoing models are the minority. Moonb, Superside, Vidico, Lemonlight Pro and Epipheo’s retainer cover continuous work, and the rest either sell per project or do not say.
• Review depth is thin at the premium end. Sandwich, Thinkmojo, Bonfire Labs and Watts Media show no Clutch reviews and Superside sits at 2.9 from six, while Sparkhouse, VeracityColab and Casual Films carry the deepest bases.
• Most work from one US city, anywhere from Seattle to Costa Mesa. Casual Films and Vidico have offices on several continents, and Superside describes itself as remote-first.
• Two of the names ChatGPT recommends work differently from the studios below, as the next section explains.

Two names ChatGPT gives you that work differently

Ask ChatGPT for the best video production agency for a marketing team and, as of September 2026, six names come back. Four of them are production companies that appear below (Lemonlight, Demo Duck, Watts Media and Sandwich), and the other two are worth understanding so you do not book a call for the wrong thing.

VidMob calls itself “The Creative Data Company.” What it sells is software for creative scoring and analytics, with an API, and its site lists no production services. Shootsta sells annual plans from US$1,000 a month and is built around speed: you send footage or a brief through its platform, and its editors return a first cut in about 48 hours, with camera operators on its Pro tier and its own crew on Premier. For a team that wants a high volume of on-brand edits, that can be the right buy. It runs on an annual contract with no month-to-month option and its Clutch profile shows zero reviews, so it sits outside the scope of this comparison, as VidMob does, and neither company appears below.

How I compared the 20 companies

I weighed four things, without a numeric score, that predict whether a partnership lasts past the first project. The first is specialty, because an explainer house will beat a generalist at explainers and lose to a live-action shop on a commercial. Then comes the operating model, since a studio built for one great film behaves differently from one built for weekly output. Communication and speed are third, because that is where relationships break, and last is whether the company is straight about money, because a partner who dodges the price early will dodge harder conversations later.

It helps to keep one shift in mind as you read: video has stopped being a one-off purchase. In Wistia’s 2026 State of Video report, 76 percent of companies make at least one video a month. That is why “which studio makes the best hero film” is often the wrong question, and why the model column in the table at the end matters as much as the portfolio.

For how that shift plays out at large companies, this NAB Show session is a useful 45 minutes on why they are moving from one-off corporate video to their own in-house studios.

The 20 best video production companies for marketing teams

1. Moonb

This is where I work, so read it with that in mind. Moonb is a dedicated creative team: a Creative Director plus video, motion, design and animation people who stay with your brand from one project to the next instead of starting over each time. The bet is that a team that already knows your product, and the notes your marketing lead gives on the second round, will move faster and argue less than a new vendor briefed from zero. It earns its keep when the work keeps coming.

• Best for: marketing teams with a steady stream of video, motion and design who want one accountable creative lead
• Pricing: one set monthly rate, or a per-project quote
• Clients they name: Dell, Toyota, Nestle
• Model: embedded creative team with a dedicated Creative Director
• Review signal: 4.9 on Clutch

2. Casual Films

Casual Films describes its approach as “video built on narrative science” and says its teams engineer videos “frame by frame, then measure the results.” It runs nine offices in seven countries, with US bases in Brooklyn, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and reports 700 to 1,000 projects a year covering brand, product, employer brand, sales, training and internal communications.

• Best for: large organisations that need consistent video across markets from one accountable partner
• Pricing: not publicly stated; Clutch minimum $25,000
• Clients they name: Google, Adobe, Capital One, Prudential, Hilton, HSBC, NBA, Rolls-Royce
• Model: project-based at scale, with a process it calls a “continuous loop” that measures each video against your chosen KPIs
• Based in: nine offices, including London, Brooklyn, San Francisco and Los Angeles
• Review signal: 5.0 on Clutch from 62 reviews; the site also shows a Net Promoter Score of 84

3. Lemonlight

Lemonlight’s pitch is “world-class video production made simple,” and the operation is set up for volume, running product videos, testimonials, ads, explainers and event coverage through a large production network. Lemonlight Pro turns “your video budget into open service credits you can use all year long” and adds a dedicated creative team and priority timelines.

