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The Creative Studio for Changemakers.

Storybeat is a direct-to-client, design and build creative studio with a deep catalog of award-winning video, TV, photography, website design, podcasting, and original music production.

From foundations and nonprofits, to consumer brands and small businesses, we help our clients distill their stories into compelling and effective fundraising, advocacy, and cause marketing tools.

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We produce videos and photography.

We thrill our clients and they love working with us.

We get to the heart of their story and make their audience care about it.

We produce podcasts, websites, and music.

Sometimes, we suggest it's best not to make anything yet.

    We're a multimedia creative studio that creates fundraising, advocacy, and marketing tools for nonprofits, artists, and progressive brands.

    We help distill your story and discover the most effective ways to share it.

    We help distill your story and discover the most effective ways to share it.

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    nonprofit & brand mission video

    Fundraising, advocacy, and cause marketing tools for nonprofits, foundations, and progressive-leaning brands. Built to promote shared values around social good, empathy, and connection.
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    in the studio with heart's nancy wilson

    When I learned that rock legend Nancy Wilson was discussing a collaboration with Austin guitar great Eric Tessmer, I invited them down to my Austin studio.

    We chose three cover tunes to record, including Elbow's Grounds for Divorce (thank you Neville Farmer for the idea). This video takes you behind the scenes as we workshop the arrangement, record the track, and reflect on the process.

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    clubhouse: music up close
    Tiny Desk meets Austin City Limits: Performances by Suzanne Vega, Pale Waves, Larkin Poe, Arkells, Nancy Wilson and dozens more, filmed in our Austin studio.
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    tribute to a corner store

    Farm to Market was for many people the heart and soul of our south Austin community.  For nearly fifteen years we had enjoyed the convenience and community of a walkable and well-curated grocery on South Congress. But more importantly, its steady presence in a rapidly evolving city gave our community a sense of place. Rising rents and a changing neighborhood led its proprietor, Peg McCoy, to sell the business in 2020. Its closure was symbolic and felt by many as a deeply spiritual loss.

    As a personal passion project, I conspired with its employees to quietly collect video messages from longtime customers in the weeks leading up to the store's final day. On behalf of the dozens who participated I presented Peg with this edited tribute on Thanksgiving Day 2020, her last in business.