In association with the Florida Department of Transportation, CTS Engineering hired us to create a short video in support of carpooling.

CTS Engineering Inc. “began serving the Southeast Florida market with the belief and understanding that the future of the transportation industry requires creative thinking and diverse solutions.” Even with the spirit of innovation propelling their business, they don’t overlook simple and proven transportation alternatives, such as carpooling.

This video comes in response to a growing South Florida population and exciting building boom in downtown Fort Lauderdale, which is adding vertical density to the region. Both of these factors impact traffic in South Florida. More people equals more cars. Ongoing development equates to temporary congestion and detours. The South Florida community needed a simple response to increased traffic congestion that could be implemented quickly and effectively. Rather than reinvent the wheel, CTS Engineering and the FDOT promoted carpooling.

The familiarity of carpooling and the frequency of its use were our chief selling points. We chose to film this production from multiple perspectives to appeal to a larger audience. Our video targeted parents, teenagers, and working adults. The purpose of this video was not to convince the community on the efficacy of carpooling. It was to encourage residents to think about making small strides in energy conservation and to promote thoughtful planning in the way we navigate our city every day.

Monster Music, in collaboration with Roc Nation, hired us to conceptualize and produce a video marketing series promoting their new line of headphones and speakers.

The Sound of Champions accomplishes two functions:

1. it introduces a new line of state-of-the-art music products, showcasing various products without overwhelming consumers, and
2. it reshapes the application and use of their products, situating their gear in the arena of health and fitness alongside relaxation and leisure.

To meet the standards of Monster Music, Roc Nation, and their consumer base, we chose to create athletic showcases featuring star athletes in boxing and basketball.

The athletes are, ultimately, the centerpiece of our series, however, subliminally attached to their character is the presence of Monster Music marketing. This soft-sell elevates the series, creating a Nike-Esque marketing scheme in which consumers identify with the character and the sensation of using their products more-so than the product itself.

Featured in the video above is Luis Arias, an American professional boxer currently at work with Mayweather Productions. On the right is another professional boxer, Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz, a Cuban professional boxer and two-weight world champion in the bantamweight and super-bantamweight divisions. The video below features former NBA star, Charlie Villanueva, a New York-born star of Dominican heritage with over a decade of actively playing in the NBA.

You can be strategic with your video reels, showing them when they answer a particular need, or extremely generous, sharing them with anyone who interacts with your brand. Best of all, video reels never go out of style. Since they are synopses of your brand story, summarizing your narrative as it unfolds, they will always remain relevant.

Evergreen content with this much power and versatility is hard to come by. Fortunately, if you have already worked with us, there is no need to start from scratch. We keep all of our content for life, so we are prepared to edit a video reel for your brand storytelling needs whenever you need it. And if you are starting from scratch, trust that we will use our entire bag of tricks to create a video that can be tastefully reproduced into your first video reel.

A public-facing brand such as ours must outline benchmarks beyond traditional business goals. In short, we have to engage audiences frequently and on a more intimate level. This requires that we budget more time and resources in the creation of original content.

The advent of social media has made this the case for nearly every brand that aims to engage the public and gain value from consumer participation. A major part of business success is, therefore, dependent on the consumer-brand relationship.

There is no such thing as passive consumers anymore. Obviously, there are, but they do not benefit your business beyond a single sale. The consumers that businesses need to attract to thrive are the ones who want to be involved in the shaping of their brand story. This puts content creation at the center of your business interests.

Consumers have more control than ever, especially over the way audiences interact with brands. This is a good thing… if you play your cards right by staying at the forefront of content creation. Brands should allow consumers to participate in the telling of their story, however, by no means should they allow them to narrate it for them.

We implement video reels to ensure that the telling of our story remains in our control. Through fast-paced, high-quality, and engaging media we are capable of providing a synopsis of our brand, our mission, our successes, and our many adventures in a matter of seconds. The more video reels we have the more control we have over our public-facing image.

Glavovic Studio is an architecture, art, and urban design firm based in Fort Lauderdale. Their architectural contributions and unwavering commitment to designs that benefit both people and place have taken their influence internationally. Glavovic Studio has been published in more than 30 national and international publications and has won dozens of design awards since its founding, including multiple awards from the Urban Land Institute and the United States Green Building Council.

