Downtown Napa’s Video Podcast Studio
A production studio for podcasters, business leaders, and cultural voices who demand more than a room with a ring light.

LA production teams count on us. Executive conversations that demand the highest production standard.

Grammy-recognized artists. Songwriters. Musicians. The voices shaping the conversation about what culture becomes next.

Napa’s entrepreneurs and founders. The people building the valley, and the stories worth telling about it.
“This is not a studio for everyone. It is a studio for creators and organizations who take the quality of their conversations seriously.”
Our Action Ave. address isn’t a detail. It’s part of what makes the work feel like it belongs here. A full-service production studio in the heart of the city.
We shoot on Sony Cinema Line cameras, the same imaging pipeline used in professional broadcast and commercial production, operated by experienced videographers.
Your footage doesn’t go to an algorithm or an overseas gig worker. Our editor is a North Bay-based professional: someone who cares about your content as much as you do. We support humans.
Your show deserves a sound that’s entirely its own. We compose custom theme music and original scores in-house. Your intro won’t sound like everyone else’s.
Action House founder, Phillip Smith, has delivered hundreds of hours of one-on-one coaching to newsroom founders & media creators. Production here comes with a deep understanding of what actually builds an audience.
Phillip has spent years working with platform-monetized video creators with a combined audience of more than four million followers, working on audience growth, revenue sustainability, and content that keeps people coming back.
Google News Initiative Program Director, delivering the inaugural Journalistic Creators Lab to eight video-first journalism efforts. Stanford JSK Journalism Fellow. Mozilla Senior Fellow for Media & Trust. These credentials inform every session.
Phillip Smith is an industry professional with more than three decades of experience: executive coach, entrepreneurship trainer, former Director of the Google News Initiative Journalistic Creators Lab, Stanford JSK Journalism Fellow, and Mozilla Senior Fellow for Media & Trust. He has personally delivered 500+ hours of one-on-one coaching to video creators, newsroom founders, and media leaders around the world. Phillip started his career as a photojournalist and studio founder, and is excited to return to his roots.
When you record at Action House, you are not just renting a room. You are working with someone who understands why your conversation deserves to be heard, and how to make sure it is.
Sony Cinema Line cameras, lighting, professional audio, videographer, and optional editing and music production. The complete service for serious shows.
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