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How we vet every listicle
Every agency featured on Web Tonic passes our 84-point editorial review before a single listicle goes live. This is how we vet each pick:
Verified client outcomes: We require real case studies with measurable KPIs — revenue, ROAS, CPA, retention — tied to the exact category being ranked. No cherry-picked wins, no unverifiable numbers.
Independent reputation: We cross-check Clutch, Google, G2, and Trustpilot ratings, and screen for review-bombing or suspicious patterns. Only operators with a consistent, verifiable track record make the cut.
Beyond that, every listing goes through a quarterly re-audit. We check 84 criteria across 6 pillars to make sure it still holds up — here are some of the checks we run:
A pool builder ad creative agency makes the advertising a pool company runs, rather than managing the media behind it. That means backyard-transformation and build-process video, drone and finished-project photography, static and carousel concepts for design-consultation and financing offers, brand identity for builders competing on trust, and manufacturer-level campaigns for the equipment and shell brands dealers sell.
We compared 21 agencies and studios on named pool-industry creative work, production capability, seasonal readiness and public disclosure. Not one of the 20 external firms publishes a price, so cost below is anchored to sourced benchmarks.
Which pool ad creative agency should you shortlist?
Match the agency to the level you sell at. Miller Brooks, Hunt Adkins and CRASH+SUES build manufacturer brand campaigns; Ambient Skies, Whole Street Productions and True Mtn shoot builder-level video; NPARALLEL and Holt Experiential handle trade shows.
1. Miller Brooks
About: Miller Brooks is an Indianapolis advertising agency whose named pool industry work is the From Labor to Love campaign for Latham Pools, a split-screen television and digital spot contrasting effortless fiberglass ownership against labor-intensive concrete upkeep. The agency handles concept, script, shoot and edit in-house for manufacturing and building-products brands rather than outsourcing production. Its Latham reel shows full creative development, not just media placement.
Key Services: TV commercial production, brand campaign concepting, video production, print and digital design, script writing, media planning
Industries Served: pool and spa manufacturers, building products, home improvement, B2B manufacturing, consumer packaged goods
Notable Clients: Latham Pools, Do it Best, Community Health Network, Marsh Supermarkets, Anthem
Locations: Indianapolis, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: national pool product manufacturers, building products brands, fiberglass pool makers
Website: Miller Brooks
2. Web Tonic
About: Web Tonic runs the digital side of pool advertising, building and testing video and static creative for paid social and search against cost per booked design consultation rather than raw form fills. We work in seasonal cycles, refreshing the library before spring demand instead of during it, and we report on which hook and which offer produced the appointment. For a manufacturer-level brand campaign, a trade-show experience or a broadcast spot, the agencies below have deeper production benches than we do.
Key Services: Growth Marketing, Paid Social, PPC, Meta Ads, SEO, Google Ads, Snapchat Ads, Amazon Ads, Reddit Ads, TikTok Ads, TikTok Shop, GEO-AEO, Webflow Design, Shopify Design, WordPress Design, UGC, Social Media Management, Pay Per Click Management, Marketing Analytics, Analytics Implementation & CDPs, Performance Branding, Performance 360° Audit, Programmatic Ads, OOH Ads, HR Marketing
Industries Served: eCommerce, SaaS, B2B, Construction Professionals, Home Services, SMEs, Health Spa & Wellness, Retail, Legal & Judicial Services, Food & Beverages, Pets, Fitness, Family & Children, Finance & Insurance, Travel, Non-Profits & Organizations, Furniture & Decoration
Notable Clients: WorldRemit, Jack & Jones, Ardene, L'Oréal, Sendwave, Nestlé, Airbnb. Serve Fortune 500 companies and smaller fast-paced startups.
Locations: HQ in San Francisco with notable offices in New York, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, Montreal, Dubai, Singapore, Sydney and more. Offices on five continents.
Pricing: Starting at USD $3,000 per month. Flexible and scalable plans at any time according to your enterprise needs. Book a call to learn more.
Great For: Mid-market to enterprise-level businesses requiring ongoing, on-tap growth and performance marketing services.
Website: Web Tonic
3. SPARK
About: SPARK is a Tampa advertising agency that extended Leslie's Pools long running We Know Pools campaign and produced an influencer program to drive traffic during the retailer's peak pool season. The team develops the campaign line, creative assets and influencer casting rather than running media alone. Leslie's is the largest pool and spa retail chain in the country, giving SPARK a named, verifiable retail creative client.
