About us
Frederick's full-service creative agency
We were built on a simple idea: smaller businesses deserve stories as good as the big ones. Watch the video to learn more.
We were built on a simple idea: smaller businesses deserve stories as good as the big ones. Watch the video to learn more.
The best ideas usually start out feeling a little ambitious. Our approach is to lead with the strongest possible concept, then find the smartest way to make it real. It's easier to scale a big idea back than to build a small one up. Some of the work we're most proud of started as the idea that felt like a stretch.
High-quality marketing content shouldn't require a massive budget or a client who already knows exactly what they need. We work with clients to develop ideas that warrant the craft, and we handle the complexity ourselves so the process feels straightforward on their end. Production-grade work at a price point that makes sense for growing businesses.
Everything is in-house. One team, one studio, one point of contact. We listen carefully, handle the logistics, and keep clients informed without overwhelming them. Responsive, local, and genuinely invested in getting it right.
Purple Donut Studios operates out of a physical studio in Frederick, MD, built to handle whatever a project needs.
Studio A is our main production space, where sets get built from scratch. Brick walls for interview shoots, seamless backgrounds for headshots, living rooms for product photography, and a giant pelvis for an educational client who needed exactly that. The studio adapts to the project. That's the point.
Studio B is our dedicated podcast space, designed for brands and hosts who want a polished, multi-camera production with professional audio. Not just a room with a microphone.
All of it runs on cinema-grade equipment. We use the same camera systems, lenses, and lighting tools you'd find on a large-scale commercial set. That's not a detail we mention to sound impressive. It's what makes the work look the way it does.
Every person on this team is exceptional (both at what they do and at being a great human).
In 2023, Brian Munday Jr. and Cameron Harris were both running their own creative businesses in Frederick when they crossed paths at a Frederick Chamber of Commerce mixer. They hit it off. A few deeper conversations later, they decided to build something together.
Brian came from wedding videography, with a sharp eye for emotion and a mind that never stops generating ideas. Cameron spent nearly a decade as a producer at Warner Bros. Discovery, working on everything from viral social content to full-length broadcast series. Their strengths fit together naturally. Brian brings the creative fire hose. Cameron helps aim it.
The conviction behind Purple Donut Studios was simple from the start: high-caliber production shouldn't be reserved for brands with massive budgets. The same tools, techniques, and craft that go into a national commercial can go into a video for a local gym or a growing small business. That's the standard they set on day one, and it's the one the team holds today.
Whatever you're working toward, we'd love to hear about it.
Purple Donut Studios is rooted in Frederick, and that's not incidental. Brian grew up in nearby Middletown. Cameron has called Frederick home for nearly 15 years. The community is part of how this studio started and part of how it keeps growing.
But the work doesn't stop at the county line. Purple Donut has produced and delivered work for clients across the country and internationally, including an agency partnership in London. On the post-production side especially, geography doesn't limit what we can do or who we can do it for.
Trusted by the Smithsonian, Warner Bros. Discovery, the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington, the National Air and Space Museum, and growing businesses throughout Maryland and beyond.
Naming the company was its own production. Dozens of names got thrown out. Nothing stuck. Then Cameron's wife Kate, who would later join the studio as Lead Designer, put "donut" on a list of options and quietly slipped it to Brian. He loved it immediately. Cameron took a little convincing, then came around completely. It turns out it's a pretty great name.
They ran a quick SEO check to confirm it was genuinely ownable, and that was that. It's fun, it's memorable, and it doesn't take itself too seriously. Neither do we.
