Advertising Agency Studio Tour w/ Ayzenberg Group, Video Games, Tech, & Brands

Get an inside look at a nontraditional advertising agency in this studio tour. On this episode of Snapshot, Chris Do takes some time to visit his friend Matt Bretz, vice president and creative director at Ayzenberg Group. The Ayzenberg is essentially a marketing and advertising agency based in Pasadena, California.
Ayzenberg (www.ayzenberg.com) employs over 170 people. Their busy and well-lit space, sharply designed by Richard Corsini of Corsini Stark Architects, is filled with amazing works by artists that have been employed by the agency like Tim Biskup. The central philosophy at Ayzenberg is based on a triangular iterative process between the client, creation, and sharing.
Chris observes the inner workings and day-to-day operations at the agency, speaking with several employees about their past, present, and future work. From Ayzenberg's work with Xbox and the gaming industry to their marketing insider publication, Frontline, we're given a behind the scenes look into how their projects come to life.
Brand identity, commercials, packaging, and online content can all be produced in-house at Ayzenberg. Innovative techniques and technologies are being developed to help match brands with relevant influencers via ION, the Influencer Orchestration Network, and their project Brand Soulmates, a proprietary algorithmic solution for identifying influencers. Chris asks how up-and-coming influencers can be more easily seen by these systems.
Chris also takes a look at employees using special software to make movies with video games. Capture directors take advantage of virtual cameras in video game development builds to capture footage of players in-game. With this captured footage, editors create compelling movies via storytelling for the promotion of upcoming games.
Ayzenberg Group photographer, Shaun Lang, is featured as he takes stunning photographs a new Microsoft Surface Pro, and gives us a brief look into his background as a product photographer.
Kai Mildenberger speaks with Chris about social media, and how those networks have given Ayzenberg the ability to create, "authentic influence" directly, and the potential for scientific measuring of social activity to give advertisers the ability to create viral videos from data.
Matt Bretz wraps up Chris' visit with his ideas regarding the "death" of advertising and the 30 second TV spot, offering his views on the future (and The Futur).
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01:02 Meet Matt Bretz - Executive Creative Director
01:23 Contemporary Art & Building Architecture
02:12 Video Pipeline
03:14 Dynamic Creative Flow: Listen - Create - Share
04:18 Meet Stu Pope (Principal, Creative Director) & Matt Rice (VP, Creative Operations)
05:12 Q: Does it help a candidate if they are into playing games?
05:58 Meet Julie Shen (Sr. Art Director) & Keith Ewing (Creative Director)
07:20 [A] list daily team
08:06 Social Listening for Data informed targeting
08:31 [ION] team - Patricia Wayne (Account Supervisor)
09:35 Q: What qualifications do I need to get on your radar as an influencer?
10:07 [Games] Game Capture - Ray Ferri (Director)
11:33 Shaun Lang - Ayzenberg Official Photographer
12:25 Meet Kai Mildenberger (CTO)
13:16 Q: Can you engineer viral content?
13:42 Advertising is an entirely different animal than it was years ago.
15:06 Outro / Entrance to Ayzenberg
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Love this type of content! Would love to see you visit other agencies, tour their spaces and get their take on the "future" of advertising. I could watch these type of videos all day long. It should be it's own series. Nice work Chris!!

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I love this series idea, I can see myself learning so much!

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Thanks for sharing!!! It's amazing and inspiring to see those big agencies inside.

[@AndreasIvan]

Nice insights, thanks for taking us into Ayzenberg's HQ, learning a lot.

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Awesome! love it! a few audio issues and a little over exposure in some parts, but all together very insightful and delivers a big picture fine detail look at the new world of advertising! Looking forward to the next tour!

[@saulmogaka5475]

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Hope to see more advertising agency walkarounds, this was special.

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Casual, super informative, perfect length! Looking forward for the next one already! (again, this is so addictive)

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Yoonji Jung hi Yoonji. Glad you like it.

