case study
AI
Summit
Ecom Founders runs invite-only events for operators and founders in ecommerce. In June 2026 they put on the AI Summit at Webster Hall: 11 speakers, a full day of programming, and a roster that included Nik Sharma, Brian Sugar, Corey Epstein, Ian Jackson and Matt Giannetti.
The content plan mattered as much as the room. An event like this lives or dies on what gets posted after it. They brought in Content Forge to shoot it and cut everything that came out of it.
Why did they come to Content Forge?
Most event video teams hand you a recap three weeks later and disappear. Ecom Founders needed the opposite. Speakers wanted their own footage while the event was still fresh, Nik's team needed his talk for a podcast episode the following week, and the marketing team needed vertical cutdowns to sell the next event.
So the brief was really about speed and organization, not just camera work.
How We Helped
We ran multicam coverage of the full day, four camera sources plus mobile, with a dedicated photographer on site. Footage was ingested overnight and mapped against a speaker directory, so anyone could find exactly which clips a given speaker appeared in without scrubbing timelines.
From that one shoot we built the full event recap in all three formats (16x9, 1x1, 9x16), captioned, with a custom Ecom Founders + AI Summit outro built from their Figma files. Eight individual speaker recap videos, 60 seconds each, 9x16 with captions and the same outro. Edited event photography, delivered to their Dropbox and Google Drive. And the full raw package for Nik Sharma's talk, synced into a timeline with an XML export, so his podcast editor could take over immediately.
Then We Kept Going
When the client asked whether they could get each talk as a single watchable file, we multicam-edited all 11 full talks and delivered them. Ten additional interviews went into the pipeline after that. Their drive got reorganized by speaker name, so each speaker could be sent their own footage and photos in one link.
That last part sounds small. It wasn't. Editors organize by camera source because that's what post teams need. Speakers need it by name. Doing both is extra work, and it's the difference between a client forwarding your files and a client digging through them.
The Number That Mattered
The main recap was approved on the second version, with one note that the client withdrew himself. Nik Sharma's recap got signed off by Nik directly. The client's words after seeing it: “the recap video edit was sick, got it approved by Nik.”
The number that mattered most came later. Nik posted his full talk, the one we cut from the multicam edit, and it pulled 21K views and 174 likes. More to the point, it booked him work: on July 22, 2026, two inbound clients off that talk video.
Two new clients for a speaker, off one piece of event content. That's the real return on covering an event properly. The footage keeps working for everyone who was in the room long after the room empties out.
Results
One Day, One Shoot
- 1 event recap in 3 formats (16x9, 1x1, 9x16), captioned, with a custom outro built from their Figma files.
- 8 speaker recap videos at 60 seconds each, plus a full edited photo library.
Past Scope
- All 11 full talks multicam-edited and delivered, with 10 more interviews in production.
- Most of it delivered inside two weeks, with the drive reorganized by speaker name.
What It Returned
- Nik Sharma's talk pulled 21K views and 174 likes, and booked him two inbound clients.
- The main recap approved on version two; Nik's recap signed off by Nik directly.
