Pulse Films Limited
Registered name: PULSE FILMS LIMITED
Part of Vice Europe Pulse Holding Acquisition Limited groupPulse Films Limited made £70.4m revenue and a £1.2m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Pulse Films Limited’s revenue grew 14% to £70.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £1.2m and 57 employees. The company is classified under “video production activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £104m | £61.9m | £70.4m |
| Cost of sales | −£93m | −£55.1m | −£63.5m |
| Gross profit | £11m | £6.8m | £6.8m |
| Operating profit | −£1.4m | £5.3m | −£970k |
| Profit before tax | −£1.7m | £5.3m | −£958k |
| Profit after tax | −£2m | £5.3m | −£1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | −£2m | £5.3m | −£1.2m |
| Employees (average) | 82 | 66 | 57 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −1.9% | 8.5% | −1.6% |
| Gross margin | 10.5% | 10.9% | 9.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £1.3m | £938k | £1.2m |
| Profit per employee | −£24k | £79.9k | −£20.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼40.4% | ▲13.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼121.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼19.5% | ▼13.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 9.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.2m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£20.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼14%
- Now 57
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Vice Europe Pulse Holding Acquisition Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Pulse Films Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (22)
- London 3 Films LimitedRev. £18.2m · Profit £0
- Atomic Films LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Calendar Media LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Cuba Pictures LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fresh Squeezed LimitedRev. — · Profit −£5.4k
- Gol Production LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Good Oranges Films LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lawand Film LimitedFigures not disclosed
- London Alley LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mmitb Production LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mughal Mowgli Distribution LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mughal Mowgli LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pulse (Fly Away) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pulse Films LC Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pulse Films London 2 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pulse Films Production LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pulse Lifehouse Production LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pyro Films UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rude Boy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Think Positive Production LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Vice Studios UK Production Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Xy Chelsea LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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