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TaleSlate Agency Making content people can’t ignore. At TaleSlate, we’re not just pressing “record.” We’re crafting cinematic clarity for brands that crave connection.

We help businesses build trust and win customers through strategic video production, podcasts, commercials, and digital marketing. From scrappy startups to bold nonprofits and mission-driven businesses, we help you ditch the bland and bring your story to life—on screen and beyond.

� Our superpower? Turning your mission into motion—with purpose, personality, and a camera that knows just where to look. What you'll find here:

� Client stories that break the “corporate video” mold

� Headshots and bio reels that actually sound human

� Behind-the-scenes strategy that turns ideas into impact

� Event sizzle reels, docu-style shorts, and fun surprises

Whether you're launching, growing, or transforming, we make sure your audience feels it.

� Check out more at www.taleslate.agency
� Based in the Midwest – Filming anywhere your story takes us.

10/16/2026

We share this video in honor of our brother and friend, Firefighter/Paramedic Jones, and with heartfelt gratitude for everyone who stood beside us as we said goodbye.

On Thursday, October 15, our Council Bluffs Fire Department family gathered for his funeral and the procession from downtown Council Bluffs to CBFD Headquarters. Because neighboring agencies stepped in to protect our community, all CBFD personnel were able to stand together and honor our brother. Having that time together meant more than words can express.

To the local businesses and community members who lined the streets and paid their respects throughout the week, thank you. Your presence brought comfort to his family and reminded our department that we were not carrying this loss alone.

We extend a special thank-you to the agencies that provided critical coverage and Honor Guard services:

Omaha Fire Department
Lewis Township Fire & Rescue
Sioux City Fire Rescue
Ankeny Professional Firefighters
Treynor Volunteer Fire Department
Bellevue Fire and Rescue Department

To every fire department that sent apparatus to participate in the procession, thank you for standing with us and helping us honor his life and service.

We also express our sincere appreciation to the law enforcement and dispatch agencies that helped make the procession and final call possible:

Council Bluffs Police Department
Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office - Iowa
Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Iowa State Patrol

This video preserves moments from a difficult goodbye, but also the compassion, respect, and brotherhood that surrounded us. To everyone who supported his family and our department, thank you. We will always remember the kindness you showed us.

Photo: Mac & V
Video: TaleSlate Agency

Taleslate began far from any studio. Our founder, Kyle Ranney, started shooting photos and videos on overseas medical tr...
10/16/2026

Taleslate began far from any studio. Our founder, Kyle Ranney, started shooting photos and videos on overseas medical trips. He saw that many problems, from poor eye care to basic food needs, could be solved by simple communication. He realized businesses have the same problem.

So before you ask for a video, ask what your audience still doesn't understand about you. A custom video strategy is built to close that gap. What's the one thing your customers still misunderstand about your business? Send us a message.

The first videos that built TaleSlate were shot on overseas medical trips with whatever gear fit in a carry-on.No crew. ...
10/14/2026

The first videos that built TaleSlate were shot on overseas medical trips with whatever gear fit in a carry-on.

No crew. No lighting package. No client brief. And they moved people to act.

The videos we shoot now for household names, national nonprofits, and local businesses work for the same reason those did. Story clarity. Audience specificity. A point of view the camera is actually serving.

Gear has never been the variable that decided whether a video worked. We've shot on cinema cameras with full crews, and we've shot on a single body with available light. The pieces that drove sales, donations, and bookings all had one thing in common, and it wasn't the kit list.

Here's what that means if you're a small or mid-sized business sitting on the sidelines 🎯

You're not waiting until you can afford "real" production. You're waiting until someone helps you figure out what the video needs to say, who it needs to reach, and what you want them to do after they watch it. That work happens before a camera turns on, and it's the part most production-only vendors skip.

If you're scoping a project this quarter, try this with any vendor: "Before we talk equipment or shoot days, walk me through the message strategy. Who is this for, what do we want them to believe, and what action follows?"

The businesses staying invisible right now aren't the ones with smaller budgets. They're the ones convinced the budget is the problem.

It isn't. The story is.

Book a free 20-minute strategy chat at www.taleslate.agency

Google's AI just summarized your competitor's blog. Sitting above it? A YouTube video answering the same question. 🎯That...
07/29/2026

Google's AI just summarized your competitor's blog. Sitting above it? A YouTube video answering the same question. 🎯

That's the new search order. AI summaries and paid ads have taken over the top of Google, but video keeps sliding above both. Google owns YouTube, so it has every reason to surface video that matches what a buyer is actually typing.

Most businesses miss this. They keep grinding on text SEO while the real organic real estate is video built around a specific buyer question.

If your team pushes back on video budget next quarter, here's language that reframes the conversation:

"We're not competing for text rankings anymore. We're competing with an AI summary of our own blog. A YouTube video tied to buyer intent is the only asset that ranks above both the AI overview and the paid ads."

Stop fighting for a shrinking patch of text results. Start ranking with video built around the questions your buyers are searching today.

Want help mapping those questions? DM us or book a free 20-minute strategy chat.

