Creatorworld: TikTok Breathes New Life Into Outdated TV Exhibits

Re-editing and repackaging outdated library materials for brief type distribution on YouTube or TikTok can prolong its life and worth for years, in line with trade insiders at influencer conference CreatorWorld, a part of the Singapore Media Pageant.

Steve Crombie mentioned how his firm Totem Networks, re-edited and repackaged clips from “Baywatch”-style Australian actuality present “Bondi Rescue,” producing multi-million views by way of intensive knowledge evaluation and testing.

“[‘Bondi Rescue’] had been produced for 15 seasons, was tremendous in style, however nobody was shopping for it anymore for distribution as a result of Season 9 regarded the identical as Season 15,” stated Crombie. “So, we took the worldwide rights to that present. We reimagined that content material to social platforms and grew them to about 15 to twenty million views a 12 months. After which the final 12 months we’ve obtained over 1 billion views.”

Based on Crombie, the success of “Bondi Rescue” on each TikTok and Snapchat has led to the recommissioning of the present, an final result he attributed to the intensive knowledge mining that Totem engages in.

“There’s lots of of tiny little issues that we take a look at. What the viewers desires to look at. How regularly they’ll need to watch it. What side ratio. Which characters they like. What time of day. What day of the week, after which totally different format constructions creating that regularity,” stated Crombie.

“Even the way you break down the primary second, the primary three seconds, 5 seconds. One minute A/B testing. We even have about 10 folks contact each single video to principally work the algorithm and get the viewership and engagement.”