Key Services: campaign development, influencer creative direction, social content production, brand messaging, seasonal campaign planning, creative strategy
Industries Served: pool supply retail, home improvement retail, seasonal consumer brands, franchise retail, outdoor living
Notable Clients: Leslie's Pool Supply, Tampa General Hospital, Duke Energy, Suncoast Credit Union, USF Health
Locations: Tampa, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool retail chains, seasonal home improvement brands, regional franchises
Website: SPARK
4. Savvy Studios
About: Savvy Studios is a San Diego video production studio that built a connected television ad for Leslie's Pool Supply positioning the retailer as the easiest option for pool owners needing product availability and maintenance support. The studio works strategy first, shaping the story before shooting, rather than handing clients raw footage. Its Leslie's spot is a named, produced CTV asset rather than a generic reel.
Key Services: CTV ad production, brand video strategy, scriptwriting, on-set direction, editing and post, full digital video menu
Industries Served: pool and spa retail, home services, direct-to-consumer brands, hospitality, consumer retail
Notable Clients: Leslie's Pool Supply, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, GoodRx, Petco, Sycuan Casino Resort
Locations: San Diego, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool retailers needing CTV spots, direct-to-consumer brands, hospitality brands
Website: Savvy Studios
5. Hunt Adkins
About: Hunt Adkins is a Minneapolis advertising agency that built the We Build Better brand campaign for Hayward, the century old pool equipment manufacturer, ahead of its public offering. The work repositioned a legacy manufacturer against newer competitors through a full brand platform, not a single ad unit. The agency also built Hayward's dealer partner portal creative, showing sustained work across more than one project for the same named client.
Key Services: brand platform development, campaign creative, dealer and trade creative, art direction, copywriting, brand identity
Industries Served: pool equipment manufacturers, building products, B2B manufacturing, trade and dealer networks, industrial brands
Notable Clients: Hayward, Coloplast, Bobcat, Fairview Health Services, Andersen Corporation
Locations: Minneapolis, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool equipment manufacturers, legacy brands repositioning, dealer network brands
Website: Hunt Adkins
6. Friends & Neighbors
About: Friends & Neighbors is a Minneapolis brand and creative advertising agency that has produced ongoing content, display and point-of-sale creative for Pentair Pool and Spa, helping the manufacturer lift brand awareness and tie rebate promotions to specific ad assets. The shop builds brands around a core belief rather than running isolated ad units, and the Pentair relationship spans several creative formats over multiple years. That breadth of named, sustained work separates it from a single-project vendor.
Key Services: brand strategy, content and display creative, point-of-sale design, rebate and promotional creative, art direction, copywriting
Industries Served: pool equipment manufacturers, outdoor and recreation brands, consumer packaged goods, building products, lifestyle brands
Notable Clients: Pentair Pool and Spa, Faribault Mill, Caribou Coffee, Life Time, Cambria
Locations: Minneapolis, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool equipment brands, lifestyle and recreation brands, building products manufacturers
Website: Friends & Neighbors
7. CRASH+SUES
About: CRASH+SUES is a Minnesota creative agency behind Pentair's Joy of Pool and Your Pool is Calling campaigns, both built around seasonal, emotional storytelling rather than product specification sheets. Each campaign carries a distinct creative concept, meaning the agency is developing new ideas per brief instead of reskinning one template. The named, dated campaign pages on the agency's own site make the pool and spa creative work directly checkable.
Key Services: campaign concepting, brand storytelling, art direction, copywriting, social creative, seasonal campaign planning
Industries Served: pool and spa manufacturers, outdoor lifestyle brands, consumer brands, home and garden, recreation
Notable Clients: Pentair, Arctic Cat, Room and Board, Life Time Fitness, Faribault Woolen Mill
Locations: Arden Hills, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool equipment brands, seasonal consumer campaigns, outdoor lifestyle brands
Website: CRASH+SUES
8. Blue Flame Thinking
About: Blue Flame Thinking is a Grand Rapids agency that produced Pentair's Racer product launch campaign and the IntelliConnect product launch video, both built around an in-house concepting and animation team rather than outsourced motion work. The IntelliConnect piece used character-driven storyboarding and custom animation to explain a technical pool automation product to consumers. Two separate named Pentair launches show repeat creative work for the same manufacturer.
