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We're in a moment right now where AI is kind of doing what Hollywood did.
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The movies feel and look and feel a little bit like what you have been made.
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But wait to see what happens when people start figuring out things you can do with AI that you couldn't do in a traditional studio.
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New formats of programming entertainment.
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Can you imagine watching shows where you and your friend are watching the show and it's different weather conditions in the show at the same time?
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Imagine being able to converse with the characters or input or make suggestions and a change tape in real time.
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What about shows which are personalized?
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This is where we're now gonna start going.
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And that also I think will cause a breakthrough from audience perception.
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Like, goodness me, that is something I couldn't get before.
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Welcome to the AI Movement Podcast, the space where modern entrepreneurs and founders come to stay current and navigate their next move with AI together.
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Whether you're building something, pivoting your work, or trying to keep ahead ethically, you are in the right place.
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Let's get into it.
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If you've been curious about where streaming and TV are headed, this conversation is for you.
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My guest today is Colin Petrie Norris.
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He's the founder and CEO of Fairground, where he's connecting AI filmmakers with major TV platforms and helping creators get their work in front of real audiences.
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He worked through the major shift in how we watch streaming TV now.
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He built a Zumo, sold it to Comcast, and worked with companies like Roku, Samsung, LG, Paramount, and Warner Brothers.
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We talk about what happens when creators no longer need a studio to say yes, how streaming and AI together are changing the old Hollywood gatekeeping model, and why storytelling and execution matter more than ever.
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We also get into what AI-made entertainment could look like next, from more personalized shows to entirely new formats that traditional production could never support.
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If you're a creator, filmmaker, or just curious about where AI entertainment is heading, this episode gives you a front row look at that shift.
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Thank you so much for being on the show.
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I'm so happy you're joining today.
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Where are you from, LA?
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Where are you joining from?
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The long history is I'm from a small town in Cape Town, near Cape Town, South Africa.
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All those years ago, and I started my life.
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And I I won't bore you with it, but started as a civil engineer before I wound up where I am today.
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But I threw a whole series of moves and travel, I find myself delightedly in the uh town of Laguna Beach, California, where I um I'm now based.
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And so live the live the California dream out here in one of the most beautiful cities on the planet.
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So this is so very lucky to be here.
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Well, I'm excited to jump in all things AI and entertainment today.
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But for those who might not know a bit about you and your work at Fairground, could you do a little intro?
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Yeah, sure.
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I have putting aside my civil engineering, um, most of my life recently has been spent spent in television.
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I had another startup called Zumo, which was a free TV service.
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And that we sold that to Comcast.
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And in my life there, I got to work with all of the big streaming companies, everything from Roku to Samsung to LG, and you know, everybody with a uh a consumer streaming product paramount, warn everybody else.
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And then I saw, like everybody, I saw this new listed three years ago where you saw these incredible little videos coming up on social media, these and you remember these chaotic six fingers on a hand, a third eye in the middle of the forehead.
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Oh, yes.
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And I was good, I was like, goodness me, that is going to have an impact on the entertainment world, so you know, which where I was living.
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So I started Fairground just over two years ago now, with the idea that there are people all over the world now with this incredible toolkit in their pockets, and these all these stories and ideas that were that were there were that the gatekeepers had made be shut down and time gone by.
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Now they could make a movie, they could make a TV show.
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And I've been very focused on that, like the narrative-based you know, storytellers.
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And then I've connected them with my old world, all these TV companies that are excited about the same universe, and like they see this is the future, this is a new creator economy upon us, where all of these folks, if they're making it respectfully and then doing it with the right quality and so on in mind, there's this incredible relationship opportunity.
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So fairground is we are connecting now thousands of filmmakers using
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AI, sometimes a lot of AI, sometimes just a little bit, telling the story that they love, and then we are getting that distributed on major TV services.
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And we've we we have distribution of individual movies, and now we also have our 24-7 live streaming channels available all around the right now, North America.
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And so it is it's an exciting mix of this thing which is undeniable in terms of like this impact on the entertainment world.
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So that's bridging the divide between that idea in your head, that story you wanted to tell, and getting you on television, and hopefully making some real money out of it as well.
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So that's the idea.
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Wonderful.
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Thank you for that background.
