Creative video agency in Philadelphia.
We’re the video team Philadelphia brands call when the brief sits between a craft brand film and a category-launching commercial, when the audience is sophisticated, the founder is involved, and the budget is tighter than NYC’s. London creative team, US-based crew, working across Greater Philadelphia.
Video production for Philadelphia brands
Video production in Philadelphia is shaped by two things most cities don’t have together: a serious challenger-brand cluster - Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, sustainable fashion, food-tech startups, small-batch CPG - and a serious institutional cluster, with Penn Medicine, CHOP, Drexel, Temple and the Wharton orbit just north of Center City. The brief in Philly is rarely a 30-second ad. It’s usually a brand film, a programme-evidence film, or a category-launching commercial that needs to read aspirational without feeling expensive.
We bring the same approach we bring to London-rooted challenger work, sized for a Philly budget: a London creative team that holds the brief, a US production network that handles the shoot, and a craft bar that doesn’t drop just because the budget is tighter than New York’s.
Around 40% of our work now happens across the Atlantic, led from our US office by New York-based Creative Director Pierre Jampy. We have made work for Google, Snap, J&J and Anthropic, and the J&J film featured on this page is part of a relationship that goes back five years across EMEA and the US, exactly the brand-and-institutional craft Philadelphia briefs ask for.
Why brands in Philadelphia work with us
Philadelphia isn't one market. It's four overlapping ones - and the brief reads slightly differently in each.
Challenger DTC and consumer brands. Urban Outfitters' portfolio (Anthropologie, Free People, FP Movement, Nuuly), sustainable fashion houses, food-tech and CPG. Founder-led films, retail launches, seasonal brand campaigns. The Philly DTC bench is younger than NYC's but the briefs are often more interesting because the founders are more directly involved - and the work has to land harder, because there's no $5M media budget behind it.
Higher education and healthcare. Penn, Penn Medicine, CHOP, Drexel, Temple. Institutional brand films, fundraising films, programme-evidence shorts, patient-story films. These briefs are craft briefs more than they are commercial briefs - the audience is sophisticated, the editorial bar is high, and the worst thing the film can feel is corporate.
Corporate brand-side in-house teams. Comcast, Subaru of America, Lincoln Financial, Aramark, FMC. Most of these brands have meaningful in-house creative teams - a video partner gets briefed direct, not via an agency. The relationship runs differently from an agency partnership: shorter approval chains, more direct creative dialogue, more creative work per dollar.
Music, culture and independent media. Philly's music and cultural scene runs deeper than its size suggests. Brand collabs that lean culturally rather than commercially, indie-feel campaigns, cultural-moment films. The work is editorial in feel, often led by talent we have a longer-term relationship with.
The thread across Philadelphia is that the briefs are more hands-on and the budgets leaner than New York, and that suits us. Founders and in-house teams brief us directly, we run pre- and post-production from our London hub to keep the spend on screen, and we bring US-based crew to the shoot. It means a Philly brand gets New York craft without the New York rate card.
Find the fun isn’t a slogan for us - it’s how we run a set, and American clients feel it from the first call. Around 40% of our work is now made in the States, shot everywhere from New York to Nashville to San Diego, with our own US entity handling the crew, the insurance and the paperwork. We’ve spent years building networks of American filmmakers who are talented, energetic and down-to-earth. We regularly pitch against the big US agencies and come in leaner - with higher creative ambition.
On location across the US
We have production networks all across the US, with recent shoots in New York, LA, San Francisco, Nashville, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Washington DC, San Diego, Portland, Seattle and Salt Lake City. Every project runs on our split-crew model: a creative lead from our core team holds the brief and the find-the-fun ethos, working alongside US-based crew we’ve spent years getting to know - people who aren’t just talented, but energetic and down-to-earth on set.
Pre-production and post run through our hub team, which keeps budgets lean and quality consistent - whether the shoot day is in Philadelphia or anywhere else in the country.
How we make video for Philadelphia brands
The process is the same one we run from London - the only difference is which side of the Atlantic the crew steps off the truck on the shoot day.
- Creative brief. One conversation, two outputs: the brief we work from and a one-page agreement of what success looks like.
- Research. Customer interviews, competitor reels, category audit. Forty-eight hours, not four weeks.
- Strategy. The single most important thing we get right - what this film is actually trying to do, and what it shouldn't try to do.
- Creative development. Treatments, scripts, storyboards. We bring two routes, you pick one.
- Production. The shoot day in Philadelphia, with US-based crew. Director, producer and editor on the call all the way through.
- Distribution + performance. Cuts for paid, owned and earned. The distribution plan is part of the brief, not an afterthought.
Philadelphia video production in action
J&J: MAGIC 10 Year Anniversary. Johnson & Johnson has been a client since Sunday Treat began - five years of animations, conference openers, case studies, testimonials and leadership films across EMEA and the US - and this milestone piece marks the 10-year anniversary of J&J's MAGIC. See the rest of our work →
Case studies we're proud of
A cross-section of US-led work - made for American brands by a London creative team and a US-based crew.
Lipton Slurp Squad
A festival Slurp Squad campaign blending performers and creators that drew 149M+ impressions for Lipton.
Candy Crush Mascots
Two seasonal comedy spots for a global gaming giant - character-led, cinematic, scroll-stopping.
Google Marketing Live
Films for Google's flagship Marketing Live event, shot across New York, LA and San Francisco.
Anthropic - Claude AI
A human-first brand film for an AI company, using nostalgic film-camera-style photography.
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Frequently asked questions
Do you have a Philadelphia office?
We don't keep a leased office in Philly, and we wouldn't recommend choosing a video partner on that basis alone. We're Delaware-registered with US-based crew across Greater Philadelphia, working with studios and freelance crew teams we've shot with for years. Most of our Philly clients prefer this model - one creative team holding the brief, multiple crews servicing the shoot, no overhead in your fee.
How much does video production in Philadelphia cost in 2026?
Every project is scoped individually - deliverables, shoot days, talent and post-production all move the number, so we don’t publish a fixed rate card. What keeps our budgets lean is the split-crew model: senior creative direction from our core team, US-based crew on the day, and pre- and post-production run through our hub rather than billed at big-agency rates. We regularly pitch against large US agencies and come in leaner. Tell us your budget and we’ll tell you honestly what it can buy.
Do you work with healthcare and higher-education institutions?
Frequently. We've made comparable institutional and patient-story films in the UK, and the craft transfers cleanly to higher-education and healthcare briefs. Institutional briefs need editorial restraint more than commercial polish - that's the work we do best.
Do you work direct with brand in-house teams or via agencies?
Both. We work direct with brand-side in-house teams and via creative agencies - white-label or named partnership. Direct engagements tend to run faster, with shorter approval chains and more direct creative dialogue.
How fast can you turn a Philadelphia shoot around?
Standard timelines: kickoff to first cut in 4-6 weeks for a single-day shoot, 8-12 weeks for a campaign film. We can compress for time-sensitive briefs (campaign launches, talent windows, news-tied brand films). A typical fast-turnaround shoot for us runs about 10 working days across two weeks.
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