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Free Full-Length Films to Complement Your Reporting. Irresistible Media Company Websites Need Significant Professional Video Content. Sources: Forrester and The Nielsen Company. 2. Building an Irresistible Website is Hard. Newspaper strengths are text & pictures, not long-form video. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Free Full-Length Films to Complement Your Reporting
Irresistible Media Company Websites Need Significant Professional Video Content
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Sources: Forrester and The Nielsen Company
SnagFilms offers an immediate, free & scalable source of highest-quality professional films on all relevant subjects
Building an Irresistible Website is Hard
–It is challenging and expensive to source professional films–News organizations’ breadth of reporting requires a huge library to deliver relevant films on demand–But combining such films with your traditional web offerings can build new audiences & significantly improve dwell times
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Newspaper strengths are text & pictures, not long-form video
SnagFilms – Bringing Relevant Films to Your Audience• The web’s broadest library of full-length, award-
winning professionally-produced non-fiction films
• Any writer/editor can embed our films into stories & features, selected via easy search or RSS feed
• Free usage within your site – extends visitor experience and site engagement statistics
• Ability to monetize around film widgets
• Widgets can be co-branded for off-site visibility
• A new approach (“filmanthropy”) to cause-related and celebrity-engaged marketing
• A partner for unique marketing programs
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Investors & Management: A Trusted, Experienced Team
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InvestorsTed Leonsis(Founder & Chairman)
Vice Chairman Emeritus, AOL; Producer, Nanking; Producer; Kicking It; Owner, Washington Capitals and Washington Mystics
Steve & Jean CaseChairman, Revolution LLC; Co-Founder, AOL; Fmr. Chairman, AOL-TimeWarner. Jean Case: CEO, Case Foundation; Fmr. AOL Executive
Miles GilburneManaging Partner, ZG Ventures; Co-Founder & Chairman, ePals; Fmr. Head of Corp. Strategy, AOL
Ted & Jim PedasCo-Founders, Circle Theaters and Circle Films; Producers: Pascha, Granite State, Barton Fink
Knight FoundationThe John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is one of the country’s largest foundations, seeking opportunities to transform communities and journalism
Management
Rick Allen (founding CEO)
Discovery, National Geographic
Stephanie Sharis(EVP)
AOL
David Karp(EVP Biz Dev)
Discovery
Eugene Hernandez(Editor-in-Chief)
Co-Founder, indieWIRE
Content: Large, High-Quality, Renewable Library• More than 1150 non-fiction films; library will more than double
in ‘10
– Award-winning, mainly long-form titles
• Key content providers from well-known names (National Geographic, PBS, and Sundance) and top individual filmmakers
• Full range of subjects: all public policy topics plus sports, music, arts and culture.
• Easy integration into breaking news stories for depth & extension.
• A “snag-able” widget-based platform you can co-brand, enabling your audience to share, send to friends and feature in social networking pages
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Relevance: Films can be Contextually Embedded and Used Throughout Your Site
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SnagFilms• Puts top films in front of
targeted audiences• Taps into sources of passion
to increase viral sharing
Mainstream Media
Giant Web Portals
Aggregators
Non-Profits
Film Organizations
Here are some of our more than 75,000 affiliates
Blogs /Special Interests Social Networks
You’ll be in Good Company: The Web’s Broadest Network for Documentaries
Filmanthropy: Doing Well by Doing Good
• Every film is matched to a relevant non-profit
• Local charities supported by you or your sponsors can
personalize film widgets with own selections from SF library
and links to charity’s action pages – and to any of your
relevant pages
• Individuals can contribute $, time or ‘pixels’ – spread the film
widget and support cause and filmmaker
• Alliances formed with range of social change websites &
NGOs
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