Rise Media
Rise Media is a New York-based full-service real estate marketing production company serving luxury residential agents and brokerages across the Northeast US with photography, video, floor plans, copywriting, virtual staging, and AI-powered digital advertising.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2009
- HeadquartersNew York, United States
- Headcount101–250
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Rise Media does
Rise Media Inc. is a New York-based full-service real estate marketing production company serving luxury residential agents and brokerages across the Northeast US (New York City, the Hamptons, Long Island, Connecticut, Boston) with additional reach into Florida. The company originated with deep expertise in Australian real estate marketing before establishing in New York in 2009, and over time built a comprehensive service portfolio spanning professional photography, video production (including drone aerial work and Rise Reels social slideshows), floor plans (2D/3D, color, on-site measurement), copywriting, virtual staging, dusk photography and digital dusk conversion, summer-like retouching, virtual home renovations, and 3D renderings from architectural CAD files. The Rise Media Portal serves as a client-facing ordering, proofing, and permanent asset storage workflow tool.
The company's technology layer includes the Shine AI-powered marketing automation platform (which auto-generates social campaigns across Facebook, Instagram and banner networks by pulling listing data) and the broader Intelligent Marketing Automation system that integrates with the Sellers Dashboard for real-time reporting of syndication data from Zillow, Trulia, Streeteasy, and Realtor.com, plus an AI-driven lead capture and nurturing pipeline that routes qualified leads into agent CRMs. These tools apply computer vision, generative AI for campaign creative, and process automation but represent a relatively thin, marketing-led AI stack with no disclosed proprietary models, patents, or external validation.
Rise Media monetizes primarily through one-time per-project fees for production work (photography sessions from $165-$2,197 per package depending on tier and brokerage discount) with additional subscription-style recurring revenue from the Shine platform and digital marketing services. Its go-to-market is hybrid: enterprise channel partnerships with luxury brokerages (Compass, Christie's International across NYC and Eastern Long Island, Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, BHS-USA, Alta Real Estate) drive anchor volume with negotiated brokerage-level pricing tiers, while a self-service direct website ordering portal and phone/email sales capture the long tail of individual luxury agents.
Rise Media firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Rise Media
- Legal name
- Rise Media Inc.
- Website
- https://rise-media.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2009
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 101–250 employees
- Short description
- Rise Media is a New York-based full-service real estate marketing production company serving luxury residential agents and brokerages across the Northeast US with photography, video, floor plans, copywriting, virtual staging, and AI-powered digital advertising.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Rise Media industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Real Estate Marketing Services
- NAICS
- Motion Picture and Video Production (51211), Photographic Services (54192), Motion Picture and Video Industries (5121)
- SIC
- Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Photography & Photo Production (BPAFAIAF)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Real Estate, Architecture & Hospitality Marketing Video (MPADAEAO), Photography & Still Production (Stills, Product, Lifestyle) (MPAAAMAI), Dailies, Ingest & Media Prep (On-Set/Near-Set) (MPAHAAAE)
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Where Rise Media is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- New York
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices3 records
Markets served
Rise Media business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Real Estate Photography Services: One-time fees for professional photography sessions. Pricing is volume-based and determined at the brokerage level. Minimum 4 photos per session. Additional retouching available for $25 per photo per round.
- Videography Services: One-time fees for property videos, agent videos, drone videos, and social content. First video revision included; additional edits billed at $150/hour.
- Floor Plan Services: One-time fees for measured floor plans, floor plan redraws, and precision CAD deliverables. Pricing varies by square footage tiers.
- Virtual Staging Services: Fees for digitally adding furniture to properties. Includes consultation with design specialists and selection from furniture catalogs.
- 3D Rendering Services: One-time fees for creating digital renderings of properties not yet built, based on architect's CAD files and floor plans.
- Digital Marketing Services: Targeted digital advertising products for real estate agents and brokers. Services include SEM, property websites, and remarketing list building.
- Shine AI Marketing Platform: AI-powered social campaign automation. Automated campaigns across Facebook, Instagram and banner networks with real-time analytics delivered via Seller's Dashboard.
