GYV Media

GYV Media Digital Content Creation, Social Media Marketing, Photography, Video, Web and Graphic Design, Visual Storytelling, Brand Placement, Media Buying, Logo Design

Cutting Edge Digital Content has become the atomic particle in today's marketing. We offer a multitude of digital services that not only drives traffic, creates brand awareness but gives the small guy the opportunity to compete on a massive scale. We’re a collective of creative individuals with decades of experience in various industries and skillsets yet all centered and focused on technology, ma

rketing and advertising. Social Media Analysis and Recommendation (Social Media Report Card)
Website Analysis and Recommendation
Photography (Food, Events, Staff, Venue, Misc)
Video (Social Media, Blog & Website Ready Videos of Events, Catering, Food, Cooking, Customer Testimonials, Chef Interview(s)
Cinemagraph/Living Image (High response social media content)
360 Virtual Tour of Venue with or without actor (High response social media content)
Interactive Property Map that can integrate with 360 Tours, Video, Photos, Downloadable Documents such as coupons, flyers, etc. Ad Creation, Graphic Design & Menu Design
Aerial/Drone Footage
TimeLapse Photography
Social Media Engagement,Traffic Enhancement, Strategic Planning Market & Competition Analysis. Media Buying
Web Reputation Analysis and Remediation (Negative reviews)

We believe the future of marketing is going to be much more engaging and much more technology laden. A fresh batch of digital content to be used on your social media and web efforts is as important as turning your open sign on. Without a consistent flow of quality digital content it’s very easy for a business to fall off the radar and can quickly lose public favor. Traffic is gained through social engagement and public awareness. Our systems and team of specialists work tirelessly to not only build engaging content but to get it syndicated enough to engage visitors. Content is KING!

The best part of our job is we get to eat all this delicious food! Pacos Tacos Columbia St did not disappoint!
12/15/2025

The best part of our job is we get to eat all this delicious food! Pacos Tacos Columbia St did not disappoint!

Enjoying authentic Mexican food in Covington!
12/15/2025

Enjoying authentic Mexican food in Covington!

12/03/2025

Food delivery was a convenience, until it became a lifestyle. Now America is a nation of order-inners—and it’s destroying restaurants as we once knew them, Ellen Cushing writes: https://theatln.tc/fwdcRlaD

Petal & Pine + GYV Media: Elopement ExperiencesPetal Whisper – Medium backdrop, setup + teardown, styling consultationBl...
11/24/2025

Petal & Pine + GYV Media: Elopement Experiences

Petal Whisper – Medium backdrop, setup + teardown, styling consultation

Bloom & Luxe – Large custom backdrop with optional accents

Captured Moments – 2–4 hours professional photography, online gallery

The Full Bloom – Backdrop + Photography, styling consultation included

The Complete Experience – Backdrop + Photography + Videography, fully-styled, social media teaser optional

🌸 Professional, no-hassle, last-minute-friendly
📍 Serving Folsom, Northshore, New Orleans & surrounding areas
💌 DM or email today to reserve your elopement experience

11/24/2025

Is your restaurant ready for a complete glow-up? At GYV Media, we handle it all, and you get to pay over time with just 20% down. No big upfront hit, just results. Here’s what we offer:

- Custom Websites: Modern, mobile-friendly sites tailored to your brand.
- Local SEO: Get found by diners in your area easily.
- Pro Photography & Video: High-end visuals that make your dishes and space shine.
- Branding Refresh: New logos, new menus, and a full brand facelift.
- Digital Menus: Beautiful, easy-to-update online menus that impress.
- Social Media Content: Ready-to-post graphics and daily management if you need it.

Get everything you need now and split the cost over five easy payments. Let’s make your restaurant the local favorite with a digital and branding makeover.

Drop us a message or visit gyvmedia.com to get started!

11/21/2025

Restaurants are getting crushed right now – food costs are up, foot traffic is down, and most places are still running on outdated websites and cell-phone photos.

We’re rolling out a Restaurant Relaunch 5-Pay Program to make a serious upgrade actually affordable.

