Make the work on Amsterdam's water visible.
Water Stories is a small content studio on the Amsterdam water. We make video, articles and audio tours for organisations that work on or along the water: harbour and maritime companies, water authorities, and places on the waterfront. You get material for your own channels, plus our reach among people who follow the water every week.
Concretely: short videos with your own people, articles read by the water community, and audio tours for trips, open days and new employees.
What do you need?
Let people meet the people who work on the water
Short videos in which we film your people at work: on the quay, in the terminal, on board. Viewers see faces and hear why the work matters, which is what makes them care.
Have your work and plans read on the water
A story about a project, a policy choice or a water event, told in normal words. Stories from the water are short and to the point, seen from the water today, and worth telling someone else.
Tell the history of the water during the boat ride
An audio tour that plays in the browser while people are on the water or walking your site. Good for client trips, new employees, open days and school visits: they understand where they are before anyone explains it.
From first call to published, in four steps.
Intro call
Half an hour. You tell us who you want to reach and what you want them to understand.
Plan and fixed price
Within a few days you get a short plan: format, subjects, planning and one price.
We come to you
Half a day on site or on board. We film and interview your own people, no scripts.
Delivery and reach
You get the files for your own channels. We publish on ours and report what people watched.
A fixed price agreed before we start, one contact person, and you read or watch everything before it goes out.
Young people do not know this work exists.
Harbour companies, shipyards and water organisations are all looking for people. Meanwhile hardly anyone leaves school knowing you can work on the water at all.
We film your own people at work and let them explain it in normal words. No campaign voice, no stock footage: the people who already do the job.
One month, three portraits
- Half a day filming on site with three of your people.
- Three vertical videos, yours to use on your own channels and at job fairs.
- We post them too, and report back what people watched and asked.
A fixed price before we start. After the month we look at the numbers together and decide whether it is worth continuing.
Talk about a pilotWe start in the port.
The port of Amsterdam and the companies around it are our first focus. Public water organisations and places on the water come next.
PORT AND MARITIME
- Port of Amsterdam
- Terminals and harbour companies
- Shipyards and maritime suppliers
- Logistics and inland shipping
Public water organisations
- Water authorities (waterschappen)
- Municipality of Amsterdam
- Waternet and water utilities
- Engineering and consultancy firms
Places on the water
- Museums and cultural institutions
- Schools and universities of applied sciences
- Hotels and waterside hospitality
- Waterside real estate
Have an idea? Let us know.
Tell us who you want to reach and what you want them to understand. We answer within a few days with a plan and a fixed price.
Rather talk? Plan intro or write to us.