Is Zeven Media Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Zeven Media on AmazonFull story →Brothers Josh and Hyrum Cook pitched a premium, social-sharing photo booth hire service, Zeven Media, in series 12.
The company shut down some years later and is not available to book today.
A Client List Before the Cameras Rolled
The brothers asked for £50,000 for a quarter of the business, and several dragons showed real interest before a deal closed, partly because the company already counted L'Oreal, Reiss, The Guardian and Harvey Nichols among its clients.
Deborah Meaden won the pitch, covering the full amount asked and beating out other offers on the table. The founders planned to use the money on a new line of contactless, internet-connected booths.
Prestige Clients, Then a Wind-Up
The expansion looked genuinely credible for a while, given the company had real corporate relationships in place well before it ever reached the Den.
It still folded. Some years on, the Manchester company went through a formal wind-up, with an insolvency practitioner appointed to handle it. Renting out premium event hardware means carrying steady bills for insurance, storage and upkeep, costs that do not shrink just because bookings slow down.
Good Clients Do Not Guarantee Survival
A strong roster of household-name customers is not the same thing as a sustainable business model, particularly in a category as saturated as photo booth hire has become since the company pitched back in 2015.
Choosing voluntary wind-up is not the same as creditors pushing a company into forced administration; it is the board itself concluding that the debts have become unmanageable, and that stopping is kinder than limping along. Whatever the paperwork is called, anyone who booked Zeven Media in its early years got a genuinely good service, even if there is nobody left to book with now.