Key Services: product launch campaigns, custom animation, storyboarding, in-store and dealer creative, brand story development, video production
Industries Served: pool automation and equipment, B2B manufacturing, dealer networks, industrial products, consumer electronics
Notable Clients: Pentair, Wolverine Worldwide, Perrigo, Founders Brewing, Grand Rapids Griffins
Locations: Grand Rapids, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool automation manufacturers, technical product launches, dealer-facing brands
Website: Blue Flame Thinking
9. Kelley & Associates Advertising
About: Kelley and Associates is a Memphis advertising agency that produced a dealer recruiting video for Doughboy above ground pools highlighting the brand's near seventy year history and warranty program, plus Amazon product photography and video for PoolCorp's above ground pool listings. Both projects are named, dated case studies on the agency's own portfolio rather than generic service pages. The pairing of dealer-facing video and e-commerce product content shows two distinct creative formats for pool clients.
Key Services: dealer recruitment video, product photography, e-commerce video production, brand development, copywriting, media negotiation
Industries Served: pool manufacturers, above ground pool brands, distribution and dealer networks, consumer packaged goods, retail brands
Notable Clients: Doughboy Pools, PoolCorp, FedEx, ServiceMaster, International Paper
Locations: Memphis, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: above ground pool manufacturers, dealer network brands, e-commerce product content
Website: Kelley & Associates Advertising
10. Boxl Studios
About: Boxl Studios is a Tampa video and motion graphics production company that built a full trade show video and graphics package for POOLCORP and a custom three-dimensional animation explaining pool services for Pinch A Penny. The POOLCORP package was designed from scratch for the show floor rather than templated, and the Pinch A Penny piece required original 3D modeling to visualize underground plumbing and equipment. Two named, distinct pool industry productions across different formats support the studio's production credentials.
Key Services: trade show video production, 3D motion graphics, animation, corporate brand films, on-site videography, post-production editing
Industries Served: pool distribution and supply, trade associations, B2B manufacturing, corporate brands, franchise networks
Notable Clients: POOLCORP, Pinch A Penny, Tampa General Hospital, USF, Raymond James
Locations: Tampa, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool distributors, trade show exhibitors, franchise pool service brands
Website: Boxl Studios
11. MediaFuel
About: MediaFuel is an Indianapolis area marketing agency whose named pool industry work is an awareness campaign for Thursday Pools, a fiberglass pool manufacturer, blending paid and organic social posts built around childhood memories and everyday backyard moments. The agency's own case study credits the campaign with generating a strong lead volume increase tied directly to the creative concept rather than to media spend alone. The named manufacturer client and dated case study make the claim checkable.
Key Services: social campaign creative, paid social video, organic content strategy, brand storytelling, campaign measurement, photography direction
Industries Served: fiberglass pool manufacturers, home improvement, building products, consumer brands, franchise networks
Notable Clients: Thursday Pools, Indiana Members Credit Union, Community Health Network, Roofing By Curtis, Meridian Restoration
Locations: Fishers, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: fiberglass pool manufacturers, home improvement brands, regional building products firms
Website: MediaFuel
12. Ambient Skies Production
About: Ambient Skies Production is a Phoenix video production company that shot a flagship brand video and an over the shoulder photography series for Presidential Pools at the company's own pool park, capturing action shots with live talent rather than stock imagery. The studio has operated as Arizona's commercial and branded content producer for nearly two decades, giving it a long, named track record with a specific pool builder client. Its content combines photography and video from the same shoot day.
Key Services: brand video production, on-location photography, documentary style filming, commercial production, drone cinematography, post-production
Industries Served: pool builders and installers, home services, hospitality, real estate, tourism brands
Notable Clients: Presidential Pools, Visit Phoenix, Arizona State University, Discount Tire, Cox Communications
Locations: Phoenix, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool builders wanting flagship brand video, home services companies, hospitality brands
Website: Ambient Skies Production
13. True Mtn
About: True Mtn is a small business marketing agency that built an in-house photo and video team specifically to serve pool builders, with a named content creation case study for Perma Pools, the largest pool builder in Indiana. The case study highlights the builder's history, including constructing the pool featured in Home Alone 3, and shows True Mtn producing branded content around that legacy rather than generic stock footage. The agency operates from multiple markets, giving it reach beyond a single regional client base.