Despite their prestige and farreaching success, Glavovic Studio’s brand image had fallen out of sync with their name and what they represent. So, they came to us to reimagine their consumer-facing facade. When they hired us, their website was severely outdated. They had very little content, and that which they did possess was lacking conviction and quality.

After getting to know Margi Nothard, the founder, CEO, and lead designer at Glavovic Studio, we knew exactly how we would restyle their brand. This would ultimately call for a complete, top-to-bottom overhaul, a brand new website, video storytelling, professional photography, and a 12-month marketing strategy to back it up.

Perhaps the most needed service to Glavovic Studio’s rebranding was the design and development of a new website. Their former site was lacking in key areas, which dampened the user experience and, ultimately, weakened their first impression. The categorization of information was confusing. The structure of the site made it difficult to maneuver between important pages. The design did not match the studios potential as a design firm. And they were not showcasing their work in the best possible way.

We learned a lot during the website redevelopment phase, including the type of content that Glavovic Studio was missing and would benefit from most. This predominantly included video production and professional photography. The combination of the two would create a unified brushstroke, showing the commitment and integrity behind each Glavovic Studio design.

Ultimately, this decided what Glavovic Studio’s new consumer-facing gateway would look like. Their audience would immediately be able to identify a shift in the quality of the content and the storytelling therein. No matter where their audience would first interact with this new grade of media, they would learn that it is just a small piece in a fullscale rebranding initiative. That was our goal and our success.

A major part of Glavovic Studio’s ethos is their willingness and passion for helping those in need. They prize architecture that benefits the working class above all else. With Margi Nothard at the helm, they have spearheaded nationwide initiatives, such as the affordable housing campaign with AHF (featured left). Margi’s unwavering social responsibility has both guided Glavovic’s ever-evolving mission and been the catalyst to new architectural frontiers.

As is stated in their mission statement, “The studio explores architecture engaged in environmental stewardship and social value…” This phrase resonated with us. Given that this is one the areas Glavovic Studio would never compromise, we knew it needed to be a guiding theme to their new brand narrative. Their mission to use architecture and urban design for good is now at the forefront.

We are a turnkey agency, meaning we take each project from concept to delivery. Because of this, we house a full creative suite of editing and post-production software. One of our most powerful editing software, which we used to put the final touches on Gio Henao’s artist profile, is DaVinci Resolve. This is a color correction and non-linear video editing application for macOS by Blackmagic Design.

Since editing is one of the most critical steps in our process, nothing is overlooked. DaVinci Resolve helps us zone-in on key points of interest to create maximum clarity and outstanding color harmony. In this phase, we take all the footage, audio, and additional assets and lay them on a timeline to arrange the absolute best narrative flow. This process is extremely time-consuming. According to the industry standard, every minute of shooting translates to an hour of editing, which makes sense since this is where true storytelling comes together.

Stinghouse Advertising hired us to film and produce a philanthropic video series about FIU to support their upcoming fundraising initiative. Our video production expertise and proven track record producing successful fundraising videos was the key ingredient to their advertising strategy.

We, ultimately, produced five videos covering significant areas of importance at the university, such as a special educational program for deserving students known as EMBRACE, how FIU invests their resources to sustain and protect the Everglades, and the key figures responsible for outstanding philanthropic donations.

The video series works together to both show the expansiveness of FIU’s global mission and how their dedication to education is producing a rich legacy of future leaders. The results are a comprehensive and passionate outlook on the faculty, alumni and students who are guiding the advancement of education in America.

Bahia Mar is a staple of Fort Lauderdale, and is about to evolve into something even greater.

Soon to be home to resorts, luxury condos, restaurants, and businesses, our goal was to showcase the future of this community and its many facets.

By combining carefully shot and curated video footage, 3D motion graphics and renderings, voice overs, and drone work, this Bahia Mar video was born.

The betterment of Fort Lauderdale is something that we’ve always been passionate about, and we knew it would take the merging of these many forms of media to show the power of this project.

We developed this creative marketing concept for Nike sneakers to tell a different story — one of failure, perseverance, and remembrance.

What is failure other than a starting point? 

