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MikeTeevee

Creative & Production
Open roles
1
Founded
2011
Employees
11-50
Offices
4

About MikeTeevee

MikeTeevee is an independent creative production partner that helps in-house brand teams turn ideas into finished, multi-channel work. Its operating model centres on decoupled production: clients retain strategic and creative ownership internally while MikeTeevee provides the production infrastructure, business affairs support, specialist talent and delivery management needed to execute campaigns at scale.

The studio works as an embedded extension of brand-side teams, coordinating physical production, financing, vendor relationships, talent negotiations, rights clearances, post-production workflows and deliverable versioning. This approach is designed for organisations that need a single production partner across complex campaigns while retaining control of their own creative direction.

Production and post-production

MikeTeevee’s services span commercial and content production from planning through final mastering, including:

  • Strategic production management, budgeting, contracting and multi-vendor coordination
  • Live-action brand films, television commercials, OTT campaigns, product shoots and social-first content
  • Post-production management covering editing, colour grading, sound design and mixing, VFX, motion capture and motion design
  • Experiential work, including branded environments, festival activations and physical builds
  • Creative exploration in generative AI, interactive VR applications and narrative gaming

The company draws on a curated international network of directors, producers, editors, VFX artists and specialist production houses to support cross-border work and projects requiring varied production disciplines.

Brand and original work

MikeTeevee has delivered commercial production and campaign support for brands including DoorDash, Experian, Lyft, Lego, Verizon, Visa and Gymshark. Its work includes full-funnel broadcast and digital campaigns, branded entertainment, experiential activations, talent sourcing and craft-led post-production.

Alongside client work, the studio develops proprietary creative projects. These include The Shores of LOCI, a VR narrative puzzle game, as well as narrative film and experimental storytelling projects. This combination of commercial production, post-production oversight and original IP development reflects MikeTeevee’s focus on connecting brand production with emerging formats and creative technologies.

More about MikeTeevee

Leadership and industry initiatives

  • Ellen Utrecht is MikeTeevee’s founder and Global Executive Producer. Jessica Valin serves as Managing Director, Europe, and Carly Wright leads Growth & Operations.
  • The company has published industry research on in-house marketing, including The In-House Evolution Insights Report and Brand Perspectives 2026.
  • In 2025 and 2026, MikeTeevee launched HUMANCENTRIC, an AI narrative-storytelling showcase in which artists reimagined a script by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Efthimis Filippou.

Origin of the name

The MikeTeevee name was inspired by the television-obsessed Mike Teavee character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Utrecht described the character’s addiction to content as fitting the company’s original tagline.

Notable credits

11 credits
  • DoorDash
  • Experian
  • Lyft
  • Lego
  • Verizon
  • Visa
  • Gymshark
  • The Shores of LOCI
  • Killing Faith
  • HUMANCENTRIC
  • Veterans for Gun Reform

Offices

Where MikeTeevee is based

4 locations
  • Venice / Los Angeles

    Headquarters
    Los Angeles, California, United States

    United States headquarters and executive base in Venice, Los Angeles.

  • Berlin office

    Berlin, Germany

    European regional hub serving DACH clients and European campaigns.

  • Amsterdam office

    Linnaeuskade 20-1, 1098 BE Amsterdam, NetherlandsAmsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

    European registered corporate base and founding studio.

  • London office

    London, England, United Kingdom

    Direct UK studio and commercial operations hub.

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