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And as you were talking, I was just reflecting on my own personal experience as a consumer of entertainment and how I've seen this progress from you know, renting and going to Blockbuster to the streaming world, which you have been very early on in.
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And now we're at this next iteration where people are constantly online.
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We want 24-7, we're on YouTube, we're on these streaming services.
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So yeah, I'm just excited to hear about all the work that you're doing with everything that you've launched at Fairground.
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You have some exciting stuff that just launched this late summer.
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First, I would love to hear how you use AI personally.
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And this can even be, you know, as a CEO of your company, but how are you using it most powerfully?
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Where has it really created momentum for you personally?
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You know, one of the fun things about being a new startup in this new world we're in is you get to try everything.
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You you can dip into and out of all the the hundreds of tools.
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And so the first thing is I encourage my well, I hold myself to that and I encourage my team to look around, try things, try services, learn, learn, learn.
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Because as you know, sort of try to get that understanding of what with this world we're living in is is half the challenge.
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It's also there's this blend that that I find fascinating is that you can't vibe code everything, you can't do everything.
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There's almost infinite ideation that's possible, but execution is really still matters.
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I love the blend between the rapid fire, coming up with new ideas and concepts, but the oldest skill in the book, you have to deliver and get things done.
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And you know that you tend to be flitty, you can you flight, you move on one idea to the next, but having the discipline to sort of sign up creators, take care of their needs, listen to their problems, make sure that the platforms are getting the quality they want.
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There's a certain amount of like real hardcore, just old-fashioned delivery that has to be happening in the middle of the store.
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So it's it's it's this blend.
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And so I like I find we can redo things a lot quicker, we can move a lot faster, but also it really also highlights the fact that without folks really being involved and customers involved, it's just a theoretical point of view.
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Yeah, it sounds like it's really helping you secure that pipeline that you so crucially support your creators with between mainstream TV audiences and the work that they're producing as filmmakers.
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So maybe we can just dive into that space.
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Like, what are you paying attention to right now as AI-made entertainment is really starting to churn and be put out there in a way where you can create a whole network where it's sustained for 24-7.
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I'd love to just get your insight on the industry right now and where it's headed.
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We at Fairground already focus on that long-form narrative-based programming, as I mentioned.
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It's sort of that big screen TV.
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There's a lot of companies out there looking at microdramas, short form social media.
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But this is this is a an incredible world where great stories matter a great deal.
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And what we're seeing is that there's it's gone now with thousands of creators learning how to make long-form entertainment.
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And you know, you used to be you couldn't get character consistency, you couldn't have the same face or character from the beginning of a movie, or and even 15 minutes later have it the same.
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That is all solved now, and people can focus on how to like use the old classic storytelling, hero's journey, and how to keep you like keep your attention.
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And so the trend I'm seeing, the one I'm most excited about, are creators starting to now just not do something just because it looks cool, but actually talk about the story and sort of find that human connection.
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And we're seeing creators making episodes, series, like 15-minute shows that come out once a month, a new show, and so on, to sort of build characters and so on.
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Like, and I think that is that's the most interesting thing that's going on at the moment.
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Thank you so much for sharing a bit more on that.
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That is
a perfect segue to my next question because AI is making film cheaper to produce and at the same time, streaming has made distribution significantly easier, especially to the creators and members in your space.
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So if you could just touch on that delicacy, when things become cheaper to produce and quicker and easier to bring into streaming, you know, what becomes more valuable?
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Are you are we more of curators in that space?
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Are we just adding more noise?
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Like where does the selection start to play in?
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I you touched just a bit now on the true art of storytelling and really fine-tuning and building that muscle for long-form content.
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So yeah, how how are you curating what gets to debut on the the TV station?
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Well, so there so not everything being made is appropriate for television, Brock.
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As you I'm sure you would agree, you know, this it is a wonderful, powerful sort of opportunity with thousands of people can make things, but there's um an obligations that you have to take on your shoulders when you're on television.
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So it has to be uh safe and appropriate.
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It has to be appropriate content, needs to be safe for advertising, it needs to have a good narrative, a good story, needs to be of good quality, it needs to have closed captioning, it needs to have metadata for search, it needs all of these qualities, some visible, some invisible, that make it TV ready.
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And so that is sort of number one, just from a purely technical point of view, there is a natural filtering that has to happen.
