JBC Communications concentrates on video production, marketing and public relations. We do what we do and we do it better than anyone. We are communications professionals, writers and filmmakers. We blend the most effective words and images in order for you to get the results you want. Let’s face it, most of the video work and public relations campaigns you see look suspiciously as though they’ve been cut and pasted from a template someone else designed a long time ago. Every project is unique to us. We build your campaign from the ground up. That’s our other promise. While we’re the video production and marketing experts, we also know that no one knows your products and services better than you. We work collaboratively to blend your ideas with ours. We only launch when you’re 100 percent pleased with the work that has been done for your company.
We don’t just give you pretty pictures and words. We create campaigns that inspire action on your behalf.
Director Jay B. Childs
JBC Communications Director Jay Childs is an award-winning producer who brings to clients over 20 years of experience in many facets of communications consulting and production. JBC Communications’ vision is actually quite simple. To tell our clients’ stories in an impactful way so that their strategic goals are achieved. That goal may be measured in increased sales, decreased costs or workplace injuries, securing funding for a high tech R&D initiative, or portraying a client’s overall branding in the best possible lightâ€.
Recently, Childs’ documentary film, “Communities & Consequences” was honored as “Best NH Documentary” at the NH Film Festival in October of 2008. The film was also ranked as the #4 selection, out of over 60 films across genres at the Festival by Seacoast Online. “Communities & Consequences” has aired numerous times on NH Public Television, screened at both the IOKA theatre in Exeter, and the Red River Theater in Concord, as well as dozens of screenings and discussion forums throughout New England. He has also won 4 National Telly Awards for filmmaking.
In 2000, Childs’ film, “Caring For Mo” was nominated for an Emmy by the New England Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences. The film, which chronicles one nurse’s battle with breast cancer, is currently used as a core instructional case study at Dartmouth Medical School and in 2005 was accepted into the prestigious Massachusetts Medical Library as a teaching and training resource. “Caring for Mo” also has broadcast numerous times on Public Television. The program was also awarded “Best Documentary” by the New England Society for Healthcare Communications.
Jay has produced branding,marketing, sales, tv spot, training and educational programs for clients such as Timberland, Irving Oil, Segway, HP, Russound, GT Solar, Unitil, Woolrich, Justin Charles Outerwear, Textron, Lakes Region Healthcare, Cross Roads House, Phillips Exeter Academy, UMass Lowell, and Bank of Maine, among many others. He founded JBC Communications in 1997, after 3 years as a producer for Liberty Mutual Television and director of their outside production company, LMG Productions.
Off the clock Jay has served on numerous boards, spoken to various professional and civic groups and contributed to a wide range of nonprofit organizations including:
• NH High Tech Council. Member company.
• Seacoast School of Technology. Advisory board. Specific interest in advising and assisting digital communication arts program.
• Town of Exeter, NH. Budget recommendations committee. Vice chairman.
• New England Council. Member.
• Portsmouth Music & Arts Center. Board member.
• Greater Seacoast United Way. Communications advisory board. Past board member.
Childs is a graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY with a Bachelors Degree in Communications Production and a Minor in Broadcasting. Childs is the son of seacoast artist Bill Childs and lives in Exeter, NH with his wife Arlene, daughter Sarah and dog Rosie.
Created as part of Best Buy’s announcement that it would begin selling the Segway Personal Transporter in a scaled roll out of stores across the country. The HD video is displayed on a large HD monitor above the Segway sales kiosk with a real demo Segway i2. Video was shot in US, Mexico, Portugal and [...]
The Savings Bank of Maine rebranded to The Bank of Maine and asked JBC to help them through video communicate to employees throughout the company and its over 30 branches what was changing through the rebrand and, most importantly, that its core values were not. The goal was to get full buy-in from employees. The [...]
JBC recently completed an online video promotion for Living Lean & Healthy’s web site. “What was inspiring to us about this project was Living Lean & Healthy’s approach to lifestyle changes. So many programs promote impossible goals that people soon grow tired of and abandon. Dr. Schiel’s approach was much more reasonable and success-oriented,” said [...]
UMass Lowell contacted JBC to provide them with a moving and positive promotional video program highlighting a “Campus on the Move.” The video also explains the university’s ongoing ambitious agenda to outfit UML to continue to compete with private institutions from across the country. The program features current Chancellor and former congressman Marty Meehan.
Produced in Canada for Irving Oil to extend and expand Irving’s gas rewards loyalty program, from a pilot program with Sobeys, Inc. (Atlantic Canada’s largest grocer), to a full rollout in Sobeys locations across Canada. The video played a significan role in the success of expanding the program nationwide.
Produced for agency Sean Tracey Associates. Part of a set of three TV spots capturing the very personal relationship Town & Country has with its customers.
