By Richie Griffin · May 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The honest answer to "what does a video cost in Las Vegas?" is: it depends on what kind of video, what kind of brand you are, and whether you want it to last past next quarter.
There's a floor in this market most people don't see. Below about $3,000, you're hiring someone with a Sony A7 and a friend's dining room. Between $3K and $10K, you're hiring a freelancer who does decent work but probably can't deliver same-day, can't bring a trailer, can't hand you motion graphics, and can't voice the spot. Above $10K, you're hiring an actual production unit.
We sit at the floor for the third tier and the floor goes up from there based on scope. Here's roughly how the math works.
A one-shot $10K project from us covers: scoping call, full-day shoot with broadcast-grade lenses + audio, edit, voiceover (in-house), motion graphics polish, color, and delivery in the formats your channels need. One revision round. Final masters in your cloud of choice.
What it doesn't cover: multi-day shoots, additional location/insurance complexity, talent fees if we're hiring outside performers, drone/FPV (those are scoped per shot), or rush fees if the deadline is unreasonable.
If you're shipping more than one video a month, retainer math wins. Our floor is $3,600/month, which gets you a baseline content program — typically 4-6 deliverables a month, a recurring shoot day or remote pipeline, and a continuous edit/motion turnaround instead of project-by-project ramp-up.
Cost per deliverable on a retainer is meaningfully lower than per-project pricing. The reason is structural: we're not re-onboarding every time, we're not re-quoting every time, your brand voice is already in our heads, and we can ship faster because the slot is reserved.
If your project is genuinely $1,000 — under no circumstances should you pay us $10K. Find a freelancer or a film student. The work won't be the same, but it shouldn't be — that's not what your project needs.
If your project is $50K+ and includes celebrity talent, complex VFX, or a 30-second TV spot for a national brand — there are bigger shops in town. We can shoot it, but we're not going to pretend we're Greenhaus GFX.
The sweet spot for us: $10K-$50K commercial projects, or ongoing $3.6K-$15K monthly retainers, for Las Vegas brands that want one shop handling production end-to-end.
Written by Richie Griffin — Las Vegas video producer, voiceover artist, and on-camera host. Founder of Richie Griffin DigiCo. Make Boring Illegal.