The reason for AniBot, explained from a parent's perspective

Have you ever been browsing through the thousands of offerings on a streaming service and spent more time searching than watching? What drives you to subscribe to a new streaming service and cancel an existing one?

Content is King. Every streaming service wants your attention and tries to provide this in two ways. First, they buy or license as large as a catalog of movies and series as they can. Second, and much more difficult, they produce original content they think might resonate with you. Their problem is, there is no consistent “you”. One person may resonate with a certain type of content, while another wholly rejects it. It is impossible for them to create content that is specific to your interests, so they spend billions of dollars buying a large swath of content and then even more time and energy gathering what seem to be your preferences only to disappoint, miss, and turn you off. Or, they may strike gold and come up with a golden goose that has broad appeal. It’s a very expensive game to them, trying to deliver content to you that truly speaks to you.

Consider a movie that my kids and I were really looking forward to, a big budget movie that premiered on HBO Max in 2021, Godzilla vs. Kong. My youngest son is a huge Godzilla fan and an even bigger King Kong fan. He has watched just about every 60s Godzilla movie available, which we had to seek out, rent, or buy as needed. He’s seen the original King Kong dozens of times, pausing and rewinding his favorite scenes. From these movies he discovered obscure genre movies like War of the Gargantuans and the 1966 version of King Kong vs. Godzilla. His favorite character by far, though, is Mechagodzilla. He loves this character so much that I even tracked down an obscure movie not available on any streaming service for him, 1967s King Kong Escapes, which is only available on DVD and which he received for his birthday. It features a Mech King Kong! He was ecstatic.

Yet when we watched 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong he was at first happy then crushed. His favorite character was made into a bad guy and then destroyed at the end. During the climatic end fight, he looked sad and asked me “when is Mechagodzilla going to be good?”. I could see the disappointment on his face when I tried to gently tell him that I didn’t think Mechagodzilla was going to be a good guy in this one, and he probably wasn’t going to win.

This is the problem the movie and tv series industry has. They can spend enormous amounts of money making a movie that seems custom built for us but end up disappointing. Even my kid, the biggest King Kong and Godzilla fan there there is, has no interest in watching the movie again.

This is the problem that AniBot solves. With AniBot we can deliver custom stories with customer characters. We can decide who is going to be the hero and who is going to be the villain. We can decide everything about the story and use the same tools that professional artists use to create blockbuster movie quality visuals on demand.

Finally, consumers can be in complete control of their content. No longer are we beholden to Hollywood writers to guess what we want or tell their stories, we can tell our stories. Any combination of characters, music, setting and story can be custom made and delivered to your storage of choice, whether that be your private Youtube channel, your Google Drive, or eventually even your favorite streaming service. With AniBot, your content is king.