Hey there!
Thank you for visiting! I'd love to give you a bit of history about myself, the founder of CT Creative Media.
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- Christian Torres
The Story
Raised in Orlando Florida, I've always had an interest in filming and editing fun videos of my friends and family. Since I was 12 years old, I constantly had a camera in my hand. In fact, I still have my very first camcorder to this day, the Sony Handycam DCR-TRV325E PAL Hi8 Digital Camcorder. Of course, it's been retired and now sits on a shelf in all its glory.
After graduating high school in 2009, I took a deeper dive into video production and learned everything I could on YouTube as it was growing and becoming more popular. In most of my career, I have been self-trained by using the power of Google, YouTube, Reddit and curiosity. I cringe when I watch back my old videos but that naturally comes with learning, growing and polishing skills.
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Where Passion Met Opportunity
In 2013, after my friend and I had created and uploaded several videos together on YouTube for a mutual friend who had a music channel, one of our videos was gaining more views than usual. We were noticed and contacted by a well-established YouTuber in Los Angeles, California. With over 3 million subscribers, the channel had offered the both of us paid positions to film, edit and work behind the scenes. 22 years old at the time, how could we say no? After visiting, meeting the YouTuber (Kurt Hugo Schneider) and exploring LA, we fell in love with Southern California.
My friend and I jumped on a one-way flight and moved across the country. Over 2,500 miles away from everyone and everything we knew, we made Los Angeles our new home.
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The YouTube Era
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While in LA, we worked with several other successful YouTube channels, celebrities, influencers, commercials and huge brands such as Coca-Cola, Old Navy, Samsung, Amazon and more. After 4 years and several millions of subscribers later working with YouTube, I decided to part ways for new opportunities in the realm of videography and digital marketing to continue excelling in my craft in LA.
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Adapt And Evolve
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After my time working with the YouTube channel, I explored real estate marketing in Los Angeles, providing content, social media, and creative services through a Keller Williams brokerage in Burbank and Glendale. At Keller Williams is where I learned about business and entrepreneurship. Those experiences, along with the people I met, made my seven years in Southern California truly unforgettable. March of 2021, I decided it was the best time to move back to my hometown Orlando, Florida.
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Return to Orlando
Bringing everything I learned about video pre and post production, video editing, and company branding with me... I was ecstatic to start the next chapter of my life!
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When I returned to Orlando, I began a Marketing Assistant / Videographer position at BENTO Asian Kitchen + Sushi corporate office. During my time employed there, one of the tasks I was assigned was to rejuvenate and manage the TikTok account with the goal of growing the page. Initially, several videos were posted with very little movement in views. After a few months, we started to see one of the videos gain more traction and absolutely break records for us! From a measly 10 views, it hit 1,000 then 5,000 then 100,000 then 500,000! I was expecting to see it cap off at 1,000,000 but no... the video reached over 7,000,000 views and the TikTok page went from a following of only 500 people to a whopping 31,000 people!
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Having spent 18 months creating viral videos, I took a leap of faith and expanded my creative talents to include more restaurant clients outside of BENTO. By November 2022, CT Creative Media went full-time and thankfully since then we've worked with over 20 well-known restaurants and many other great clients from other industries traveling from South Florida to Central Florida to Boston Massachusetts.
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Commitment
As the founder of CT Creative Media, I’m committed to delivering exceptional quality and meticulous attention to detail in every project I take on.​ Our goal is to help empower businesses to cast bigger nets in their online reach with fun, immersive, and engaging videos.
Every business—whether it’s a global brand like Coca-Cola or the neighborhood bakery—deserves thoughtful storytelling and professional branding delivered with the utmost care.
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As they say in Hollywood, "Let's make movie magic!"
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Christian Torres // Owner of CT Creative Media, LLC
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