August 20, 2024; Santa Monica and San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Vitrina, a cutting-edge data and AI company revolutionizing the entertainment supply chain, and Storied Media Group, the parent company of the innovative digital marketplace StoryScout, are excited to announce a strategic alliance. This collaboration is set to significantly impact production companies, studios, networks, and other early-stage participants in the film and television supply-chain, offering them unprecedented access to valuable insights and resources.

This strategic alliance combines the strengths of two industry disruptors. Vitrina leverages industry intelligence and in-depth company profiling to recommend cross-border partners at every content stage, from production to licensing. Storied Media Group’s StoryScout platform provides subscribers with a curated selection of IP, including true stories, life rights, journalism, comics, graphic novels, books, podcasts, and video games, all of which can be easily purchased online.

Partnership Goals and Vision

Vitrina and Storied Media Group’s partnership will offer customers both the essential data to make informed decisions and now the IP necessary to develop compelling content. Their combined resources will provide a comprehensive solution for identifying industry trends, sourcing quality IP, and forming strategic partnerships across the global entertainment supply chain. The collaboration aims to:

• Identify evolving global industry trends in development themes and production financing.
• Provide insights into streamers and broadcasters preferences for originals and commissioned content.
• Showcase best-qualified stories and themes for future slates, aligning with high-demand genres.
• Suggest supply-chain partnerships worldwide to bring these project ideas to life.

Key Quotes

“At Vitrina, we are committed to providing the most comprehensive intel and insights to our users. Partnering with Storied Media Group allows us to offer an even greater value by integrating curated IP into our solution offering. This collaboration is a natural extension of our mission to connect and empower the global entertainment industry,” said Atul Phadnis, CEO of Vitrina.

“Using AI technology, Atul and his innovative team of have created what is essentially the ‘Google for the global entertainment business.’ Though they offer many products, now they can offer our curated IP to their customers. I’m super excited for this unique partnership,” said Todd Hoffman, Founder and CEO of Storied Media Group.

About Vitrina.AI 

Vitrina is a premier global platform connecting the entire video entertainment supply chain. Vitrina tracks every upcoming film and TV project, associated companies for each project, and their key decision-makers. Vitrina’s global project tracking enables the industry to monitor trends in film and TV development, production financing, commissioning, and licensing. Vitrina helps buyers — streamers, broadcasters, and production companies—find sellers, including service providers and tech companies specializing in production, post, VFX, animation, localization, and packaging/delivery. The Vitrina platform provides unparalleled intel, insights, and daily updates to thousands of film and TV projects via the “Global Film + TV Projects Tracker” and the daily updated Supply-Chain Search. Vitrina has over 72,000 verified leaders and experts from leading media companies leveraging Vitrina for strategic market intelligence and collaboration opportunities.

About Storied Media Group LLC

Founded in 2013 by Todd Hoffman, former Head of the Media Rights Group at ICM, Storied Media Group LLC (SMG) has become Hollywood’s “agency agnostic” leader in the packaging, development, and sale of fiction and non-fiction IP. The most trusted and award-winning publications in the world – including The Guardian, NPR, Hearst, Gannett, Asahi Shimbun, News UK, Fortune, and Der Spiegel – rely exclusively on SMG to curate, develop, and broker their content to producers, studios, financiers, and networks worldwide.

Since its inception, SMG has sold over 350 projects to the film and television community. Current and past projects based on client IP include Modern Love (Amazon), Alex Gibney’s The Crime of the Century (HBO), Clint Eastwood’s The Mule (Warner Bros.), Insatiable (Netflix), (upcoming) Alex Gibney’s The Afghanistan Papers (Paramount +), Space Launch Live (Discovery), APB (Fox), Tag (New Line), The Oath (Crackle), Kodachrome (Netflix), Patriot’s Day (CBS Films), Deepwater Horizon (Lionsgate), American Honey (A24), and 36 Hours (Travel Channel).

This strategic alliance marks a significant step forward for both companies as they continue to innovate and provide unparalleled value to the global entertainment industry.