Cherry Orchard

What Cherry Orchard does

Cherry Orchard (DBA: Cherry Orchard Creative) is a privately held, founder-owned boutique creative agency headquartered in New York City that produces video, photography, and branded content for companies and events. The firm was founded by Rachel Begelman, an NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate with over a decade of theatrical production experience, and operates on a project-based, quote-based pricing model with no publicly disclosed rates. Service delivery is direct-to-client, ranging from one-off event capture to full multi-deliverable branded campaigns.

The agency's core offering is a unified suite of eight creative services: Video Production, Event Video, Storyboarding, Shoot Direction, Editing, Music Composition, Photography, and Campaign Management. Crews are assembled per project from a freelance pool of directors, directors of photography, gaffers, sound technicians, and production designers tailored to the engagement. Deliverable formats span social media cuts, website homepage videos, and 30–60 second full campaign-length pieces, often with original music composition. The technology stack is conventional video production — there are no proprietary software products, APIs, or AI tools disclosed in available sources.

Customer acquisition is primarily referral- and portfolio-driven, supplemented by a content marketing function (founder-bylined blog, email newsletter) and a public portfolio spanning WeWork, MakeUp Forever, The Fit Collective, Sunday Forever, Creative Spirit Gala, Distilled Leadership, and JunkLugGers across coworking, fitness/wellness, beauty, lifestyle, nonprofit, beverage, and service verticals. The company is independently owned with no institutional investment, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and a headcount of 1–10, operating exclusively within the New York / USA market.

Name

Cherry Orchard

Website

https://cherryorchardcreative.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cherry Orchard is a New York-based, founder-owned boutique creative agency that produces video, photography, and branded content for brands and events on a project basis. Founded in 2018 by Rachel Begelman, the firm serves enterprise and mid-market clients across diverse verticals with a unified suite spanning storyboarding through final edit.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Video Production Services: Project-based video production services ranging from event videography to full branded content campaigns. Services include storyboarding, shoot direction, photography, music composition, and editing with various deliverable options including social media cuts, website videos, and 30-60 full campaign length pieces.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cherry Orchard is a boutique creative agency that produces video, photography, and branded content for companies and events. Services span the full production lifecycle including storyboarding, campaign management, on-set shoot direction, filming, editing, music composition, and photography, delivered as project-based engagements to brands seeking to capture their company spirit through visual storytelling.

Product overview

Cherry Orchard is a boutique creative agency that specializes in producing video content that captures the spirit of a company. The company offers a unified suite of services centered around video production and storytelling, including Video Production, Event Video, Storyboarding, Shoot Direction, Editing, Music Composition, Photography, and Campaign Management. These services are designed to work together as a full-service creative offering—from initial concept and storyboarding through production, direction, editing, and final delivery with original music. The agency positions itself as a creative partner that helps brands aesthetically blossom through video, photography, animation, and music composition.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Video Production
• Event Video
• Storyboarding
• Shoot Direction
• Editing
• Music Composition
• Photography
• Campaign Management

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Gold ToastminorOthersGold Toast is credited as the site designer for Cherry Orchard's website. This is a design/creative services partnership for the agency's own web presence rather than a product or GTM partnership.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Partizan: Global, director-led production company producing commercials, branded content, and music videos. Comparable to Cherry Orchard in offering end-to-end brand video production with a creative-first, talent-anchored positioning.
• Stink Studios: Creative production studio producing brand films, digital experiences, and advertising content for global brands. Operates in a similar boutique-to-mid creative production tier as Cherry Orchard with overlapping deliverables (storyboard through final cut).
• Tool of North America: Creative production company producing commercial, branded, and experiential video content with a director-driven approach. Comparable business model to Cherry Orchard — boutique production capacity built around a roster of directors for brand clients.
• Radical Media: New York-headquartered independent production company delivering commercials, branded content, and feature/documentary work. A strong comparable for Cherry Orchard's brand-storytelling-first positioning and full-service production capability.
• Anonymous Content: Independent creative and production company producing film, documentary, and branded video with a director-led model. Cherry Orchard's founder-driven, theatrical-pedigree approach to brand video is a smaller-scale version of Anonymous Content's talent-anchored production philosophy.
• Bullion Productions: Boutique New York creative production shop producing brand video, events, and content marketing for consumer brands. Strong direct comparable for Cherry Orchard's size, market, and project-based brand content mix.
• m ss ng p eces: New York-based creative production agency producing branded video, commercials, and experiential content for global brands. Directly comparable as a boutique-to-mid-size Brooklyn creative shop pursuing premium brand storytelling with an in-house production model similar to Cherry Orchard.

Broad incumbents

• Mother NY: Independent, creatively led ad agency producing campaigns across film, digital, and experiential. Comparable in client overlap (enterprise and lifestyle brands) but operates at materially larger scale than Cherry Orchard as a full-service creative agency.
• VaynerMedia: Large digital-first creative and media agency producing social video, branded content, and campaigns for enterprise brands. Competes with Cherry Orchard for the same brand video budgets but at vastly greater scale and with in-house content production capabilities.
• Wieden+Kennedy: Globally recognized independent creative agency producing award-winning brand campaigns and video content. Competes for the same high-end brand storytelling budgets Cherry Orchard targets but with brand strategy, media, and production integrated at holding-company scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cherry-orchard

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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