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Customer stories that do the selling for you.

3
Locations, 5+ timezones

Jaipur, Mumbai and Dubai, serving India, the UAE, Australia, the US, the UK and Japan.

1000+
Brands served

From boutique founders to listed companies across four countries.

4.7×
Average ROAS

Across 100+ performance accounts on Meta, Google and beyond.

95%
Client retention

Most brands that start with us are still with us years later.

How we work

Four steps,
no surprises.

01
Discover

We start by understanding your brand, goals and audience, laying the groundwork for everything that follows.

02
Strategize

We translate insight into a tailored strategy with clear KPIs, channels and milestones.

03
Create

Our team executes: design, content, code, campaigns, built to match the strategy.

04
Deliver

We launch, measure and iterate. You get full visibility on results and the next moves.

Common
questions

Which industries do you work with?+

Fashion, jewellery, e-commerce, real estate, hospitality, technology and luxury, among others. The approach is tailored to how each category actually buys.

Do you work with startups?+

Yes. Whether you need a brand identity from scratch or help scaling marketing, we have packages sized for early-stage teams.

How is pricing structured?+

By scope. Every engagement is quoted after a short consultation; no hidden retainers.

How do we get started?+

Send a message or call. We schedule a 30-minute consultation and come back with a plan within one business day.

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Production

Sage Media plans and shoots customer testimonial content — with questions designed to draw out genuine, specific answers instead of generic praise.

Getting customers to speak naturally

The hardest part of a testimonial shoot is not the lighting or the camera gear. It is getting a regular person to sit in front of a lens and speak naturally about your product without sounding like they are reading a script. When a customer sounds rehearsed or nervous, the video loses the only thing that makes it valuable: trust. The viewer instantly knows the emotion is forced, and the endorsement falls flat.

We approach testimonial shoots as guided conversations rather than formal interviews. We never give the subject a script to memorise. Instead, we design a series of specific, open ended questions intended to draw out their actual experience and the real problem your product solved for them. We spend time making them comfortable on set before we ever press record, because a relaxed subject gives much more persuasive answers than a tense one.

Once we have captured the genuine answers, the technical work takes over. We light the space to make the subject look their best and capture high quality audio, because poor sound is the fastest way to make a video feel amateur. In post production, Sage Media editors cut the conversation down to its most impactful moments, removing the stumbles and pauses. We then build out different versions of the final video, creating short cuts for social media and longer narratives for your website.

A strong testimonial does the heavy lifting of sales for you. By letting a real customer explain the value of your work in their own words, you bypass the natural skepticism people have towards marketing copy.

What we do

Harder to scroll past than a review

From finding customers willing to speak on camera, through structured questions and a professional shoot, to edited deliverables across formats — one coordinated process.

Customer Sourcing & Coordination

Identifying and scheduling customers willing to speak on camera.

Question Design for Natural Answers

Questions structured to draw out specific detail, not generic praise.

Professional Shoot & Lighting

Studio-quality lighting and audio at your location or in studio.

Editing Into Multiple Formats

Full testimonials plus social clips and quote graphics.

B-Roll & Context Capture

We film authentic footage of your product in action at the customer's location to weave into the final edit.

Remote Testimonial Guidance

Guiding customers remotely to record their own high-quality testimonials using their smartphones.

How we work

How we capture customer stories

Subject Preparation

We brief your customer on what to expect and outline the broad topics of conversation so they arrive feeling completely prepared.

Question Design

We write a custom interview flow designed to gently lead the subject into talking about the specific benefits of your service.

Production and Filming

Our crew sets up the lighting and audio gear on location while conducting the interview as a relaxed, unscripted conversation.

Narrative Editing

We review the raw footage to extract the strongest quotes and edit them into a concise video that holds viewer attention.

The proof is in the numbers

What clients say

Loved by the brands we partner with

Common questions

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Capturing a customer story properly

The process begins before the customer ever sees a camera. We help identify and schedule the customers willing to speak, then brief each one on what to expect and the broad topics of conversation, so they arrive prepared rather than anxious — but never with a script to memorise. A custom interview flow of specific, open-ended questions is written to gently lead them into describing the real problem your product solved, in their own words. On the day, the crew sets up studio-quality lighting and audio at your location or in studio, and the interview runs as a relaxed, unscripted conversation, with time spent settling the subject before recording starts. Editors then extract the strongest quotes, remove the stumbles, and weave in B-roll of your product in action — delivering full testimonials for your website plus social clips and quote graphics.

What's the hardest part of producing a good testimonial video?

Not the lighting or camera gear — it is getting a regular person to sit in front of a lens and speak naturally about your product without sounding like they are reading a script. When a customer sounds rehearsed or nervous, the video loses the only thing that makes it valuable: trust. Viewers instantly detect forced emotion, and the endorsement falls flat.

Do you give our customers a script for the testimonial?

Never. We treat testimonial shoots as guided conversations rather than formal interviews, designing specific open-ended questions intended to draw out their actual experience and the real problem your product solved. Customers are briefed on broad topics beforehand so they arrive prepared, and we spend time making them comfortable on set before recording — because a relaxed subject gives far more persuasive answers.

Why are video testimonials more persuasive than written reviews?

A strong testimonial does the heavy lifting of sales for you. When a real customer explains the value of your work in their own words, on camera, it bypasses the natural skepticism people carry toward marketing copy — and specific detail is deliberately drawn out through question design, because concrete stories persuade where generic praise gets scrolled past.

What formats do we receive from one testimonial session?

Multiple versions built from the same conversation. Editors cut the footage to its most impactful moments, removing stumbles and pauses, then produce short cuts for social media, longer narrative versions for your website, and quote graphics. B-roll of your product in action at the customer's location is woven through the edit, so the finished videos show the experience rather than just describing it.

Can testimonials be captured if the customer is in another city?

Yes. Remote testimonial guidance lets us direct customers through recording their own high-quality testimonials using their smartphones — we guide the framing, lighting and conversation remotely, then handle the editing as usual. It extends the same question-design and narrative approach to customers who cannot reach a set, so distance never stops a strong story from being captured.