To us, failure is a path from which one can mature and better themselves. No one is perfect. And those that are wildly successful encountered countless missteps. But they kept going. Not all people respond to defeat the same way, though. Some give up while others dig deeper and push beyond whatever they thought capable. Within this context, not every tale of failure has a happy ending. Some people face defeat and never go beyond that threshold. But that is not to say they remain defeated. This creative concept is one such story.

Sports brands often rely on a theme of failure and triumph to rally their demographic. Again, most of us have faced failure. Those who have endured and overcome tend to connect with this cliched narrative. That’s why it is so wildly popular in mainstream marketing. Besides, who doesn’t identify with an underdog story? But what of the others? Who is sharing the story of those who were dealt a bad hand — who failed and never triumphed but persevered?

Our creative concept is powered by the heart of the athlete and the love of the sport. Failure is a chief theme. Triumph is not. With the negation of triumph and happy endings, we invoke remembrance. Some of us don’t play to win; to prove our strength; to show that failure does not have a hold on us. No. Some of us play for the love of the sport; for the freedom of remembering our childhood; for the feeling of our feet leaving the ground.

From an advertising standpoint, this creative concept is selling Nike sneakers. From a marketing and branding standpoint, it is showing how Nike products empower everyday athletes.

A brand as massive as Nike demands clever marketing such as this. Hard sells don’t work. Nike’s consumers are influenced by storytelling. The product is second to emotion. Therefore, this creative marketing concept for Nike sneakers places feelings of empathy above product shots. This tactic strengthens the appeal of the advertisement and equips Nike sneakers with more value than what the product offers.

The defining moment — where the story becomes an advertisement — is confirmed 27 seconds into a 30-second video. The Nike sneakers are planted in the center of the frame. This moment is timed with a break in the dialogue. A pause lingers as the sneakers fill the screen. And when they lift off, the final words are spoken, pairing feeling with the product.

As an homage to a brand we love, we chose to conclude the video advertisement with an iconic shot. In the context of failure, this serves an intended purpose. We wanted to show that even athletes who fail and never triumph carry their heroes and their love for the game in every step taken on the court. This is a big moment and one that resonates with our audience. What it confirms is that you don’t need to be a star athlete to take flight like you always dreamed you could.

If you like this creative marketing concept for Nike sneakers, you should check out the work we’ve done with Karelle Edwards. She is a 500-meter Olympic hurdler from Canada set to make her Olympic debut at Japan in 2020. We’ve done a few shoots with Karelle. The first, we photographed at a track in L.A. The second, we photographed around downtown L.A. for an urban-centric athletic profile. Both shoots featured Nike sports products!

If parents cannot laugh at their own misery, what else can they laugh at?

Label Daddy hired us to create an original, entertaining and comedic company profile video to be the centerpiece of their website. They wanted a video that told a story. But not just any story. They wanted one that most every parent could empathize with. And if there is one state-of-mind that every parent is familiar with, it’s chaos.

We put our collective thinking together (and gathered the parents in our studio) to come up with some household pain points that most everyone has experienced. After the concept was decided we wrote the script and got to filming Label Daddy’s company profile centerpiece.

Chaos and order are the rivals of every young household. One is practically guaranteed. The other not so much. Our idea was to show how Label Daddy brings order to the chaos. From screaming children, disastrous living rooms, childish squabbles, and one smooth daddy comes this hilariously accurate video production.

Florida Healthcare Law Firm wanted to elevate their presence with storytelling. So, they came to the experts!

It’s really awesome working with clients who aren’t afraid to go out of the box. And, honestly, the more adventurous one is the more attention they’re likely to receive from their viewers. There are just so many brands circulating the same boring content that it is easy to ignore their messaging. Florida Healthcare Law Firm understood this and respected our insights on the matter. They were eager to create a video that would stand out and turn heads. We instantly knew that the comedic route was the way to go.

We met with the founder, Jeff Cohen, before creating a concept or writing a script. His energy and personality led our content creators to develop the following concept. After meeting, we knew that we wanted to put Jeff Cohen in front of the camera. And when we learned he was open to the idea of filming an outlandish parody, we immediately started drafting the script. The power of this video is that it doesn’t openly advertise. There are no hard sells and no use of stuffy language. It’s purely story based. This authenticity goes a long way. It’s also uncommon for a law firm to produce a video like this. But there’s strength in originality, as you’ll see.