Tag: Audience Analytics
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Streaming Killed the Distribution Pipeline, Now It’s Time to Rebuild
The internet broke the monopoly. For over a century, film distribution followed the same narrow funnel: make the movie, pray it gets into a top-tier festival, hope for a distribution deal, and if the gods smile on you, maybe your film ends up in theaters or on cable. It was a pipeline built on gatekeeping,
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We’re Fixing Indie Film With Code, Data, and Sass (and SaaS)
Independent film is broken. Not creatively or artistically, but structurally. The stories are as strong as ever. The talent pool is massive. The hunger is real. Yet filmmakers are stuck in an outdated system—one that offers little transparency, fewer resources, and even fewer paths to sustainable careers. Here’s the truth: if you want to build
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Want to Sell Your Film to Streaming Platforms? Prove You’ve Got an Audience
If you want to sell your film to a streaming platform, there’s one thing you need more than anything else: an audience. Forget the pretty cinematography, forget the big-name cast, and forget the awards. Streaming platforms don’t care about those things unless they come with the all-important audience. But here’s the kicker: most filmmakers are
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Using Audience and Viewership Metrics to Land (and Keep) Film Sponsors
Gone are the days when film sponsorship was just about slapping a logo on a poster or giving a product a cameo. In today’s media landscape, brands want more than visibility—they want verifiable value. And that means filmmakers need to treat sponsorship like a performance-driven investment, not a favor or vanity play. The key to
