SEO for Film, TV & VFX Companies in Vancouver

Be found by the producers, studios and artists who research Vancouver before they commit — for services, for work and for talent

Vancouver has been called Hollywood North for a long time, and the companies that serve production here have an unusual search problem. Their buyers may not be in Vancouver yet. A producer weighing where to shoot, a studio looking for post-production or visual effects capacity, an artist deciding whether to move for a job — each researches Vancouver from somewhere else, and each searches for something specific. A production services company, a rental house, a post facility or a VFX studio that does not show up for those searches is relying entirely on relationships it already has. SEO for this industry is mostly about being findable at that research stage.

Three Audiences, All Researching From Somewhere Else

The first audience is the producer or production executive deciding where and with whom to make something. They search for the services they need in the place they are considering — production services, equipment rental, stages, post-production, visual effects — and for the practical questions that decide the choice, such as how BC's provincial film and television tax credits work. A company whose pages answer those searches clearly, and say what it has actually worked on, is in the conversation before the first call. The second is the studio or production looking for capacity: a VFX or post vendor for a specific kind of work. These searches are narrow and specific, and the companies that win them are the ones whose sites describe their capabilities in plain language rather than in a showreel alone. Google cannot watch a reel. It reads the page around it. The third is talent. If you hire artists, they research employers as carefully as employers research them. Careers pages, culture content and role pages that rank for the searches artists make are part of SEO for this industry in a way they are not for most. The common thread is that the work speaks for itself only to someone who has already found it. SEO is what puts it in front of people who have not.

What a Production or VFX Site Needs to Rank

☑A page per service or capability, described in words — not only in a reel
☑Credits and project pages that say what you did on each one, accurately
☑Pages answering the practical questions producers research before choosing Vancouver
☑Video embedded so it does not make pages slow to load
☑A careers section with a page per open role that Google can index
☑A Google Business Profile for each physical facility or rental location
☑Your company details stated identically across the site, your profile and industry directories

Where Industry Sites Lose Search

The reel is the whole site

A full-screen showreel and a contact link look the part and give Google almost nothing to read. Capabilities, credits and services need to exist as text.

Heavy video, slow pages

Autoplaying high-resolution video above the fold can make a page slow on a phone or a hotel connection — exactly where an out-of-town producer may be looking. Video can be loaded so it does not hold the page back.

Credits without detail

A wall of posters says you were involved. A project page that says what your team did on it is what answers a search for that kind of work.

Jobs posted only elsewhere

Roles listed only on job boards send the search traffic artists generate to the job board. Role pages on your own site keep it.

How a Film & VFX SEO Engagement Runs

01

Audit

How you appear for service, capability and hiring searches; how much of your site Google can actually read; and page speed with the video you use.

02

Make the work readable

Service and capability pages written, project pages given detail, and video set up so it does not slow pages down.

03

Producer content

Pages answering what producers research before choosing Vancouver and choosing a vendor, reviewed with you for accuracy.

04

Careers

Role pages and careers content built so they rank for the searches artists make.

05

Monthly reporting

Visibility for service and hiring searches separated, with enquiries and applications tracked so you can see which side it is helping.

Film & VFX SEO — Common Questions

Our business comes through relationships. Does SEO matter?

Relationships carry the work you already know about. SEO matters for the producer or studio who does not know you yet and is researching Vancouver vendors before making calls. It is also how artists find you when you are hiring.

Can we write about BC's film tax credits?

You can explain how they work in general terms and point producers to the official program information, which producers do search for. We avoid stating program rates or rules on your site unless they are taken from the current official source, because they change and an out-of-date figure is worse than none.

Our site is mostly a showreel. Is that a problem?

For search, yes. Google reads text, not video. Keep the reel, and add pages that describe your services, capabilities and projects in words.

Can we list the productions we worked on?

Credits help, provided you are free to name them and you describe your part accurately. Some work is under NDA; for that, describe the type of work without naming the project.

How much does film and VFX SEO cost?

The audit is $500 CAD and management starts at $2,800 CAD a month, scaled by how many services and how much hiring content you want ranking.

Do you also build sites for production companies?

Yes — our film production website design service covers the build. If your current site is mostly a reel with little structure behind it, the build may need to come first.

See Whether Producers Can Find You

We will check how you appear for service, capability and hiring searches, how much of your site Google can read, and how your video affects page speed — and tell you what to fix first.

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Areas We Serve

We work with production, post-production and VFX companies across Vancouver — Downtown, Gastown, Yaletown, Mount Pleasant and the False Creek Flats — and with studios and service companies in Burnaby, Richmond and the North Shore.

Pricing

SEO audit: $500 CAD, including a keyword map across service, location and hiring searches. Monthly management from $2,800 CAD, scaled by how many services and how much hiring content you want ranking.

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