What Earthrise Studio does

Earthrise Studio is a London-based, social-first climate content studio founded in 2020 by Alice Aedy, Jack Harries, and Finn Harries. The company produces digital-first documentaries, branded content campaigns, and recurring social content series aimed at mobilizing Gen Z and Millennial audiences around climate issues, and has reached approximately 3.7 million people across 45+ countries via organic social distribution on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn.

The studio's product surface consists of three layers: original documentary series (Mother Nature, Human Nature, Seat At The Table), bespoke branded content campaigns produced for enterprise and NGO partners (Planet Health Stories for Bupa, Green Ideas Book Club for Penguin Modern Classics, Choose Earth for Choose Love), and ongoing social content series (The Download, Reframe, Planting the Future). Underlying technology is a content production and distribution stack built around social platforms rather than a software product, with no proprietary AI/ML components disclosed.

Earthrise operates as a professional services studio, monetizing primarily through bespoke branded content engagements negotiated project-by-project with enterprise and nonprofit clients. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. Customer segments split between purpose-driven enterprise brands (healthcare, media, publishing) and climate-focused NGOs. The company is privately held by its three co-founders, with no institutional funding disclosed, and operates from a single office in Covent Garden, London, with a team of approximately 8 people.

Name

Earthrise Studio

Legal name

Earthrise Studio LTD

Website

https://earthrise.studio

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Earthrise Studio is a London-based social-first climate content studio producing documentaries and branded campaigns for enterprise and NGO clients such as Bupa, YouTube Originals, Penguin, Earth Alliance, and Oxfam, reaching 3.7 million people across 45+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Branded Content Campaigns: Earthrise creates bespoke branded content and documentary projects for enterprise clients. Projects like Planet Health Stories with Bupa, Green Ideas Book Club with Penguin, and Seat At The Table with YouTube Originals demonstrate a model of producing sponsored documentary and social content that reaches millions while serving client marketing objectives.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Earthrise Studio is a social-first content studio that creates digital-first climate documentaries and branded content campaigns for enterprise clients. The studio produces bespoke documentary series, sponsored multimedia campaigns, and ongoing social content series distributed primarily through Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn. It also offers storytelling consultancy and impact campaign services to purpose-driven brands and nonprofit organizations.

Product overview

Earthrise Studio is a social-first climate content studio offering original documentaries, branded content campaigns, and storytelling consultancy services. The company operates as a unified media production studio rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Its core products include documentary series (Mother Nature, Human Nature, Seat At The Table), branded campaigns (Planet Health Stories with Bupa, Green Ideas Book Club with Penguin, Choose Earth with Choose Love), and social content series (The Download, Reframe, Planting the Future). Services include creative strategy, executive production, art direction, social media campaigns, film distribution, event curation, and storytelling consultancy. The company reaches audiences through social media distribution (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn) rather than a software product.

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Products and services

• Mother Nature A short film series commissioned with seven women filmmakers telling stories of women-led climate solutions across Texas, Colombia, and the Maldives, produced for Oxfam Novib.
• Human Nature A documentary series co-created with Earth Alliance exploring the complex relationship between people and the living world, featuring five filmmakers across four continents.
• Planet Health Stories A branded storytelling campaign with Bupa exploring the intersection of personal and planetary health, featuring 9 episodes directed by filmmakers from 6 countries.
• Seat At The Table An 11-part YouTube Originals series exploring the human cost of climate change, following Jack Harries' 100-day trip across the UK to COP26.
• Green Ideas Book Club A multi-media collaboration with Penguin Modern Classics featuring 20 short books about the living world through events, interviews, panels, and social content.
• Choose Earth 2021 A fundraising and storytelling campaign in solidarity with Brazilian indigenous leaders, in collaboration with Choose Love and Voo Da Vespa.
• Storytelling Consultancy Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 93.8% of audience say they feel more connected to people and nature because of Earthrise work
• +5 more outcomes

