Glide Media Group is a media solutions company working in Chicago and across Illinois. One team covers strategy, video, photography, web, branding, and social content, and we are set up to run multi-day productions in the city with everything planned before we roll north. Chicago businesses also come to us for website design, content creation, and the marketing and advertising campaigns that help them grow.
Rooted in Louisville. Chicago is one of the markets we serve all year.
A few of the brands we have produced for. The full library lives on our Work page.
Commercials, brand films, documentaries, and social video, concept to final color.
Editorial, product, event, and brand photography with the same standard as our film work.
Custom, hand-coded sites and web apps built to load fast and convert.
Logos, identity, graphics, 3D, and full rebrands.
Short-form and vertical content planned, shot, and run where it lives.
The plan behind the work: positioning, content, and the channels that carry it.
We plan Chicago as a production trip: crew, gear, and schedule locked before we roll north, so every day in the city counts.
Chicago brands often find our full-team scope costs less than a local agency's markup alone. Same standards, leaner structure.
Conferences and activations are a big reason clients bring us to Chicago. Multi-camera coverage with same-day or next-day recaps.
No patchwork of local vendors. Strategy, production, and post are one crew with one point of contact.
We plan the message and the channels first, so a Chicago production feeds months of content, not just one video.
The team behind Netflix, Pinterest, and UFL content brings the same standard to every Chicago set.
No. Video is our flagship craft, but Glide is a media solutions company: strategy, video, photography, website design, branding, content creation, and advertising under one roof. Many Chicago clients use us as their entire media department.
Yes, often. We plan Chicago shoots as multi-day productions and bring the crew and gear we need, so you get one accountable team rather than a patchwork of local vendors. Travel is scoped up front with no surprises.
Yes. We produce multi-camera event coverage and same-day or next-day recap content for conferences and brand activations, so your audience sees the highlights while the event is still the story.
One team from strategy through delivery, no agency markup, and travel planned into a clear scope. Plenty of our Chicago clients came for the price and stayed for the work.
We usually block shoot days two to four weeks out, scout remotely or on a prep day, and stack deliverables so one trip covers as much as possible: video, photography, and social content in the same visit.
It depends on scope. Because we plan Chicago trips efficiently and carry no agency markup, our total often comes in under what a comparable local agency quotes. A short discovery call gets you a real number.
Yes. Many clients run on retainers: we plan quarterly, batch the production trips, and keep channels fed year-round, with strategy and reporting included.
Yes. We design and build custom, hand-coded websites and web apps for Chicago companies, structured for search and AI answer engines and built to turn visitors into leads. The same team that produces your video and content builds the site, so the brand reads the same everywhere.
Yes. We plan and produce marketing and advertising campaigns for Chicago businesses: the strategy, the commercial or ad creative, content creation, and the channels that carry it. One team owns it from plan to delivery, with no agency markup.
Tell us what you are building and we will come back with a clear next step, usually a 15-minute call.