A Closer Look

Headquarters

• Headquarters in the New York metropolitan area, one of the largest media markets in the world
• 3,000 square-foot office building, including conference room, screening room, multiple edit rooms and office suites, a private club level, employee cafe, private parking lot, sculpture garden, and garret apartment

Finance

• The company maintains accounts with major financial institutions that can efficiently process international wire transfers
• The company partners with Tipalti, a state-of-the-art Payments Processing Platform, to process monthly royalty payments, and to manage double-taxation (DTT) withholding tax (WHT) compliance with U.S. government laws and IRS regulations
• The company maintains a positive cash flow and zero debt, to consistently meet payroll, royalty, commission and overhead obligations
• Foreign jurisdiction tax management
  
• Collection of license fees and royalties and distribution of partner revenue shares, royalties and commissions
• Management of deal servicing cash flow
• Annual distribution of 1099s to U.S.-based partners and independent contractors, and 1042s to foreign payees
• The company maintains a revolving 7 figure investment fund to pursue content acquisitions and development

Risk Management

• The company maintains liability insurance on its tangible property and physical assets
• The company maintains Professional Liability (Errors & Omissions) insurance on its portfolio of content

Deal Servicing & Support

• Management support throughout deal negotiations by a global sales team
• Invoicing and global revenue collection
• Country-specific documentation and government taxation forms
• Tech evaluation and delivery/ingest to platforms and clients of properly-encoded video and audio files, closed-caption files, transcripts, music cue sheets, metadata, artwork, publicity kits, etc.

Marketing Support

• Company websites and Youtube channels
• Social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter)
• Promotional materials (design of key art packages, Powerpoint/Keynote pitch decks/PDFs)
• In-house production of trailers, teasers, branding videos
• Presence at global content markets and film festivals throughout the year, both physical and virtual

Legal

• Negotiation and execution of all distribution agreements and license agreements
• Intellectual property engagement with entertainment law firms in New York, Washington DC, and Toronto

Content Acquisitions & Production

• Sourcing new content and negotiating distribution and license agreements favorable to the company, often in competition with much larger companies
• Paying license fees and minimum royalty guarantees to acquire quality content in a competitive environment
• Maintaining ongoing relationships with over 400 producers and content partners
• Investment in the development of new IPs, and in the production of English-language versioning of high-profile foreign-language content

Rights Management

• Investments, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance of the company's proprietary rights management and royalty payment database solution, designed to ingest inbound revenue reports and generate outbound reports to our content partners.

Data Insights

• Ongoing data analysis on the performance of our 23,000 hours of content across multiple digital video platforms around the world

Servers & Facilities

• Archiving and maintenance of master and mezzanine files (video, audio, metadata, captions, publicity, transcripts, music cues, artwork, etc.)
• In-house DROBO and EVO networked work station servers (RAID NAS) for the secure storage of video and data files
• Off-site data backup servers (AWS, Molten, Apple iCloud, Google Drive and Mail, Vimeo, Crashplan)
• IT network security contractor on-call for maintenance and troubleshooting of routers and servers
• In-house storage of archival videotape master library
• Storage of digital video files at cloud-based AWS edge location servers worldwide
• High-speed fiber-optic internet access with multiple IP addresses
• Multiple WiFi zones and internet access points, Cisco Meraki routers with advanced security
• Dedicated file transfer solutions (Signiant Media Shuttle, Molten) for secure, high-speed inbound and outbound data transfers
• Company website built with state-of-the-art CraftCMS content management system