San Francisco · Video Production
Who are the best video production companies in San Francisco?
Luma Creative scores highest on our published rubric for San Francisco video production, ahead of IQvideo and LV Productions, across fourteen vendors scored. Criminal holds first organic position on this query but carries no reviewable Google profile, so it is listed unscored.
Video Production companies in San Francisco, scored
Each vendor below is scored 0 to 100 on five dimensions, weighted for this category. The weights were set before the scoring ran and apply to every vendor here. A dimension we could not verify is left unscored rather than counted as zero, and the remaining weights are renormalised, so no vendor is penalised for a gap in our research.
| Vendor | Rating quality (25) | Review depth (25) | Service depth (25) | Price transparency (10) | Operational proof (15) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luma Creative | 100 | 100 | 92 | 100 | 100 | 98 |
| IQvideo - San Francisco Video Production | 100 | 58 | 100 | 0 | 100 | 80 |
| LV Productions | 100 | 63 | 20 | 100 | 80 | 68 |
| Alan Cash Video | 100 | 79 | 46 | 0 | 60 | 65 |
| Explainly | 100 | 50 | 23 | 100 | 60 | 62 |
| OpenLight Films | 100 | 51 | 46 | 0 | 80 | 61 |
| Focused Journey Media | 100 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 55 |
| Kasey Bruce Media | 100 | 67 | 3 | 0 | 80 | 55 |
| STMNT Studios | 100 | 56 | 22 | 0 | 60 | 54 |
| The Producer's Loft Studio | 100 | 50 | 9 | 0 | 80 | 52 |
| Definition Films | 100 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 51 |
| Caron Modern Media | 100 | 64 | 29 | 0 | 20 | 51 |
| Gorilla Creative | 100 | 18 | 30 | 0 | 80 | 49 |
| ASlyFilm | 100 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 43 |
How this compares to Google’s own local pack for San Francisco video production
Google’s local pack for “video production companies san francisco” on 2026-08-01, in the order Google showed it:
- Luma Creative — 5.0 across 101 reviews, pack position 1
- IQvideo — 5.0 across 57 reviews, pack position 2
Our order differs from Google’s
We agree with Google on the top position and differ further down the list. The reasons are given in each vendor's section below.
Why each vendor placed where it did
Luma Creative · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 98 Google reviews as of 2026-08-01 · 548 Market St #87563, San Francisco, CA 94104
Holds first position in Google's local pack for the head term and scores at the top of every dimension we could verify: 98 reviews with a perfect five-star distribution and nothing below, 244 published itemised services spanning the full production chain from concept development and scriptwriting through casting, crew, editing, motion graphics and sound design, a published starting price for live event streaming, and all five operational checks passed. Fifteen or more years in business per its own listing.
IQvideo - San Francisco Video Production · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 57 Google reviews as of 2026-08-01 · 150 Sutter St #52, San Francisco, CA 94104
Holds second position in Google's local pack with a 5.0 rating across 57 reviews, the second-deepest verified review base in the category. We have not yet audited its published service list or pricing, so it is scored on two of five dimensions and its total should be read as provisional rather than as a ceiling.
LV Productions · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 62 Google reviews as of 2026-08-01 · 415 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA 94111, United States
Video production company on Jackson Street in San Francisco, publishing 54 itemised services and a starting price for aerial videography.
Alan Cash Video · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 77 Google reviews as of 2026-08-01 · Oakland, CA 94611
Oakland-based video production company covering the Bay Area, with 121 published services and the deepest photo library of any production company in this index at 304 images. Holds organic position on the San Francisco event live-streaming query.
Explainly · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 49 Google reviews as of 2026-08-02 · 85 Liberty Ship Wy #114, Sausalito, CA 94965
Explainer and animated video specialist based in Sausalito, serving the Bay Area. One of only two video production companies in this index publishing a price a buyer can read before making contact.
OpenLight Films · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 50 Google reviews as of 2026-08-02 · 400 Clementina St #818, San Francisco, CA 94103
San Francisco video production company in SoMa, publishing 122 itemised services across the production chain.
Focused Journey Media · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 80 Google reviews as of 2026-08-01
Bay Area video production company with 80 verified reviews and an unblemished rating record.
Kasey Bruce Media · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 66 Google reviews as of 2026-08-01 · 2001 Fillmore St #2, San Francisco, CA 94115
Video production company on Fillmore Street in San Francisco.
