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BPS 287: Screenwriting for Netflix's Algorithm with Stephen Follows
BPS 287: Screenwriting for Netflix's Algorithm with Stephen Follows
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Apr 5, 2023
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Podcast episode
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This episode might give you a better understanding of How To Sell A Movie To Netflix?In this age of streaming platforms, knowing your distribution route and your audience's comfortable viewing habits as filmmakers is crucial. Today on the show returning champion and film industry data analyst ninja Stephen Follows, breakdowns the build-up process and goal of his newly-launched data analysis platform, VOD Clickstream. The first phase of Stephen's VOD Clickstream is an independent research of Netflix streaming history between 2016-2019 of two-thirds billion data points that reveal what folks have been watching on Netflix. The research provides insights into the streaming sector by anonymizing browsers and users' history through a plugin to analyze clickstream data from Netflix. Being an entrepreneur himself, he explores, through this project, the future of VOD Clickstream's impact on independent filmmaking and creates a feedback loop with the audience to gauge films and television show performances.Stephen and I discuss the interlink between the upswing of film and television content, the growth of streaming platforms, and the challenges this situation poses for indie films to succeed on these platforms.Enjoy my conversation with Stephen Follows.
Released:
Apr 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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