Hamilton Rising had an amazing year in 2018. We started developing our social media platforms in 2017 with Facebook, Instagram, website, and mobile app and everything took off in 2018!

Our goal of audience engagement first drives our focus. We’re mobile first, video first, on-screen talent first. We’re social media storytellers.

Our team relentlessly keeps up on news, trends and the latest equipment and technology to produce cutting edge video story experiences for our audience. We’re data driven, continually analyzing where our work succeeds with audience engagement and where we can tweak and improve.

For 2019 we’re taking our video story production to the next level. We plan to go broader and deeper into Hamilton community issues, people, businesses, organizations and the arts. We’re expanding our creative, production and talent team to meet the increasing local demand for top quality digital video stories about Hamilton.

Skeptics may say that organic reach can’t be done, but we’ve had Hamilton Rising video stories “go viral” far beyond the city limits. We can’t promise every video will go viral, but we can promise professional quality, engaging video stories with on-screen talent, custom storytelling, expert editing, enhancing music and platform optimization.

Hamilton Rising produces professional quality video stories about Hamilton life–local people, businesses, food, issues, opportunities, organizations, events and the arts. Our video stories engage, inform, inspire, and often entertain, while helping us all appreciate what each of us contributes to our hometown.

The recent municipal elections were a referendum on the LRT. Our video story discusses the economic development, infrastructure, tax and environmental benefits while acknowledging the temporary disruption to daily life.

We wanted to understand the factors driving and preventing the millennial vote. We interviewed 2 young voters and 1 millennial candidate and learned that better access and information and more consistent outreach could increase engagement.

We’ve been creating content and building our social media platforms for almost 2 years. We’ve learned what creates engagement. Video first! Always tell the story! On-screen Talent! The numbers speak for themselves. The organic impressions where our videos went viral were off the charts. Even the paid impressions where we spent money to help boost the reach were remarkable.

It’s just fun to cover Hamilton community festivals and events. Our team’s enthusiastic on-screen talent is essential for participating in the festival or event and telling the story with a unique personal perspective.

Hamiltonians enjoy great food. Our many bars & restaurants serve amazing cuisine. We’re lucky to have produced stories for so many local hot spots and our amazing on-screen talent makes each one a must-try.

Hamilton has a dedicated activist community working to make life better. We went to the recent Women’s March at City Hall. It was well attended, as well as, productive and inspiring.

The city council recently voted in favor of allowing retail recreational cannabis stores in Hamilton. Our team interviewed stakeholders and explored the issues around this decision and the implementation.

Hamilton Rising curates the top 50 local events on our Hamilton Rising Facebook page and our Free Hamilton Rising Mobile App. We spotlight weekend events in the Weekender on the Hamilton Rising Mobile App. There is a dedicated section of the Hamilton Rising Mobile App called Arts Alive which highlights and maps Hamilton arts events, exhibits and venues. Hamilton Arts Council and the Incite Foundation are partners and sponsors for Arts Alive.

We utilize a full suite of professional cameras and production gear, custom sound engineering and music production, talent, script writing, as well as talent coaching, custom traditional and motion graphic production.

Our roots are based in digital marketing and digital messaging. We take a holistic approach to digital content distribution. Our focus is on platform-specific user engagement, designing content for the platform.

We build, manage, and produce content for our digital platforms. This allows us to access realtime conversion and engagement data. This data creates the foundation of our messaging and content creation.