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Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• BupacoreGTM or Marketing PartnerStorytelling partnership with Bupa exploring the intersection of personal and planetary health. Planet Health Stories brought together 12 filmmakers from 6 countries with combined following of 2.5 million, producing a social campaign and event in London reaching 31.3 million views across channels.
• Earth AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-creation partnership producing Human Nature documentary series exploring relationship between people and living world. Earth Alliance is a platform dedicated to co-creating unbranded, community-led impact campaigns protecting and restoring wild places and advancing planetary health.
• Penguin Modern ClassicscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerMulti-media collaboration with Penguin Modern Classics series bringing 20 short books about the living world through events, interviews, panels and social content. Generated 1,125 panel event sign ups and 12,500 TCM direct sales.
• YouTube OriginalscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerProduction and distribution partnership for Seat At The Table, an 11-part series featuring David Attenborough, Jane Goodall and Barack Obama. The series was distributed on YouTube Originals platform reaching 5.7 million views and raising $343,000 for Count Us In.
• Oxfam NovibcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for Mother Nature documentary series amplifying stories of women around the world leading climate transformation. Oxfam Novib connects grassroots action with systemic change and elevates voices of people most affected by inequality and climate crisis.
• Choose LovecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration for Choose Earth campaign supporting Brazilian indigenous communities. The campaign raised £150,000, reached 40 million people, supported 80 Indigenous leaders across Brazil, and featured 6 indigenous artist collaborations.
• Silverback StudiosminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerProduction partner for Seat At The Table series. Silverback Studios served as co-producers bringing the series to life.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Silverback Films: UK-based natural-history and documentary production studio behind Our Planet and David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Directly comparable as a premium documentary producer in the climate/nature space; notably Silverback Studios already co-produced Earthrise's Seat At The Table.
• Icon Films: Bristol-based independent production company specialising in natural history, wildlife, and adventure documentaries. Comparable to Earthrise in scale and mission — boutique factual production house targeting global streaming and broadcast buyers.
• WaterBear Network: Streaming platform dedicated to climate, nature, and impact storytelling. Closely comparable to Earthrise as both target the same climate-curious audience with documentary-style content distributed digitally rather than through traditional broadcasters.

Emerging players

• Project Drawdown: Nonprofit climate-solutions media organisation publishing authoritative content on climate solutions. Comparable to Earthrise in mission (shifting climate narrative from doom to solutions) and audience (climate-curious public), but operates as a research/publishing entity rather than a video studio.
• Count Us In: Climate-action initiative backed by Jane Goodall that partners with creators to mobilise individual climate action. Directly comparable as a partner on Seat At The Table and as a peer ecosystem player in converting climate storytelling into measurable behavioural impact.

Broad incumbents

• Wexner Center / Vox Media Climate Vertical: Larger digital media organisation covering climate and sustainability for a younger, digital-native audience. Comparable to Earthrise in audience profile and editorial tone, but operates as a generalist publisher rather than a dedicated climate studio.
• National Geographic Partners: Global media brand producing premium documentary and nature content across TV, streaming, and digital. Comparable as a destination for climate and nature storytelling, though operates at incumbent scale with a portfolio approach rather than Earthrise's social-first specialism.
• Vice Media: Digital-first media company built around socially conscious content for younger audiences. Comparable to Earthrise in social-first distribution DNA and willingness to tackle climate and social-justice topics, though Vice operates across many verticals and at much larger scale.
• BBC Studios Natural History Unit: Award-winning division of BBC Studios producing landmark natural-history series including Planet Earth and Blue Planet. Comparable in subject matter (nature/climate documentary) but operates with vastly greater budgets, IP library, and broadcast infrastructure than Earthrise.
• Patagonia (media & content): Purpose-driven apparel brand that funds and produces climate and environmental storytelling at scale. Comparable to Earthrise in messaging and audience, but operates from a much larger commercial base and broader content portfolio rather than a pure-play studio model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/earthrisestudio
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@earthrise.studio
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/earthrise-studio
• Instagraminstagram.com/earthrise.studio
• TikToktiktok.com/@earthrise.studio

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Funding overview

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Investors

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Investments

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