• Best for: many solid social and brand videos produced quickly, and credit-based volume buying
• Pricing: not publicly stated; Clutch minimum $5,000
• Clients they name: Google, Amazon, Disney, Netflix, Walmart, Toyota, Uber, Hilton, Deloitte, Accenture
• Model: per project, or Lemonlight Pro credits
• Based in: Inglewood, California, with a crew network it says covers 80+ cities
• Review signal: 4.9 on Clutch from 48 reviews

4. Vidico

Vidico calls itself “the creative production team for growing tech brands” and is one of the few studios that puts numbers on its homepage: monthly plans “starting at $5,000/month” with unspent money rolling over, and explainers from “$5,000 for a simple 2D animation to $20,000+ for high-end 3D or live-action.” Its headquarters are in Melbourne, and New York is one of its four other offices.

• Best for: a premium tech launch film, or a monthly plan for a scaling software brand
• Pricing: monthly plans from $5,000; explainers $5,000 to $20,000 and up; Clutch minimum $5,000
• Clients they name: Spotify, Square, Zendesk, Klaviyo, Uber, Airtable, Vimeo, DigitalOcean
• Model: hybrid, projects or a monthly plan
• Based in: Melbourne, with offices in Sydney, New York, Dubai and Singapore
• Review signal: 4.9 on Clutch from 58 reviews

5. Superside

Superside sells ongoing creative work to large companies, with video and motion as one line inside a design-first service that also covers ad creative, branding, web and product design. Its pricing page is unusually explicit, listing a “$15,000 monthly minimum on an annual term” plus a “$1,000 software fee” each month, with dedicated teams “starting at $30,000 a month.”

• Best for: enterprise teams that need constant multi-format output and can accept a systematised process and an annual term
• Pricing: $15,000 a month minimum plus $1,000 software fee, annual; dedicated from $30,000
• Clients they name: Colgate-Palmolive, Microsoft, Reddit, Figma, Grubhub, Amazon Pharmacy, Thomson Reuters
• Model: annual plan, either a flexible monthly budget or a dedicated team
• Based in: remote-first, per its own site
• Review signal: 2.9 on Clutch from six reviews

6. Demo Duck

Demo Duck calls itself “an explainer video production company” and puts collaboration at the center of how it works. It moves between animation and live action and does mixed media too, which makes it a safe pick when you have not settled on a style. Its site references ongoing partnerships with Rippling and GEICO, and its FAQ is unusually open about cost.

• Best for: a single well-crafted explainer when the style is still undecided
• Pricing: a custom 2D animated video “typically runs between $20,000-25,000,” testimonials and company stories $15,000 to $20,000, scripted live action $40,000 to $60,000 and up, per its FAQ; Clutch minimum $10,000, hourly band $200 to $300
• Clients they name: Rippling, GEICO, Northwestern Mutual, Dropbox, Google, Netflix, Blue Cross Blue Shield, FEMA
• Model: per project, with some long-term partnerships
• Based in: Chicago, per its team page and Clutch
• Review signal: 5.0 on Clutch from ten reviews

7. Sandwich

Sandwich sums itself up in two lines: “We make commercials. The kind people like.” It has made launch and explainer films for technology companies since 2009, says it “pioneered a way to tell stories for tech,” and its client list reads like a tour of well-known software launches.

• Best for: a smart, funny live-action product film when your brand can carry a joke
• Pricing: its FAQ says “Typically, $250K is a good starting point”; Clutch minimum $10,000
• Clients they name: Slack, Airbnb, Square, Perplexity, Brex, Autodesk, Instacart, Descript
• Model: per project
• Based in: Los Angeles
• Review signal: Clutch profile with zero reviews

8. Thinkmojo

Thinkmojo helps “the world’s top companies market their brand and products through video,” and its roster is almost entirely software. That means you skip the education phase, because it already knows how to demo a complex product without putting the viewer to sleep.