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We do take a lot of content on board and then get the information back to the creators to help them learn how to make and we we with our platform are trying to add services to make it improve their chances.
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When it comes to the actual consumption side, the appetite by these platforms for content is enormous.
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And I I like this idea.
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I don't Brooke, I think you uh I like to talk about it when you listen to your favorite music on Spotify or Apple Music, there's something nice about listening to your favorite things again and again.
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You know, I I will listen to Soft Self, Tainted Love, sorry, sorry to date myself.
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I'll just listen to it because it makes me feel good as nostalgia, right?
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Something different happens with video.
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You really don't what you really watch the same thing twice.
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There are some movies which I love to watch again and again, but every five or seven years.
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The human brain craves new things, it is it's searching and exploring for ideas and stories.
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That gives me a lot of optimism about this.
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It's sort of bringing even to something like the rise like creator economy used to be this thing that a few kind of quirky folks did on YouTube.
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It was sort of uh you people used to fry look down on YouTube and be like us dogs on skateboards.
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Fast forward today, creators are making mainstream entertainment.
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And so I think the same thing is going to happen.
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These filmmakers, the the the the interest in new things, uh the the search for stories from all over the world, uh and just the human need to see new things makes this really, really a powerful combination.
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So so I feel like we're very I think this is a great journey ahead of us as this as these creators from all over the world start uh connecting with these streaming TV companies.
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It is so interesting that I have a sister who's about nine years younger than me.
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So she's Gen Z.
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And the way that they consume content is so different.
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It's almost like it's always on, it's in the background, it's a little bit more casual.
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And I've even read about how people are creating storylines and plots that are easy to follow because people are on multiple devices at once while they're watching TV.
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Can you touch on that?
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I've heard stories about how you've had to redesign how plots work in movies, that you've got to drop little moments every like hooks every few minutes just to keep pulling somebody back their eyes from the smone back up to the big screen TV.
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And so no doubt the world has changed.
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And to I don't think I watched uh 2001 as Space Odyssey, that whole movie recently, great, also AI thing in that as well, right?
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But that's slow-paced movies, just you don't see those anymore.
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Like the world has changed.
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No, but but here's the cool thing with this world that I'm operating in is it's a data-rich environment.
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You can see what works and what doesn't.
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And the creators can go, oh, you know what?
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Everybody dropped out of my movie three-quarters of the way through.
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How do I improve this to avoid that the next time?
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And so, what I believe, Brooke, is what's going to happen is because creators can make things so quickly, they can react to
the data.
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You will see a machining, a creation, I think, of entirely new forms of entertainment.
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This isn't something that you go produce and it takes a year to film and everything else, and then you come and deliver it.
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There's a vibrance to it.
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And I say, Yeah, we're just in the first innings.
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I don't know where this goes, but I just love the fact of thousands of creators going, here's what's working, and they and they look at it and go, how do I do better?
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And watch what happens two years from now.
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I think it's going to be amazing to see what comes out of it.
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So yeah, I'm I'm I'm again, I'm I see, I think you're right.
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The the the the world needs to evolve, and I think this is the right sort of medium or format to do it in.
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That's so fascinating that you have all these data points that you can track now.
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It's almost like real-time film school.
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Kind of these are programmers, these are folks that are used to data.
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And watch out.
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When when you give somebody very talented, a good talented creative, you know, access to sort of real-time feedback, and you give them a bit of a paycheck and you're like, do that again.
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It's a it's just an engine of creative spirit that's going to become deployed into this into this area.
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So cool.
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Can you talk about the overall Hollywood and the democratization of being a filmmaker?
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You know, in the past you really had to wait around and hope and wait and make the right connection and then have the bright budget, and it could take years and years.
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So you've lived through streaming really changing the industry.
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What feels different about this AI shift and how it's changing the traditional Hollywood gatekeeping to getting your products made and out into the world?
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Yeah, look, I I I do know and I respect the unease that people feel with this big change that's coming on.
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And I don't pretend to have all the answers for that.
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However, there's a point of view that said if you look at what podcasting did, right?
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It used to have to cost a lot of money beyond cable TV to have a talk show.
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And you'd have a team of 50 people running the show.
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Now you can, with your in your living room, like yourself, you can run it, you can tell people your mind, you can build an audience, and you can build a podcast.
