Acorn + Rumble 2.0: How Our Video Production Retainer Works

Acorn + Rumble is our 12-month video production retainer for B2B marketing teams. (If you’re still deciding whether an ongoing video production partner is the right fit, start there.) Instead of scoping every video from scratch, your team gets a set number of production days each year and editing hours each month. You also get a dedicated producer who learns your brand, your stakeholders, and your approval process. As of October 2026, plans start at $3,600 CAD/month.

This is the newest version of Acorn + Rumble. We rebuilt it around flexible capacity, because video requests rarely show up on a schedule. (If yours do, we'd love to know your secret.)

How does a video production retainer work?

With a retainer, your video team gets to know you once, then supports your video needs all year. There's no need to find, brief, and onboard a new vendor for each request. When a surprise executive message or a last-minute event recap comes up, it uses hours you already have. It doesn't kick off another round of scoping emails, and nobody misses those.

1. We get to know your world.
   Onboarding covers your brand, stakeholders, approval process, and upcoming priorities, including who actually needs to sign off. (There's always one more person.)

2. We plan the first stretch together.
   We look at what's coming up and decide where video can help first. That might be executive messages, thought leadership, event coverage, or repurposing footage you already have.

3. We schedule your production days.
   They're booked across the year with reasonable notice. Use them for interviews, events, leadership updates, or whatever recurring footage your team needs next.

4. You use your monthly editing hours.
   Put them toward cutdowns, longer edits, captions, revisions, or language versions, wherever the time is most useful that month.

5. We keep the work moving.
   Your producer keeps things organized and adjusts the plan as priorities shift.

The result is a video team one desk over. They're not on your org chart, and they don't need a parking spot.

What do Acorn + Rumble retainer plans include, and what do they cost?

There are three plans, each on a 12-month term, plus a custom option. Every plan gets the same team; the bigger ones just get more of our time. Because your editing hours go wherever they're most useful each month, the retainer bends with your priorities instead of locking you into a fixed list of deliverables.

Custom plans are for teams that like the structure but need something shaped more closely around them. That could mean more production days, more editing capacity, a different planning rhythm, or support across a more complex organization.

Included in every plan

• A dedicated producer as your main point of contact

• Brand and team onboarding before the work begins

• Editing that follows your tone, visual standards, and approval realities

• Captions, .SRT files, and exports for the channels you need

• One-month rollover on unused editing hours

• Full usage rights on all final assets

• Royalty-free music, so there are no awkward emails from a record label

• Custom AI voiceovers

Optional add-ons

What kinds of videos does Acorn + Rumble cover?

Acorn + Rumble is built for the recurring video work that shows up all year. Bigger productions like brand films, commercials, and major campaigns are scoped separately.

Good fits for ongoing support:

• Thought leadership clips

• Executive messages

• Market updates

• Video podcasts

• Event coverage

• Internal communications

• Client testimonials

• Customer FAQ videos

• Announcement videos

• Recruitment content

• Employee spotlights

• Webinar and social cutdowns

• Repurposing existing footage (yes, even that webinar from a couple of years ago)

How does it compare to hiring an in-house video person?

For most teams, a partnership costs less than one internal hire and covers more ground. A full-time videographer or video producer typically earns $60,000 to $90,000 a year. Add benefits, gear, software, storage, training, and management time, and one hire can easily reach $90,000 to $130,000+.

That buys one person with one core skill set, plus someone to cover their vacation. An Acorn + Rumble plan gives your team producers, directors, editors, equipment, and software for less than that single salary.

"They helped us shift our videos from scrappy, last-minute things to more of a planned approach and strategy."

Tessa Uez, Marketing Manager, Accelerator Centre

Frequently asked questions

Is Acorn + Rumble a video production retainer?

It works like one in the ways that help your budget. You pay a fixed monthly amount over a 12-month term for a defined amount of production and editing capacity. You know exactly what you're getting, and there are no surprise invoices when a new request comes up.

How long is the commitment?

Every plan runs on a 12-month term. That's long enough for us to learn how your team works, which is where most of the value comes from.

What happens if we don't use all our editing hours?

Unused editing hours roll over for one month. If you need more than your plan includes, you can add a 10-hour top-up block or an extra production day.

How do revisions work?

You can request as many revisions as you need, and they come out of your monthly editing hours. Your team leaves timestamped notes directly on the video in our review tool, and we work through them from there.

Can you handle French versions or translated content?

Yes. Captions, .SRT files, language versions, and localized edits all come out of your editing hours. For translated voiceover, we include a review step so your team can confirm the language before final delivery.

How soon can we start?

Pretty quickly. Once we've matched you with the right plan, we start onboarding, map out the first stretch of work, and align on your schedule and approval process.

Do you still take on one-off projects?

Yes. Brand films, commercials, campaigns, and 2D animation are still a big part of what we do, with projects starting at $15,000. Acorn + Rumble clients can also add these as flagship productions.

Ready to talk it through?

If video keeps turning into a scramble every time it comes up, it's worth a conversation. We're pretty easy to talk to.

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