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Entertainment Marketing That Drives Audience Growth.

iExcel partners with entertainment and media brands to build demand gen systems that drive streaming subscribers, ticket sales, and fan engagement across channels.

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THE TERRAIN

What makes Entertainment hard.

We understand fan engagement strategies, content promotion tactics, and subscriber acquisition campaigns that drive viewership and ticket sales. Launch windows, sustained engagement, and retention math run as one connected system.

  • / 01Audience attention windows are short — the launch week makes or breaks the title; week 4 numbers tell a different story than the dashboard you ran at launch.
  • / 02Subscriber churn after free trials — the trial-to-paid ratio is the only number that matters, and most teams report on signups instead.
  • / 03Cross-platform fragmentation — viewers move between mobile, CTV, social, and email; attribution gets lost across screens and devices.
  • / 04Fan vs. casual viewer mismatch — superfans renew and refer; casual viewers churn. One funnel can't serve both.
OUR APPROACH

How we win in Entertainment.

We start with audience audits and content analysis, then run experiments across paid media, social, and email to improve subscriber acquisition, viewership, and fan engagement.

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Entertainment growth strategy + execution — launch playbooks, sustained engagement programs, and retention loops, run by senior experts on every account.

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Fan + viewer targeting — paid + content campaigns segmented by content preference, watch behavior, and engagement intensity. Superfans get their own funnel.

03

Measurable viewership + subscriber growth — dashboards connecting spend to streaming signups, ticket sales, watch time, and trial-to-paid retention.

SERVICES · TUNED FOR ENTERTAINMENT

The subset of the stack that moves Entertainment pipeline.

We run the full stack, but we don't apply it uniformly. For Entertainment, these are the disciplines that compound fastest — ordered by impact.

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Technical SEO

Schema for shows, films, episodes, talent, and events. Foundation for entertainment search intent.

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Content + GEO

Topic clusters by genre, talent, and franchise. Citation-grade content for both Google and answer engines.

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Paid Acquisition

Meta, TikTok, YouTube, CTV, programmatic. Bid against engaged-fan acquisition, not raw impressions.

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Landing Page + CRO

Streaming signup, ticket purchase, and trial flows built for fan conversion paths — not generic e-comm patterns.

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Lifecycle + Email

Triggered nurture for premieres, season starts, and trial expirations. Cohort-based retention loops.

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Analytics + Attribution

Cross-screen cohort dashboards, watch-time modeling, and trial-to-paid attribution stitched to revenue.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

Exceptional at what he does. He's mythical and clear; informative and instructive. He waits to hear the big picture and then mythically breaks down objectives into manageable milestones that return rich data. He sets a context for how to think about digital marketing and growth hacking, and then offers up the content and resources to execute on a plan.

Ruben Porras
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Growth · THE TEAM

At the top of the online marketing game. When I hire him I know my clients will get maximum results and high visibility among a wide and diverse consumer base.

Gilat Weiman
Touring Rep · Live Nation Entertainment

Chris Rodriguez is a forward thinking individual that has a strong understanding of today's music industry. In a incredibly short period of time, Chris has built a successful & recognizable brand through iExcel. I have hired Chris on several occasions for his promotional services and have been very satisfied with his efficiency, detail orientation, reach & reliability. As someone that places a strong emphasis on marketing & promotions, I can rank iExcel among the elite.

Matt Diamond
Founder · Coalmine Records
ENTERTAINMENT · STRATEGY CALL

Ready to Grow Your Entertainment Brand?

15 minutes with someone senior who has shipped growth for Entertainment brands like yours. We'll pressure-test your funnel and tell you — candidly — where the fastest compounding lives.

REPLY TIMEWithin 1 business day
CALL LENGTH15 min sanity check
WHO ANSWERSA senior partner — no SDRs
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