• Best for: B2B software companies that need product explainers and launch videos from a team that understands the category
• Pricing: not publicly stated
• Clients they name: Salesforce, Zendesk, Square, Discord, Calendly, FICO, Cloudera, Bill.com
• Model: not publicly stated
• Based in: San Francisco and Montreal
• Review signal: Clutch profile with zero reviews

9. Epipheo

Epipheo calls itself “the studio that pioneered explainer video” and claims more than 6,000 videos for over 3,000 brands across 15-plus years. Its whole discipline is making one complex idea click fast, and it now sells a video retainer alongside projects for teams that need a steady flow.

• Best for: concept-driven animated explainers where clarity is the entire job, and a retainer for repeat work
• Pricing: its pricing guide says most projects land between $5,000 and $150,000 and up, in tiers from $5,000 to $25,000, $25,000 to $75,000, and $75,000 and up; Clutch minimum $10,000
• Clients they name: Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Deloitte, Okta, Splunk, US Bank, Epson
• Model: per project, plus a video retainer
• Based in: Cincinnati, Ohio
• Review signal: 4.9 on Clutch from 28 reviews

10. Explainify

Explainify “helps fast-moving B2B teams turn confusion into clarity with high-impact videos built to drive results.” Animation is the core of the business (2D explainers, motion graphics and character animation), and it also makes stock and live-action video, short-form social ads and product walkthroughs.

• Best for: B2B software, fintech, medtech and healthcare teams with a hard-to-explain product
• Pricing: not publicly stated; Clutch minimum $5,000
• Clients they name: American Red Cross, Alteryx, Hotjar, CommonSpirit, Silicon Mobility
• Model: per project
• Based in: Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Review signal: 4.9 on Clutch from 18 reviews

11. Umault

Umault is “a boutique B2B video ad agency” that promises “bold creative that shatters marketing formulas,” aiming for B2B spots that play like real commercials instead of the boring corporate video its homepage warns against. Its Clutch minimum is the highest on this list.

• Best for: a B2B video ad campaign that should feel like a commercial
• Pricing: not publicly stated; Clutch minimum $50,000
• Clients they name: Dell Technologies, SCAYLE, Matomo, PremiumBeat, Mosaik
• Model: not publicly stated; video ads only
• Based in: Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, outside Chicago
• Review signal: 5.0 on Clutch from 26 reviews

12. Indigo Productions

Indigo is a New York production house for “corporate, commercial, and entertainment clients,” and one of the few that states a floor in plain words: “most of our projects begin at $10,000, unless it is a small project.” Corporate video, commercials, live streaming and multi-camera event shoots are its steady lanes.

• Best for: corporate video, events and live streaming in New York with a stated starting price
• Pricing: most projects from $10,000 in its own words; Clutch minimum $5,000
• Clients they name: Salesforce, Sony Pictures, IBM, Samsung, Deutsche Bank, Accenture, Citibank, Philips Healthcare
• Model: per project
• Based in: New York City
• Review signal: 5.0 on Clutch from 45 reviews

13. Bottle Rocket Media

Bottle Rocket Media calls itself “Chicago’s #1 Video Production Agency” and makes “videos that rank and get watched,” pairing production with video SEO and paid media, plus optimisation for AI search. It describes itself as a full-service video agency, and of everyone on this list it has the clearest agency shape.

• Best for: corporate and explainer video that has to be found as well as made
• Pricing: not publicly stated; Clutch minimum $10,000
• Clients they name: Amazon, Apple, Chase, McDonald’s, Walgreens, Dyson, United Airlines, PayPal
• Model: per project, with distribution services attached
• Based in: Chicago
• Review signal: 4.9 on Clutch from 44 reviews

14. MultiVision Digital

MultiVision Digital promises everything “from strategic guidance, cost-effective video production through to thoughtful professional video services” from New York, and its site also lists addresses in Rye, New York and Tampa. Its core is corporate, training, social, live streaming and LinkedIn video, and it is one of the few here that names AI video as a service line.

