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Revolutionising how comedy shows
are made and discovered
PRESS PACK 2020
Our Mission The Founding Team
We believe in the collective power of the • Business strategy and
crowd to make amazing content. Jon Jayson partnerships
Co-Founder • Ex Ernst & Young chartered
As comedy creators ourselves we know and CEO accountant, nominated
the challenges of breaking into the “Founder of the Future”
industry.
Our mission is to open opportunities for • Marketing, media and
comedy talent from all backgrounds,
Peter Wright community development
including those marginalised by the Co-Founder • Innovation for Liverpool
traditional system, and generate exciting police force
new comedy content.
Most studios work with a handful of
creators. • Legal management including
We work with over 8000, crowdsourcing Omar Nasar IP oversight.
the best new talent and showcasing those Co-Founder • Content Lead
that prove a hit. • Former US law firm associate
“The old systems, the ones where just a few people were anointed to be the
chosen contributors, that left a lot of people out in the cold.
The new open systems embrace waste. They understand that most people
won't contribute and most contributions won't be any good. But that's fine,
because this openness means that the previously unfound star now gets
found.”
Seth Godin
The Comedy Crowd Way
We de-risk the process of producing comedy
Work with over 8000 Fan engagement and testing Huge variety of original,
diverse creators reduces risk of new ideas regular content
Open and creating new
Start Here opportunities
Few ideas accepted
Process works best for Take a risk on Limits variety of new
established creators expensive shows content for fans
How Comedy Crowd TV Works
An exciting new comedy content platform, discovering, funding and distributing
the best new comedy talent.
We distribute content directly to fans via our Comedy Crowd TV subscription
channel, and through deals with distribution and broadcast partners.
Screened by media partners Screened on Comedy Crowd TV
Licensed £12 / year
content and subscription
commissions channel:
with OTT Revenue shared
channels and with content
broadcasters creators
Building The Crowd: Our Story So Far
Dec 2018 July & Aug 2019 Dec 2019
Initial community Comedy Crowd Subscription Sold out Comedy Crowd 300 unique shows in
growth through TV beta channel screenings at BFI TV live on MX development as
events and platform live launched with and Edinburgh Player with community passes
newsletter first paying users Fringe 350M+ users 8,000 creators
Over 8,000
independent
creators
Comedy Crowd featured in:
The Comedy Crowd Is Truly Global
Comedy Crowd TV is live on
Almost one third of our MX Player - the streaming
community and growing is app owned by Times India
from the USA with 350M+ users in the
sub continent
Competition entries from
Latin America, Australia,
Japan and across Africa
Click on the images below to
Meet The Creators watch some great examples:
It’s about time you enjoyed
some comedy. Here are a few
select Comedy Crowd creators
with:
• Millions of social media views
• Sold out live shows
• A willingness to experiment and
create daring, original, funny
characters
Madam
Horace
Contact:
Jon Jayson, Co-Founder and CEO
jon@thecomedycrowd.com
+44 (0)7743081014
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