Click the video to watch some of our best work from 2025. We specialize in video production, social media content and strategy, and live streaming events.
I have more than 30 years of experience in media on all platforms. Read on to learn more about how we can create some magic for you!
This playlist includes three videos produced by Studio at the Bar for the international accounting firm DYUSA. The goal was to recruit the best accountants by showcasing DYUSA’s amazing culture and benefits.
This series focused on CMBA’s educational programs. In both of these videos, the students help tell the story of how CMBA programs helped put them on the path toward lifelong success.
Our mission was the capture the excitement of a live pitch contest for Cleveland entrepreneurs during Accelerate 2025. This playlist has two videos produced after the event, and three quick-turn social videos.
Over the past six years working with the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, I created Studio at the Bar, a multi-media content studio focused on video production, but also expanding social media impact for our 5,000 attorney members and other business clients. Now Brennan Donnellan Media is taking that work even further, offering our services directly to you!
One of our most popular services is producing live streaming events and webinars. Using our state-of-the-art gear, we add polish and excitement to your live streams with multiple cameras, video inserts, on-screen graphics, remote guests and much more! The video shows our latest example from Studio at the Bar for International Women’s Day.
We also produce and distribute audio and video podcasts. With everything you need to make your own professional podcast, Brennan Donnellan Media handles it all with writing and planning, studio space, and experience with the best ways to help you reach the biggest possible audience. Click on the logo to listen to any of the 70-plus podcasts Studio at the Bar produced over three seasons. The Law in the Land podcast (formerly My BarStory) has 5,000 downloads and counting!
Contact us for a free estimate for your media project! Call or text (513)309-0127, or email me at bdonnellan@gmail.com.
My YouTube channel has 1.5 million views. From my time as a partner at nSixty Digital Marketing up until today, I have seen social media mature. We now have precise data to learn everything we can about the audience. Mix in some creativity and a mandate to take risks, and you will create growing engagement.
My review of Vibram’s Furoshiki wrap shoes just hit 250,000 views. As I write this, there are two people watching it. I get between two and ten or more views every hour of every day. If you watch the video, you might wonder why. It’s nothing special and actually pretty awkward.
It makes more sense if you think about the audience. Shoes of all types are a popular topic on YouTube. These shoes in particular are so unusual that people are anxious to see them in action. We unbox the shoes like tech enthusiasts do with a new phone. By analyzing which topics and techniques are engaging with big audiences, you can make smart decisions about what might go viral.
Have you ever seen a news station build an ice desk in the middle of the winter so the anchors can deliver the news outside? You can blame me for that. In the winter of 2014, we were looking for a way to showcase our coverage of a bitter cold spell, something to set us apart. I tossed off the idea of an ice desk. We made some calls and after a couple of days, we had it!
The story went viral, picked up by national news networks and industry blogs. This video was shared hundreds of thousands of times. Soon, everyone across the country was building an ice desk. In 2014 and 2015 I counted more than 70 copycats.
Robin Swoboda’s memorable “Ice Ice Baby” rap made it weird and fun enough to share.
My first year with nSixty, we brought in about $3,000 in revenue. The following year our revenue jumped to $400,000.
nSixty used video sharing on social media to engage fans with brands. We were forced to innovate in video streaming, social media API’s and especially in delivering metrics to our clients. Social video was just beginning and because of that, we were able to attract international clients like Major League Baseball, Ford, Jeep and Dodge, we even went on tour with Weezer in partnership with State Farm.
We learned a lot about how consumers want to connect with their favorite brands. Just be real.
I’ve been working the formula for viral video for more than a decade. This super simple video from 2009 has more than 200,000 views. It has the cute factor, and it took off when I shared it with The Consumerist blog.
"Hollywood Bob" tells the story of a legendary Cleveland limousine driver. For more than 30 years, Bob was the preferred limo driver for the Hollywood and political elite. Bob’s life at that time was chronicled by the great Cleveland comic writer Harvey Pekar.
Hollywood Bob has always been eccentric, with his black clothing, fingernails and hair. As he tells us his story, we get a personal look at his strange way of seeing the world.
After decades running a successful business, for the first time, Bob is arrested. He faces a series of legal problems all starting from a controversial accusation of child enticement. Social media spreads an incomplete and ultimately false story. The community that once celebrated Bob is now turning on him.
"Hollywood Bob" is a personal profile and a piece of investigative journalism. Completed with a budget under $3,000 and shot with a variety of cameras, including professional digital video cameras, iPhones, GoPros and other cheap gear, the story of Hollywood Bob emerges raw and real.
“Hollywood Bob” was an official selection in the Winter 2020 Docs Without Borders Film Festival and the 2019 Toronto Lift-Off Online Film Festival. Runtime: 52 minutes
I love news. I should, I have been in and out of that business throughout my entire career. As I worked through the digital revolution in three different newsrooms, one conclusion became obvious to me. In a world with thousands of competitors all working to attract the same audiences, there is only one path. Deliver clearly superior content. Double down on the fundamentals of great writing, authentic storytelling and rock solid journalism. If media have become too extreme and divisive, we must be the antidote.
News is not a commodity. Build trust through consistent excellence, not by chasing fleeting trends or slavishly following data without filtering it through your own human brain.
This was a major step forward at WKYC toward true multiplatform journalism. The opiod epidemic was devastating lives across Ohio, yet the news coverage seemed somehow impersonal. I assembled a diverse team of journalists, some experienced reporters, some who were masters of digital media techniques. We invested their time by embedding our people with EMS services across the region. We told these personal stories of despair, exhaustion and even death online, via social media, and on television.
I was thrilled when this team won the 2018 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation.
I’m sometimes asked about my most memorable moment in the news business. The discovery of the Cleveland captives alive is definitely one of them. When a news team is trained and disciplined as emergency responders, the result is clearly superior coverage that viewers will notice and choose.
Back that up with aggressive investigative reporting and a trusted team to deliver the news and you have an unbeatable combination.
It’s not all bad news in the newsroom. One favorite moment was when I interviewed Jerry Garcia. As a very big fan who had seen him perform the previous night, I was starstruck. I was instructed to only talk about Jerry’s art so I did something I usually don’t - I followed the rules!