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And that has created this powerful new way for folks to have what used to be what cable TV had to do for you 15 years ago, 10 years ago.
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The same thing I believe to be true with AI and filmmaking.
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There is no studio that has to sign off on your project anymore.
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You don't have to go raise money for it.
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You can build the thing that you're passionate about, but you need people like Fairground that can get you straight to the screen so that it's got a place to live.
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And I think as the distribution world starts opening up and these streamers, streaming companies start connecting with, I'm gonna call them the AA movie, like kind of podcaster type of people, that's what's gonna start people.
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Well, you know what?
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I don't need somebody to tell me what to do.
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I can make the thing I want and I can have an audience for it.
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So I think that's in a way akin to a podcasting
affected in like a news and narrative-based sort of feature programming.
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I think this is gonna allow and like no gatekeepers is the way I look at it from for entertainment.
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Exciting times, you know, it's probably the reason why I read your creator community grew 50% just in one month.
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And I'm curious, what does it take to apply to be a creator with the fairground community?
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Um, and if you can touch on just some of the production tools and partnerships that are available to them when they join.
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Yeah, so it's very easy to set up an account and upload your first movie.
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You can do it in just little five minutes.
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We go to uh portal.fairground.tv, you've got your work, you sign up and you put your movie into the ecosystem.
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From there, it needs to go through reviews and we're we're using tools, some we've built ourselves, some we partner with to augment and make and enrich their movies, get them ready for programming.
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And then the there's there's a selection that's made and sent into the channel.
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We're gonna have 500, 600 creators this month showing off their work in our channel, and that is gonna grow.
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And it's gonna grow.
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We just launched six to seven weeks ago, and there's opportunity for thousands of creators, tens of thousands of creators to participate, even more if we're bringing on more distribution towards the end of the year in addition to the ones we have already.
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So it's very easy.
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And the the good news is we're not asking for any rights, we're not asking for exclusivity.
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You put your movie up there.
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If you love what you see, you keep it there.
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If you don't, you take it away and go somewhere else.
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We're not asking for any like we're not trying to hold you, we're trying to be very creator and movie maker friendly.
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Wow.
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And we've got such wonderful tools now available and more coming between now and the end of the year, which will just be so hopefully make your job as a filmmaker just easier and easier.
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Um, but also, Brooke, the most important thing too is we want to make sure people are getting earning fairly.
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Because for me, if I can get that creator that's maybe doing this part-time, if I can get them a few extra hundred dollars, a few extra thousand dollars, and just to maybe be the difference between going full-time like part-time to full-time, that's when I think the content really starts to get even greater and even better.
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So that's the other part of what we're trying to do for creators.
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That's wonderful.
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And I should probably have already known the answer to this.
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But is fairground TV free?
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Or how do you get to watch all of these coolers?
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You can go, yes, it's free to watch.
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If you you can go to your Roku TV, LG TV, Zumo, Comcast, Amazon Prime Video.
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You can just look for Fairground TV or search for it, and the channels there free for you to watch.
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There's online desktop versions of all of those services.
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You can watch them too.
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And so there's no charge, you can be enjoying it in three minutes from now.
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You can also go to our website and just see some of the samples of what's available.
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Like we've got some of the best of there on our watch page, just to give you an idea of the type of programming that's coming out and what these incredible talents are making right now with the tools at their disposal.
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So there's a lot of different ways to get hold of it.
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And we're going to be And more come in, more and more come in.
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We've got a very busy last bit of the year ahead of us.
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And are the filmmakers exclusively leveraging AI, or do you have any just non-AI related filmmakers on the network?
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We don't say to a filmmaker, you have to use this much, this much AI.
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It's up to them.
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In fact, Brooke, I I would maintain that there are a lot of productions still done in a classic, crafted way with no use of AI.
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But increasingly, AI is finding its way just a little bit into a production.
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Sometimes mostly AI.
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Some creators are using human voiceover.
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They're writing, maybe they're writing the script by hand, but making everything else.
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It's up to the creator.
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And so, yes, we largely find films with AI, but you know, you can green screen, you can have voice, you can do all the things that you want.
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You must make sure you've got all the rights in place because this is television.
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If you're contracting, you're going to make sure it's all done by the book.
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But it's the fun thing is it's all manner of different combinations of it.
