Every campus event.Every student’s photos.
Students get their photos in real time at each event, and they all live in one personal gallery across the year.
P&G, Cincinnati. Shot by Mammoth, the agency that runs its events on BrandStudio.
The grad shot, to every family, by face.
No app, no IT ticket, no account for anyone.
Build it without involving IT
A browser, the school brand kit, and the crew. Nothing to procure, install, or get approved.
Photograph the walk
A tethered camera at the steps captures every crossing, matched by face rather than by a name card someone drops.
Saved to photosFamilies already have it
Photos reach the people who travelled for it, on the school brand, while they are still in the building.
Real frames from P&G Confidence Lab at Black Tech Week
You know how commencement usually goes.
Thousands of families want the grad shot the second the tassel moves — and the photos won’t be ready for weeks.
Anything that needs an app or a campus login is dead on arrival at graduation scale, and IT won’t fast-track a ticket for it.
The photo club, a hired pro, and three staff with iPhones all shoot — and you spend the next week reconciling folders that don’t match.
Four years, one place to find them.
We’ve run events at campus scale. Your comms team gets a three-step plan, no IT ticket required.
Capture
The photo club, your hired pro, and staff with iPhones all shoot the same event. Editing in Lightroom or Capture One? The Watch Folder picks up the exports — every shot lands in one place.
BrandStudio brands + delivers
Every photo is branded with the university mark and matched to the student by face. Each family gets their photo by text — one selfie, no app, no campus login.
You review and approve
You see one polished gallery instead of a folder scramble. Parents screenshot the grad shot, students share it everywhere, and your team is the one the dean asks about.
One brand kit covers athletics, student affairs, admissions, and alumni — set it once and every gallery, overlay, and notification inherits it. No filing a ticket to get it right.
Campus events, season by season.
Orientation to commencement — one platform the whole calendar runs through.
- August
Move-in & orientation
New students and nervous parents. Roaming shooters plus a booth on the quad — every family leaves day one with branded photos from the school.
Guest sees: Move-in day photos in the family chat that night. - September
Game day
Tailgates, student sections, alumni tents — every crowd shot feeds one gallery wearing the school’s colors and marks.
- February
Galas & donor events
Advancement’s biggest nights: arrivals delivered instantly, every donor photographed, every photo on-brand.
- April
Admitted-student days
Prospective families get their campus-visit photos — from the school, branded — before they’ve left the parking lot. That’s yield marketing.
- May
Commencement
The stage cross reaches each family mid-ceremony. Thousands of graduates, every moment found by face, zero sorting by staff.
You see: Every family delivered before the recessional.
The dean asks how you pulled it off — and parents do your marketing for free.
Every family leaves commencement with the grad shot on the university brand, and every student share carries your school into a network your marketing budget never reaches. It looks like a memory, not an ad. The dean sees one flawless event, not a scramble — and your team runs the next one too.
- Every family gets their grad shot by face — no app, no campus login, no IT ticket.
- One brand across athletics, student affairs, admissions, and alumni — nobody rebuilds it per event.
- Every reshare carries the school’s brand into a student’s network.
How it actually works.
Every student is a broadcaster
A student at your event isn’t just one person — they’re connected to hundreds of friends, family, and followers. They find their own photos with a selfie, no app and no campus login, and share them in seconds. Every share carries your school’s brand into a network your marketing budget never reaches. And it doesn’t feel like marketing. It feels like a memory.
- Students find their photos by face — one selfie, no app, no campus login
- Every shared photo carries your school’s brand
- Students share from their phone to Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and text threads
- Prospective students see real campus life from real students
A follow-up that brings them back
Most event photos get shared once and forgotten. Schedule a thank-you message before the event and it goes out on its own a set number of days later, with a link back to each student’s own gallery. Nobody on the team has to remember to send it.
- Set the delay in days after the event
- Personal gallery link with all their photos
- Scheduled once, sent on its own
- Your school’s name on the message and the gallery
Photos don’t die in a folder nobody opens
Most campus photos end up in a shared drive no one opens again. With BrandStudio every photo is organized by event, matched to the student by face, and sits in a branded gallery they can reach from their phone — any event, any year. The school’s story keeps getting told by the people who lived it, not buried in a link parents lost in their inbox.
- Photos organized by event and matched to each student
- Face Match links students across events automatically
- Galleries stay live as long as you keep them
- Students build a personal photo timeline across their whole enrollment
Student photographers and pros, one gallery
Graduation gets covered by the photo club, a hired pro, and three staff with iPhones. BrandStudio brings every shot into one branded gallery — no emailing folders, no mismatched branding, no reconciling exports the week after. Everyone shoots, everything lands in the same place, branded the same way, so the dean sees one polished gallery instead of a scramble.
- Photo clubs, pros, and staff all upload to the same event
- Watch Folder picks up exports from Lightroom or Capture One
- Every photo branded consistently, no matter who shot it
- Face Match matches students across all photographers
Every department, one brand
Athletics, student affairs, admissions, and alumni relations all run events — and all of them should look like the same school. Set the logo, colors, and messaging once and every gallery, overlay, and notification inherits it. One brand kit across every department, so nobody is rebuilding it per event or filing an IT ticket to get it right.
- Brand kit applied automatically to every event
- Custom overlays for photo booths and prints
- Branded SMS and email delivery
- Athletics, student affairs, admissions, alumni — one consistent brand
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The grad shot to every family by face — no app, no IT ticket — on the school’s brand.
Common questions
Do parents and students need an app or a campus login?
No. A student takes one selfie and Face Match texts them a link to a personal gallery of every photo they appear in. No app to download, no campus login, no IT ticket — which is what makes it work at graduation scale.
Will every photo carry our school's brand?
Yes. Your logo, colors, and messaging go on every gallery, overlay, and notification automatically — whether it's athletics, student affairs, admissions, or alumni relations running the event. One brand across every department.
How does this turn into reach for the school?
Every photo a student shares carries your brand into their network — friends, family, and followers your marketing budget never reaches. It looks like a memory, not an ad.
Can we follow up after the event?
Yes. Schedule a thank-you message once and set how many days after the event it goes out. Each student gets it with a link back to their own branded gallery.
Can student photographers and hired pros work the same event?
Yes. Photo clubs and professionals upload to the same event from any device or editing app through the Watch Folder. Everything lands in one branded gallery, branded consistently no matter who shot it.
Do the photos stay available after the event?
Yes. Galleries stay live as long as you keep them. A student's personal gallery spans every event the school runs on BrandStudio, so it grows across their whole enrollment.
The event the dean brags about.
Every family leaves with their grad shot on the university brand, no IT ticket in sight. Parents share it everywhere, the dean asks how you did it — and your team runs the next one too.