What Wild Card Creative Group does

Wild Card Creative Group is a Culver City, California-based B2B creative agency founded in 2007 that delivers entertainment marketing services to film studios, streaming platforms, and consumer brands. The company originated as a premiere trailer house and has since expanded into a full-service creative operation spanning AV production (trailers and promotional content), design and graphics, social and digital content, strategy, and production services. Its client roster includes Warner Bros. (across multiple 2025-2026 titles), Amazon MGM Studios, Disney, Hulu, HBO, 20th Century Studios, Lightstorm Entertainment, Corona, and Yerba Madre, with work demonstrated across 102+ projects since founding.

The agency's core technical differentiator is a proprietary suite of AI tools developed through an exclusive partnership with Blue Moon AI since 2023. The suite includes ACE (Autonomous Creative Engine), a flagship AI agent for entertainment marketing workflows; VO SIM, which creates sound-alike ADR with security markings to prevent misuse; the Binning Tool, which automatically evaluates and tags uploaded footage for natural-language search; and the Assembly Tool, which generates rough assemblies from scripts at less than half the traditional turnaround time. These tools operate on-premise with no cloud dependencies or third-party training exposure, a meaningful security posture for IP-sensitive studio clients.

The business operates on a project-based professional services model, generating revenue through negotiated client engagements rather than disclosed pricing or retainers. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales driven by portfolio reputation, industry relationships, and award credentials (notably 5 Golden Trailer Awards including Best in Show for Project Hail Mary, and the 2025 ADWEEK Top Creative Tech Company designation). The company is actively expanding beyond pure entertainment into consumer brand verticals while deepening franchise stewardship relationships such as its multi-year Avatar Social Agency-of-Record engagement with Lightstorm Entertainment.

Name

Wild Card Creative Group

Legal name

Wild Card Creative Group

Website

https://wildcardcreativegroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Wild Card Creative Group is a Culver City-based B2B creative agency founded in 2007 that delivers entertainment marketing services—trailers, AV, social, design, and production—to film studios (Warner Bros., Amazon MGM, Disney), streaming platforms (Hulu, HBO), and consumer brands (Corona, Yerba Madre), augmented by proprietary AI tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Entertainment Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (541810)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Allied To Motion Picture Production (7819)

akta.pro primary industry

Integrated Full-Service Creative Agencies (MPAAAAAA)

Keywords

• Entertainment marketing services
• Trailer production agency
• AI creative tools
• Brand storytelling campaigns
• Social media AOR

Headquarters

HQ city

Culver City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Creative Agency Services: Wild Card Creative Group generates revenue through project-based creative agency services including trailer production, AV (audio-visual) services, design and graphics, social and digital content, strategy, and production for entertainment studios and brands. Revenue is derived from client engagements across film, series, documentary, and brand marketing projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Wild Card Creative Group is a Hollywood-based entertainment marketing agency that produces trailers, AV (audio-visual) content, design and graphics, social and digital content, strategy, and full production services for major film studios, streaming platforms, and consumer brands. Service delivery is accelerated by a proprietary suite of AI tools (ACE, VO SIM, BINNING TOOL, ASSEMBLY TOOL) co-developed with Blue Moon AI to automate footage evaluation, script-to-assembly workflows, and voice simulation. The agency's client base spans Warner Bros., Amazon MGM Studios, Disney, Hulu, HBO, 20th Century Studios, Lightstorm Entertainment (Avatar), and brands such as Corona and Yerba Madre.

Product overview

Wild Card Creative Group is a Hollywood-based entertainment marketing agency founded in 2007 that operates on a unified platform-plus-tools architecture. The core offering is creative marketing services for entertainment (film trailers, TV promos, social content) and brands, powered by a proprietary suite of AI tools developed through their Blue Moon AI partnership. The proprietary AI tools—ACE (the flagship AI agent), VO SIM, BINNING TOOL, and ASSEMBLY TOOL—work together to automate content evaluation, footage assembly, and creative workflows, enhancing the agency's service delivery across AV production, social and digital, design and graphics, strategy, partnership consulting, and production.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ACE: A proprietary AI agent developed by Wild Card Creative Group in collaboration with Blue Moon AI, built specifically for entertainment marketing workflows to solve scalability challenges.

