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Your ReleaseDeservesPage One.

We reverse-engineer the algorithm so film trailers, album drops, and streaming premieres land on page one — before the press cycle fades.

400+Campaigns Launched
94%Page-One Rate
72hrAvg. Trend Window
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Proof, not
promises.

Every card below is a real campaign. Click any card to download the full case study PDF — gated only by email.

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Indie Thriller
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Midnight Circuit

Hollow Tree Films

+412%

organic impressions in 72 hours

A $2M thriller competing against a $40M studio release the same weekend. We front-loaded discovery keywords into the trailer metadata 11 days out.

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Indie PopPDF ↓

Frequency Drop

Wren & The Static

#1

Spotify editorial pitch, week of release

Single launch for a debut artist with zero prior search presence. Built artist knowledge graph 3 weeks ahead.

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True Crime Podcast
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The Longer Room

Cassette Podcast Network

340K

new listeners, episodes 1–4

Broke out of niche Apple charts into general true crime by restructuring episode titles and show notes for semantic search clusters.

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Americana / FolkPDF ↓

Saltwater Gospel

Mesa Verde Records

6.2M

YouTube impressions, first 10 days

Album cycle for a mid-career artist on an independent label. Structured the release calendar around Google Trends spikes in the genre.

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Documentary
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Aperture (Documentary)

Sundance Selected, self-distributed

P.1

Google for all 4 primary search queries

No distributor, no PR budget. We built a structured data campaign around the director's name and festival circuit keywords starting 6 weeks before VOD.

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Deep Current

Orbital Sound / Atlantic

+890%

artist search volume in 7 days

Pre-release SEO architecture for a major label artist's surprise drop. We seeded 47 editorial placements with schema markup before the embargo lifted.

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Investigative Journalism PodcastPDF ↓

The Night Desk

Ember Podcast Co.

2.1M

organic search impressions, season 1

Turned a niche journalism podcast into a searchable media brand by mapping each episode to trending investigative news keywords.

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Environmental Drama
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Verdant

Pacific Crest Films

+278%

streaming platform CTR from search

Streaming premiere on a mid-tier platform. We built a content cluster around the film's environmental themes 8 weeks out, capturing search intent before release.

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Post-Rock / InstrumentalPDF ↓

Hollow Signal

Nox Records

18K

Bandcamp sales in 48 hours via search

Instrumental album with no lyrics — almost invisible to conventional SEO. We wrote schema-rich press notes and structured the Bandcamp store for maximum discovery.

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Want the full framework?

48 pages. 7 campaigns. Every tactic we use, documented.

Client Voices
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We had three weeks before our VOD window closed. Spotlight got us to page one in eleven days. The algorithm doesn't care about your budget — it cares about structure.

Dara Okonkwo

Distribution Director, Hollow Tree Films — Campaign: Midnight Circuit

The algorithm
is learnable.

Four disciplines. One outcome: your release on page one before the press cycle fades.

01Foundation

Pre-Release Architecture

We build the search infrastructure 6–12 weeks before your release date. Knowledge graph seeding, structured data markup, and entity optimization so the algorithm already knows who you are when the press cycle starts.

Schema MarkupEntity SEOKnowledge Graph

For: Film distributors, Labels, Podcast networks

02

Trailer & Clip Metadata

YouTube and streaming metadata is a science. We reverse-engineer what the platform's algorithm rewards — then write titles, descriptions, and chapters that capture intent at every stage of the discovery funnel.

YouTube SEOStreaming OptimizationClip Strategy
03

Trend Window Campaigns

The 72-hour window around a release is the only window that matters. We compress months of SEO work into a 3-week sprint timed to break in that window.

Sprint CampaignsPress Cycle SEOTrending Strategy

For: Music publicists, Artist managers

04

Podcast Discovery Architecture

Episode titles are search queries. Show notes are landing pages. We restructure your entire podcast feed for semantic search and break you out of niche charts into broader genre discovery.

Apple Podcasts SEOSpotify DiscoveryEpisode Optimization

For: Podcast networks, Independent producers

The Entertainment
SEO Playbook.

The exact framework we use to get indie releases to page one. Covers pre-release architecture, trailer metadata, trend window timing, and podcast discovery — with real campaign examples.

Inside the Playbook

48-page deep dive into entertainment search algorithms
Pre-release checklist: 12 weeks to page one
7 annotated case studies with full keyword data
Trailer metadata templates for YouTube & streaming
The 72-hour launch sprint framework

Used by 400+ entertainment publicists, distributors, and label managers.

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