Long before everyone had a camera in their pocket, we bet that video and content would become the way brands win or get forgotten. We built Table Eight to make producing it, consistently and at scale, genuinely easy.
Let's chatTable Eight started 15 years ago, the moment it became obvious that content was shifting from text and images to video, and that social media was about to make content the currency every brand traded in.
The idea was simple. Give businesses one place to get everything they need, from video and photography to motion graphics and animation, and make it easy. We watched too many organisations pour time and attention into sourcing a different person for every asset, paying a premium each time, and still ending up with work that lacked consistency and never told one cohesive story.
So we became that one place. Over time, that grew into something bigger. We went from a one-stop shop to a strategic content partner. And as our clients grew, their teams grew with them, so we evolved again, learning to plug into existing teams and fill the gaps, so they could scale, cover a role, or test whether that role was even needed before committing to a hire.
My journey started long before co-founding Table Eight [Table8media], Straight out of school playing professional basketball in Europe I thought I found the thing I'd do forever. But At 19, a serious car accident ended all of that in about 8 seconds, that's the time it took from impact to me realising I would never play basketball professionally again.
But the whole thing did leave me with a gift a piece of knowledge about life that Most people rarely get to understand: you can get paid for doing something you'd happily do for free. And when you taste that type of freedom, it's hard to go back. So I went looking for work I loved that much.
I found it in media. But the climb to the top left me feeling like a small fish in a very big pond. I spent years at CBS, at the very bottom of the advertising chain, honing my skills at the time in photography But photography alone was never enough, so I kept moving, into more, more different types of creative design, then video, then animation, until I'd found in creative work, which proved to be everything I'd been missing since basketball.
Everyone told me to specialise in one thing. I ignored them, because I could see where content was going. I knew the day was coming when the sheer volume brands needed would make the old model, one person doing one job, completely unsustainable. So I learned the whole process, end to end. Back then that was unusual. Today, it's exactly the skill set every business needs.
Content can't just look pretty. It has to feed the business. When an organisation creates content, they're not doing it for fun, they're feeding a machine, and there should be trackable evidence that it's working. Content is currency, and ultimately the investment has to see returns earning more than it costs to make.
That's why we understand the business first, then build the content around it. Using a simple approach. We call The A, B, C. of Content
First, content that brings people in. Until the machine is pulling new audience and customers, nothing else matters.
Once acquisition is working, we turn to branded content that deepens who you are and why you matter.
Then, content that turns an audience into a community that sticks around.
You can run all three at once. But the focus always starts with and feeds into acquisition, because content should do far more than collect views. It should pay for itself, and then some.
Everyone at Table Eight from the three directors down are multi-skilled by design. Each person has a core craft, whether that's design and motion, video production and photography, social media and paid ads, everyone has a second and third skill on top. It means they can drop in and out of any team and understand the whole process, not just their slice of it.
We're a small, tight-knit group, and we keep it that way on purpose. We work with a selective roster and we never overextend. We would rather deliver our best for a select few than serve the masses and miss a single deadline.
Working with Table Eight should feel like the stress of "how is this going to get done?" has been taken off your plate. You focus on the bigger picture, where you want to go. We handle how we get you there.
You pick the parts of the process you actually want to be involved in and enjoy, and we take care of the rest. Whether we're guiding you through the whole thing or slotting into your existing team, the aim is the same: an experience that feels seamless, so you get more great content, made easy.
Table Eight is for organisations that have realised content isn't a nice-to-have, it's how they grow. You might be producing nothing yet and ready to build the whole machine, or you might already have a team in full swing and need us to extend it. Either way, you've reached the point where doing it occasionally, or doing it alone, no longer cuts it.
What makes the relationship work is simple. You treat us as one of your own team, and we treat your goals as seriously as you do. With only ten seats on our roster at any time, we're not trying to serve everyone. We're trying to be the partner a handful of brands can't imagine working without.
We care about a business and its goals as much as the people who own it, and it shows in who we work with. We've produced for superstars like Rita Ora and other artists through Sony, and screen talent like Ashley Walters. We've worked in corporate and charity settings with John Lewis and Waitrose, Home-Start UK and ARK Resettlement. We create regular, consistent content for REAch2, the UK's biggest primary school trust, and we plug into the pipeline of some of the country's fastest-growing startups like HEIGHTS, voted one of Europe's fastest-growing companies.
We love a standout piece of content and an ad that returns far more than it cost. But what we love most is taking a business from zero, working alongside them for years, and getting them to the point where they don't strictly need us anymore. We help build out their team. We advise on who to hire. And even after a client moves on, we're happy to pick up the phone and help them work out what's next.
We just love creating content, and we love telling stories. And we've been lucky to do it for organisations that care deeply about what they do, and understand that today, content is currency.