Disruptive Innovations in Distribution: Who Owns the Screen?
1. Disruptive Innovations in Distribution:
Who Owns The Screen?
Siobhan O’Flynn, PhD
CFC Media Lab
University of Toronto
2. ‘Welcome to the New World of Distribution’
Peter Broderick, Sept. 2008
http://www.peterbroderick.com/writing/writing/welcometothenewworld.html
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3. McLuhan:
When new technologies impose themselves on
societies long habituated to older technologies,
anxieties of all kind result. (24-25)
4. Independent Distribution Strategies
OR the arrival of new business models
• Four-Eyed Monsters, 2005
• filmmakers used video podcasts to promote
• film free on YouTube & MySpace
• 1 million+ views
• $ through shared ad revenues
• made US TV & home video distribution
http://www.peterbroderick.com/writing/writing/welcometothenewworld.html
5. ‘audience development strategy’
audience dependent
• core audience - film’s subject/genre
• general audience
• personal audience
• how to connect?
http://www.peterbroderick.com/writing/page20/maximizingdistribution.html
7. IRON SKY
-1st Trailer - 1,355,203 views YouTube - May 6 2008
-21,394 fans on website & facebook - May 2008
-$8.5 million budget /6.5 million euros
-secured funding - close to 90% - May 2010
-1st week May 2010 - invitation to invest in film - 75 people
stated interest for a total of 120,000 euros // $147,000 US
8. audience dependent strategy
- May 13 2010 - 2nd Trailer - 651,061 views
- Wired magazine: micro-investments from 52 fans
- 53627 fans - April 2011
- requests for GLOBAL screenings
- 60 in TO (May 2010); 123 in TO (Nov. 2011)
http://www.peterbroderick.com/writing/writing/welcometothenewworld.html
9. crowdsourcing
financing
but $ is not the priority
crowdsourcing
as distribution
10. crowdsourcing as
promotion & distribution
fans become patrons
community promotes film project
coexists with traditional marketing
14. August 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJpSqeQbh4o
15. Premium VOD Is Doomed
If This Piracy Study Is Correct:
Pricewaterhousecoopers Study
• 202 adults September 2010, pub Feb. 2011
• 76% ‘willing to pay if closer to release date’
• 83% will pay 1 month or less from release
• pay no more than $3 to download a movie
$1 for a TV program.
• 81% will continue to download & stream
• 40% will pirate on mobile devices
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/industry/entertainment-media/assets/piracy-survey-summary-report-0111.pdf
16. DirectTV Premium VOD at $30 a rental.
Seriously?
• April 2011
• available only to customers with the satellite
company's HD DVRs, approx. 6 million people
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/19/directvs-30-per-rental-premium-video-on-demand-service-launche/