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Wow, that was awesome!! As always, amazing content with the most unique insight. I particularly enjoyed how Matt gave the rundown of who does what and how things worked in the different departments. Please, more of this!! Thank you for such great content!!

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Great tour. I especially loved being able to hear how they are forward thinkers and also the little snippets of their operations. Good stuff

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Incredible .....Thanks again !!!! Keep these coming!!!!! Please....

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its very true that you are making remarkable contributions to our ever-morphing field Chris. individually you are a rare connoisseur of taste. Blind is an industry leader in motion graphic design and all up modern communications. and The Futur is binding leading creators and thinkers together. hope you feel the vibes, man. cuz they are good.

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Matt Bretz lots of love Matt! Hope you are reading some of the comments. Great job! It was an honor to have you as our first tour. The bar has been set really high.

[@JR-wt9ky]

Great concept for a series, would love to see other studios in future.

[@damian_b_]

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[@larryhan485]

You guys do so much. As a graphic art student you offer me direct access into the industry and I am so grateful.

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Michael Tran aww. You're welcome Michael. It's nice someone notices.

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Really interesting to see such a diverse array of things going in within a very plainly labelled "Advertising Agency". I guess it proves that diversifying your services will keep you in high demand. It looks like a fantastic place to work. More of this please Chris and TheFutur team!

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S Cameron you are getting a deep inside look into the inner workings of the Ayzenberg group. We are grateful for their generosity in sharing with us.

[@micahhansen]

Wow this is awesome! Love seeing behind the scenes at these places.

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Micah Hansen we plan on producing more.

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Love the series. Can't wait for more.

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Marvelous video! I think it's a very inspiring video for starting designers but also for designers who have some years on their track record just to see how much the world is evolving! This is top notch content!!!

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Anna Bez ❤

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And thanks to Ayzenberg Group for the tour and insights shared in the video!

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Øyvind Hermans thank you!! Glad you appreciate our effort.

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@CHRIS DO, wow,this was properly packaged, staff like this should be on tv and netflix. Great Intro although the lower thirds and end board seems to be off in-terms of color but the way you guys packed this is really really Good.I think can be classified as Design sides version of Mtv Cribs but also with an educational touch. Great Job Guys, would love to see more of this type of New TV series!

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I agree with you about the design being inconsistent. We are segmenting our shows and don't have enough resources to handle everything.

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More videos like this PLEASE!

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Love the camera movement! Great start for Snapshot.

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Brent Guzman thanks!

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You guys are taking your channel to the next level really. It's an inspiration for me as to how you guys are continuously evolving. Thank you so much Chris and team!!!. Can't wait to see more of such content.

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love this! always love to see different cultures of the agencies/studios. would love to see design studios (something similar to dn&co in London. not too sure about your area though) or even brand strategy agencies as well but I guess it's already on your list huh? :)

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Claudia Efata it is. We get agencies we know first. Then we get others that will be more challenging.

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felt like an educational version of MTV Cribs lol another great episode! thanks guys :)

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The space si amazing and massive.

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cetriya we were definitely part of the team.

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Cliff Me we can ask.

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please do. They seem to have a really dope and creative work space. Of course not as dope as Blind...hehe....you know...but still interesting nonetheless

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Cliff Me let's see what they say.

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what did Troika say?

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you're very welcome.

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Love the new intro.

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awesome show. keep it up!

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Great idea to do this Chris! This studio is very impressive.

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Michael Jones they've created an amazing space to be creative in.

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Very inspirational channel ! Keep up the good work guys!

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Great video, very insightful

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Excellent.....! I enjoyed that

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Great tour!

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Phresh Ideas + Designs we will. Count on it. They just take more time to coordinate and produce.

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Inspiring!

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I really love this... This video activates strategic visionary imagination,.Good work👍

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Samuel Kamugisha that's what we were hoping it would do.

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Loving the new intro and episode!

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Andy An the channel will continue to evolve.

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Thank you for sharing!

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Of course!

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Big fan of this vid! What's the end track that sounds like Walk On By of Isaac Hayes?