STMNT Studios · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 55 Google reviews as of 2026-08-02 · 888 O'Farrell St #103, San Francisco, CA 94109
San Francisco video production company and studio space, publishing 58 itemised services. Its review themes centre on the space and sets as much as on production, so it is bought both ways.
The Producer's Loft Studio · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 49 Google reviews as of 2026-08-02 · 2773 Folsom St Apt 101, San Francisco, CA 94110
Production studio in the Mission, San Francisco, registered across eight Google categories and publishing 25 itemised services. Its review themes are dominated by the space and the crew rather than by finished production work.
Definition Films · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 65 Google reviews as of 2026-08-01
Bay Area video production company registered across seven Google categories.
Caron Modern Media · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 63 Google reviews as of 2026-08-01
Bay Area video production company publishing 77 itemised services.
Gorilla Creative · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 18 Google reviews as of 2026-08-02 · 535 Mission St Fl 14, Suite 1681, San Francisco, CA 94105
San Francisco corporate and commercial video production company in SoMa, covering brand films, recruiting video, customer testimonials, investor video, software demos and product video, with animation and motion graphics in house. Publishes 79 itemised services and carries the deepest content and organic-search footprint of any production company in this index.
ASlyFilm · video production in San Francisco · 5.0 across 45 Google reviews as of 2026-08-02
Bay Area film and video production company registered across seven Google categories, with an unblemished record across 45 reviews and the largest photo library of any vendor in this index at over 3,700 images.
Also serving San Francisco, listed without a score
These vendors are genuinely active in video production in San Francisco but could not be scored, so they are listed rather than ranked. An unscored listing is a gap in verifiable public evidence, not a negative finding.
Criminal
Holds first organic position on the San Francisco video-production head terms and works with large national accounts, so any honest list of this market has to include it. We located no Google Business Profile, and it is absent from the local pack on both dates we checked, which means every review-based dimension is unscored and it cannot be placed in a rubric ranking. This is a gap in what the company publishes, not a judgement about the work, and we would revise this the moment a profile exists.
Companies kept out of the San Francisco video production ranking, and why
These businesses appear in the same Google categories or search results but sell a different service. Several would score near the top on review depth or published service count, which is exactly why the reason for each exclusion is published rather than left to a filter nobody can see.
Industrial Light & Magic
It is a feature-film visual effects and animation facility, not a commercial video production vendor. A marketing team commissioning a brand film cannot buy from it, so ranking it against companies that sell that service would compare two different businesses. It is documented here because it carries a film-production category listing in San Francisco and would otherwise look like an omission.
How this category is weighted, and why
Video production is a considered, relationship-led purchase with a wide scope range, so price transparency drops to 10: a published starting rate tells a buyer very little about a project that could run from a single testimonial to a multi-day commercial. Review depth rises to 25 to match rating quality, because production is bought often enough by marketing teams that a deep review base is a meaningful signal here in a way it is not in conference AV.
| Dimension | Weight | How it is scored |
|---|---|---|
| Rating quality | 25 | score = (mean / 5) x 100 x (1 - share of ratings below 4 stars). A vendor with a published mean but no rating breakdown is scored on the mean alone and flagged. |
| Review depth | 25 | score = (this vendor's review count / the highest review count in this category) x 100. Normalised within the category on purpose: a specialist with 20 reviews in a narrow category is not behind a generalist with 100 in a broad one. |
| Service depth | 25 | score = (this vendor's count of published, itemised services / the highest count in this category) x 100, taken from the services block of the Google Business Profile. |
| Price transparency | 10 | score = 100 where the vendor publishes a rate or a starting price a buyer can read without contacting them, 0 where a fully audited profile publishes none. Unscored where we have not audited the profile. |
| Operational proof | 15 | Five checks worth 20 points each: profile claimed by the owner; a street address published; the on-site services attribute set; 25 or more photos; three or more Google categories. |
What video production covers in San Francisco
San Francisco video production covers corporate and brand films, product and promotional work, explainers, testimonials, event coverage and live streaming, and most buyers are choosing a partner for a project rather than renting a piece of kit. This page scores every video production company we have verified in the San Francisco Bay Area, not only the two Google shows in its local pack for the city head term.
Sources
- Google Business Profile data, checked 2026-08-01: ratings, rating distributions, published service counts, categories, published prices, profile attributes and photo counts.
- Google local pack for “video production companies san francisco”, San Francisco localised, pulled 2026-08-01.
- Vendor websites for scope and years-in-business claims, which are recorded as the vendor’s own claim and labelled as such.