22 Training Video Production Companies, Compared

I work at Moonb, and I have briefed training videos from both sides of the table. The marketing side, where someone guards the brand and hates anything that looks like an afterthought. And the learning-and-development side, where someone just needs forty modules that new hires actually finish. Those two people rarely want the same thing, which is why most "best training video companies" lists feel useless. They blur instructional-design houses in with creative studios and hope you sort it out.

So I sorted it out. Below are 22 companies I would actually put in front of a client, grouped in my head by the job the video has to do: onboarding, safety and compliance, product and software enablement, culture and soft skills. Some are learning specialists who will build the pedagogy for you. Some are creative teams who make the thing look like something people want to watch. A few do both. I put Moonb first because it is where I work, and I have been upfront about the spots where a specialist beats us outright.

How I compared these

I looked at four things for each company. What format they are strongest in, whether that is live action, animation, or a blend of the two. Whether they own the instructional design or just the production. How they handle volume, because a single safety film and a forty-module onboarding series are completely different projects. And who they are clearly built for, based on the work in their portfolio rather than the adjectives on their homepage.

One thing worth saying before the list. The reason training video is having a moment is not hype. According to LinkedIn Learning's 2025 Workplace Learning Report, 71% of L&D professionals are already exploring or integrating AI into their work, and self-paced online learning has overtaken the classroom as the default format in large companies. The demand is real. The finishing rate is the problem.

Why most training videos never get finished

The data is uncomfortable. Wistia's 2025 State of Video Report found that videos under a minute hold a 52% engagement rate, the highest of any length, and that engagement drops off sharply past the five-minute mark. How-to videos hold up best of all, staying above 80% engagement when they are short. Put plainly, nobody finishes your 22-minute compliance module, and the length is what does the damage there, more than the subject ever does.

That matters more than it sounds, because onboarding is where retention is won or lost. Roughly one in three new hires leaves within the first 90 days per SHRM data, and Gallup estimates the cost of replacing an employee at anywhere from half to twice their annual salary once you count recruiting and lost productivity. When people abandon a training video at minute four, you have paid for onboarding that did not do its job. The best companies below understand that pacing and clarity are the whole game.

22 training video production companies

1. Moonb

Moonb is an embedded creative team that works with companies like Dell, Intel, and Toyota. I am biased, obviously. But the thing we are actually good at is making internal and training content look as considered as the marketing work, which is rare, because most training video gets treated as the afterthought nobody photographs. You get a dedicated Creative Director who learns your brand once and keeps it consistent across every onboarding film and product walkthrough, instead of re-briefing a new freelancer every quarter.

Where we fit best: onboarding, culture, and internal-comms video for companies that already care about how their brand looks and do not want the training library to be the one place it falls apart. Where a specialist beats us: if you need SCORM packaging and branching assessments built into the deliverable, hire a learning house from this list. When United Way ran a large project with us, their Director of Marketing and Digital, Josh Kirshman, said it was "the best experience we have had with a large project like this," which is the kind of thing I would rather show than claim.

Best for: onboarding and culture content that has to look as good as your marketing.

2. Blue Carrot

Blue Carrot is a learning-first studio that pairs animation and live action with real instructional design. What sets them apart is that they will build the training itself, not just dress it up, which is exactly what you want when the material is complex and the pedagogy has to be right the first time.

Best for: training where the learning design, not just the visuals, needs to be built well.

3. NextThought

NextThought puts vetted subject-matter experts on camera, which gives regulated and high-stakes training a credible face rather than a generic narrator. They serve healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing, and that shows in how comfortable they are with content that has to be accurate under scrutiny.

Best for: safety, compliance, and regulated-industry training that needs a trusted face.

4. Ninja Tropic

Ninja Tropic are animation and microlearning specialists built for speed and scale. If your rollout is a large onboarding or change-management program spread across many short modules, their process is set up to churn that out without every module feeling like a one-off.

Best for: large onboarding or change-management rollouts across many modules.

5. ELM Learning

ELM Learning leans on character-driven animation and deliberate pacing to make dry material watchable. Compliance and product education are their sweet spot, precisely because those are the topics people dread, and ELM's whole approach is built around not losing the viewer.

Best for: compliance and product training that would otherwise feel lifeless.

6. Demo Duck

Demo Duck is comfortable in both live action and animation under one roof, and they are happy to blend the two. That flexibility is useful when you are not sure which format works best and want to test without hiring two separate vendors to find out.

Best for: teams who want to try formats without juggling two vendors.

7. Lemonlight

Lemonlight does cinematic live-action production through fast, standardized workflows. If you need polished on-camera onboarding or tutorials and you need them on a tight clock, their model is built for turnaround without the output looking rushed.

Best for: polished on-camera onboarding and tutorials on a deadline.

8. RaffertyWeiss Media

RaffertyWeiss is a DC-area shop with more than 25 years in corporate, government, and non-profit work. That kind of tenure matters most for safety orientation and compliance filming, where you want a crew that has shot the unglamorous stuff a hundred times and will not fumble the details.

Best for: safety orientation and compliance filming from a dependable veteran crew.

9. ECG Productions

ECG is an Atlanta full-service house with a very high project volume. Think of them as a workhorse for institutional e-learning series and internal comms produced at scale, the sort of steady output that keeps a large training library refreshed rather than any single flagship piece.

Best for: institutional e-learning series and internal comms at volume.