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SoFlyIndustry that's the song but it's been remixed by Aaron.

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Aaron who? do you have a link ? It is really good.

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I'd love to see more of these

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Leo Young you're going to get your wish.

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I love the environment

[@blingstalker]

This has such few likes that I'm almost in shock. Nevertheless, I truly loved this video and the conversations. Especially, on advertising now, influencers and the possibility of creating viral content that is successful. The future seems limitless when you have ideas, skill and exploration.

[@thefutur]

we were a little surprised at how few people tuned into this episode. we're giving you back stage access to a hot, independent agency. who else is doing that.

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Very cool insight on how a big agency is run. Houston has very small shops. I guess it's time to buy into core and start building my own little version.

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Watching Min's work animated in this title sequence #snapshot ....truly awesome.....got me thinking I should give motion design a #shot sometime

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don't limit yourself. motion can be very exciting.

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I know this has been a couple of years. I loved your video and it did inspire me. Have you thought about going back to see how the company has changed?

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We thought this would be much more popular but since there wasn’t enough interest we didn’t do any more.

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@@thefutur Please do more tours of studios and advertising agencies. Would love to see more of this stuff.

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Inspiring

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Very Very good. Thank you for the video guys. Not everyday we can see what and how they do it. And last thing What grab my attention. Doesn't matter how good is your product you have to have good support if you don't have good support your product sucks. And these guys taking very seriously their support ans social engagement. Thank you Chris, Thank you Futur

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Svetozar Dimitrov you're welcome.

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Long time fan, first time caller, haha. So I'm interested in getting in the realm of making video game trailers, like the one you guys made for Xbox last year and this year. What software should I start to teach myself? Should I focus in 3D modeling software or more of videography assignments to understand the fundamentals of video production/advertising? Any and all advice would be great! Thanks!

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learn design, composition, compositing, color correction, 3d VFX.

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Thank you.

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You just keep raising the bar

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Damn.. one day!! one day!!! one day!!!! I'll be playing in the big league of our industry.. developing a big agency is not easy but I'll keep focusing on the fact that it not impossible! one day!!!!!

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this was dope.

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The last shot should have been on a drone. As it leaves, it then pulls up to a big aerial viewpoint.

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Black Balloon that would have been. I've.

[@mr_jeff2932]

An education in the industry of advertising.

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Mr_ Jeff its history in the making as the ad landscape is changing right before our eyes. We will continue talking to several agencies with differing philosophies. Let's see who figured out the strategy moving forward.

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Ahmad Assaf won't stop. Can't stop.

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because you can't. you won't. you don't stop!!!

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can i work in your agency? I am graphic Designer, Team Leader, Photographer, and Film Student.

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you just need to apply when we are hiring.

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how do i know this that you guys are hiring people?

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Is that a Pete Fowler character in the entrance?

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Oh, Tim Biskup

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This Design Life you got it.

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Wh came from the gene machine?

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than is cool

[@xXfsasXx]

This makes me want to consider a different career choice. I don't want to be a tool of consumerism.

[@thefutur]

barry badonde can you explain more?

[@xXfsasXx]

Just to preface this was a great video and I love the content you guys create (for free nonetheless!). I've been intending to apply at similar agencies to this one (maybe a little smaller) I'm questioning whether I want my job to involve convincing people to buy stuff that they don't necessarily need, whether I want to produce work for clients who care more about the bottom dollar than the impact the work has on a personal or societal level. Basically I want to my career to have a positive impact on the world, sometimes I feel some of these bigger agencies lose their moral foundation in search of the bigger paycheck. Maybe I've just been watching too much Bill Hicks xD.

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He reminds me the guy from the big lebowski movie. Especially when he said I'm gonna have to kill you now. "YOU'RE ENTERING A WORLD OF PAIN CHRIS"

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Lol MADMEN in the future

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My agency has a dress code. Dress like a slob, you're out.

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Masya Allah

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This is one of the worst agencies in all of CA. Don't be fooled by this video.

[@thefutur]

Why do you say this?