What Motion Design Firms Have Experience With TV Commercials? 8 B2W Case Studies

Marcus Santiago
Sep 15, 2026, 8:25:03 AM

What Motion Design Firms Have Experience With TV Commercials? 8 B2W Case Studies

Eight real Broadcast2World TV commercials, spanning plumbing, fuel, law, roofing, heating, furniture, and apparel, and what each one actually took to make.

Marcus Santiago · Published April 2026 · 12 min read
8
Real case studies
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Industries, one process
15+
Years in animation

Ask that question and most answers point you to the same handful of names — studios built for national campaigns with a national budget behind them. Here are eight commercials that answer it differently: a plumbing company, a fuel provider, a personal-injury law firm, a roofer, a boiler company, a furniture retailer, and a heritage tailoring brand, each buying broadcast time on a real, local budget.

Most businesses that need a TV commercial animated aren't running a national ad buy. They're a regional or local brand trying to make fifteen or thirty seconds of airtime actually pay for itself, then do it again next year without starting from scratch. The question they're asking isn't "who made the last Super Bowl spot." It's "who can make my business memorable enough that the ad is still worth airing next season."

Broadcast2World has been answering that question for over fifteen years, across categories that don't usually share a portfolio page. Here's what that's actually looked like on eight real commercials.

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How B2W Approaches a TV Commercial, Step by Step

Every project below ran through the same four-step process before a single frame was animated. It's the reason a plumbing company, a roofer, and a tailoring brand walked away with commercials that don't look interchangeable.

1

Belief Alignment

Start with what the clinician or device maker already knows their audience needs to trust. Not a generic "here's our product" template.

2

One Pain, Felt Fully

Name the actual clinical friction the video is solving: a manual measurement that takes too long, a mechanism nobody can see, a procedure nobody's ever had explained to them plainly. Not a feature list.

3

Show Who They Become

The viewer, patient, clinician, or buyer, should picture the specific moment things get easier, not just watch a logo animate at the end.

4

Differentiate, Only If Genuine

The hook has to be something only this brand could own: a recurring mascot, a specific jingle, a real guarantee.

Curious who else works in this space? See our roundup of Motion Graphics Companies, Agencies & Studios

8 Real B2W TV Commercial Case Studies

Eight commercials, seven industries. Here's what each one actually needed, and how it got made.

01
Carter's Plumbing
Plumbing Character Animation

One mascot and one jingle have carried five commercials for the same plumbing company across six years.

The Constraint

Carter's My Plumber needed broadcast spots that would still be worth airing next year, and the year after that, without commissioning a brand-new campaign every time the offer changed.

The Approach

We built a recurring mascot, the "Prince of Plumbing," and a four-word promise woven into a jingle: hot water today, or it's you we pay. Every spot since has kept both and changed almost everything else around them, a fairy-tale rescue in one version, a caveman gag in another, a straight discount promo in the newest one. The jingle is what a viewer remembers between airings; the joke is what keeps each new spot from feeling recycled.

Why It Works

A local business doesn't need a new campaign every year. It needs one mascot and one promise that can wear a different joke each time new airtime needs filling.

More Carter's Plumbing Spots, Same Jingle, Five Different Years
2020 · Hot Water Today Jingle, 30 Sec
2020 · Hot Water Today Jingle, 15 Sec
2025 · Caveman Parody Cut
02
Raptor Plumbing
Plumbing Character Animation

A rhyme-driven narration turned "we're available any time of night" into a story instead of a bullet point.

The Constraint

Raptor Plumbing's real selling point, round-the-clock availability and fast response, is the same claim every plumbing company makes. Said flatly, it disappears into the category.

The Approach

We wrote it as a short storybook rhyme instead of a script, a real problem, a fast rescue, service that doesn't miss, narrated the way a bedtime story gets narrated, timed to character animation that plays it straight rather than for the joke. The result reads as a story worth watching once, not a claim worth skimming past.

Why It Works

A tired claim survives being said again if it's told as a story instead of repeated as a slogan.

03
Qdog Fuels
Fuel & Oil Comedy

An abstract pricing pitch became a literal cartoon villain a mascot could chase away.

The Constraint

"Our fuel prices are lower" is a hard thing to make watchable. It's a number, not a scene, and there's nothing to animate about a number.

The Approach

High prices became a pack of money-hungry hogs terrorizing a family, and Q-Dog became the hero who chases them off. The pitch, call Q-Dog, stop overpaying, survives entirely inside the joke; nobody has to sit through a rate comparison to get the point.

Why It Works

A commodity pitch needs a villain, not a chart. Once the price becomes a monster, the ad writes its own ending.

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Plumbing, fuel, legal, retail, apparel: whatever the category, we've likely already made something like it
04
Siegfried & Jensen
Legal Character Animation

A personal-injury law firm's spot never asks anyone to call a lawyer.

The Constraint

Injury-law advertising is one of the most oversaturated, hardest-sell categories on local TV, aggressive, interchangeable "were you hurt, call now" spots that viewers have learned to tune out entirely.

The Approach

We made a fifteen-second safe-driving reminder instead: watch your speed on the way home, drive safe out there. Siegfried & Jensen's name sits quietly as the sponsor. No injury, no lawsuit, no pitch.

Why It Works

A law firm known for something other than chasing ambulances gets remembered for the right reason, and remembered is the whole point of a fifteen-second spot.

05
Hippo Roofing
Roofing Character Animation

A durability claim became a superhero-versus-monster fight, then got backed up by a second spot built from real customers.