✅ Custom restaurant website – starting at $3,000+, with pricing adjusted for features like built-in ordering, blogs, event calendars, and extra sections
✅ Local SEO so you actually show up when people search “best [your cuisine] near me”
✅ Pro photography & 6K video – Canon pro bodies, Blackmagic cinema, drone, sliders, gimbals… not somebody’s phone
✅ Optional daily social media + graphics so your feed finally matches the quality of your food

How the payments work:
• We agree on the project total
• You pay 20% at signing
• The remaining 4 payments of 20% are billed monthly (5 payments total)
• Monthly retainers for SEO / social are separate and based on scope

You can start at a website-only refresh, or go all the way up to a full ongoing marketing partner – same structure, just different levels of support.

👉 Comment or DM “RELAUNCH” and we’ll send you the full PDF breakdown with all four package levels and pricing structure.

All Content Created & Marketed by GYVMedia www.gyvmedia.com

Beware the “Digital Creator” Trap: Cheap Content Is Costly MarketingIn a tight market, it’s tempting to hire the cheapes...
11/07/2025

Beware the “Digital Creator” Trap: Cheap Content Is Costly Marketing

In a tight market, it’s tempting to hire the cheapest person with a smartphone and a TikTok account. But low-skill “digital creators” often deliver low-impact results, thin strategy, inconsistent visuals, no SEO, and no lift in bookings or orders. You don’t need more posts; you need performance.

Why quality visuals (and real marketing) matter

- Photos and listings done right drive clicks, calls, and direction requests.
- More, better photos correlate with higher diner engagement.
- Visual content outperforms plain text for reach and conversions.
- Up-to-date, high-quality images help your Google and maps visibility.
- Lighting, composition, and color correction shape appetite and purchase intent.

The hidden costs of hiring the wrong person

- Turnover and do-overs when content doesn’t move numbers.
- Brand erosion from inconsistent color and style.
- Lost discoverability from weak Google Business, menus, and metadata.

Red flags you’re paying for content, not marketing
“All phone, no lights, good enough.”

- No GBP photo plan or UTM-tracked links.
- No RAW capture, color management, or size/crop specs.
- No SEO or local-search basics.
- “We post daily,” but no tie to reservations, orders, or calls.

What a professional partner does

1) Strategic shot list tied to revenue (hero dishes, add-ons, day-parts, private dining).
2) Pro capture (lenses for low light, controlled lighting, gimbal/slider, audio).
3) Color-true post (calibrated workflow, platform-specific crops).
4) Distribution + SEO (GBP cadence, schema, alt text, compressed variants, UTMs).
5) Reporting (clicks/calls/directions, menu CTR, content-to-conversion mapping).

Quick self-audit (5 minutes)

- Recent, on-brand photos of best-margin items?
- Each top item has vertical, square, and landscape versions?
- GBP photos

Serving Consistency: How Unified Visuals Elevate Your Restaurant’s BrandIn the culinary world, flavor may be the heart o...
11/05/2025

Serving Consistency: How Unified Visuals Elevate Your Restaurant’s Brand

In the culinary world, flavor may be the heart of your business, but visual appeal is the soul that invites people in. And that soul thrives on consistency. After two decades of shooting everything from mom-and-pop eateries to large-scale casinos, we know that when you have one team overseeing all your media, you get a beautifully unified brand presence.

At GYV Media, we offer a full array of services under one roof: photography, video, website design, SEO, graphic design for signs and billboards, and digital menus that tie it all together. This means you’re working with one dedicated expert rather than juggling multiple freelancers. Every piece of media—from a mouth-watering video clip to high-res menu photos—carries the same signature style and quality.

And here’s the kicker: because we handle both photography and video at the same time, you don’t have to re-cook dishes or reset scenes. We capture everything in one go, saving time and ensuring that your visuals are consistent and efficiently produced. That’s less food waste and more cohesive storytelling.

We’ve shot thousands of restaurants and tens of thousands of dishes. With over 20 years of experience as a master photographer, we have the right gear, the right lighting, and the right know-how to make your business look high-end and professional at a reasonable price. If you want your food and beverage visuals to be as consistent and appetizing as the dishes you serve, we’re here to make that happen.

Why Quality Food Photography Is Your Secret Ingredient for GrowthIn the restaurant industry, every photo is a first impr...
10/16/2025

Why Quality Food Photography Is Your Secret Ingredient for Growth

In the restaurant industry, every photo is a first impression. Customers often decide where to eat long before they see a menu, they decide based on what they see online. At GYV Media, we know that professional food photography doesn’t just capture flavor; it creates desire. The right lighting, color, and detail make customers stop scrolling and start booking tables.