Products and services

• Entertainment Marketing Services Full-service B2B creative agency offering spanning trailer and AV production, design and graphics, social and digital content, strategy, partnership consulting, and production for major film studios, streaming platforms, and consumer brands.
• ACE (Autonomous Creative Engine) A proprietary AI agent co-developed by Wild Card Creative Group with Blue Moon AI, purpose-built for entertainment marketing workflows and operating on-premise with no cloud dependencies or third-party training exposure.
• VO SIM AI tool that generates sound-alike ADR (automated dialogue replacement) for ideation and presentation purposes, with built-in visual and metadata security markings to prevent simulated audio from being mistakenly used during finishing.
• BINNING TOOL AI-powered content-evaluation tool that automatically analyzes uploaded footage for meaning, style, dialogue, actors, and objects, enabling natural-language search across hundreds or thousands of hours of content for films, series, and brand libraries.
• ASSEMBLY TOOL Automated assembly tool that converts script-to-rough-cut, using automated tagging and breakdown of footage from the Binning Tool to produce working rough assemblies for series and films in less than half the traditional time.
• Social Studio Dedicated social-first creative studio launched in 2014, extending Wild Card's trailer-house origin into social and digital content production for entertainment IP and brands, including ongoing AOR engagements such as Avatar social for Lightstorm Entertainment.

Quantifiable outcome

• +351,176 net new fans across platforms in 2024 for Avatar franchise
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Blue Moon AIcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024Wild Card Creative Group partnered with Blue Moon AI in 2024 to develop a proprietary suite of AI-powered tools for entertainment marketing workflows. The collaboration involves exclusive work with Jason Yang and Helena Packer of Blue Moon AI since 2023, focused on making the agency faster, operationally smarter, and more cost-efficient. The partnership has resulted in bespoke tools (ACE, VO SIM, Binning Tool, Assembly Tool) uniquely designed for the entertainment marketing industry that operate on-premise with no cloud use or risk of third parties touching content for training purposes.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Droga5 (Accenture Song): Large, award-winning full-service creative agency under Accenture Song that increasingly competes for entertainment marketing and brand storytelling mandates. Larger scale and broader services than Wild Card, but overlapping creative pitch landscape.

Direct peers

• Trailer Park Group: Entertainment marketing agency providing theatrical trailers, TV spots, digital, and content creation for film studios and streamers. Owned by Omnicom's Craft Worldwide; directly comparable in services, scale, and client type to Wild Card.
• Buddha Jones: Hollywood-based creative agency specializing in film, television, and streaming marketing including trailers, TV spots, and digital campaigns. Directly comparable as a similarly sized entertainment creative house serving the same studio client base.
• AV Squad: Boutique entertainment creative agency in LA focused on theatrical trailers, TV spots, and broadcast design for major studios. Highly comparable offering, client roster, and operating model to Wild Card.
• The Refinery: Los Angeles creative agency specializing in film and television marketing, including trailers, TV spots, and digital content. Direct competitor for the same studio marketing budgets.
• MOCEAN: Los Angeles entertainment marketing agency offering creative, strategy, and production for film, television, and streaming. Part of Omnicom, MOCEAN competes head-to-head with Wild Card on studio AV and trailer work.
• Aspect Ratio: Hollywood entertainment creative agency producing trailers, TV spots, and integrated campaigns for major studios and streamers. Closely comparable in scope (AV + social + design) and target clients.
• Zealot: Full-service creative agency producing trailers, broadcast design, digital, and experiential campaigns for entertainment and brand clients. Comparable integrated service model and target client base.
• Landia: Independent entertainment and brand marketing agency producing trailers, social, and integrated campaigns for film studios and consumer brands. Comparable mix of entertainment and brand-side work to Wild Card's recent portfolio.

Emerging players

• Motion Twin (Creative / Production): Boutique creative and production studio focused on entertainment marketing content including sizzle reels, trailers, and digital campaigns. Smaller-scale but directly overlapping service offering and target customer segment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/wildcardcreativegroup
• Xx.com/WildCardCG
• Facebookfacebook.com/WildCardCreativeGroup
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wildcardcreativegroup

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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