Los Angeles · Corporate Event AV · Founder-Led Since 1996
High-stakes corporate event AV production in Los Angeles — CEO keynotes, product launches, all-hands, investor-relations days — run with 30 years of film-set discipline. Redundancy as default. Founders on the floor. No surprise invoices.
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Corporate marketing and comms leads are personally accountable for the CEO’s moment on stage. And most vendors don’t take that failure as personally as you do. Here’s what buyers keep telling us.
“There is no room for emotions when time is so tight and the program needs to happen as flawlessly as possible.” — Valerie Bihet, The Vibe Agency
A dropped audio feed on a keynote. A frozen slide during earnings. An LED wall that pops mid-launch. The CEO stands there. The room watches. Your name is on the run-of-show. There is no “we’ll fix it in post.”
“Bills can be so difficult to understand because they include numerous line items, surcharges, percentage fees.” — Ryan Kopf, on venue AV pricing
Hotel “house AV” runs 30–50% over market — a commission built into every line, before the extras start showing up:
Source: AVFX 2026 cost guide & Infinity Park “7 Hidden AV Costs”
“Multiple AV providers on one event to save money is a recipe for disaster.” — BizBash
You booked one company. On show day, three subcontractors show up in different shirts. When something breaks, four people point at each other. When the room needs a decision, nobody makes one. The person who sold you the event is on another call.
Every LA corporate AV competitor pitches “a team,” “a producer,” “an account rep.” None of them put a named human on the homepage. None of them tell you who’s on the floor on Tuesday morning at 6 a.m. when your load-in starts.
If your event is brand-critical, “a team will be assigned” isn’t accountability — it’s vendor-speak.
When Impact AV is running your event, this is what the day feels like.
The CEO nails the keynote. Slides land on time. The stream never drops. Backup audio, backup video, backup power — built in fours, not sold as an upsell.
Bill or Sandy is on the floor. Same senior pod every time. When you need a decision at 6:47 a.m., you call one number and the person you call is the person on-site.
Scope, gear, crew, and inclusions all named up front. No hotel commission. No surprise line items. Change orders within scope aren’t billed — they’re how professionals work.
Broadcast-grade multi-cam by default means your keynote isn’t just a live moment — it’s exec-interview cutdowns, recap reels, and social clips your team already planned to buy separately.
Ready to lock your event down?
Get a Scoped QuoteNo mystery process. No proprietary methodology dressed up in acronyms. This is how we run every event, film or corporate, for 30 years.
Send a rough brief or hop on a 20-minute call. Venue, date, program, stakes, budget range.
What it means for you:A scoped quote in 3–5 business days — itemized, not templated.Cue sheet, gear list, crew names, backup plans, load-in schedule. Redundancy is planned in fours — every critical signal has three backups.
What it means for you:You see exactly what will happen, in what order, and who owns each cue — before the day.Founders on-site, backed by a named pod of senior operators who’ve worked together for years. No subcontractors in different shirts.
What it means for you:One accountable point of contact. Same senior crew, every event.Multi-cam recording is delivered as standard. Optional: turn it into exec interviews, cutdowns, and a year’s content library.
What it means for you:Your event is a live moment and an asset your marketing team keeps using.Everything on this page is verifiable. Film credits are public via IMDb. Reviews are public via Yelp and Google. Our founders’ industry designations are matters of record.
William J. Martel Jr., C.A.S. (Cinema Audio Society), founded Impact AV in 1996. He has spent 30 years on productions where a failed take costs a six-figure shooting day. These are the credits any producer can look up.
Source: Public IMDb (nm1208596). Sandy Mattice, partner, is a credentialed member of IATSE Local 695. Our named senior pod is roughly 10 operators who work almost exclusively with Impact AV.
I have worked with and for William Martel and his team of professionals many times in the last decade, and I’m always blown away by the professionalism, level of communication, commitment to established process and cutting-edge tech — all while being honest and a straight-shooter.
For three decades, Impact AV has been the crew studios and producers call when failure isn’t an option — and keep calling. We don’t “have a Plan B” on show day; the Plan B is already patched, powered, and standing by. That’s the operating standard we bring to a CEO keynote, a product launch, or an all-hands.
Convinced by the pedigree? Let’s scope your event.
Get a Scoped QuoteStraight answers — the same ones you’ll get from Bill on the phone.
No. We compete on certainty, not cheapness. You get a scoped quote with the gear, crew, and inclusions named up front. Change orders within scope are how professionals work — we don’t bill for them. We’re independent of every venue, so there’s no 30–50% hotel commission baked into your invoice.
Fair question. The honest answer: film-set discipline is the reason corporate buyers hire us — on a $500K-a-day shoot, downtime is unacceptable, so we built systems that don’t fail that way. That standard runs a CEO keynote better than a “corporate-AV” template built for a hotel ballroom.
Corporate references are available on request under NDA. Ask Bill directly — he’ll walk you through comparable engagements.
Bill and Sandy are on the floor for the events that need them — that’s the promise. Behind them is a named senior pod of roughly 10 operators who work almost exclusively through Impact AV. Multi-room, multi-track, hybrid, streaming — the pod scales without introducing strangers to your show day.
Because “house AV” typically runs 30–50% over open-market rates — the venue takes a commission built into every line item. And house crews are staffed to hit the room’s baseline, not your CEO’s brand-critical moment. If the stakes are ordinary, house AV is fine. If they aren’t, you want a team that works for the event, not for the venue.
Always included: project management, full crew, all backup gear (redundancy in fours), run-of-show doc, post-event recording, vendor coordination, change orders within scope.
Billed separately (and named up front): extra rehearsal days, travel beyond the LA metro, custom scenic, live-stream deliverables where applicable.
Never charged: vendor coordination fees, change-order fees within scope, post-event support calls in the first 30 days.
Yes. Certificate of Insurance available on request, including additional-insured language for your legal and procurement teams. We’re procurement-ready.
Every critical signal has three backups already patched and powered. If a mic drops, the backup is already open. If a camera fails, the switch is already programmed. If a projector goes dark, the redundant path is already routed. Response is measured in seconds, not minutes. That’s not a marketing line — it’s how we’ve run film sets for 30 years, and it’s why studios keep calling.
We won’t give you a made-up day rate on a website. What we’ll do is scope your event and give you a real quote in 3–5 business days. As a directional anchor: serious corporate AV for executive events typically starts around $25K, and brand-launch or activation-scale events land higher. If your budget is well outside that, we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit before wasting your time.
Scoped quote. Named crew. No surprise invoices. Bill or Sandy replies within one business day.
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