Research shows that content with high-quality visuals gets 94% more views than text-only posts, and restaurant listings with professional photos receive up to 44% more engagement on social media. Another study by Lucidpress found that brands with consistent imagery and messaging across platforms can see up to a 23% boost in revenue. Visual storytelling isn’t just art, it’s strategy.

With more than 20 years of creative experience and thousands of restaurant shoots completed across Southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, GYV Media has learned that success comes from more than just good photos. It’s about consistency, making sure every image, video, and graphic matches your brand’s tone and personality. When your website, menus, and social media all speak the same visual language, your brand becomes instantly recognizable and more trusted.

That’s why we handle everything under one roof, food photography, video, digital menus, web design, and brand consistency. Our process eliminates the back-and-forth of multiple vendors, reduces costs, and ensures that every visual supports your business goals.

Your restaurant already has the passion and the product. We bring the presentation that sells it. Let’s make your next impression unforgettable.

🌐 www.gyvmedia.com

10/15/2025

Most brands post photos. Fewer turn those photos into a visual identity that wins attention, trust, and revenue. The difference is craft, consistency, and control over every pixel.

The before and after above shows what happens when expert capture meets purposeful editing. Sky, color, contrast, reflections, and detail are shaped to match the emotion your brand wants the viewer to feel. That is not filters. It is precise photo manipulation that turns a record of a scene into a story about the experience.

Why it matters
• Content with relevant images gets about 94 percent more views than content without visuals.
• Keeping a consistent look and message across channels can lift revenue by up to 23 percent.
• People remember visual messaging far better than text alone. Recall can reach roughly 65 percent with images after a few days.

In hospitality, food and beverage, and entertainment, those gains are tangible. One hero image can appear on your website, in paid ads, on digital menus, inside booking engines, on outdoor boards, and in daily social posts. If the image is average, performance is average. If the image is artfully engineered, you increase click through rates, dwell time, and the likelihood that a casual viewer becomes a guest.

What GYV Media does differently
We build the full visual arc for restaurants, bars, hotels, and casinos: food photography, interiors and exteriors, chef portraits, service and guest moments, and short form video. Our editing is deliberate. We balance color to match brand palettes, shape light for mood, retouch distractions, and composite when needed to deliver scenes that feel authentic and cinematic.

This control produces assets ready for magazine covers, large format billboards, in venue digital displays, PPC ads, and social campaigns. Each piece is designed to be repurposed without rework, which reduces production costs over time.

Why one team matters
Splitting photography, video, web, and graphics across different vendors often leads to mismatched tones and style. The brand fragments. Recognition drops. Media spend gets wasted fixing inconsistencies. Because we create everything under one roof, creative and technical continuity carries across web design, video, graphics, digital menus, and social content. Fewer handoffs. Fewer surprises. A brand your audience recognizes instantly.

Learn more at www.gyvmedia.com

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Your business deserves consistency — from your website to your social media and everything in between.At GYV Media, we d...
10/08/2025

Your business deserves consistency — from your website to your social media and everything in between.
At GYV Media, we design, build, and manage your entire digital presence under one roof. That means your website, graphics, and content all reflect the same style, tone, and message — your brand’s identity, perfectly aligned.

Stop juggling multiple vendors with competing interpretations of your vision. Let one creative team handle it all — photography, web design, SEO, content creation, and marketing strategy — all tailored to you.

✨ Build your brand with clarity and consistency.
Visit www.gyvmedia.com
to learn more or message us to schedule your consultation.

08/16/2024

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a creative collective

We offer a multitude of digital services that not only drives traffic, creates brand awareness but gives the small guy the opportunity to compete on a massive scale. We’re a collective of creative individuals with decades of experience in various industries and skill sets yet all centered and focused on technology, marketing and advertising.

We believe the future of marketing is going to be much more engaging and much more technology laden. A fresh batch of digital content to be used on your social media and web efforts is as important as turning your open sign on. Without a consistent flow of quality digital content it’s very easy for a business to fall off the radar and can quickly lose public favor. Traffic is gained through social engagement and public awareness. Our systems and team of specialists work tirelessly to not only build engaging content but to get it syndicated enough to engage visitors. Content is KING!

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  • Social Media Marketing