About
About ARI53.
ARI53 Creative Media & Marketing is a video and website studio in Hermanus for businesses in the Overberg, started and run by Arie Swanepoel. It makes branded monthly videos, websites that work on phones, and the social media and Google accounts that go with them, at prices listed openly in rand.
Founder
Arie Swanepoel.
Arie has a master's in interaction design (UX) from the University of Cape Town and a master's in business leadership from Unisa. So every video, brand and web page is planned around how your customers use it, and what it has to do for your business.
- MSc IT, Interaction Design (UX)UCT
- MBL, Business LeadershipUnisa SBL
You deal with Arie directly, from the first message to the finished work, by email, phone or WhatsApp.
ARI53 makes every client video with its own brand file: the client's logo, colours, font and tagline, with no ARI53 branding unless the client asks for a small credit.
How we work
Straightforward, start to finish.
You see the plan and the price before anything starts.
Free check or a chat
Start with the free website check, or tell Arie what your business needs.
A plan and a price
ARI53 replies with a plan and a price in rand. ARI53 is not VAT registered, so that is what you pay.
Start
Monthly packages are paid in advance by EFT: 3 months to start, then month to month with 30 days' notice.
Make and approve
Your logo, colours and captions on every video, with two rounds of changes on each one.
Yours to keep
Once paid, you own every video and website ARI53 makes for you.
Recent work.
Videos, websites and campaigns made by ARI53. Own-brand work is labelled as such.
Branded reel
AXIGRID Industrial Supply
A 31-second reel for axigrid.co.za, a fibreglass grating supplier, in its own logo and colours, delivered in all four platform shapes.
Website · Own brand
ArtStudio53.com
A 9-page site for Arie's art studio in Hermanus: paintings with prices, monthly watercolour classes and PayFast payments, written so Google and AI assistants can read it.
Promotional campaign · Example
Income & Expense Planner offer
An example one-offer campaign: a 20-second reel in all four platform shapes for a reduced price on a planner, with screenshots and a working demo.
What clients say.
Reviews from ARI53 clients, shared with their permission.
Next step
Talk to Arie.
Tell ARI53 about your business, or start with 3 free improvements for your website.