Launch videos & distribution

Launch Videos for Startups

The media & distribution team for startup builders & backers.

a16z
Merge
Parallel
Kalshi
Mecka
Anyway
Greptile
Merit
Netris
EON
Extropic
Odyssey

370,000,000+

combined views across 25 launches, 50 short form campaigns & socials

Launch Virality

How it works

From the first call to launch day, one team makes the film and runs the distribution behind it.

  1. 01

    Scope

    Timing constrains everything else.

    One call to settle what the launch has to achieve, who it has to reach, and when the window closes. Every decision after this one is shaped by that date.

  2. 02

    Concept

    A film has to argue something.

    We come back with the approach: what it argues, how it opens, and what the audience is left holding. A point of view, not a moodboard.

  3. 03

    Production

    The cut answers to the brief, not to taste.

    The film gets made. Every review runs against what the launch has to achieve, which is the only question that ends an argument about a cut.

  4. 04

    Distribution

    A film nobody sees is not a launch.

    Where the brief calls for it, creator seeding runs alongside the release and times it into a window where the audience is already paying attention.

    How distribution works

In their words

What they said after launch day.

Bryan Kim
“Great launch video! Stoked for the IRL event tonight.”
Bryan KimFormer Partner, a16zView launch
Guillaume Verdon
“Reception is overwhelmingly positive! Congrats guys!”
Guillaume VerdonCEO, ExtropicView launch
Shensi Ding
“People are loving the animations”
Shensi DingCEO, MergeView launch
Oliver Cameron
“TY! Great work.”
Oliver CameronCEO, OdysseyView launch

Common questions

Two weeks is typical, from kickoff to delivery. The schedule moves to fit your launch date, so tell us the window on the first call.

End to end production: scripting, narrative building, storyboarding, filming and animation. You also get 5 to 10 second teaser cuts for your launch thread, and we distribute the launch to the people who match your ICPs.

Yes. Several of the films in our portfolio carried a company's first public appearance, including Endeavor's emergence from stealth.

Both, and they work better together. The films that performed best in our portfolio had the creator campaign planned before the edit was finished, not bolted on after.

No. You fill out a kickoff form with your brand assets and record a short Loom explaining the product and how you want to launch it. We take it from there.

Both. Live action, from talking heads to creative launches, and animated launches built in motion graphics.

Unlimited. We revise the film until you are happy with it.

Yes. Funding announcements are one of the launches we make most, and the film is built to go out the day the raise goes public.

EPTA is headquartered in Italy, Pakistan and the United States. It is a global studio, and the team works from more than 15 countries.

Yes. We have taken on post-production alone where a client already had the material.

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Planning a launch?

Tell us what is launching and when. Thirty minutes is usually enough to know whether we are the right team for it.