About - Media Loft

45 great years an ongoing success story

Media Loft is a 100% employee-owned company that produces corporate
events across the globe, with account, technical, creative, design, video
production and interactive technology services all under one roof.

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Media Loft founded; first project: a slide/tape series on great photographers for colleges and universities around the US. That’s a wrap: first promotional sales video for Media Loft. Watch Video First corporate event production: 6-projector, computer-controlled widescreen show in Arizona for Munsingwear Clothing. Company moves to bigger HQ, adds video editing, video graphics, video studio, animation camera room, wet lab for processing 35mm film.

New digs inspires first branding refresh Media Loft founder R. Smith Schuneman with Show Pro 5, a (then) state-of-the-art multi-image computer system Who knew gobbling dots could be this fun?

Digital for the masses: compact disc introduced. Celebrating Grand Award win at NY Film & TV Festival.

Grand Award win #2 at NY Film & TV Festival. Polaris unveils their first ATV, the Trail Boss 250. We begin a 35+ year partnership with Polaris.

Company moves to larger space in Union Plaza Building, and produces first Target event (29+ year partnership) Media Loft promotional ad (to pay for larger space in downtown Minneapolis) Denver-based client Coast-to-Coast Hardware prompts purchase of company fax machine.

Speaker support slides now largely computer-generated. Polaris watercraft shoot on the windy waters of Lake Traverse John Denver performs Media Loft-created song for Target’s World Earth Day event for the United Nations Watch Video

Media Loft branding reboot: logo 3.0 Laser technology becomes affordable and ubiquitous, delighting corporate presenters and cats worldwide

Company converts to Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) TVL ShowStar 6 software unleashes hundreds of real-time effects such as dissolve, zoom, mosaic and pan on unsuspecting attendees everywhere

Media Loft announces that company is now 100% employee-owned Company logo refresh Company moves to current location in Bank’s Building, NE Mpls

First production in an annual series of Best Buy gala events that continue to the present day, with 3,000 attendees entertained by the likes of Elton John, Beyoncé, Aerosmith and Sheryl Crow PowerPoint 2002 launched, marking the demise of the TVL show graphics system Media Loft named Target vendor of the year for the second time (first award in 1998).

8-track party invite marks Media Loft’s 30th year Produce BMW event in South Miami Beach to introduce new 3 Series to North American and Latin American dealers

Media Loft goes global with sales event for Staples 20th Anniversary Media Loft launches proprietary software that allows DVD playback of video content from laptop’s internal drive, eliminating the need for outside playback device, switcher and technician to run. FYI, it saved our clients a boatload of money.

World’s first 3-D holographic fashion show created by Media Loft for Target plays in NY’s Grand Central Terminal Watch Video Ships ahoy: Media Loft by now has produced events in four of the seven seas. Media Loft celebrates Target’s 50th Anniversary at the Spring National Meeting.

Following 28-year partnership, Media Loft elected to Polaris Hall of Fame. Watch Video 16% of Media Loft’s revenue generated internationally. A new day, new branding for Media Loft.

Selected as one of 2017’s Best Companies to Work For. Media Loft achieves 13% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) for the ten-year period.

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