About the studio
Businesspeople who make video
We are not a consultancy and not a traditional agency. Nila Studios started because its founders spent years scaling a B2B startup and kept running into the same problem with outsourced content agencies: plenty of craft, very little commercial instinct. So we built the opposite — businesspeople who create, rather than creatives learning the business on your budget.
For video, that shows up in one specific habit. We start with what the film has to change, not with the shot list.
How we work
Three habits
Briefed from the business need
There is no one-size-fits-all. The format follows the objective — a platform explainer, an executive POV, a customer story, a recurring series — rather than whatever template was used last time.
Built to repeat
The work we are proudest of is not a one-off hero film. It is six editions of the same event series that still look like a set, and twenty-four podcast episodes that shipped without the production becoming the bottleneck.
Research-backed and on brand
We do the reading before the shoot, and we capture your voice and energy rather than imposing ours. The film should sound like the company, not like the studio that made it.
Origin
Where the name comes from
Nila Studios is named after Sang Nila Utama, the Southeast Asian prince credited with founding Singapore. The logo combines a fountain pen and a rocket — the planning and the growth, which is roughly the whole idea.
The team
Who you work with
A small team. The people who scope your project are the people who make it.
- Nathaniel Yim Founder
Co-founder of Janio. Spent years scaling regional B2B businesses and building brands across Southeast Asia.
- Kriscel Diane Go Head of Creative
Fifteen-plus years building brands in Southeast Asia, and the person behind most of what you see in the portfolio.
- Benedict Leong Head of Editorial
Background in market research and content leadership. Owns the words, the structure and the story.
- Jerry Research
Psychology-trained researcher specialising in consumer psychology. Works out why an audience actually cares.
- Monica Creative
Ten-plus years of brand-building across Southeast Asia, working across concept and craft.