Rich

The Studio & Ecommerce Collective

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The Studio & E-commerce Collective is the podcast for studio and e-commerce production leaders. Hosted by Rich Summers, CEO and co-founder of Lets Flo, each episode digs into the real challenges of running high volume e-commerce studios, from sample management and shoot workflows to scaling content production without losing your mind. Featuring conversations with studio directors, production managers, photographers and the people who actually do the work, this is honest, practical and built for the people on the studio floor, not the boardroom. Part of The Studio & E-commerce Collective, an in...

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#6 The Future of E-commerce Content Production 22.06.2026 37:47

What does the future of e-commerce content production actually look like? In this episode, Rich sits down with Johan Santos, solution architect and commercial photographer, to dig into the conversations they are both having with studios across the US and beyond. There is also a reminder that the first London edition of The Collective is happening on Thursday 23rd July at The Treehouse in Shoreditc...

#5 Putting a Number on Studio Chaos 18.06.2026 33:27

Most studio leaders already know where the time is going. Chasing approvals, reconciling spreadsheets, answering status requests that should never have needed to be asked. The problem is not identifying it. It is quantifying it in a way that the business will act on. In this solo episode, Rich walks through the methodology behind the Studio Chaos Calculator, a tool built from over a hundred studio...

#4 Inside a World-Class Studio With Alison Leibowitz 20.05.2026 40:52

What does it actually take to build a world-class e-commerce studio from the ground up? Alison Leibowitz spent 13 years as Head of Studio at Net-a-Porter, growing a team of 30 to 150 and increasing output capacity by 400%. In this episode, she sits down with Rich to share the lessons behind those numbers, from inheriting a reluctant team to keeping 150 creatives producing at their best without bur...

#3 How to Audit Your Studio and Start Fixing It 08.05.2026 44:12

Most studios know something is broken. Few know where to start. In this episode, Rich Summers and Johan Santos walk through a practical, step-by-step process for auditing your entire content production workflow, finding the burning room, and building a plan that your teams will actually own. Also mentioned in this episode: The Studio Chaos Audit guide, available to download via the link below. It...

#2 We Hosted Our First Event for Studio Teams & The Insights are Unreal 14.04.2026 38:15

Following the first episode, Rich Summers and Johan Santos reconvene from Brooklyn to reflect on the inaugural Studio and E-commerce Collective event and why bringing this community together matters. They dig into the real pressures facing studio teams at scale: sample visibility, data integrity, resource planning, and the compounding cost of small inefficiencies across high-volume production pipe...

#1 Moving away from "We've always done it this way" 27.03.2026 25:40

In our first episode, Rich sits down with Johan Santos, a commercial fashion and e-commerce photographer with almost 20 years of experience across studios including Moda Operandi, Anthropologie and some of New York's biggest fashion brands. They talk about studio chaos: the spreadsheets nobody trusts, the workflows nobody questions, the data that's dead on arrival, and what happens when...