Portfolio · San Diego

The work, and what happened next.

Commercials, campaigns and the fixes in between, for restaurants, gyms, hotels, clinics and brands. Each story says what we made and what changed after.

Mr. Moto Pizza Hulu spot by Lead Wolf

▶ 19″

Mr. Moto Pizza · Hulu spot

Made for streaming TV.

Mr. Moto Pizza spot: a waiter and a guest holding up pizza slices
Mr. Moto Pizza Hulu spot by Lead Wolf

▶ 16″

Mr. Moto Pizza · food spot

Mr. Moto Pizza · Hulu spot, food content, campaign photo

Cover story · Mr. Moto Pizza

Five years. Five layers.

How a San Diego pizza brand’s “video guys” became its growth operators.

It started with monthly comedy shorts. As Mr. Moto grew toward eleven locations across San Diego and Orange County, the problems changed, and so did the work.

  1. CreativeMonthly comedy shorts that gave the brand a voice people actually shared.
  2. Paid mediaGoogle Ads, plus streaming TV on Hulu and Disney+.
  3. ExpansionA bilingual lead pipeline into Orange County: 199 hospitality and catering targets.
  4. SystemsThe whole point-of-sale move from Incentivio to Toast, loyalty and gift cards included.
  5. ReportingRecurring reports that turn platform data into decisions the owners use.

Feature · OWN Vitamin

One shoot. A launch in every size.

OWN’s founder had the line: “Don’t take mine. Get your OWN.” We built the launch around it, with creative direction from Jaybird Creative and Michael Soares directing.

We shot it in November 2025 on a home set (kitchen, porch, garden) and in our studio for the product and macro work. The cast ran across generations: a young couple, a mom and kid, cyclists, an older couple.

They walked away with a 30-second hero commercial, short cutdowns for web, Reels, TikTok and feed, studio product photos, lifestyle images and behind-the-scenes footage. Every asset is theirs to keep and run.

OWN Vitamins daily pack, from the OWN commercial

▶ 56″

OWN Vitamin · launch commercial

“Don’t take mine. Get your OWN.”

On set for the OWN Vitamin launch

OWN Vitamin · launch shoot, November 2025 · directed by Michael Soares

Mr. Moto Pizza Hulu spot by Lead Wolf

▶ 6′05″

Balboa Park · holiday film

A documentary for the season.

Mr. Moto Pizza Hulu spot by Lead Wolf

▶ 29″

Explorer Pass · holiday ad

Behind the scenes

Balboa Park · holiday campaign, December 2025

Feature · Balboa Park, San Diego

A holiday film with somewhere to go.

A documentary-style film for Balboa Park’s holiday season, and the campaign built to carry it.

We told real stories about the park and the season, not a hard sell. Then we cut it down for every platform, ran geo-targeted ads for the seasonal “gift of culture” Explorer Pass offer, and set up the analytics to measure all of it.

The film earns the attention. The campaign turns that attention into action. Same crew, one plan.

Every project

The whole archive.

Mr. Moto Pizza spot: a waiter and a guest holding up pizza slices

Ads & tracking · Film & photo

Mr. Moto Pizza

The goal was more pizza sold. It took five years, a Hulu spot, and a new ordering system.

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Barrio Donas: El Panadero calling out ¡Donas! with a basket of donas on his head

Ads & tracking · Film & photo

Barrio Donas

We gave a neighborhood donut shop a character — and took it from local secret to 200,000 people in a month.

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PTC Boxing Gym

Ads & tracking · Film & photo

PTC Boxing

The ads got cheaper every month. Membership didn’t move. The problem was the phone.

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Granger Hotel interior, photographed by Lead Wolf

Film & photo

Granger Hotel

An editorial brand-photography library a boutique hotel owns and reuses — not a one-off shoot.

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Rudy’s Flower Truck

Ads & tracking

Rudy’s Flower Truck

The dashboard said 37x. We told the owner to trust her books instead.

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A treatment in progress in a Revive MD treatment room

Film & photo

Revive MD

Commercials for a San Diego med spa, made to feel calm, not clinical.

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OWN Vitamin launch commercial

Ads & tracking · Film & photo

OWN Vitamin

We produced their launch commercial. Then we found the reason it wasn’t converting — and why the fix was more production, not more ad spend.

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CoLab Public House in Vista at sunset

Ads & tracking · Film & photo

CoLab Public House

We rebuilt a Vista event venue’s content, then built the marketing machine that filled its calendar.

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The Sawdust Art Festival entrance in Laguna Beach, with festival-goers lined up outside

Ads & tracking

Sawdust Art Festival

The brief was to spend less on ads and protect ticket revenue. It became a record season.

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Homeaglow

Film & photo

Homeaglow

Bilingual video production, built to reach the customers other brands quietly talk past.

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HiNote project still

Film & photo

HiNOTE

Animation and edit support for a brand’s creative team — the post-production craft that makes a cut land.

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Film & photo

Enhance.MD

The video suite that carries a medical practice’s patient relationship before the first visit.

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Michael Soares at the edit desk in the Lead Wolf studio, reviewing a cut with a client

Ads & tracking

A Coronado Boutique Hotel

The strongest month of the year — on less spend, with the tracking finally telling the truth.

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Sporting-goods product photography

Ads & tracking

A San Diego Sporting-Goods Brand

We relit a dormant e-commerce ad account and scaled it into a record sales month — in the first thirty days back.

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Vertical tour video frame: a sunlit one-bedroom apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows

Ads & tracking

A San Diego Apartment Lease-Up

219 qualified renter leads in a month — the most efficient cost per lead we ran all year.

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Balboa Park Explorer pass

Ads & tracking · Film & photo

Balboa Park Explorer

A documentary hero film, and the campaign built to carry it — story and distribution, made as one piece.

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The next step

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45′ · three things to fix

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