DOT Video Agency
Video agency built for the platforms where modern brands live. DOT Video Agency (or MadeByDOT) is a video production agency in Uithoorn, near Amsterdam, founded in 2018 by two filmmakers whose creative roots stem from music. We make brand films, B2B video, campaign creatives, employer branding, vertical and short-form social, animation and video podcast production for clients across Europe — including Feadship, DFDS, Albert Heijn, PwC, AFAS Live and Mitsubishi.
Born in music. Built for film.
Before they founded DOT, Tijmen van Grieken and Jesper de Rek were DJs. Both started young in the Dutch electronic music scene, building parallel careers across years of clubs and festivals, eventually touring a combined ten countries across Europe and Asia. They paved their own path rather than following an established one, which is what independent artists have to do.
That experience taught them something they carried directly into DOT: being an artist is the same problem as being a brand. You have to know what you stand for, make it visible in everything you put out, and do it consistently enough that people recognise it before they see your name on it.
When they founded DOT in 2018, they brought that instinct into film. Most agencies treat brand identity as a finishing layer; they treated it as the foundation of what they were making. The result is an agency whose films feel distinct because the people directing them spent years learning how to make their own work feel distinct.
DOT is now a studio in Uithoorn, near Amsterdam, with a small, deliberately senior team. Tijmen leads strategy, operations and client relationships; Jesper leads creative direction and post-production. They direct most of the work that goes out under the DOT name themselves.
Seven services, one approach.
The work clusters into seven areas, each with its own creative logic, production rhythm and measure of success: commercials, brand films, B2B video, employer branding, social and short-form, animation and podcast production. Every project is directed by one of the two owners.
The studio.
Our studio sits in Uithoorn, fifteen minutes from Schiphol and twenty from central Amsterdam. The space houses our full production setup: an in-house edit suite, a colour grading room, and a purpose-built video podcast studio designed for multi-cam capture with broadcast-grade audio.
Most of the work we direct passes through this studio at some point — an interview shoot, a colour grade, or the assembly stage of a hero film. Clients are welcome on-site for reviews, recording sessions, or simply to see the space before committing to a production.
The work we're known by.
Since 2018 we've made videos for brands across Europe, from heritage maritime and luxury hospitality to fintech, professional services, retail and industrial. Selected clients include:
Feadship · DFDS · Albert Heijn × Lumen · PwC · Mitsubishi · AFAS Live · Paul Meijering Staal · Pelican Rouge · Rompslomp · Ploum · ShakaCan · The Set Company · Connectie Brainport · CFYE · Cobase · Forth Global
Some are long-running partnerships spanning years and many productions; others single hero campaigns with specific commercial outcomes. Most sit somewhere in between. We treat new relationships the same way we treat the long-running ones: the first project earns the second.
Let's talk.
For new projects, partnership conversations, or anything else, we'd rather have a short conversation than exchange long emails. Tijmen and Jesper handle initial conversations directly — twenty minutes on a call is usually enough to know whether the work fits.
Email: info@madebydot.com
Phone: +31 6 52633088
Studio: Chemieweg 31, 1422DX Uithoorn, Netherlands
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