How zinema makes money

Short version: never from you. The long version fits on one page.

The principle

zinema is free for viewers, always. The people who will pay are the ones with something to show: rights holders, distributors, independent filmmakers, event producers. They will pay to show their trailer where it makes sense: a cinema's page, a city, a country. You will never pay, and your data will never be the product. For now, nobody pays: campaigns are free while the audience grows.

Everything here is already an ad

zinema only shows trailers, which is to say: advertising for films and shows. That is the whole point of the product. So the honest question is never "is this an ad?" It is "who chose to show it to me?"

Almost always, the answer is the engine, based on your watch trajectory. One day, it may also be a distributor or an independent who paid for the spot. When that happens, the film's info panel will say so, right next to the button you would use to act on it.

The rules that do not bend

  • Paid trailers follow the context, never your profile. A paid trailer will be placed by where you are in zinema: a cinema's page, the city or area you chose, your country. Never by your taste trajectory or what you have watched. Your age limit always applies, paid or not.
  • The ranking is not for sale. No one can pay to rank higher in your feed. Paid placement will be a separate, capped slot on top of the organic feed, never a thumb on the engine.
  • Your data is not for sale. It builds your recommendations. That is its only job. Privacy policy.
  • No targeting of people. Advertisers will not be able to buy categories of people (no age, no gender, no profile segments, unlike social networks), nor your viewing history. They will buy a context: a page, a city, a country.
  • No TV-style ads, ever. Anything paid will still be a trailer for something you can go watch: a film, a series, a show, a concert, an opera. If it is not a trailer, it will not get in.

Outbound links

Some "where to watch" links may become affiliate links: if you subscribe to a platform through one, zinema may earn a commission. The price for you will not change, and affiliation will never influence which films the engine recommends.

You have something to show?

If you distribute films, produce documentaries, or put shows on stage: submit your trailer. Exposure by context, human review, honest reporting. Pilot program, free.