About Current Studio
One person owns the outcome.
A video marketing partner in Auckland, founded by Mitchell Carlyle. The person who writes your strategy is on set, then in your ads account.
No account managers
You talk to the director. There is nobody in between to brief.
Strategy and delivery, same hands
What the ad account learns changes what gets shot next month.
Built on production
Three years running MC Media Studios before Current Studio existed.
Auckland based
Working with clients across New Zealand. Travel is scoped up front.
The model
One director. One point of contact.
Most marketing agencies hand your brief to an account manager, who hands it to a creative team, who hands it to a media buyer. By the time it reaches someone with an opinion, something has been lost.
Current Studio is built the other way around. One person writes the strategy, directs the shoot and runs the ads the following week. That caps how many clients can be taken on at once. It is also why the work stays consistent.
The founder
From production company to partner.
Mitchell Carlyle founded Current Studio after three years running MC Media Studios, producing work for clients including Huawei, Tegel, RE/MAX, NZICC, the University of Auckland, and Smith Sports Shoes.
The shift from production company to partner was deliberate. Clients kept asking him to own more of the outcome than a production company is set up to own, so he built a model that lets him: strategy before the shoot, distribution after it, instead of handing over files and hoping.
In short
"The work is only as good as the strategy behind it."
How we start
Work directly with the person who owns the outcome.
A small number of businesses are accepted onto a Current Studio retainer each quarter. The first call costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If the fit is not there, we will say so.
Book a strategy call