Velocity Agency

What Velocity Agency does

Velocity Agency is a full-service advertising agency and film production company with offices in New Orleans, Mandeville, Louisiana, and Malibu, California. The homepage groups its work into four lines: production, web development, digital marketing, and media. Production covers 4K video, virtual reality, drone shoots, and 3D animation. Digital marketing covers display ads, social media management, and search engine marketing. Media placement runs from billboards to what the agency says was a Super Bowl spot.

The company was founded in 2012 but describes deeper roots. The about page states it grew out of Berning Marketing and Productions, a New Orleans production company run by Robert Berning for more than 40 years, which worked with brands including Northrop Grumman and Burger King. His son, Robert Berning III, inherited the business and formed Velocity to extend it into digital marketing.

Velocity states it was among the first agencies in its market to offer drone photography and video, 360-degree virtual reality video, and augmented reality. Other listed services include paid search, SEO, graphic design, copywriting, scriptwriting, print, organic social content, instructional video guides, public relations, and custom software. The directory listing places the agency in Metairie, while the site gives a Mandeville mailing address at 633 Lotus Drive North.

Pricing and engagement

Velocity does not publish rates, retainers, or production day rates in the pages reviewed. The directory listing records an hourly rate of $100 to $149 and a minimum project size of $1,000 or more. Every page ends with a contact form and an email list signup, and the homepage invites buyers to call for media placement.

The site describes engagements as full-service, with the agency working through concept, production, and placement on a campaign. Several portfolio pages describe multi-decade client relationships rather than one-off projects. The Lamarque Ford and Lamarque Lincoln work spans decades, and the agency says it has moved those dealers from television and radio into pay-per-click and social campaigns over time.

No contract length, retainer minimum, or reporting cadence is stated. Buyers should ask how media commissions and production costs are billed, since the agency both makes the creative and places it.

Who should hire Velocity Agency

The strongest fit is a consumer-facing business in Louisiana or the Gulf Coast that needs a television commercial or branded video and wants the same team to buy the airtime and run the digital placement. The portfolio is dominated by car dealers, food brands, a beverage distributor, a law firm, and a casino.

• Auto dealers and other high-frequency broadcast advertisers, given the multi-decade Lamarque Ford and Lamarque Lincoln relationships.
• Regional food and beverage brands, such as Melinda's Hot Sauce, Sal's Pasta Sauce, and Crescent Crown Distributing, that want video, animation, and custom music in one package.
• Casinos and hospitality operators, since the leadership page lists an account manager who doubles as casino liaison and the portfolio includes Harrah's Casino in New Orleans.
• Brands that want drone, VR, or 3D animation work from a production team rather than a subcontractor.

Who should look elsewhere

Velocity's portfolio pages describe creative and storytelling outcomes, not measured results. No case study on the site reports cost per lead, sales lift, or campaign spend, and the only quantified claim is that Lamarque became the top Ford dealer in Louisiana. Companies that buy marketing on performance data will have to ask for numbers the site does not show.

• B2B, SaaS, or software companies. Custom software is listed as a service, but no software project appears in the portfolio.
• Buyers who need published pricing or a small fixed-scope package.
• Companies outside the Gulf South that want a local team, since the New Orleans and Mandeville offices are the center of gravity and the Malibu office is not described.

Track record and signals

The portfolio page lists twelve featured projects. Elite Workforce, an industrial staffing company in Houma, Louisiana, received a recruitment commercial. Melinda's Hot Sauce received media placement, video, animation, and custom music around its chilihead fan base. For Crescent Crown Distributing, Velocity produced Among Familia, a 2013 live-action and animated video about a lost beer bottle named Bruce. Sal's Pasta Sauce received a social video series shot in the kitchen with chef Sal Impastato.

The Lamarque Ford page credits the Most Ordinary Man campaign, featuring owner Ronnie Lamarque, with helping the dealership earn the title of number one Ford dealer in Louisiana. The Lamarque Lincoln page cites the Ron-A-Longs campaign with Ronnie Lamarque Jr. Other listed work includes a 25th anniversary piece for Cardiovascular Institute of the South, G-Eazy music videos, Mercedes-Benz of Mobile, the Baggett McCall law firm, Salted Flats Fly Fishing, and a Duck Tape pop-up store in Midtown Manhattan.

The homepage displays counters for Telly, ADDY, and Davey Awards, though the counts did not render in the crawl, and states the Silicon Review named Velocity one of the top digital marketing and advertising agencies in the country. Three client testimonials appear, from Tamra Rousso, Billy Blatty, and Neel Suresh Sus, without company names. The site links to UpCity and DesignRush profiles but not to Clutch or Google reviews. One Hacker News hit found in research is an unrelated job-seeker post.

How Velocity Agency compares

Against other marketing agencies in this directory, Velocity's listed $100 to $149 rate is mid-range and its $1,000 minimum is among the lowest, while its in-house production capability is rarer. Most peers at this size outsource video, and few can claim a production lineage back to the 1980s.

Its advantages are broadcast-grade production, media buying, and long client tenures. Its gaps are the lack of measured campaign results, no published pricing, and a thin footprint outside Louisiana.