Aputure, also known as Aputure Imaging, is a privately owned company headquartered in China. Founded in 2013, with approximately 80 employees, the company reported $166.6M in revenue as of 2023. Its main product is content acquisition, and the company provides professional cinema equipment specializing in lighting solutions.
On June 9, 2026, lighting designer James Tinsley returned to style the look of The Traitors UK season 4, which began production in June 2025. Earlier, on June 2, 2026, Berlin-based agency Twinematics created a series of German-language cinematic video spots for the Wikimedia Foundation's 25th anniversary of Wikipedia. Previously, on May 28, 2026, cinematographer Erin Hughes lensed TheWrap Visionaries Season 1, which debuted in 2024, using Aputure lighting in a single Santa Monica location. This followed WPRI-TV's chief photojournalist Corey Welch and his team utilizing Aputure equipment to cover Super Bowl LX in January 2026 for Nexstar’s northeast stations, as highlighted on May 19, 2026.