Hometeam joins Fast Company’s most innovative companies list

Hometeam
(l-r: Lagan Sebert, Harrison Winter, Brandon Bloch)

On the company’s website, Hometeam says it, was started with a question, “Isn’t there a better way? We ask ourselves this question every day, at every step in the video production process, with the goal of transforming our industry towards a more human future. What does the future of production look like?” Now, Fast Company has named the global production to its 2023 world’s most innovative companies list.

“What a strange and thrilling year it has been to honor this year’s Most Innovative Companies. The 2023 list compiles some of the most cutting-edge groundbreakers who are changing our world every single day, from legacy organizations like McDonald’s to upstarts like MrBeast and institutions such as NASA. Everyone on this list does something completely, uniquely different, yet, they all have one thing in common: innovation,” said Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan.

This year’s list highlights the businesses at the forefront of their respective industries, paving the way for the innovations of tomorrow. These companies are setting the standard with some of the greatest accomplishments of the modern world. In addition to the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, 540 organizations are recognized across 54 sectors and regions. 

According to Fast Company, Hometeam was listed for their talent of tapping local crews to streamline film and TV production.

Hometeam simplifies projects for film and TV production companies by working with local crews to shoot footage, which is then edited using Hometeam’s cloud-based production tools. In 2022, Hometeam worked with NBC’s American Song Contest to film all of the show’s contestant stories across 50 states—without needing to send crews around the country, which saved on airfare, hotels, and per diems, expenses that can balloon to tens of thousands of dollars.


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Hometeam Founders Harrison Winter, Brandon Bloch and Lagan Sebert reflect on the award, “Today is a career-best for all of us at Hometeam. It’s a recognition achieved by our talented global community of filmmakers, our entire remote team of expert producers and our forward-thinking clients. We’re filled with gratitude that ‘Fast Company’ saw the innovation at the core of Hometeam. Through our remote production and post-production model, as well as our best-in-class filmmaker network around the world, our mission has always been to bring innovation to content production. Not just in how video content is created for brands, agencies, TV networks and streaming platforms, but also in the impact these innovations have on environmental sustainability, bigger opportunities for filmmakers around the world, helping clients tell more geographically diverse stories with larger-scale creative and giving a voice to underrepresented people both behind and in front of the camera.”  

The company also strives to build diverse teams: On a recent HBO Max project that focused on women’s empowerment stories, Hometeam built female-majority crews across 10 different shoots. The company has projects with Apple TV+ and Discovery+, and has done commercial and branded content work for such corporate clients as Google and Lego.

Hometeam is comprised of former crew members with plenty of production horror stories to swap. They state their mission is to treat crew right. “They must be paid well, looked out for, and not driven into the ground. In short, they need to be treated like humans. Protecting our crew’s health and well-being, and giving them what they need on set, leads to a better production experience for all… and ultimately better work for our clients,” the company notes on its website.

“We’re honored, excited and humbled to be recognized by Fast Company.  We set out to do something innovative, and it takes time as one successful client leads to another.  Finally, they stack on top of each other and it’s a great moment for that innovation to catch the attention of Fast Company.  We’re proud to carry the banner of a new approach to content production,” notes Hometeam founding partner, Harrison Winter.

Fast Company will host its third annual Most Innovative Companies Summit on April 19 and 20. The virtual summit celebrates the Most Innovative Companies in business, and provides an inside look at cutting-edge business trends and what it takes to innovate in 2023. Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies issue (March/April 2023) is available online here, as well as in-app form via iTunes, and on newsstands beginning March 14. The hashtag is #FCMostInnovative.

Hometeam is repped on the East Coast by Anna Rotholz and in the Midwest by Surita Mansukhani.

Hometeam
(l-r: Lagan Sebert, Harrison Winter, Brandon Bloch)

On the company’s website, Hometeam says it, was started with a question, “Isn’t there a better way? We ask ourselves this question every day, at every step in the video production process, with the goal of transforming our industry towards a more human future. What does the future of production look like?” Now, Fast Company has named the global production to its 2023 world’s most innovative companies list.

“What a strange and thrilling year it has been to honor this year’s Most Innovative Companies. The 2023 list compiles some of the most cutting-edge groundbreakers who are changing our world every single day, from legacy organizations like McDonald’s to upstarts like MrBeast and institutions such as NASA. Everyone on this list does something completely, uniquely different, yet, they all have one thing in common: innovation,” said Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan.

This year’s list highlights the businesses at the forefront of their respective industries, paving the way for the innovations of tomorrow. These companies are setting the standard with some of the greatest accomplishments of the modern world. In addition to the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, 540 organizations are recognized across 54 sectors and regions. 

According to Fast Company, Hometeam was listed for their talent of tapping local crews to streamline film and TV production.

Hometeam simplifies projects for film and TV production companies by working with local crews to shoot footage, which is then edited using Hometeam’s cloud-based production tools. In 2022, Hometeam worked with NBC’s American Song Contest to film all of the show’s contestant stories across 50 states—without needing to send crews around the country, which saved on airfare, hotels, and per diems, expenses that can balloon to tens of thousands of dollars.


REELated:


Hometeam Founders Harrison Winter, Brandon Bloch and Lagan Sebert reflect on the award, “Today is a career-best for all of us at Hometeam. It’s a recognition achieved by our talented global community of filmmakers, our entire remote team of expert producers and our forward-thinking clients. We’re filled with gratitude that ‘Fast Company’ saw the innovation at the core of Hometeam. Through our remote production and post-production model, as well as our best-in-class filmmaker network around the world, our mission has always been to bring innovation to content production. Not just in how video content is created for brands, agencies, TV networks and streaming platforms, but also in the impact these innovations have on environmental sustainability, bigger opportunities for filmmakers around the world, helping clients tell more geographically diverse stories with larger-scale creative and giving a voice to underrepresented people both behind and in front of the camera.”  

The company also strives to build diverse teams: On a recent HBO Max project that focused on women’s empowerment stories, Hometeam built female-majority crews across 10 different shoots. The company has projects with Apple TV+ and Discovery+, and has done commercial and branded content work for such corporate clients as Google and Lego.

Hometeam is comprised of former crew members with plenty of production horror stories to swap. They state their mission is to treat crew right. “They must be paid well, looked out for, and not driven into the ground. In short, they need to be treated like humans. Protecting our crew’s health and well-being, and giving them what they need on set, leads to a better production experience for all… and ultimately better work for our clients,” the company notes on its website.

“We’re honored, excited and humbled to be recognized by Fast Company.  We set out to do something innovative, and it takes time as one successful client leads to another.  Finally, they stack on top of each other and it’s a great moment for that innovation to catch the attention of Fast Company.  We’re proud to carry the banner of a new approach to content production,” notes Hometeam founding partner, Harrison Winter.

Fast Company will host its third annual Most Innovative Companies Summit on April 19 and 20. The virtual summit celebrates the Most Innovative Companies in business, and provides an inside look at cutting-edge business trends and what it takes to innovate in 2023. Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies issue (March/April 2023) is available online here, as well as in-app form via iTunes, and on newsstands beginning March 14. The hashtag is #FCMostInnovative.

Hometeam is repped on the East Coast by Anna Rotholz and in the Midwest by Surita Mansukhani.