You probably noticed spout.com has a lot of tools to slice and dice what you want to say about movies in reviews, lists, ratings, tags, discussions, messages, et cetera. But what those tools don't tell you is at Spout we're embarrassingly optimistic about the power of a story. In fact, our belief in that power is why Spout exists.
In a nutshell, we were four guys wanting to make movies. We got tired of seeing great films die on the vine at film festivals because the Hollywood model for Marketing and Distribution is broken. Some of the best stories are lost beneath popcorn-seller flicks, but they're out there and people--somewhere, someplace--know about them. So, we thought:
If we can make it easy for people to share movies they love with others, the big movie/little movie playing field will be level and really meaningful stories will find their audience. Boom. There's Spout. Actually, it was less "boom" and more like countless hours of building, tweaking, breaking and building again... That's an average week here. But the cause stays the same.
The goals are audacious (i.e. change the world), but we think the effort is worthwhile. So, please, have fun talking movies here and know all the while a review or a tag makes a difference in the life of a film.
Timeline
- January 2005 - Rick, Paul, Dave and Daryn decide to get entrepreneurial
- March 2005 - Bill joins and things really get rolling
- September 2005 - We name the venture Spout
- September 2005 - SpoutBlog launches
- Christmas 2005 - Spout.com Alpha launches
- March 2006 - Spout.com Beta is released publicly at the SXSW Film Festival
- September 2006 - Spout.com 1.0 is released
Present day (and all the days in between) we’ve been improving spout.com, going to film festivals, podcasting, blogging and savoring every filmmaker and movie-lover we meet who gets the cause.
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