• Best for: corporate and training video for teams that want strategy help without a premium price
• Pricing: no rate card; its FAQ says video production typically runs $1,000 to $10,000 or more; Clutch minimum $5,000
• Clients they name: Dymax, Haydon Corporation and Breather in its case studies; the site says it has worked with “solo entrepreneurs to global Fortune 500 companies”
• Model: per project
• Based in: New York City, with addresses in Rye, New York and Tampa
• Review signal: 4.9 on Clutch from 54 reviews

15. Watts Media

Watts Media is “an enterprise video production company specializing in brand and mission-driven films, executive communications, product storytelling, and customer evidence for large organizations,” based in Seattle with more than 25 years of experience and a site built around its Microsoft and Amazon work.

• Best for: executive communications and customer-evidence films for large organisations, along with brand storytelling, particularly in the Pacific Northwest
• Pricing: not publicly stated; Clutch minimum $5,000
• Clients they name: Microsoft, Amazon, Deloitte, Cisco, Fluor, Committee for Children
• Model: not publicly stated
• Based in: Seattle
• Review signal: Clutch listing with no reviews shown

16. Bonfire Labs

Bonfire Labs is “a creative studio moving brands further and faster” in San Francisco that says it thinks “like an agency” and acts “like a production company,” producing live action along with brand and product-marketing content for a roster that reads like the Bay Area’s biggest logos.

• Best for: Bay Area technology brands that want a premium live-action studio with big-company experience
• Pricing: not publicly stated; Clutch minimum $25,000
• Clients they name: Adobe, Google, Apple, Uber, Salesforce, Airbnb, PayPal, Atlassian
• Model: not publicly stated
• Based in: San Francisco
• Review signal: Clutch profile with zero reviews

17. Kyro Digital

Kyro Digital is “a top video production company helping digital brands boost conversions with video,” with its core team in Southern California, a stated six-to-eight-week project cycle and post-launch check-ins at three and six months. Its roster leans consumer and e-commerce.

• Best for: conversion-focused brand and product video with a defined timeline and follow-up
• Pricing: not publicly stated; Clutch minimum $5,000
• Clients they name: Nike, Amazon, Bose, Beats Audio, Oakley, El Pollo Loco
• Model: per project, six to eight weeks typical
• Based in: Irvine, California
• Review signal: 5.0 on Clutch from 37 reviews

18. LAI Video

LAI Video, “where storytelling meets strategy,” is part of Leading Authorities, the Washington, DC company that also runs LAI Speakers. It calls itself an Emmy-winning, full-service creative video agency, makes promotional, advocacy and recruitment video, sells advertising on streaming and connected TV (OTT and CTV) alongside it, and publishes starting prices for its packages.

• Best for: associations, advocacy and policy-adjacent organisations that want production and paid media from one team
• Pricing: packages from $8,000 (branding elements) and $8,500 (interview and studio shoots) up to $20,000 (recruitment series and campaign sets); Clutch minimum $25,000
• Clients they name: IBM, World Food Program USA, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Farm Credit Council
• Model: fixed-scope packages, or a custom quote
• Based in: Washington, DC
• Review signal: 4.9 on Clutch from 21 reviews

19. VeracityColab

VeracityColab’s homepage promise is “We make remarkable videos that work. Period.” Its Clutch profile puts project costs from $10,000 to more than $300,000 across 80 reviews, and the work centers on product marketing video, from brand films and product overviews to case studies and sales enablement.

• Best for: product-marketing films and brand stories from a studio with a long Clutch track record
• Pricing: not publicly stated; Clutch minimum $10,000
• Clients they name: Adobe, Intuit, Microsoft, eBay, Thermo Fisher Scientific, BlackLine, simplehuman
• Model: not publicly stated
• Based in: Covina, California, per Clutch; its own site gives no city
• Review signal: 4.8 on Clutch from 80 reviews

20. Sparkhouse

Sparkhouse is “based in Orange County creating for clients around the world,” with product videos, brand videos, animation and social video as its lanes. Its site makes a promise few studios put in writing: “your budget is locked before we start the production.”