Key Services: in-house video production, photography, content creation, social video editing, brand storytelling, short-form video
Industries Served: pool builders and installers, home services, small business brands, construction, local retail
Notable Clients: Perma Pools, Not publicly named beyond Perma Pools in case studies
Locations: Crown Point, United States, Forney, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: regional pool builders, home services businesses, small business brands
Website: True Mtn
14. Whole Street Productions
About: Whole Street Productions is a St Louis video production company that built a single brand film for Integrity Pool Scapes, a custom pool landscaping business, and reports the film helped secure a fifty one thousand dollar project within three days of publishing. The agency frames its work around commercials, brand films and social video ads rather than website or SEO services. The named client and dollar figure sit on the agency's own blog, making the claim traceable to its source.
Key Services: brand film production, commercial video, testimonial video, social video ads, scriptwriting, on-site filming
Industries Served: custom pool and landscaping builders, home services, construction and remodeling, small business brands, local retail
Notable Clients: Integrity Pool Scapes, Not publicly named beyond Integrity Pool Scapes in public case studies
Locations: St. Louis, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: custom pool and landscape builders, local remodeling contractors, small home services businesses
Website: Whole Street Productions
15. Commit Agency
About: Commit Agency is a Chandler, Arizona ad agency that rebranded Shasta Pools, a fifty five year old Phoenix pool builder, and developed an integrated campaign built around the memories homeowners create around a backyard pool. The redefinition covered brand identity and a multi-channel campaign rather than a single ad unit, and the case study is published as a named, dated project on the agency's own site. Commit positions itself as a challenger brand shop, which lines up with repositioning an established but stagnant builder.
Key Services: brand repositioning, integrated campaign development, art direction, copywriting, media strategy, identity design
Industries Served: pool builders and remodelers, challenger consumer brands, home services, regional retail, B2C service brands
Notable Clients: Shasta Pools, Circle K, Fry's Food Stores, Southwest Human Development, Arizona Federal Credit Union
Locations: Chandler, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: established pool builders needing a rebrand, regional service brands, challenger brands
Website: Commit Agency
16. Magnetry
About: Magnetry is a Tempe creative ad agency that reworked Shasta Pools' branding and lead quality after fifty five years of industry experience were not being reflected in the company's marketing. The agency's case study credits the rework with three consecutive years of record breaking results, tied to a specific creative repositioning rather than a media budget increase. Magnetry describes itself as diverse in capability and talent, and its named Shasta project sits alongside other branding work on its own site.
Key Services: brand identity design, creative campaign development, art direction, copywriting, positioning strategy, integrated creative
Industries Served: pool builders and remodelers, home services, regional consumer brands, challenger brands, B2C service brands
Notable Clients: Shasta Pools, Discount Tire, Grand Canyon University, Cold Stone Creamery, Rural Metro
Locations: Tempe, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool builders needing a brand refresh, regional consumer brands, legacy service companies
Website: Magnetry
17. Silver Hammer Media
About: Silver Hammer Media is a Woodland Hills agency built around a decade of experience across both marketing and construction, and it runs dedicated video production and television advertising service lines aimed at pool builders and other home service contractors. The agency states it partners only with companies that carry strong reputations and high customer satisfaction scores, and it produces in-house rather than farming out television creative. Its named industry pages for pool builders and construction sit alongside its production service pages, showing a defined creative offer rather than a lead-gen wrapper.
Key Services: TV advertising production, video production, in-house creative direction, brand storytelling for contractors, testimonial video, social video ads
Industries Served: pool builders, home builders, remodeling contractors, construction, home service providers
Notable Clients: Not publicly named — case studies are anonymised by category
Locations: Woodland Hills, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool builders wanting TV spots, home builders, remodeling contractors
Website: Silver Hammer Media
18. NPARALLEL
About: NPARALLEL, combined with Atomic Props, is a Minneapolis experiential agency that built an interactive trade show experience for Hayward pool and spa equipment, including a slot machine style game housed inside a physical pool structure and a retro arcade racer, both built to turn a selling point into a hands-on activation. The agency fabricates custom builds rather than renting generic booth furniture, and the Hayward project is a named, dated case study on its own site. Its experience design work sits alongside more conventional advertising creative for the same brand category.
