Sundance Must Market to a New Viewers as Attendees Age

What movie pageant entrepreneurs search for in an company 

By the point the built-in content material and manufacturing company Superbloom pitched the Sundance Institute, the nonprofit knew it needed to embrace a social-first advertising and marketing technique. 

The content material company has an built-in manufacturing studio and outsources work to its group of about 300 leisure business professionals in numerous roles. Benay already knew Dunlap, from when the 2 labored collectively at artistic company 72andSunny.

“One of many founding rules of Superbloom was for us to take an entertainment-first method to fixing promoting challenges for manufacturers,” Dunlap informed ADWEEK. 

The company’s hiring practices illustrate how promoting and filmmaking are converging. For example, Superbloom’s head of name content material, Adam Milano, who beforehand labored at leisure homes Dwell Nation Leisure, and Sony Footage Leisure.

Superbloom efficiently pitched the Sundance Institute’s enterprise. Benay favored that the company had expertise in each the advertising and marketing and leisure industries, its connection to a big freelance creator group and its built-in manufacturing studio idea.

Over six pageant days, Superbloom created greater than 20 items of content material. Three ran every day throughout Instagram and TikTok. “You’re coping with snow, you’re coping with Park Metropolis … However we had some instruments,” Dunlap stated. 

He’d constructed a customized staff with these challenges in thoughts. Winter Dunn, an unbiased movie director who has introduced movies at different festivals, was Superbloom’s showrunner in the course of the pageant. 

“Look, I like change. Personally, I believe you evolve or die. We simply should maintain serious about how we are able to do issues otherwise,” stated Benay.