MK3 Creative
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2007
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About MK3 Creative
MK3 Creative is an independent creative services agency and video and event production company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2007, it combines advertising strategy and brand development with in-house film production, motion design, post-production, and live-event execution. Its integrated approach connects the development of an idea with the practical work of producing and delivering it.
The studio develops commercial and corporate storytelling for enterprise clients, from brand manifestos and broadcast advertising to employee profiles, product launches, and animated explainers. Video services span concept development, storyboarding, scriptwriting, directing, cinematography, editing, color grading, and sound design. Its animation and design capabilities include custom illustration, typography, 2D and 3D motion graphics, data visualization, and digital character design.
Events and integrated production
MK3 produces live, virtual, and hybrid corporate events, including leadership meetings, investor conferences, user conferences, sales conventions, and awards ceremonies. Its work brings together event planning, production management, scenic design, staging, lighting, projection, audiovisual systems, and live multi-camera direction. Executive presentation coaching and speaker training support the people appearing on stage or on camera.
The company also develops multimedia packages that connect an event’s message with its visual presentation. These can include opening films, original motion graphics, presentation content, and broadcast elements. Its event experience ranges from multi-day corporate gatherings to public cultural occasions, with technical production and creative development handled within the same agency.
Markets and project scope
The agency serves technology and enterprise software businesses, financial institutions and asset managers, healthcare and biotechnology organizations, commercial suppliers, and nonprofit and civic groups. Its production work includes location filming in Australia, conference production in New York City, and corporate events in Austin, alongside projects in its home region.
Across these assignments, MK3 combines strategic storytelling with production delivery, adapting its work to broadcast campaigns, digital communications, executive presentations, and live audiences. The breadth of its practice allows clients to commission individual films or coordinated creative and event production programmes.
More about MK3 Creative
Founders and leadership
- Joel Kaplan and former partner Adam Marx co-founded the company. Kaplan is identified as Principal & Founder.
- As of November 2026, John Lawrence and Mark DiTondo are Creative Directors & Partners, and Jamie Tedeschi is Creative Director.
- Founding-era Executive Creative Director Jonathan Markella retired in fall 2026.
- The name combines Marx’s “M” and Kaplan’s “K”; the “3” commemorates the three initial employees who joined the founding partners.
Production and working practices
- The company describes an operating approach built around direct client communication without intermediate account layers. Its team works under a hybrid schedule, with project-based production crews supplementing its in-house staff.
- Remote interviews use vMix. Virtual-event production includes custom 3D sets integrated with green-screen broadcasting.
Recognition and community activity
- In 2023, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce honored MK3 Creative with its Diversity & Inclusion Small Business Award. The report connects the recognition with the agency’s inclusive team culture and youth filmmaking scholarship partnership with Fresh Films.
- The studio has also received Telly Awards, Communicator Awards, and Hermes Creative Awards.
- Its collegiate internship programme has operated continuously since 2009.
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Where MK3 Creative is based
- 38 Third Avenue, Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, MA 02129Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Boston office
HeadquartersAbout this office
Sole physical headquarters and production facility, housing leadership, creative direction, editing, motion design, and event production teams.
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