San Francisco Bay Area
Production services, ranked on a published rubric
The Production Index ranks video, audio-visual, event and wedding production vendors on five published criteria. The rubric goes up before the ranking, applies to every vendor in a category, and every figure carries the date it was checked.
Current rankings
Conference AV in San Francisco
WestWave AV scores highest on our published rubric for San Francisco conference AV, ahead of Fog City Audio Visual and Got Light, across twelve vendors scored.
Trade Show AV in San Francisco
WestWave AV scores highest on our published rubric for San Francisco trade show AV, ahead of Fog City Audio Visual and SFAV Rentals and Trade Show Services, across twelve vendors scored.
LED Wall Rental in San Francisco
WestWave AV scores highest on our published rubric for San Francisco LED wall rental, ahead of San Francisco AV Rentals and Fog City Audio Visual, across eleven vendors scored.
Teleprompter Rental in San Francisco
Luma Creative scores highest on our published rubric for San Francisco teleprompter rental, ahead of IQvideo and WestWave AV. This inverts Google's local pack, which places WestWave first.
Video Production in San Francisco
Luma Creative scores highest on our published rubric for San Francisco video production, ahead of IQvideo and LV Productions, across eight vendors scored. Criminal holds first organic position on this query but carries no reviewable Google profile, so it is listed unscored.
How the rankings are decided
Vendors are scored 0 to 100 on five dimensions. Weights vary by category, because a buyer renting an LED wall and a buyer commissioning a conference are not weighing the same things, and each ranking page publishes its own weights above the ranking. A dimension we have not verified for a vendor is left unscored rather than counted as zero.
- Rating quality. The mean star rating, discounted by the share of ratings below four stars. A clean record counts for more than a high average with a bad tail hidden inside it.
- Review depth. How much evidence sits behind the rating, measured against the other vendors in the same category rather than against the whole market.
- Service depth. How much itemised capability the vendor actually publishes, rather than how much it claims in prose.
- Price transparency. Whether a buyer can see a number before making contact. Almost nobody in this market publishes one, which is exactly why it separates vendors.
- Operational proof. Checkable evidence that there is a real operation behind the listing: an owner-claimed profile, a street address, work performed at the client site, a photographed inventory, and breadth of registered category.
Read the rubric in full, including the exact arithmetic behind every score.
What this index does not do
Placement is not for sale, and there is no paid tier that changes an order. Rankings are computed from the rubric rather than assigned by an editor, which means the order sometimes disagrees with Google’s own local pack. Where it does, the page shows both orders and explains the difference instead of quietly matching.
Vendors we cannot score are listed without a score rather than dropped. A vendor with no Google profile, or one whose service list we have not audited, appears in the “also serving” section of the relevant ranking with the gap named.
Where it covers
San Francisco at launch, expanding across the Bay Area and then to other metros. See coverage for what is live and what is next.