Brand Communication &
Advertising for Your Business

Making brands visible since 2008.

In B2B, you sell quality. We make sure your customers can feel it. Pathfinder Studios is one of Germany's most experienced agencies for strategic video and brand communication. We produce commercials, photography, and brand assets for every channel.

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Miele is a client of Pathfinder Studios
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Why Your Brand Needs to Be Seen

Hidden Champion Visibility

Many of our clients are market leaders and hidden champions — yet often invisible. Visual storytelling makes your brand impossible to overlook.

Bringing Emotion Into B2B

People buy from people. Our films keep your brand, your services, and your products in the minds of your target audience – the people you want to reach.

Explaining Complex Solutions

Turning products that need explaining into something people instantly grasp — that's what our explainer videos and commercials do best for our B2B clients across Europe.

Stronger Loyalty, Stronger Revenue

Good advertising builds trust — and revenue. Our multimedia brand assets are tailored to your brand and what your audiences actually need. In every industry.

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of marketers say that using video strategically has dramatically increased brand awareness with their target audience.

Source: Wyzowl

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of companies using explainer videos on their website say the investment pays for itself quickly through new customers.

Source: Wyzowl

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of consumers (B2B & B2C) say a brand's video convinced them to buy a product or service.

Source: Wyzowl

"Strong brands deserve strong images.

Substance deserves to be seen."

The biggest challenge in B2B brand communication: the quality of mid-sized companies, hidden champions and B2B brands is often invisible. They offer outstanding solutions, deep technical know-how and real innovation — but sales has to start from scratch in every conversation, and may lose decision-makers before ever getting the chance to convince them.

Why video matters in B2B advertising: photos and videos make complex solutions simple, give products and services an emotional edge, and build lasting trust. Adding video to your website, for example, can lift conversion rates by up to 80%Source: Unbounce / Hubspot. Around the clock, in any language.

Emotion makes the difference: whitepapers and data sheets deliver information. Videos deliver trust. Whether it's a commercial, a corporate film or a product explainer — your audience doesn't just hear about your brand, they experience it.

Let's make your brand visible.

Let's talk about what's possible for your brand communication and advertising. Free. No obligation. Personal. We're here to advise you! #LetsTalk

Portrait of Yvonne Schwalowski / Ivy Thomas, Producer & Consultant at Pathfinder Studios

Yvonne Schwalowski
Senior Producer

+49 (0) 2251 / 773 9966
office@pathfinder-studios.de

EXPERTISE YOU CAN RELY ON

Two perspectives, one method: strategy first, production second. What sets Pathfinder Studios apart is the combination of 18 years of expertise from film director Tom Wolt and business consultant and author Yvonne Schwalowski.

 

✔ 18 years of marketing experience

✔ Internationally experienced team

✔ 450+ successful client projects

✔ Personal advice, as equals

Porträt von Tom Wolt, Regisseur & Creative Director bei Pathfinder Studios

Tom Wolt

Creative Director

Tom Wolt has spent 19 years directing films and advising brands, mid-sized companies and public figures.

Tom combines ambitious storytelling with the highest visual standards. His 450+ corporate films, documentaries and music videos for global brands like AUDI, MIELE and YAYLA have reached millions of viewers worldwide — on TV, in cinemas and online.

After more than 1,000 days on set, no project can rattle him. When he's not making films or watching them, you'll find him playing sport and following the global markets.

Tom Wolt on LinkedIn
Tom Wolt on IMDb
» more about Tom

Porträt 2 von Yvonne Schwalowski / Ivy Thomas, Producer & Consultant bei Pathfinder Studios

Yvonne Schwalowski

Producer & Consultant

Yvonne Schwalowski has spent 14 years producing films, advising brands & mid-sized companies, and writing copy.

A former journalist and business consultant — for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and Evonik, among others — she is the strategic mind behind Pathfinder Studios. Under the name Ivy Thomas, she produces international feature films, music videos and award-winning shorts.

When she's not advising companies, she writes novels as Yvonne Westphal — published by Piper, Ullstein, arsEdition and Egmont.

Yvonne Schwalowski on LinkedIn
Ivy Thomas on IMDb
» More about Yvonne

Awards won by Pathfinder Studios for its corporate films and international short films (part 1)
Awards won by Pathfinder Studios for its corporate films and international short films (part 2)

"When everyone promises everything, the ones who deliver win."

— Tom Wolt, Creative Director bei Pathfinder Studios

How We Get Your Brand Seen

Brand, Product & Commercial Videos

Our advantage: we combine marketing thinking with the craft of commercial filmmaking. That's how we connect your brand goals with what your customers actually expect.

Multimedia Brand Assets

Drawing on 18 years of experience, we create multimedia brand assets for web, point of sale and social media. Authentic, modern and credible.

Storytelling for Your Brand

People love stories. As experienced storytellers, we build narratives that give your brand genuine, lasting emotional weight.

Explainer Videos for Complex Products

Animated or live action, aftersales training or advertising: our explainer videos turn a complicated "Huh?" into a visual "Aha!"

How We've Brought 450+ Brands to Life

"Straight-talking advice meets emotional storytelling."

As a strategic production company, we combine hard facts with real emotion — so that our videos, photos and multimedia assets actually reach your goal.