• Best for: polished product films and TV-style spots with a locked budget
• Pricing: its site says “most of our clients invest anywhere from about $7,500 to $50,000”; Clutch minimum $10,000
• Clients they name: UAG, DENSO, Cole & Mason, Bala, Teracube, Zivelo
• Model: not publicly stated
• Based in: Costa Mesa, California, in Orange County
• Review signal: 5.0 on Clutch from 172 reviews, the deepest base on this list

Nine more studios with a clear specialty

These did not get the full check above, but each is a working company with a clear lane, and I would still send a brief to any of them for the right job.

• Giant Ant for a high-end brand film or animated piece where visual quality is non-negotiable.
• Buck for award-tier motion work at the very top of the market, with the process and investment that implies.
• Yum Yum Videos for a custom animated explainer that simplifies a complex product.
• NoGood for creative tied to a growth marketing program, where the funnel metric matters more than the portfolio.
• Hurricane for bold video and social content from a UK studio.
• Blue Carrot for e-learning courses and animated training video.
• 90 Seconds for shooting the same format across many cities or countries through its network of creators in more than 160 countries.
• Content Beta for a steady flow of video, design and product marketing assets for B2B software teams.
• Cub Studio for character-led animation with personality, including sports and brand work.

How to find a local video production company

Local matters when the camera has to come to you, as with a factory tour, an event, a run of executive interviews or a customer story shot on site. It matters much less for animation or editing, which work fine over a video call. If your project is the first kind, the directories that fill the local search results are a sensible place to start, as long as you know what they are showing you.

Clutch. Open the video production category and pick a city page (the Los Angeles one is titled “Top Video Production Companies in Los Angeles”). Each card shows the rating, the review count, the minimum project size, the hourly rate, the headcount and the office location, so you can drop anyone whose minimum is more than you can spend before you open a single reel. Clutch notes that it “may earn a fee for some placements,” so treat the order of the list as a starting point and sort your shortlist yourself by review count and how recent the reviews are. Then read the reviews, because the useful ones name the project and say where the client is based.

ProductionHub. Its directory is organised by category and then by place, with pages such as “Video Production Companies in New York,” and it lists editors and live event crew alongside full production companies. It is the better tool when you are directing the shoot yourself and only need a local crew, and you can post a production request so local vendors come to you.

Before anyone makes your shortlist, check these:

• Whether the office is actually local. A page called “video production company in Austin” is often a landing page for a studio based somewhere else. Kyro Digital, for example, lists city pages for places including Austin and Chicago, and the same site says its core team is in Southern California, with teams across the US and in other countries. That can work well, but you should know the crew is travelling or hired for the job.
• Reviews from clients near you. Three recent reviews from companies in your region tell you more about local crews and locations than forty from the other coast.
• Who handles permits and insurance. Ask who pulls the film permit (FilmLA in Los Angeles, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in New York) and ask for a certificate of insurance before the shoot day. A company that shoots in your city often should answer both without looking anything up.
• Who is on set. Freelance crews are normal in this industry. What you want is a clear split between staff and freelancers, and one named producer who stays with the project from brief to delivery.

If nobody local fits, distance is less of a problem than it sounds. Indigo Productions says it serves all major US cities from its New York base, and Casual Films says its nine offices use local crews who know the audience, so a strong studio in another city can still run your shoot.

If you searched for a corporate video production company

“Corporate video” is the older name for most of what marketing teams buy: brand films, executive messages, customer stories, training and internal communications, event coverage. The companies above that work in that lane are Indigo Productions, MultiVision Digital, Casual Films, Bottle Rocket Media and Watts Media, and for one-off events or streaming, Indigo’s published floor of $10,000 is a fair benchmark. Recurring work changes the calculation, which the section on project fees and ongoing teams covers below. Our guide to corporate video production prices breaks down what drives a quote, and the corporate video pillar covers the formats.

If you searched for a video production agency instead

Google treats the two phrases as near synonyms, and so do most of the companies above, but buyers usually mean something specific by agency: a partner that owns the strategy and the creative direction and is paid on a retainer, where a production company quotes per film and executes the brief you bring to it. The closest to the agency model on this list are the ongoing ones, meaning Lemonlight Pro, Vidico’s monthly plans, Epipheo’s retainer and, where design volume matters more than film craft, Superside. Indigo Productions and Sandwich, which call themselves a production house and a production company, sell work per project in the strict sense.

