BPS 287: Screenwriting for Netflix's Algorithm with Stephen Follows

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.

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