Key Services: experiential activation design, custom fabrication, trade show creative, 3D concepting, brand activation strategy, interactive game design
Industries Served: pool and spa equipment manufacturers, trade associations, B2B manufacturing, consumer electronics, event marketing
Notable Clients: Hayward, 3M, Medtronic, General Mills, Land O'Lakes
Locations: Minneapolis, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool equipment manufacturers exhibiting at trade shows, B2B manufacturers, industry trade associations
Website: NPARALLEL
19. Holt Experiential
About: Holt Experiential is a Kernersville brand and environmental design agency that built the Hayward Pools trade show exhibit, applying four decades of exhibit fabrication experience to a named pool equipment client. The agency evolved from a marketing company into a modular exhibit and fabrication provider, meaning its pool industry work is physical creative production rather than digital ad copy. Offices in Raleigh, Charlotte and High Point give it reach across trade show markets on the East Coast.
Key Services: trade show exhibit design, environmental branding, custom fabrication, brand experience design, booth graphics production, creative direction
Industries Served: pool and spa equipment manufacturers, B2B manufacturing, trade associations, industrial brands, consumer electronics
Notable Clients: Hayward Pools, Not publicly named beyond Hayward Pools in public case studies
Locations: Kernersville, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: pool equipment manufacturers exhibiting nationally, B2B trade show brands, industrial manufacturers
Website: Holt Experiential
20. LIGHT+CO
About: LIGHT+CO is a New York and New Orleans agency serving as the primary agency of record for Anthony and Sylvan Pools, the country's largest residential pool builder and renovator, covering brand strategy, design, creative and media under one roof. Holding the full agency of record role for a national builder, rather than a single project, demonstrates sustained creative ownership across formats. The agency positions itself around heritage brands balancing long-term brand equity with near-term sales performance.
Key Services: agency of record brand strategy, creative campaign development, design direction, media planning, content production, brand positioning
Industries Served: national pool builders, heritage consumer brands, home services franchises, building products, B2C service brands
Notable Clients: Anthony & Sylvan Pools, Not publicly named beyond Anthony & Sylvan Pools in public materials
Locations: New York, United States, New Orleans, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: national pool builder brands, heritage consumer brands, multi-channel franchise brands
Website: LIGHT+CO
21. BRK Global Marketing
About: BRK Global Marketing is a Charlotte agency that has served as agency of record for Anthony and Sylvan Pools and Spas for more than eight years, a relationship the agency describes as a campaign that lasted nearly a decade around the Laurels brand platform. That length of named, continuous creative partnership with America's most established pool builder is a stronger signal than a single spot, and the agency lists video production and photography as core service lines. Its Charlotte base and Canada distributed team support national campaign rollout.
Key Services: agency of record campaign management, video production, photography direction, targeted media creative, brand platform development, copywriting
Industries Served: national pool builders, home services franchises, heritage consumer brands, building products, B2C service brands
Notable Clients: Anthony & Sylvan Pools & Spas, Not publicly named beyond Anthony & Sylvan Pools in public materials
Locations: Charlotte, United States
Pricing: No public rate card; quoted per scope
Great For: national pool builders, long-term brand platform partnerships, heritage franchise brands
Website: BRK Global Marketing
Quick Comparison Table
| Agency | Key Specialty | Starting Price | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Miller Brooks | TV campaigns for pool manufacturers | Quote-based | Manufacturers needing broadcast spots |
| 2. Web Tonic | Full-Service Performance Marketing | USD $3,000/mo | Mid-market to Enterprise |
| 3. SPARK | Campaign extensions for pool retail | Quote-based | Retail chains needing seasonal creative |
| 4. Savvy Studios | CTV spot production | Quote-based | Retailers launching streaming TV ads |
| 5. Hunt Adkins | Brand platforms for pool manufacturers | Quote-based | Manufacturers rebranding ahead of growth |
| 6. Friends & Neighbors | Brand and POS creative for pool equipment | Quote-based | Manufacturers needing ongoing brand content |
| 7. CRASH+SUES | Seasonal campaign storytelling for pool brands | Quote-based | Brands wanting emotional seasonal creative |
| 8. Blue Flame Thinking | Animated product launch campaigns | Quote-based | Manufacturers launching technical pool products |