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Do you think there's a future where we
we have to disclose if something was made with AI?
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Or do you think audiences will care whether something was made with AI if they truly love the story?
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What have you seen when it comes to the consumerism?
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Yeah, so we prefer to say this is made with AI right on the front, because I think I'd love an audience to be surprised to the upside and be like, okay, yes, I you're telling me this is AI.
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I'm not trying to be like on social media and sneak something in with AI into a world that you think is real.
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That feels kind of cheeky to me.
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We're saying made with AI, come and be delighted and be surprised.
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And look, three years from now, five years from now, do you even will that be even a thing you have to disclose?
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We believe you should still tell people how it was made, but it could well be we're just in a moment in time.
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Brooke, there's one other thing too.
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I tell a story and my team are so bored of it, but there's like I say, when you know, when when radio first arrived, they read out vaudeville theater because that's what you did.
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When television arrived, they started biting soap operas because that's what you listen to on the radio.
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We're in a moment right now where AI is kind of doing what Hollywood did.
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The movies feel and look and feel a little bit like what you have been made before.
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But wait to see what happens when people start figuring out you things you can do with AI that you couldn't do in a traditional studio.
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New formats of programming entertainment that you couldn't.
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Can you imagine watching shows where you and your friend are watching the show and it's different weather conditions in the show at the same time?
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Imagine being able to converse with the characters or input or make suggestions and a change shape in real time.
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You know, what about shows which are personalized?
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Like, this is where we're now gonna start going.
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And that also I think will cause a breakthrough from audience perception.
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Like, goodness me, that is something I couldn't get before.
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I think that's maybe when the world starts to change a little bit as well.
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So we're thinking a lot about that and how you can take these incredible, talented, bright creators and have them do new things, not just make the old things.
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That's so exciting.
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And do you have any type of festival or award system?
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Or how are these new sectors of professionals getting accolades?
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I know that's a really big part of the industry.
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We believe every video that comes to us, any show, we put the creator's name at the front of it.
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We're just sort of the assistant, but we want the creators to be famous.
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So when you go on TV, sure it's a fairground channel, but it's the creator's name at the front of the show and the credits.
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With their social media handles, you can go check more out.
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That's something we believe in and will always believe in, is putting their name out first.
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We do prizes, competitions.
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If you sign up in the portal, you'll be you're exposed to some of that.
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We partner with other competitions, we partner with film festivals, and we're working on something a little bit of a celebration of our own early next year.
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Yes, we're like again, it's like we're trying to make these folks famous.
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That's the that's the way to go.
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Such incredible work, really on the forefront of the creator space right now.
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So I can't thank you enough for your time today, Colin.
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I always like to leave space at the end if there's one main takeaway that we didn't get a chance to touch on today that you'd like to leave listeners with.
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The floor is open.
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I think what many people don't understand when they see this type of like shows, the humans involved, the craft, the pain, the difficulty, the struggle of making a really good show.
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I think the assumption is it's just you type in a show idea into a prompt and you it spits it out.
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There are the most incredible.
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There's the community here, the people, we've got creators who one guy, he's a security guard in a casino, but he's making movies which will blow your mind.
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Like there are people behind all of this stuff, and we want to we really have to work harder to tell their stories.
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But that is what's fascinating is there is a very human end element to this artificial title.
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And so I think that's a beautiful combination.
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And look at that, we've got a lot of work to do, a lot of lessons to learn, but the people behind the aid and the people inside this system are incredible, just the most positive, nicest, friendliest folks you could ever imagine.
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So Jagger, you know, Jagger is one of them, one of the creators, like just the nicest folks involved here.
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So I'm very grateful to all of them.
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Yes, for listeners on the show, Jagger was on the end of last season one of the podcast.
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So check it out for the cool work that she's doing.
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I will be sure to link out everything in the show notes so people can jump in and check out Fairground TV today.
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And we didn't really touch on the tension of people that are maybe you know worried about the industry, but I think that it's both and I think that this new sector can exist alongside old traditional ways of making film and media.
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And to your point, that someone that is a security guard can now have this creative outlet on the side of this passion project and is making really meaningful work in the creator space.
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So my feedback and interpretation I wanted to share there.
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So thank you so much again, Colin, for your time today.
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You've been very kind, Brooke.
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Lovely talking to you today.
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Thank you so much.
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