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The ad that makes your product impossible to ignore
You have seconds to make someone want your product, and a forgettable ad wastes every single one of them. In a feed full of food and on a shelf full of options, a commercial that looks cheap makes the product look cheap. The brands that win the category are the ones whose ads stop you, make you hungry, and make you reach. At Gotham Studios, we produce commercials that sell: cinematic, appetite-driven spots built to run on TV, YouTube, and social. Food and beverage is all we do, so as a food commercial production team we know how to make yours look irresistible on screen.
What is a commercial?
A commercial is a short, product-forward film built to sell, usually fifteen to sixty seconds, designed to grab attention fast and drive a clear action. Unlike branded content, which tells a longer story, a commercial is sharp, polished, and made to perform as paid media across TV, digital, and social. In short, it’s your product at its most irresistible.
Why invest in a commercial?
Because production quality is the first thing your customer judges. A beautifully shot commercial signals a brand worth trusting, while a weak one quietly undercuts everything else you spent on media. Your food and beverage commercial is where that media budget either works or leaks. A strong commercial is a multifaceted tool. Shoot it right and one commercial video production gives you a broadcast spot, social cutdowns, pre-roll, and paid-ad variants, so your whole campaign runs from a single shoot.
From lifestyle to the perfect pour
We make the full range of food and beverage commercials: Lifestyle commercial production that puts your product in real, aspirational moments. Hero product commercial video that makes a single dish or drink the star. Tabletop and high-speed work when the shot calls for it. Broadcast TV commercial production and social-first ad cutdowns. We match the format to your media plan and your budget, not the other way around.
Agency creative. In-house production. No markups.
Most brands face a tough choice between an agency that brings the big ideas but outsources the shoot and marks up every invoice, or a production shop that can film but has no strategy. Gotham gives you both under one roof: a commercial video production company with agency creative built in. You get directors, treatments, and the insight behind a real concept, and you get the production done in-house, so you are not paying agency fees or markups on a crew someone else hired. The result is broadcast-quality work at a price that makes sense, with one team accountable from first idea to final cut. The craft is the whole point. We shoot on cinema-grade cameras with the lighting, food styling, and finish that make a product look like art without losing its appetite appeal, whether it is a lifestyle spot or a tight product commercial video. Beautiful is the baseline. Beautiful that sells is the job.
Our Process:
We follow a simple, well-tested approach to ensure every shot is planned and executed with precision:
Discovery Call
We learn your product, your campaign goal, and your media plan.
Concept & Treatment
We learn your product, your campaign goal, and your media plan.
Creative Collaboration
We lock the script, look, and shot list with you before the shoot.
Production
We shoot in-house, cinema-grade, styled to make your product irresistible.
Edit & Delivery
We deliver the hero spot plus cutdowns for TV, social, and paid.
What Our Clients
Are
Saying About Us
Chicken Farmers of Canada have had the pleasure of working closely with the Gotham Studios team for the past two years and they’ve really helped us take our recipe and food photo and video content to the next level. Their team is knowledgeable an knows how to make recipes and food look great! Thanks to their remote production capabilities and streamlined processes, our team has been able to seamlessly oversee filming and photography sessions without ever leaving our Ottawa offices. I would highly recommend working with Gotham.
JJ Hochrein
Director, Brand Marketing
Chicken Farmers of Canada
Working with Gotham Studios gave us a turn-key production solution to quickly scale up our content library with high quality assets which our internal team was able to leverage to spin up ads, posts, and content across all of our organic and paid channels.
Corey Dubeau
Chief Marketing Officer
Pulp & Press
We’ve worked with the team at Gotham Studios on multiple occasions. They’ve shot food photography for us, images in our plant, and at our farms on Manitoulin Island. Nick, Chris, and the rest of the team are always responsive, professional, and easy to work with. We are planning to work with Gotham for more shoots in the future.
Harrison Cole
Owner
Cole Munro
Our Work
Frequently Asked Questions
A commercial sells the product directly, in fifteen to sixty seconds, built for paid media. Branded content tells a longer, story-led piece that builds affinity over time. A commercial drives the sale; branded content builds the relationship. Most brands use both.
Most run fifteen to sixty seconds, and we deliver multiple cutdowns from one shoot, six, fifteen, and thirty-second versions for social and pre-roll alongside the main spot, so it works across every placement.
No, and that is the point of working with us. We bring the agency-level creative, directors, treatments, and concept, then produce the commercial in-house. You get one team for both, with no agency fees and no markups on the crew.
Most commercial projects range from $50,000 to $250,000+, depending on concept, talent, locations, and how many cutdowns you need. Because creative and production sit under one roof, more of that budget reaches the screen.
Yes. As a full TV commercial production company we deliver to broadcast specifications, along with digital and social versions formatted for every platform you are buying.
Plan for several weeks from concept to final spot, depending on scope, casting, and locations. We give you a clear schedule built around your media dates at the start.
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