Shootsta
The brand-governed video editing service for Chicago enterprise teams making video at scale without the agency markup.
- Best for
- Chicago enterprise teams producing 10+ videos per month
- Pricing
- Annual subscription on prepaid video credits
- Turnaround
- 48-hour first cut
- Scale
- 70,000+ videos delivered, 920+ brands served
- Brand governance
- Brand kit locked at the editor level for each output
Shootsta runs Chicago accounts from its US office in San Diego, with editors across Sydney, London, Singapore, San Diego. Your team films with a Shootsta Kit or its own cameras and uploads the footage to the platform. A regional editor sends a clean first cut back within 48 hours. A town hall filmed in the Loop on Tuesday can be cut overnight in London and be ready for review on Wednesday morning, Central time.
When your team cannot film a piece itself, you can book a videographer from Shootsta's US network, which covers Chicago. Shoots are priced on their own, while editing, animation and creative work run on your credits. Rush turnaround inside 48 hours is available and quoted on its own.
For Chicago buyers, the case rests on brand control and cost per video. Your brand kit is locked at the editor level, which covers logos, fonts, colors, lower thirds, music and intro and outro graphics. That keeps hundreds of videos consistent, so your marketing or comms team no longer chases every revision. Customers report 50-60% lower per-video cost vs. agencies, and the saving repeats on every comms, training and sales video you make.
Named customers include LinkedIn, Qantas, CBRE, Schneider Electric, AstraZeneca, PwC, and Stryker, among 920+ brands. In the US, DUAL North America uses Shootsta as an extension of its small marketing team. The team shoots its own footage and gets finished video back in as little as 48 hours. Customers rate the work 4.9/5 on average across post-delivery surveys.
The best fit is a Chicago enterprise team in manufacturing, insurance, financial services, healthcare or professional services. That team makes comms, marketing, training and sales video across business units, and each piece has to look like it came from one studio. If you need a full crew rather than self-shoot, Shootsta Premier handles end-to-end production with the same brand controls.
When to choose
Choose Shootsta if editing throughput is your bottleneck and brand consistency across hundreds of videos matters more than one bespoke hero film. It also fits when you want the agency markup out of your recurring Chicago video work.