- Post-Production Editing Services: Additional editing services including dusk conversion, summer-like retouching, furniture removal, and virtual renovations at per-item rates.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Standard Package - 5 photos + floor plan up to 1500 SF |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Video Package - Property Video |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Compass Package 1 |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Compass Package 2 |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Daniel Gale Masterpiece Listing Package |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Christie's NYC Bundle |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Christie's Basic Package |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Christie's Elevated Package |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Christie's Luxury Package |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Per-service pricing (General) |
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | First Order Discount |
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | Welcome Back Discount |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Alta Real Estate Complimentary Media |
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | Volume-based pricing at brokerage level |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels3 records
Marketing channels6 records
Rise Media product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Rise Media is a full-service real estate production company providing professional photography, videography, drone footage, floor plans, copywriting, virtual staging, 3D renderings, and AI-powered digital marketing campaigns for residential and commercial real estate agents and brokers, primarily serving luxury markets in the Northeast and Southeast US.
Product overview
Rise Media is a full-service real estate production company offering a comprehensive suite of marketing content services for luxury properties. The offering operates as a service portfolio rather than a unified software platform, organized into four main categories: Real Estate Marketing (Photography, Video Production, Drones, Floor Plans, Copywriting, Property Websites), Digital Marketing (Targeted Advertising, SEM, Lead Generation, Sellers Dashboard), Technology Solutions (Intelligent Marketing Automation, Shine AI platform), and Photo & Video services. Core services include professional photography with advanced retouching, video production including drone footage and Rise Reels, floor plans with multiple format options, and virtual staging/renovation capabilities. The AI-powered Shine platform automates social media campaigns across Facebook and Instagram, while the Intelligent Marketing Automation system uses Big Data and AI to launch digital ad campaigns. Additional products include virtual staging, dusk photography/conversion, summer-like retouching, 3D renderings, Rise 360 virtual tours, and the Rise Media Portal for client asset management and approval workflows.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Shine: AI-powered social campaigns - an online marketing automation solution for real estate agents powered by AI that enhances the efficiency of online advertising.
- Rise 360
- Rise Reels
Products and services
- Real Estate Photography Professional real estate photography services with advanced retouching capabilities for residential and commercial property listings, designed for real estate agents and brokers marketing properties.
- Video Production Professional video production for properties, agents, and social media content, including property videos, drone videos, custom videos, and Rise Reels slideshows for real estate professionals.
- Drone Aerial Services Aerial drone photography and videography providing bird's eye perspective of properties, surrounding grounds, and proximity to landmarks for real estate listings.
- Floor Plans Accurate floor plan services including on-site measurement, 2D/3D/color/black-and-white formats, marketing floor plans, site surveys, precision CAD drawings, and redraws from architectural plans for real estate listings.
- Virtual Staging Digital furniture addition service that transforms empty or outdated properties into modern homes by digitally adding furniture from an online catalog; also offers furniture removal for de-cluttering.
- 3D Renderings Digital property visualizations created from architectural CAD files and landscape plans, showing buyers what properties will look like before construction completion, with options for vehicles, yachts, and people.
- Copywriting Professional property copywriting that creates awareness, captures marketable features, and promotes possibilities in long, quarter-page, short, and video voice-over versions for real estate listings.
- Property Websites Dedicated property-specific webpages integrating all marketing elements including photography, videos, floor plans, and property descriptions for customer access.
- Shine AI Marketing Platform AI-powered marketing automation platform that automatically pulls listing data (photos, headlines, copy) to launch and manage digital ad campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, and banner networks for real estate agents.
- Rise 360 Virtual Inspection Virtual inspection product offering 3D panoramic tours of properties providing a 24/7 open home experience for buyers without requiring physical appointments.
- SEM for Real Estate Search engine marketing services including Google AdWords and Bing Advertising campaigns for select real estate clients.
- Digital Marketing Services Targeted digital advertising services for residential and commercial real estate agents and brokers, including custom plans, remarketing lists, and buyer segmentation.
Quantifiable outcome
- 60% decrease in marketing costs for agents using Shine platform vs. standard Facebook boosts
- +7 more outcomes
Companies that use Rise Media
Customer profileNamed customers7 records
Segments3 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
Rise Media technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration8 records
AI capability14 records
Feature5 records
Rise Media partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Compass (Long Island)coreCompass has partnered with Rise Media to offer two curated packages for photography and videography for Compass Long Island agents. Packages include pricing tiers with specific inclusions. Rise Media serves as a preferred vendor for Compass agents in the Long Island region.
- Christie's International Real Estate (NYC)coreChristie's has partnered with Rise Media to offer bundled photography and floor plan packages for NYC properties. A 10% discount applies to the entire order including additional services.
