Sunday, February 3, 2008

Biotider: Do or Die

We've worked long and hard on building the best Swedish website for films and cinema: Biotider.se. During strenuous two years we've managed to build an increasingly popular website - high visitor counts, many cooperations with other websites and cinemas across Sweden and increasing ad revenues. Cinemas sorely need all the help they can get, because it is a decreasing form of distribution for films, losing ground to peer-to-peer and home cinema systems.

Which brings us to our relationship to SF, which for all practical considerations holds a monopoly on cinemas in Sweden after Astoria went the way of the dodo last fall. From the beginning on, we expected them to be excited about our project and hoped they would participate, or at the very least, be carefully indifferent to it. I think we were surprised to receive the cold shoulder from them, but decided that the project was far too promising - and important - not to pursue.

By the end of 2007, we were beginning to attract a lot of attention, including receiving an award for one of the best entertainment websites in Sweden (InternetWorld's top 100 Swedish websites annual listing). Whether for that reason or for something altogether different, SF decided in december 2007 shut down our server's access to their viewing times, effectively crippling one of the mainstay features of the website: showing times for films for cinemas across Sweden.

We are currently in talks with SF. After all, we are promoting their services - so why the attitude? one may wonder. While the dice are rolling, we have to employ the age-old adage: "hope for the best, plan for the worst". And we are doing both.


Check out Nicolas' entry on the matter:
http://behind.biotider.se/2008/02/03/state-of-biotider/

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