10. Yum Yum Videos

Yum Yum is a veteran animated-explainer studio, and animation has one real advantage for training: it is far easier to edit when a policy or process changes. For content that gets updated often, that reusability saves you re-shooting a set every time a rule moves.

Best for: training on processes and policies that change and need easy edits.

11. Vidico

Vidico is tech- and SaaS-focused with strong product walkthroughs. When "training" really means teaching users and staff how a piece of software actually works, they understand that job well, having done it for a long list of tech brands.

Best for: product and software walkthroughs where training equals enablement.

12. Skeleton Productions

Skeleton is a UK B2B video partner with a strategy-led process. They are set up for companies that want an ongoing internal-content relationship rather than a single delivery, so the value compounds if you plan to keep making training and comms video over time.

Best for: a longer-term internal-content partnership.

13. Thinkmojo

Thinkmojo makes stylized explainers and product videos for B2B tech brands, with a portfolio that includes names like Slack and Discord. Their strength is feature-education content, so software onboarding and product training are where they shine rather than broad curriculum work.

Best for: software onboarding and feature-education content.

14. Venture Videos

Venture aims its training and explainer production at SaaS and fintech. They will help with scripting too, which is a real advantage for regulated software teams where the words matter as much as the visuals and getting the messaging wrong is expensive.

Best for: regulated software teams that need scripting help alongside production.

15. Wyzowl

Wyzowl is a long-running explainer specialist with fixed-scope packages. If you want a single animated training piece delivered predictably, with clear boundaries on scope and timeline, their model removes most of the guesswork from a one-off project.

Best for: a single animated training piece done predictably.

16. Epipheo

Epipheo is a story-driven explainer studio built around making one idea click. That focus is a strength and a limit: they are the right call when a single concept needs to hit home, and the wrong one when you need to cover an entire curriculum.

Best for: making one concept click rather than covering a whole syllabus.

17. IdeaRocket

IdeaRocket is an animation-only studio with clean, professional output. For concept-heavy training where live action would only add complexity and cost, staying in animation keeps the whole thing simpler to produce and easier to revise later.

Best for: concept-heavy training that is better off animated.

18. Sandwich

Sandwich is a high-end creative shop known for tech product films. They are not the pick for a bulk module library, but when a single flagship onboarding or product video needs real production polish and a bigger investment is justified, they deliver at that level.

Best for: a flagship onboarding or product video that warrants real polish.

19. Flearning Studio

Flearning is an eLearning-animation specialist focused on custom training courses. The distinction here is that they deliver SCORM-ready modules, not just a video file, which is what you need if the content has to live inside an LMS and report completion.

Best for: SCORM-ready modules built for a learning management system.

20. Content Beta

Content Beta is a B2B SaaS creative team offering steady, ongoing video output. If you are building a product-education or how-to library that needs constant refreshing rather than a single hero piece, their pace suits that kind of always-on demand.

Best for: product-education and how-to libraries that need regular updates.

21. Advids

Advids is a large managed network of animators and editors. The appeal is range from a single point of contact: when you need many training videos in different styles and do not want to manage a dozen vendors, that breadth is useful, if less bespoke than a dedicated studio.

Best for: many training videos in different styles from one contact.

22. TechSmith

TechSmith is not a production company. It makes Camtasia and Snagit, and I am including it because sometimes the right answer is that you do not need to hire anyone. When a screen-recorded software tutorial is all the situation calls for, buying the tool and recording it yourself is the right move.

Best for: a screen-recorded software tutorial you can make in-house.

The shortlist

Learning specialist or creative studio: which one you need

The single most useful question I can hand you is this: is the hard part the teaching, or the watching? If your material is complex and the learning has to be structured and packaged for an LMS, hire a learning house like Blue Carrot or Flearning. They will build the pedagogy, and the polish is secondary. If your material is not that complicated but people keep tuning out because the content looks and feels like a chore, that is a creative problem, and a studio that treats training with the same care as a brand film will get more of it finished.

Most companies actually sit in the middle, and the mistake I see most often is hiring the wrong half. A beautifully shot onboarding film that teaches nothing is as useless as a pedagogically perfect module that nobody watches past minute three. If you want to go deeper on that trade-off before you brief anyone, our guide to corporate training videos walks through it, and how to make training videos for employees covers the production steps in order.

What a training video costs, and what changes the price

I will not quote you a single price, because anyone who does is guessing. The variables that actually change the price are format (animation and live action price very differently), length and module count, whether you need on-camera talent and locations, and how much instructional design sits on top of the production. A single animated explainer and a forty-module onboarding series are not the same purchase, and treating them as one line item is how projects blow up mid-flight.

The realistic framing is that video training is usually a front-loaded investment that pays back through self-paced access, because you produce once and every new hire watches without a facilitator in the room. Given that a third of new hires leave within their first three months, even a modest improvement in how well onboarding performs tends to justify the spend quickly. For a fuller breakdown of the ranges, our post on corporate video production prices lays out the factors in detail.

How to brief a training video team so people watch to the end

Whichever company you pick, the brief is where most of the outcome is decided. Keep every module short, because the engagement data is unambiguous that length is what loses people. Define one clear learning objective per video rather than cramming a whole handbook into a single file. Give the team real examples of training you admire, so "make it engaging" turns into something concrete. And decide up front whether you are building a one-off or an ongoing library, because that choice changes which partner on this list makes sense and how the relationship should be structured.

The best sign you have found the right team is that they push back on your brief. If they nod along and promise everything, be careful. If they ask why a module is nine minutes long and suggest cutting it to three, you have found people who care whether anyone finishes it.