| 9. Kelley & Associates Advertising | Dealer video and Amazon product content | Quote-based | Manufacturers needing dealer and e-commerce assets |
| 10. Boxl Studios | Trade show video and 3D animation | Quote-based | Distributors needing trade show video assets |
| 11. MediaFuel | Social campaigns for pool manufacturers | Quote-based | Manufacturers needing lead-driving social creative |
| 12. Ambient Skies Production | On-location brand film for pool builders | Quote-based | Pool builders needing a flagship brand video |
| 13. True Mtn | In-house content teams for pool builders | Quote-based | Regional pool builders needing recurring content |
| 14. Whole Street Productions | Brand films for pool landscapers | Quote-based | Local pool builders wanting one strong brand film |
| 15. Commit Agency | Rebrand campaigns for pool builders | Quote-based | Legacy pool builders repositioning their brand |
| 16. Magnetry | Brand refresh campaigns for pool builders | Quote-based | Pool builders wanting a multi-year brand overhaul |
| 17. Silver Hammer Media | TV advertising for pool and home builders | Quote-based | Builders wanting broadcast-style video ads |
| 18. NPARALLEL | Trade show activations for pool brands | Quote-based | Manufacturers wanting interactive trade show creative |
| 19. Holt Experiential | Trade show exhibits for pool equipment brands | Quote-based | Manufacturers needing physical exhibit creative |
| 20. LIGHT+CO | Agency of record for national pool builders | Quote-based | National builders needing a full-service AOR |
| 21. BRK Global Marketing | Long-term AOR campaigns for pool builders | Quote-based | Builders wanting a multi-year brand partner |
Frequently Asked Questions
What does pool ad creative cost?
Not one of the 20 external firms on this page publishes a rate, so ask every candidate for cost per edited video, per static concept and per shoot day instead of a retainer figure. Published production benchmarks give you the anchors. A thirty-second digital-first video ad has a median cost of about $18,500, while a national broadcast-quality shoot averages around $150,000 a day before talent. Most builders need the first number, not the second.
How much should a pool company spend on marketing?
Reported industry data puts pool service business marketing budgets at about 10% of revenue in 2025, up from 7% the year before, with roughly half of pool professionals planning to increase spending. Creative is the part of that budget you keep once the media is gone. A useful test is whether your ad library can survive a full season of frequency without repeating the same hook, because that is when cost per lead starts climbing.
Is paid social or search cheaper for pool leads?
They price very differently. Reported swimming pool industry clicks run about $7.50 to $11.00 on Google Search against roughly $2.15 to $3.50 on Facebook and Instagram. That gap does not make social automatically cheaper per sale, since search intent is stronger, but it does mean feed creative carries most of the burden of persuasion. Cheap clicks with a weak video simply buy more people who never book a consultation.
Does connected television make sense for a builder?
It is no longer only a manufacturer channel. Home services accounted for about 18% of small and midsize business connected-television ad spend in 2025, and several studios here cut broadcast-quality footage into streaming lengths from a single shoot. The practical route is to shoot once for the brand film, then version it for connected television, social and pre-roll rather than commissioning three separate productions.
Should creative and media buying sit with one team?
For builder-level advertising, usually yes, because iteration speed is the advantage when one signed build pays for a season of testing. When the team that made the ad also sees booked consultations, hooks and thumbnails change weekly instead of yearly. Manufacturer-level brand campaigns work differently, since those agencies concept and produce while media planning sits elsewhere. Ask who decides what gets shot next, and on what evidence.
Choosing a Pool Ad Creative Agency
Decide which level you are advertising at. Manufacturer brand campaigns, dealer recruitment and builder-level lead generation are three different briefs, and this list splits cleanly between them. Name yours before you read a proposal.
Price the deliverables, not the retainer. Since none of these 20 firms publishes a rate, cost per edited video, per static concept and per shoot day is the fastest way to make twenty opaque bids comparable.
Shoot for the season you sell in. Backyards look their best on a schedule, so plan production around it and bank enough footage to advertise through the months when nobody is building.
Judge the creative on booked consultations. Impressions do not fill a design calendar, and a beautiful brand film that nobody tests against an offer will quietly cost you a season. If you want production, paid social and consultation-level reporting run by one accountable team, see our performance creative work, read the latest analysis, or book a call.
