VERT
Capabilities · November 2026

Made for
the feed.

Director-led · vertical-native · now developing shows

01 · Who we are

Built in
the feed

VERT is a director-led, vertical-native studio for where content is going. We're the home for directors, writers and creators who don't hide their vertical work. They lead with it.

MetaGoogleNikeTinderTargetIPSYLG
Kylie MinogueRauw AlejandroCardi BMegan Thee StallionPharrell

What we believe

  • Ads don't create fans. Stories, characters and formats do.
  • Craft first, made for the feed. Not low budget, built right.
  • Every great vertical idea wants to become a series.
  • Shorty Award · 6x ADDY Awards · Webby nomination · Inc. Female Founders 500
02 · What we do

Four ways in

01

Branded content

Social-first directors on brand work, cast to the brief.

See the work →

02

Original shows

Vertical series we develop, write and own.

See the slate →

03

Creators

The right creator for a shoot, managed start to finish.

How it works →

04

The bench

A rolling roster of directors who live vertical.

Meet them →

Find the audienceLearn what they thinkStrategyStoryConceptProduce at scaleGrow into series
Pillar 01 · Branded content

Brand work that
plays like content

We cast every brief from the bench: comedy, sport, music, fashion, real people. Then we build it for the feed first, with the craft of a broadcast shoot.

Pillar 02 · Original shows

Our slate in
development

Vertical originals we're building ourselves. Each has a repeatable episode anatomy, made to be watched, shared and sponsored. Full treatments available under NDA.

Behind
the Gates
Docu-fiction
Girlhood, performed.

Teenagers inside elite LA youth culture, from Calabasas to Hidden Hills. Observed reality, improvised scenes and emotional truth, shot for the phone, because that's where intimacy happens now.

The
Listing
Unscripted
Every house has a story.

A vertical-native real estate series that follows the agents, the buyers and the deal.

The
Dashers
Unscripted

Treatment available under NDA.

Home-
coming
Microdrama

Treatment available under NDA.

Microdrama · In development

Take9

A nine-episode vertical microdrama for the Take9 campaign, helping busy parents spot online scams. Real, relatable stories, never scary. Directed by Kristen Brancaccio.

Hope
Farley
Co-Founder · CEO
The production side

Built the systems
behind the feed

Co-founder and CEO Hope Farley has spent 25+ years in the entertainment business, starting at Radical Media in LA. In 2013 she co-founded Adolescent Content and led it for over a decade as a social-first agency and production company, building the teams, production systems and creator networks behind campaigns for the world's biggest brands.

25+years in entertainment
10+years co-founding and leading Adolescent Content
6xADDY Awards, plus a Shorty and a Webby nomination
  • Produced for Meta, Google, Nike, Tinder, Target, IPSY and LG.
  • Music and artist work with Kylie Minogue, Rauw Alejandro, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Pharrell.
  • Grew WLDKAT, We The Culture and Adolescent's own channels from the ground up.
  • Social impact work for Power to Decide and the States of California and New Mexico.
  • Inc. Female Founders 500.
Chastity
Dotson
Co-Founder · Chief Creative Officer
The development side

Every side of
the story

Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Chastity Dotson leads VERT's writing and show development. She has spent more than 20 years on every side of the story: as talent in front of the camera, as a writer in the room, and as a founder. She built 300 for 300, a nonprofit that uses the arts to help young girls find their voice.

40+TV productions
7original one-woman shows, performed internationally
20+years in TV, film and theatre
  • Staff writer on AMC's stop-motion animated series Ultra City Smiths, with Emmy winner Steven Conrad.
  • Writer on Flipped, a scripted sci-fi series for Echoverse, on a team with Emmy-winning showrunner Neal Baer.
  • Co-created the comedy The Unbachelorette with Christina Martin for Borderless Entertainment.
  • Founded 300 for 300, a nonprofit focused on the arts and on helping young girls grow through them.
  • Creates immersive art experiences, including Seed of L.O.V.E. for Louisville's Festival of Faiths.
DTF St. Louis (HBO)The West WingGrey's AnatomyNCISBoschManifestThe Rookie
Series in practice

60 Second Docs

A doc-style vertical series from our team: one person, one minute, one real story. The format we build on: tight, human and made to binge.

Pillar 03 · Creators

The right creator,
fully managed

We find the creator who fits the brand and the brief, then run the whole process so the brand gets the creator's voice with a production's reliability.

Identify

Talent search across platforms, matched to the audience and the idea.

Shortlist

A curated shortlist with budgets, ready for the brand to choose.

Brief

Creative brief and onboarding, so the creator knows the world.

Business affairs

Rates, usage and contracts negotiated in-house.

Deliver

On set and in post, we manage every deliverable to final.

Case studies

Work that built
followings

Meta

Owned channels that feel personal

We made Meta's owned channels feel personal instead of corporate, with a steady drumbeat of social-first content.

70+assets a quarter
45%lift in on-topic comments
Tinder

#PYOTChallenge with Megan Thee Stallion

A 360 campaign as Tinder's social agency of record, anchored by a Megan Thee Stallion partnership.

800Mimpressions
250Knew Gen Z users

Also for Tinder

12M+ TikTok views · 78% social following growth · 4.2M+ cross-platform reach

WLDKAT

A beauty launch built on social

Grew a new beauty brand from launch to the top of the shelf.

300%Instagram growth in 3 months
6.5M+anthem views

The result

500K+ shares and the #1 new beauty line at Target.

Papa John's

The franchisees' story

Studio portrait interviews with the people behind the stores, cut with b-roll from their world.

Campaigns produced by our team.

Pillar 04 · The bench

A rolling bench

Directors who live vertical, across comedy, music video, documentary, fashion and episodic. Always growing.

What's next

Ideas first,
not capabilities

Original shows

A development side led by Chastity Dotson, building scripted and unscripted vertical series we own.

Bespoke concepts

Named ideas with a director room behind them, taken straight to brands.

A wider bench

Growing the roster across genres, with more women directors.

Creator pipeline

Sourcing and managing creators on brand shoots, as a repeatable service.

Our team

Leadership

HF
Hope Farley
Co-Founder · CEO

25+ years in entertainment, starting at Radical Media. Co-founded and led Adolescent Content for over a decade. Builds teams, production systems and the bench.

CD
Chastity Dotson
Co-Founder · Chief Creative Officer

Writer, actress and founder of the arts nonprofit 300 for 300. 40+ television productions, from The West Wing to HBO's DTF St. Louis. Leads writing and development.

Let's talk

Made for the feed

Hope Farley

Co-Founder · CEO

hope@vert-tv.com
310.963.3472

Chastity Dotson

Co-Founder · Chief Creative Officer

VERT

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