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Chris Hyams
CEO
With B-Side’s festival pipeline maturing, it was time to produce a scalable brand and begin focusing on the distribution side of B-Side’s model. We became responsible for the collateral, consumer experience and visual designs for the entire portfolio of B-Side films. We have helped create some fantastic success stories, such as Super High Me, which opened on April 20th, 2008 in 1,076 locations, surpassing the 868 theaters that Fahrenheit 911 opened in, or Crawford, the first-ever film premier on Hulu, where it spent 14 consecutive days as number 1 on the site.
Thinktiv continues to provide B-Side with an in-sourced team of creative talent delivering interactive, viral and traditional marketing campaigns, visual interaction strategy and overall brand management.
The B-Side Festival Community provides festival-goers with the ability to create personal calendars, interact with filmmakers via blogs and chat and most importantly, to rate and review films. The two primary business goals are to collect data for B-Side’s analytics from audience members and to increase ticket sales at the film festival.
In 2008, B-Side began to scale its film distribution business, using the data it had collected from over 300 film festivals to select films they would acquire for distribution. Thinktiv’s part in this endeavor was to take responsibility for each and every film’s key art and for its website.
B-Side is our first true black and white brand, where we focused uniquely on information architecture, and using the rich media content of the films to provide the pop and depth the brand deserved.