YOUR STORIES.
WELL TOLD.

The genesis for Campsite began when the company’s founders met at a production facility in Newport Beach where they all worked together; one day, they sat in a room with a white board and listed the core values that were most important to them in production. They discovered that the common thread on all of their lists was storytelling.

“I thought about the different situations and places where people hear or tell stories,” says Campsite’s Executive Producer and co-founder Marcus Vadas of the company’s origins. “Among the places we listed, campsite was one that I thought evoked an image of people sitting around a fire sharing stories.”

Whether a segment for Shatterproof tackling a mother dealing with her son’s addiction or a Herbalife spot where Gold Cup champion Jonathan dos Santos shares the advice his father told him when he was a child, the company’s creative mandate is to tell personal stories for brands that connect to people. In other words, Campsite’s content crafts stories that are less about the brand itself and more about what the brand stands for — in terms of how the brand wants to impact their audience.

From directors, producers and cinematographers to editors, animators and sound designers, Campsite has cultivated relationships with talent in all areas of production and leverages these relationships to assemble the best creative teams for each project. “First and foremost, we like to make sure we surround ourselves with great people,” says Executive Producer and co-founder Dave Paine. “We take our past experiences in our different fields and combine those efforts together so we can be a rich, comprehensive voice for the brands we work with.” Paine’s decade- long tenure at the action sports network Fuel TV for instance has positioned Campsite to reveal the more intimate details when it comes to telling stories about athletes; this personal approach is evident in Campsite’s work with such athletes as Heather Jackson, Jonathan dos Santos and Gyasi Bardes. The spot Campsite produced for KIA’s 2019 Golf Classic was featured by BestAdsOnTV as one of the best commercials of the week. A ten-year tribute to the women who have competed in the KIA Classic, its star Jaye Marie Green, who recently had a career-best tie for fifth in the U.S. Women’s Open, had this to say of her experience working with our creative team: “Not only was the team at Campsite really fun to work with, but in the end, they produced a really beautiful piece that everyone involved, especially me, was very proud of.”

Campsite’s Sound of Passion long-form piece for MagnaFlow starring racing legend Mario Andretti has attracted critical acclaim from top motorsports outlets, including Racer Magazine and BangShift, which hailed it as a “miniature masterpiece.” “We always wanted this to be more than an ad,” says director and Campsite co-founder Logan Hendricks. “With my background in documentary filmmaking, I saw this as an opportunity to create a small portrait of a man who fully explored his passion and remained committed to it for his entire life.” Notably, the Sound of Passion spot was one of 100 commercials shortlisted on this year’s Emmy nominating ballot for Outstanding Commercial and Hendricks was admitted into the prestigious Television Academy as a commercial director on the strength of his work.

Campsite’s partnership of three also brings an extensive network together at the client’s disposal for any given project. “Today’s lean budgets can be challenging for many other production companies,” says Paine. “But because of who we are and because of who we work with, we know how accommodate our client’s budgets no matter the size and still yield an awesome product that you can see in the strength of the content we produce. Campsite is versatile, adaptive and ready to go.”