DOWNTOWN OREGON CITY, OR — JULY 1, 2010 funnelbox motion picture studios has been ranked the 8th fastest-growing company in the state of Oregon.

Photo Caption: Robb Crocker, CEO of funnelbox motion picture studio with production team at downtown Oregon City office. Photo Credit: funnelbox motion picture studio.

The list was announced on June 24th at the Portland Business Journal’s “Kings of the River” Fastest Growing Companies awards dinner. The banquet honored 100 private companies headquartered in Oregon or Clark County, Wash., exhibiting significant revenue growth over the past three years.

“We’re delighted to have experienced such significant growth, especially during this massive recession.  It’s a true testament to the resolve and determination of our employees, clients and partners.” Said Robb Crocker, CEO of funnelbox motion picture studios.

Much of funnelbox’s success has come from strategic diversification.  Crocker adds, “I understood early on, that we can’t be all-things to all-people.  Rather than trying to “do it all” we took a much more tactical approach to growth by building different teams of specialists to target opportunities related to, but still outside of our core-competencies in video production.”

The result of this strategy was accelerated growth, due largely to a mini-conglomerate of new media companies spun off from funnelbox including Cinematics (cinematics.com), a video game animation outsourcing entity run by Paul Culp; Uberstock (uberstock.com), a stock footage acquisition and development entity headed by Colleen Rowley; and Clink Creative Motion (clink.com), a high-end design, motion graphics, effects compositing, and animation entity lead by McKay Marshall.

“Our four different production entities are creating content for some of the world’s most respected brands,” says Cinematics Studio Head, Paul Culp.

Nike, HP, adidas, Columbia Sportswear, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Wacom, and Les Schwab, are just a few of the brands that have utilized the services of funnelbox, Cinematics and Clink.  And footage from Uberstock has been used all over the world by organizations including ABC, NBC, Chase, Kodak, MTV, and T-Mobile.

Vice President of Operations, James Horn adds, “Our value proposition has always been great creative production at a very valuable price. People are demanding more creative bang for their buck…and that’s exactly what our teams were created to provide.”

The additional benefits of the economic slow-down have come in the form of acquiring great talent.  McKay Marshall of Clink agrees, “We have not only been able to gain market-share in multiple media disciplines, but we’ve also been able to hire some extremely talented individuals in what is now a very deep and eager talent pool.”

Robb Crocker adds, “It doesn’t matter what part of the media industry you are in, people want great work at a fair price. The strategic entities we’ve built these past three years have all grown from a foundation of great work and a customer-centric philosophy started at funnelbox.  We’re really enjoying this ride.”

Located in historic Downtown Oregon City, funnelbox offers complete pre-production, production, and post-production video services for commercials, and marketing, web, event and training videos . Founded in 1999, funnelbox has produced videos that have communicated mission critical messages for some of the world’s most respected brands including Nike, HP, Columbia Sportswear, Wacom, and Les Schwab Tires.

For More Information Contact:

robb crocker | ceo & creative director
www.funnelbox.com | 503.595.5901 ext.111
712 main street | oregon city, oregon 97045
www.linkedin.com/in/robbcrocker