Video for dealerships

What to film at a car dealership every month.

A dealership's product changes every week: cars arrive, cars sell, a sale comes and goes. Here is how we plan one filming day a month so the feed keeps up with the lot.

A dealership has an unusual problem for a business that wants to post every day: the product changes every week. Cars arrive, cars sell, a new model lands on the floor, a sale weekend comes and goes. A feed that shows last month's lot is already out of date, and a buyer who asks for a car that sold three weeks ago is a buyer you have to disappoint.

Our plan for dealerships runs on one filming day a month. We come to the lot, film the cars, the showroom and your team, and cut that day into 30 edited clips that post across the month. This is how we plan the day so the feed keeps up with the inventory, and what a sales manager can have ready to make it count.

Plan the day around the inventory.

The strategy meeting comes before the camera. We sit down with your sales manager and whoever runs marketing and map the month: which cars the dealership wants to move, what is arriving, what is on the calendar, and what buyers keep asking on the phone and on the floor. That becomes a content roadmap you approve, and a shot list for the day.

Not every car on the lot needs its own video. We choose with you: the new arrivals, the models buyers ask about by name, the cars you most want to move, and a few that show the range from a first car to the top trim. Choosing well matters more than filming everything, because a walkaround does its best work while the car is still there to be bought.

Then we pick the day. A weekday when the floor is quieter suits the walkarounds and the interviews, because the salespeople can step away without leaving a customer waiting. If a sale weekend or a new model is coming, the day can land just before it, so the month opens with the news instead of catching up to it.

What one day on the lot covers.

A day at a dealership moves from the outside in. We start with the lot from the air, flown by Dre under his FAA Part 107 certification: the frontage, the rows of inventory, the building and the road buyers arrive on. Then we work through the cars on the list, then the showroom, then the people.

  • Walkarounds Each car on the list, outside and in: the lines, the lights, the seats, the screen, the space in the back. Every walkaround is shot in the same order, so the series is recognizable on the feed and easy to compare.
  • The salespeople Short interviews and pieces to camera, each one answering a single question a buyer would ask. We come with the questions ready.
  • Deliveries When a buyer agrees to it, the moment the keys change hands. It is the one clip no other lot can make for you.
  • The service side The service drive and the technicians, if the dealership wants the feed to cover owning the car as well as buying it.

We put the salespeople on camera on purpose. The same car can be found at other lots. The person who will hand over the keys can't. When a buyer has already watched someone walk through the cargo space or explain the trim levels, the visit starts halfway through the conversation.

The car can be found at another lot. The person who sells it can't.

Thirty clips, posted while the cars are still there.

One raw video becomes 30 edited clips every month. For a dealership, the order they go out in matters as much as the edit, because the inventory won't wait. New arrivals and the cars you most want to move go out in the first week. The interviews and the service clips, which don't expire, carry the weeks after.

  • The walkarounds Short and vertical for the feed, longer and wide for your website and listings.
  • The team One salesperson per clip, one question per answer.
  • Offers and extras What comes with the car, set in motion graphics, so it reads with the sound off.
  • From the air The lot and the building, as the opening shots of the month's bigger posts.
  • The delivery Posted with the buyer's permission, the week it happens.
A short dealership spot of ours: the building from outside, then the showroom floor.

Every clip is subtitled and formatted for the platform it goes to, and we post every day, on every platform, with the captions written. When a car on the feed sells, we caption it as sold rather than take it down: it still shows the kind of car you carry.

When someone comments on a walkaround to ask about mileage, a trade or a test drive, we reply, and the buyers who are ready to talk go straight to your sales team while the conversation is still warm. At the end of the month you get a report on how the posts did. The next strategy meeting opens with it, so the cars people watched and asked about shape the next filming day.

The lot will look different next month. That is the case for filming it every month, putting the people who sell the cars in front of the camera, and posting every day in between. See how the plan works for car dealerships.

Common questions.

Car dealerships

The lot, the cars and the people who sell them.

We come to the dealership one day a month and film the inventory, the showroom and your team. Then we post it every day, and buyers who message go to your sales team.

Let's film your company.

Tell us what your company does and what happens there on a schedule. We'll come back with what a month of content could look like.

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