Welcome to YLO, a Cape Town-based production company dedicated to turning your creative vision into striking visual content. From stills photography to full-scale commercial shoots, we collaborate with top local and international talent to deliver work defined by precision and creativity.
We handle every element of production—logistics, budgets, locations, permits, crew, and talent—ensuring no detail is overlooked. We understand that even the smallest component can define the success of a project. Cape Town, with its long summer days, stunning locations, and world-class crews, offers the perfect setting for shoots of any scale.
Our reputation is built on delivering flawless productions, ensuring that every project runs seamlessly from start to finish. Whether you’re launching a new product or filming a TV commercial, our expertise, industry connections, and hands-on approach guarantee a smooth and stress-free process.
We’ve partnered with leading global brands to bring their ideas to life through powerful visuals that leave a lasting impression. Let’s collaborate to create something extraordinary right here in Cape Town.
In a world oversaturated with content, we focus on creating images and videos that captivate and engage. Our work cuts through the noise, delivering visuals that resonate and hold attention.
We Believe
With the right planning and coordination we can create the most incredible stills photography deliverables for your brand – we pull together a bespoke team of highly skilled and professional individuals dedicated to the fine art and creation of pixel perfect commercial images and videos just for you.
YLO’s local industry experience and relationships enable us to analyse, quantify and execute flawless shoots from end to end. We incorporate some wildly creative visions into the nth detail, from budgeting and logistical planning to on-set decision-making. Effective production management processes are an instrumental component in the success of each shoot deliverable.
Production Matters
Taking care of stakeholders, logistics, models, talent, crews, permits, gear, budgets, accomodations and locations is no small undertaking and certainly cannot be left to chance on your shoot day. Our connected and experienced Cape Town producers play an instrumental role in pulling all these components together like a well oiled machine. All the pieces that make up the puzzle from gear, craft, permits, hair, makeup, unit, sets, lighting, sound, accommodations, transport, catering – you point, we shoot.
The devil is in the detail, one wrong turn and a small hiccup can burn an entire production budget in any number of unforseen scenarios, but that’s why our Cape Town based production team is here – to ensure you don’t.
Our producers work from concept to delivery to bring your vision to life. We are committed to transparency and only work with tried, tested and the most trustworthy suppliers in Cape Town. Production companies like YLO serve to mitigate this risk, thus it only makes busness sense to get a free, comparitive, no obligation estimate from YLO if you are looking to shoot your next production in Cape Town.