Most companies redesign their logo. Few redesign how they're understood. 🎯That's the gap we kept seeing with our work fo...
07/27/2026

Most companies redesign their logo. Few redesign how they're understood. 🎯

That's the gap we kept seeing with our work for Zimmerman Sales & Service. A rebrand is a promise to the market. Three videos are how you keep it.

The brand story answers why the company exists. Without it, a rebrand is just a new color palette. The services video replaces three pages of website copy with ninety structured seconds, so prospects stop guessing what you sell. The case study puts a real customer on camera, because the result lands different when it comes out of someone else's mouth with their face attached.

If you're scoping a rebrand right now, here's language that protects the work:

"The new identity is the cover. These three videos are the chapters. We're not done until prospects can hear who we are, understand what we do, and see proof it works."

Look at your last rebrand and ask which chapter is missing.

The strategy deck took 3 weeks. The video took 4 minutes to watch.That gap is where most video budgets quietly die. 🎯Mar...
07/24/2026

The strategy deck took 3 weeks. The video took 4 minutes to watch.

That gap is where most video budgets quietly die. 🎯

Marketing teams pour weeks into positioning docs, audience matrices, and message pillars. Then the video drops, gets a polite round of internal applause, and sits on a Vimeo link nobody opens twice. The deck was beautiful. The distribution plan was a calendar invite that got rescheduled.

90% of buyers say they discover products through video. They're watching. Just not yours.

The fix isn't a smarter deck. It's treating distribution as a workstream with the same weight as strategy and production.

If you're scoping a video project this quarter, here's language that protects the work:

"Strategy without distribution is a thesis nobody reads. We need a named owner, a channel plan, and a 30-day promotion window built into this scope, not bolted on after delivery."

"The deck defines who this is for. Production makes it watchable. Distribution makes it count. Cutting the third one doesn't save budget, it forfeits the first two."

A polished video nobody watches is still a strategy. It's just a strategy for losing quietly.

Price the plan, not the playback.

If your last video deserved a bigger audience than it got, that's a distribution problem, not a creative one. Book a free 20-minute strategy chat with Taleslate and we'll map what the next one actually needs.

You can have the best service in your market and still lose to someone worse. Here's why.Customers don't pick the best o...
07/22/2026

You can have the best service in your market and still lose to someone worse. Here's why.

Customers don't pick the best option. They pick the most familiar one.

When your presence is too thin to register, your quality stops mattering. No one has enough signal to form a perception of you in the first place.

We call it the Visibility Gap. It's the point where a business becomes invisible not because the work is weak, but because the work is unseen.

Two things we hear constantly from clients:

"We lost a deal to a competitor whose work we know is weaker, but they had more content out there."

"A buyer told us they almost went elsewhere because they couldn't find enough about us online."

Trust isn't built on quality. Trust is built on repeated exposure to quality. Without consistent video, posts, and proof showing up in your buyer's feed, you're asking them to choose you on faith.

So when you're scoping next quarter's marketing budget, the question isn't "Is our work good enough?"

It's "Are we showing up often enough for the right people to know that?"

Before we write a single word of script, we ask the client one question most of them have never been asked: "What does y...
07/20/2026

Before we write a single word of script, we ask the client one question most of them have never been asked: "What does your viewer need to believe before they'll trust you?" 🎯

Most brands skip straight to features, founder story, product demo. They script what they want to say instead of what their audience needs to hear to move. Belief is the bridge between a viewer scrolling past and a viewer buying. Miss the belief, and you're just producing pretty content that doesn't convert.

The answer changes everything downstream. If the missing belief is "this will work for a business my size," the script leans on specific customer outcomes and real numbers. If it's "these people understand my industry," the script opens with language only an insider would use. If it's "I can trust them with my budget," the script shows process and receipts, not polish and vibes.

Same company. Same product. Three completely different videos. One question decides which one gets made.

If you're scoping a video project, try this with your team or your vendor before a single shot list gets built: "Before we talk format, length, or budget, what belief does our viewer need to hold before they'll take the next step with us? The script should be reverse-engineered from that answer."

Skip the question and you'll get a video. Ask it and you'll get a result. That's where every Taleslate project starts. Strategy before script. Script before shoot.

Clients ask us for drone shots, color grading, and cinematic b-roll. We deliver all of it. But the videos that actually ...
07/17/2026

Clients ask us for drone shots, color grading, and cinematic b-roll. We deliver all of it. But the videos that actually book calls rarely win on production polish.

Production value amplifies a story. It cannot replace one.

We've watched gorgeously shot brand films sit at a few hundred views while a plain-spoken customer testimonial drove booked calls for months. Same budget tier. Completely different outcomes.

🎯 The Brownville tourism project is the clearest example we point clients to. It didn't perform because of the gear or the grade. It performed because the strategy locked onto one specific idea: Brownville doesn't need gimmicks. Every frame served that line.

Most small and mid-size businesses are spending in the wrong order. Aesthetics first, message later. That is why beautiful videos underperform and "good enough" videos quietly close deals.

Before you approve another production budget, pressure-test the brief with three questions:

1. What is the single sentence this video has to land?
2. What action should the viewer take in the next 48 hours?
3. If we stripped out the music and visuals, would the script still sell?

If the brief can't answer those, no camera package will fix it. Sort the strategy first. Then spend on the polish that amplifies it.

07/16/2026

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