Grapeflix Blogging

Targeted Content

Grapeflix is targeting lesser-known, professionally-produced content from independent filmmakers, content producers/distributors, video journalists, content owners, and music artists. These content include both entertainment and educational content.

• Movies -      Grapeflix has features and shorts from all cinematic genres. In general, only      pornographic content is not allowed on Grapeflix.

• Music      Videos - Grapeflix has music videos from artists who want to monetize      their music.

• Video Journalism - Grapeflix      is trying to attract video journalists to post and sell their content on      the site. While news may be dated and would not attract a paying audience,      Grapeflix believes that features on exciting topics or an exploration of      current issues and events would attract a paying audience if it offers      value and new insight. Grapeflix considers features or segments on 60      Minutes as a model for the type of video content that can sell.

• Light Educational Material -      Under the section called Lights!, Grapeflix would like to attract      educational content on practical subjects such as Do-it-yourself videos      and hobbies.

• Educational - Educational      content that would be of interest to industry professionals and students.      These includes training videos, lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and      conferences.

With respect to lectures, Grapeflix aims to convince filmmakers to team up with university and college professors to produce lectures and videos on class subjects and to offer them for rent or sale on Grapeflix.

Grapeflix - An Open Platform and a Community

Okay - - so you might be intrigued and wondering - -what is Grapeflix - -and how, in this over-crowded world of online video websites, is it different?

Here's what we are:

1.  An online community of professionally-produced content creators and content consumers.

2.  For professionally-produced content creators, we are an open-platform which provides them the tools, features, and support to open their online theater, and stream for a price, rent or sell their content as digital streams or downloads.

3.  For online consumers, we provide them access to online features/shorts (entertainment) and educational content that they probably would never have heard of or discovered without Grapeflix or would have found only by doing an exhaustive search over the Internet. 

In the end, what we do is bring together:

• content creators who want to distribute their content to more audiences/increase their sales                                                                                                                                  to
• an online audience that's looking for something beyond blockbusters,                                                                                                                      . 

in an online community called Grapeflix.

What we are not is an online catalog that collects content from content creators and sells them to audiences.  Far from that. 

Instead,Grapeflix wants content creators to easily and conveniently upload their content to their own virtual theaters and monetize their content as a stream, or rental/purchase download.  And Grapeflix wants content consumers to interact with each other and with filmmakers whether as a prelude to paying for content or after watching something that's playing on Grapeflix.

by Seventh Art

Hello to everyone!

Hi everyone!

This is the first post in the official Grapeflix blog.

We've come a long way since October 2006, when we launched the site.  There's more content on the site and there's been a steady stream of visitors. 

Of course, you may not know much about us and what we're all about.  Through blogging, I will introduce to all of you, both content creators and content consumers, our site and what makes us different.

You'll want to stick around and check us out often because we're one site that will be on many people's radar screens in the coming months.

Again, it's great to be up and running and let's all engage in a dialog.

Mr. Seventh Art  of  the Grapeflix Team