Here is how I would decide. If you already have a strategist and a brief every quarter, hire the production company with the best reel in your format. If nobody on your team owns the idea, pay for the agency layer, and price it as a retainer from day one so the second brief does not restart the meter. An embedded team sits between the two: the same people work inside your marketing team for one set monthly rate, or a per-project quote. That is the model I work in, so I am not a neutral judge here. Our guide on choosing a video agency goes deeper on the trade-offs, and the in-house versus agency comparison covers the case for hiring instead.

Project fees or an ongoing team: which model fits your output

Most of this list is project-based, so the studio scopes and delivers the brief you bring and then the relationship pauses until the next one. That works well for a one-off and badly for a team shipping video every week, which pays the re-briefing tax each time while the studio never builds up any knowledge of the brand.

Retainers and plans sit in the middle, with Vidico’s monthly plan and rollover, Epipheo’s video retainer, Lemonlight Pro’s credits and Superside’s annual plan. An embedded or dedicated team goes further by keeping the same people on your account, so you pay for onboarding once and nobody has to relearn your brand on project two. The trade is commitment, since the model only makes sense when there is ongoing work to feed it. When the need is narrower, a specialist shortlist beats a generalist one: there are dedicated promotional video production companies for launch and campaign work, and commercial production companies built around broadcast-style ads. Our guide on how to choose a video production company walks through the decision.

Canva’s short workflow demo on scaling content production without extra cost shows what the weekly-output problem looks like from inside a marketing team, whichever partner model you end up choosing.

What video production costs in 2026

The published numbers on this list show the range better than any average would. LAI Video’s packages start at $8,000, Vidico prices explainers from $5,000 for simple 2D to more than $20,000 for high-end 3D or live action with monthly plans from $5,000, and Indigo says most projects begin at $10,000. Sparkhouse says most of its clients invest about $7,500 to $50,000, Demo Duck puts a custom 2D animated video at $20,000 to $25,000 and scripted live action at $40,000 to $60,000 or more, and Epipheo’s guide runs from $5,000 to $150,000 and up. At the top, Sandwich’s FAQ calls $250,000 a typical starting point, and Superside’s minimum annual plan comes to roughly $192,000 a year with the software fee.

Clutch minimums fill in the rest. They start at $5,000 for Lemonlight, Vidico, Explainify, Indigo, MultiVision, Watts Media and Kyro, rise to $10,000 for Demo Duck, Sandwich, Epipheo, Bottle Rocket, VeracityColab and Sparkhouse and to $25,000 for Casual Films, Bonfire Labs and LAI Video, and top out at $50,000 for Umault.

For a marketing team, the more useful number is the cost per usable video over a year. The same Wistia report found that almost 40 percent of companies spent under $5,000 on video in 2025, while a single premium brand film from a top studio can cost many times that, so a team producing weekly is doing very different maths from a team commissioning one film. Our piece on video production cost lays out where the money goes. On the return side, 21 percent of marketers in HubSpot’s 2025 marketing data said short-form video delivered their highest return on investment.

Questions to ask before you sign

Ask who will actually do the work, and whether any of those people are on the sales call. Find out how revisions are handled and where the extra charges start, and use our map of video production services to see which items usually sit outside a base quote. Push on what happens when a delivery slips, because one will, and the answer tells you how they behave under pressure. It is worth asking to speak to a client on their fourth or fifth project, since anyone can produce a happy first-timer. Finally, ask them to walk you through a project that went wrong; a studio that cannot name one has either not done enough work or is not being straight with you.

Match the partner to the problem. If the job is a paid campaign, start with video advertising companies; a constant marketing stream calls for a video content agency, and social-only output for a social media video agency. If you are stuck between an agency and a production shop, how to choose a video marketing agency walks through that choice. For one great film, pick a specialist. When the work never lets up a dedicated team pays off, and when you need the same thing shot in ten cities, a managed network is the only sane option.

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