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Case Study — Ducati North America

Three Projects.
One Standard.

Client

Ducati North America

Location

Austin, TX — Circuit of the Americas

Scope

Production, Photography, Video, Brand Strategy

Selected by Ducati. Three Times Over.

Being trusted to represent a brand like Ducati isn't just a job — it's a responsibility. Across three distinct projects, BendallTheRules Media was chosen by Ducati North America to produce, shoot, and deliver content that met the brand's exacting standards while capturing the authenticity that makes Ducati's community so compelling.

Each project was unique in its scope and setting — from commercial campaign work in the streets of Austin, to milestone celebrations during MotoGP week, to high-volume trackside photography at one of the world's great circuits. Across all three, the mandate was the same: deliver content worthy of the brand.

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Annual Campaign

We Ride As One — Austin, TX

Putting Austin on the Global Ducati Stage.

We Ride As One is Ducati's annual global campaign celebrating the unity of their ownership community worldwide. When Ducati North America needed a production partner to bring the Austin chapter of that story to life, BendallTheRules Media was brought in to lead the entire creative and production effort.

The brief was clear: capture the spirit of Austin and the Austin Ducati Owners Club in a way that felt authentic to the city, worthy of Ducati's brand standards, and compelling enough to perform on both corporate and community channels. Every creative decision — locations, talent direction, color grade, edit pacing — was made with that dual audience in mind.

Duties spanned the full production pipeline: interfacing directly with the Ducati North America client team to align on vision and deliverables, producing the shoot from pre-production through final delivery, directing on-location filming, and completing all post-production editing and color work to Ducati's brand specifications.

The result was a suite of commercial and social video assets deployed across Ducati's corporate digital and social channels — putting Austin on the global Ducati map.

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Client Liaison & Direction
Full Post Production
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Corporate Channel Distribution
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Commercial & Social Assets.

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Milestone Event Coverage

25 Years of the Ducati Owners Club — MotoGP Week

A Quarter Century. One Week. One Chance to Get It Right.

The Ducati Owners Club is one of the most passionate and loyal brand communities in motorcycling. Celebrating its 25th anniversary during MotoGP week in downtown Austin — one of the sport's most electric settings — demanded photography and video coverage that matched the scale of the moment.

Tasked with providing comprehensive photo and video documentation of the celebration, the work captured the full scope of the event: the riders, the bikes, the culture, the emotion, and the energy of a community that has defined what it means to be a Ducati owner for a quarter of a century.

All deliverables were provided to Ducati North America for distribution across their social and digital channels, giving the broader community a front-row seat to a celebration most could only dream of attending in person.

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Event Coverage Video.

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Authentic relationships with credible media voices produce the kind of coverage that advertising simply cannot buy.
03

Trackside Photography

Ducati Riding Experience — Circuit of the Americas

High-Volume. High-Performance. High Standards.

The Ducati Riding Experience is Ducati's world-class track program — giving owners and enthusiasts the opportunity to ride Ducati machinery at race pace on some of the world's most iconic circuits. At Circuit of the Americas, the brief was demanding: provide principle trackside photography for the full event, with high-volume delivery of processed, post-produced images to every single participant.

This wasn't a highlight reel assignment. Every attendee came away with a professional photographic record of their day on track — requiring not just exceptional shooting instincts but a disciplined, high-throughput post-production workflow capable of handling the full volume without sacrificing quality.

Covering the event as the principal photographer meant being everywhere — on the straight, at apex, in the pit lane, during briefings, and at the finish. The result was a comprehensive visual archive of the event that met Ducati's brand standards and gave every participant a memory worth keeping.

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High-Volume Post Production
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Brand-Standard Editing
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