# Nuna built a 3,500-square-foot content studio disguised as a showroom — retail floor is now the backdrop. *The baby gear brand shoots all product content in the same space where parents browse strollers and car seats.* By **Jenny Huang Goodman MPA MSc MHSA, Principal** — The Stash Edge, Hako Shikin LLC. Published 2026-07-01. Canonical: https://www.pops4.com/stash/articles/nuna-2026-07-01t09-2 Subject: Nuna Tags: content production, retail strategy, physical product marketing, showroom, experiential, baby gear --- Nuna opened a new flagship in Los Angeles that functions as both a retail showroom and an in-house content production hub, according to Modern Retail. The **3,500-square-foot** space is designed to let millennial parents test car seats and strollers while the brand's creative team shoots product photography, video, and social content in real time. The showroom includes dedicated lighting rigs, backdrop walls, and staging zones built into the floor plan. When the store is open, parents browse products in styled vignettes that double as set pieces. After hours, the same fixtures become the shooting environment for the brand's digital catalog and paid social campaigns. Nuna reports that the dual-use model has cut external studio rental costs and accelerated content turnaround from weeks to days. The mechanism is simple: retail fixtures that photograph well under natural and controlled light eliminate the logistical friction of moving product between a warehouse, a studio, and a showroom. The brand controls the environment, owns the footage, and can react to inventory changes or creative briefs without coordinating external vendors. Parents see products in the same context that appears in ads, which tightens the loop between discovery and purchase intent. This matters because content production is now a cost center for every physical product brand with a digital shelf. Renting studio space, scheduling shoots, and coordinating product shipments add days and dollars to every campaign cycle. Nuna collapsed those steps by embedding the studio into the retail footprint, turning overhead square footage into a content asset that pays rent twice — once as a showroom, once as a production floor. A small brand can run the same play without signing a multi-year lease. Rent a **200-square-foot** micro-retail or pop-up space in a neighborhood with foot traffic and natural light. Design the interior as a content set first: neutral wall colors, modular shelving, a single accent wall that can rotate between brand colors or seasonal themes. Install two softbox lights on adjustable stands — **$150** total. Use the space as a showroom three days a week and a shooting environment the other four. Invite local customers to book appointments, then shoot product content in the same staged environment before and after each session. The cost is a fraction of monthly studio rental, and the space justifies itself through both channels. For a brand with a budget, lease **800 to 1,200 square feet** in a mixed-use district and install a pegboard wall system that allows rapid reconfiguration of product displays. Hire a part-time content producer who manages the shooting calendar and trains retail staff to capture B-roll during open hours. Use the showroom as the primary location for all product launches, influencer seeding events, and user-generated content activations. The space becomes the brand's visual identity, and every piece of content reinforces the same environment customers can visit. The pattern is larger than Nuna. Retail space is expensive, but content production is recurring. Brands that merge the two turn fixed costs into dual-purpose infrastructure. The store is no longer a sales endpoint — it is the origin of every image, video, and social proof asset that drives the funnel upstream. ## The takeaway Turn your retail space into a content studio by designing fixtures that photograph well and shooting in the same environment customers browse. --- ## Publisher **Hako Shikin LLC** — Virginia Beach, Virginia. Founded 1997. ASI 217876 · DUNS 18-204-6339. Principal and author: **Jenny Huang Goodman MPA MSc MHSA**. - Author: https://www.huanggoodman.com/about - LLM context: https://www.pops4.com/stash/llms.txt - MCP endpoint, for AI agents: https://mcp.pops4.com/mcp - Client dashboard: https://dashboard.pops4.com/ - Catalogue: 70,000+ products, 200+ brands