- Christie's International Real Estate (Eastern Long Island/Hamptons)coreChristie's Eastern Long Island has partnered with Rise Media to offer three packages (Basic, Elevated, Luxury) curated for luxury property marketing. Discounts range from 10-15% based on package tier.
- Daniel Gale Sotheby's International RealtycoreDaniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty partnered with Rise Media to offer Masterpiece Listing Packages showcasing luxury listings. The $1,240 package includes comprehensive marketing coverage.
- BHS-USAminorBHS-USA marketing division partners with Rise Media for virtual staging, furniture removal, virtual renovation, dusk conversion, and summer retouching services for BHS agents.
- Alta Real EstateminorAlta Real Estate offers complimentary media services through Rise Media to qualifying listings, including 4-still photography sessions and floor plan redraws or measurements.
Scale indicators3 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Rise Media competitors and assessment
Company assessmentEmerging players
- Matterport: 3D capture and virtual tour platform used widely in real estate listings. Directly comparable to Rise 360 virtual inspection and adjacent to the broader visual marketing stack.
- Luxury Presence: Digital marketing platform and websites for luxury real estate agents and teams; overlaps in property websites, copywriting and digital marketing services with a SaaS-led rather than production-led GTM.
- Adwerx: Automated digital advertising platform for real estate agents on Facebook, Instagram and display. Directly comparable AI/automated ad-campaign layer to Rise's Shine platform.
Direct peers
- BoxBrownie: Real estate photo editing, virtual staging, virtual renovation, and 3D renderings provider competing across Rise's entire post-production and AI-enhanced retouching stack.
- HomeJab: On-demand real estate photography and video platform with nationwide vetted photographer network. Closely comparable GTM of brokerage channel partnerships and direct-to-agent ordering across photography, video, drone, and 3D tours.
- Real Estate Media (REM): Real estate photography, video, drone, 3D tours, floor plans and virtual staging vendor serving brokers and agents nationally. Directly overlapping service catalog and brokerage channel model.
- PhotoUp: Real estate photo editing, virtual staging, virtual twilight and video editing vendor. Direct competitor in post-production/editing layer that overlaps Rise's retouching and virtual services.
- VHT Studios: National real estate photography, video, drone, floor plans and virtual staging provider with nationwide network of photographers. Direct competitor in the same product category serving the same agent/brokerage customer base.
Regional players
- Cinemax Realty Media: Real estate photography and video production company based in NY/NJ serving a comparable luxury agent and brokerage segment. Geographic overlap on Long Island/NYC with similar production-led delivery model.
Broad incumbents
- Compass internal marketing tools: As one of Rise's largest channel partners, Compass also operates proprietary marketing tools (listing media, websites, ad tools) at platform scale that could displace third-party vendors. Important comparable for the brokerage-side marketing stack Rise plugs into.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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Valuation estimate
Rise Media leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles1 record
Rise Media funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Rise Media M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about Rise Media
What does Rise Media do?
Rise Media is a full-service real estate production company providing professional photography, videography, drone footage, floor plans, copywriting, virtual staging, 3D renderings, and AI-powered digital marketing campaigns for residential and commercial real estate agents and brokers, primarily serving luxury markets in the Northeast and Southeast US.
Is Rise Media a public or private company?
Rise Media is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.
When was Rise Media founded?
Rise Media was founded in 2009. It employs 101 to 250 people.
Where is Rise Media based?
Rise Media is headquartered in New York, United States, in the North America region.
How does Rise Media make money?
Eight revenue lines are on record. Real Estate Photography Services are the primary driver. The others are videography Services, floor Plan Services, virtual Staging Services, 3D Rendering Services, digital Marketing Services, shine AI Marketing Platform and post-Production Editing Services.
Who are Rise Media's main competitors?
Emerging players on record are Matterport, Luxury Presence and Adwerx. Direct peers are BoxBrownie, HomeJab, Real Estate Media (REM), PhotoUp and VHT Studios. Cinemax Realty Media is listed as a regional player. Compass internal marketing tools is listed as a broad incumbent.
Does Rise Media have an API?
No public API is recorded for Rise Media.
What industry is Rise Media in?
Rise Media's product category is Real Estate Marketing Services. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPAFAIAF, Photography & Photo Production, with a secondary code of MPADAEAO, Real Estate, Architecture & Hospitality Marketing Video. Its NAICS code is 51211 and its SIC code is 7812.