The Constraint

"Our roof lasts longer" is an invisible, future-tense promise. A homeowner can't see fifteen years of durability inside a thirty-second ad.

The Approach

The original teaser cast an invincible hippo defending homes from an asphalt-shingle monster, turning a metal roof's durability into a fight a viewer can actually watch and remember. Once the brand had real customers to point to, we made a second spot built entirely from their own words instead of the mascot.

Why It Works

Animation sells the promise before anyone owns the product; testimonials prove it afterward. Hippo Roofing got both, in the order that actually convinces someone.

06
HeatSpan
Heating & Boilers Character Animation

A Brooklyn boiler company built a spot entirely out of repetition, the same structure as the oldest trick in local radio.

The Constraint

Boiler maintenance is invisible until the exact week it breaks, which is also the week nobody wants to be shopping around for a repair company for the first time.

The Approach

The spot runs on a single repeated line, "everybody knows," building through winter and breakdowns until the brand name lands on the fourth repetition instead of the first. It's a jingle structure, not a pitch structure.

Why It Works

A seasonal, urgent-need business wants to already be the name in someone's head before the boiler actually breaks. Repetition is what gets it there.

07
Dock 86 (HOM Furniture)
Furniture Retail Character Animation

The same "Dock 86" branding carried three different pitches as HOM Furniture's offer changed: everyday pricing, free shipping, one-of-a-kind finds.

The Constraint

HOM Furniture needed more than one commercial out of the Dock 86 concept. Pricing promotions change, shipping offers change, and an inventory-driven "you won't find this anywhere else" message needed its own spot entirely.

The Approach

We kept the visual identity and tone constant across every version and let the script carry the different message each time: low everyday pricing in one cut, free shipping over a spending threshold in another, exclusive closeout finds in a third. A viewer who's seen one Dock 86 spot recognizes the next one instantly, even with a completely different offer inside it.

Why It Works

Consistent branding lets a retailer run several different offers without spending the first five seconds of every commercial re-introducing itself.

08
Hickey Freeman & American Tailor
Apparel Cel Animation

A heritage tailoring brand's ads use hand-drawn cel animation instead of the glossy 3D default, because the pitch is craftsmanship, not shine.

The Constraint

Clothing is a hard category to animate memorably. Suits and jackets don't move, and a generic glossy 3D treatment undercuts a brand built on old-fashioned tailoring rather than mass production.

The Approach

Both spots, Honey Way for Hickey Freeman and Eco Wash for American Tailor, use cel, hand-drawn animation: the same visual language a heritage clothing brand's own history would use, rather than the default motion-graphics look most product ads reach for.

Why It Works

The animation style matches what the brand is actually selling. A tailoring house's commercial shouldn't look like a tech company's explainer video, and here it doesn't.

Why a Dedicated Studio, Not a Generalist

Carter's Plumbing got a mascot built to last years. Raptor got a rhyme. Qdog got a villain. Siegfried & Jensen got restraint. Hippo Roofing got a superhero, then real customers. HeatSpan got repetition. Dock 86 got one identity carrying three offers. Hickey Freeman and American Tailor got hand-drawn cel work instead of the industry default. A studio built around one house style can't make all eight of those calls well, and that range is what a dedicated animation service is supposed to offer a business that doesn't already know which device its commercial needs. For a broader look at who else works in this space, see our roundup of motion graphics companies.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much does an animated TV commercial cost? +

It depends on length, animation style, and complexity: a straight fifteen-second discount promo is a different job than a fully character-animated spot with an original mascot. Broadcast2World's animation production starts at $2,400 for a 15-second video; talk to our team for a quote based on your business and budget.

Do these commercials actually air on broadcast TV? +

They're produced to broadcast spec, standard 15- and 30-second lengths, TV-ready formats, for regional and local broadcast buys, alongside pre-roll and streaming placements. The case studies above cover both small local businesses and larger regional brands.

Do you work with small, local businesses or only larger companies? +

Yes. Most of the case studies above, Carter's Plumbing, Raptor Plumbing, Qdog, Hippo Roofing, and HeatSpan, are small regional businesses, not enterprise accounts. That's the audience this service is largely built for.

How long does it take to produce a broadcast-ready commercial? +
Turnaround depends on animation style and length. A straightforward promo cut moves faster than a spot introducing a new mascot or character. Talk to our team early in your media buy timeline so there's room for revisions before your air date.
Can you build a recurring mascot or character for ongoing campaigns? +

Yes. Carter's Plumbing above is a five-spot, six-year example of exactly that: one mascot and one jingle reused across a fairy tale, a comedy bit, and a straight discount promo, so the brand doesn't have to reintroduce itself with every new ad.

 

Conclusion

None of these eight commercials could swap places with each other. A plumbing company needed a mascot built to last years, a second plumbing company needed a story instead of a slogan, a fuel provider needed a villain, an injury law firm needed restraint, a roofer needed a superhero and then real customers, a boiler company needed repetition, a furniture retailer needed one identity to carry three different offers, and a heritage tailoring brand needed hand-drawn animation instead of the industry's glossy default.

That's the actual argument for a dedicated commercial animation service over a generalist shop: not a bigger portfolio, but the range to make the right call for whichever one of these your business actually is.

Marcus Santiago - B2W Writer
AUTHOR BIO
Marcus Santiago
Content Writer, Broadcast2World

Marcus is a distinguished artist with a deep-rooted passion for visual storytelling, specializing in video marketing and animation. Outside of his professional sphere, Marcus is an avid biker, often taking to the open roads to find inspiration for his creative ventures.

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