The most common problem in B2B corporate communication: it's strong on substance but empty on emotion. That's where we come in. With roots in international feature film and in business consulting, Pathfinder Studios combines strategic thinking with emotional storytelling. After 18+ years working with global brands and hidden champions, we know one thing: facts win the mind — but decisions, whether it's a major contract or a new job, are made in the gut.

Strategy first: starting from your goals, we build the right solution from the full range of filmmaking tools.

Commercials

Nothing sells like video. TV spot, YouTube ad or point-of-sale film — we love advertising that does more than just look good.

» Discover our commercials

Explainer Videos

Explainer videos make content stick. Animated or filmed, with interviews or without — and always with a smile. Let's get your knowledge across.

» Discover our explainer videos

Product Videos

Product videos are infotainment at its best. Head meets cinema, heart meets hard facts — tuned to your purpose. Let your product speak for itself.

» Discover our product videos

Corporate Film

A corporate film is the foundation of good visual marketing. Big or small, documentary or staged — we make yours worth watching.

» Discover our corporate films

Still from a Pathfinder Studios corporate film for F&S concept, showing a family laughing together outdoors
Still from a corporate film for F&S concept, showing a happy older couple outdoors in front of a housing development

RECRUITING FILMS

Recruiting videos are the hidden champion of corporate film. As an employer brand film, honest employee interviews or an apprentice film — we bring your culture to life.

» Discover our recruiting films

Photography

Great photos inform and inspire your customers. We shoot with a trained eye for aesthetics. Employee portraits, product shots, buildings and facilities.

» Discover our corporate photography

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Miele is a client of Pathfinder Studios
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What Our Clients Say

Companies across every industry choose Pathfinder Studios to move their marketing forward and make their values tangible. For 18 years, we've been proud to contribute to our clients' long-term success with films, photos and videos that carry emotion and purpose. Our 450+ projects for mid-sized companies, industry, research, education and the public sector across Europe have grown into lasting partnerships between equals. Because partnership starts with trust.

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5 Star Review

"Pathfinder Studios understood immediately that we couldn't deliver this content as yet another dry e-learning module. They had the courage to challenge our original brief and created a training film that sparks real emotion and genuine pride. The internal reaction was overwhelming: 'Finally, a mandatory training that actually lands.'"

– Marlene Managache, Sales & Customer Service Academy, MAN Truck & Bus SE

"Great ideas, excellent advice and an innovative approach to our strategic goals. Thank you for the outstanding result."

– Prof. Dr. Christiane Vaeßen, Managing Director, Aachen Region

"Exceptionally professional, consistently pleasant to work with, and a film result that's simply excellent."

– Michael Meese, Team Leader for Start-ups and Business Development, IHK North Westphalia

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5 Star Review

"Working with Pathfinder Studios was a real success. It mattered to us that our own people appeared in the film rather than actors. That's what makes it honest and authentic. You couldn't show the day-to-day and the people behind FACTUR any better. That genuine insight is what makes this project so valuable to us."

– Silke Görgens, HR Marketing & Employer Branding, FACTUR Billing Solutions GmbH

"A fantastic film — our customers still bring it up."

– Jürgen Carl, Managing Director, Deutsche Mechatronics GmbH

"My personal thanks for the professional and thoroughly pleasant collaboration. Our Australians are very happy too."

– Ralf Spies, Managing Director of FilterCare GmbH

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PHOTOGRAPHY & FILM

EVERYTHING UNDER ONE ROOF

So your advertising keeps working

For us, the work doesn't end with strategy and a concept for your B2B communication. As a full-service agency, we also offer the following for clients in mid-sized business, industry, research, technology and the public sector:

Service Area What We Do
Strategy & Content ✔ B2B Workshops, Strategy & Concepts
✔ Cross-Media Campaigns (film + Web + Photography) ✔ Social Media Snippets & Short-Form Content
✔ Corporate Learning & E-Learning Formats
Video Production & Film ✔ Corporate films
✔ Recruiting videos & HR videos ✔ Commercials
✔ Training and safety instruction videos
✔ Product videos
✔ Explainer videos
✔ Event and trade fair films
Corporate Photography ✔ Corporate photography ✔ Business photography
✔ Employee and employer branding photos
✔ Product photography
✔ Event and architectural photography

Emotion You Can Actually Feel

You have the substance. We have the strategic thinking and the cinematic craft to get it across to your audience the right way.

For us, "emotional" doesn't just mean tears or laughter. Emotion is also curiosity, anticipation, insight, concern, acceptance, awe — or pride.

Ready to Get Your Brand Seen?

Let's talk about what's possible for your brand communication and advertising. Free. No obligation. Personal. We're here to advise you! #LetsTalk

Portrait of Yvonne Schwalowski / Ivy Thomas, Producer & Consultant at Pathfinder Studios

Yvonne Schwalowski
Senior Producer

+49 (0) 2251 / 773 9966
office@pathfinder-studios.de

Brand Communication & Advertising: Questions and Answers

Talk to our experts

 

Phone: +49 (0) 2251 / 773 99 66
(Mon–Fri 8am–5pm CET)

Email: office@pathfinder-studios.de

A selection of our clients

Pathfinder Studios is a proud partner to mid-sized businesses, corporations, startups and the public sector across every industry. Can you picture your logo among these? If so, get in touch and see for yourself. We'd love to hear from you.