When you choose titles one at a time, several slots can end up reaching the same audience. Slate helps you build a lineup around your audience’s tastes or analyse one you already have. It shows which titles appeal to similar tastes, which bring something different, and which connect different groups.
Built for decisions where a limited number of slots must be filled from a larger pool. Tested on films, music artists, books, podcasts and TV shows.
Film festival programmers face exactly the problem Slate is built for: many possible titles, a fixed number of slots, and no simple way to see what each title adds to the lineup as a whole. Here is what Slate sees in three real festivals: Berlinale 2024 in Germany, Cannes 2023 in France and Sundance 2024 in the United States.
A film close in taste to two different groups at once. It sits between them, so people drawn to one are more likely to find something in the other. Instead of needing a separate film for each group, one slot can reach both.
A film that covers an audience with a distinct taste from the rest of the lineup. It covers some of its group’s audience, and some that nothing else in the lineup covers.
Every candidate is added to the full lineup and the groups are worked out again from scratch, so nothing is judged on its own. A swap is proposed only if the result is measurably better. If nothing clears that bar, Slate reports no change.
Build or analyse a lineup, then explore what to keep, add or change.
Bring a lineup of films, music artists, books, podcasts or TV shows. Slate uses Qloo’s affinity signals to show which titles overlap, which stand apart and which connect different groups.
Explore the composition before deciding what to keep, remove or add.
Describe your audience’s tastes or upload survey answers or preference data. Give Slate a pool of candidates and a slot count, and it selects a lineup using Qloo’s affinity signals.
Give different tastes equal consideration with Balanced, or prioritise the strongest preferences with Demand-led. Lock any titles that must stay.
Whichever way you start, you can refine your lineup with these actions:
Reduce the number of slots and find the best set to keep.
Look for a new title that reaches a group the lineup is missing.
Propose a title and see where it sits and what it changes.
Compare several candidates and see which set does most for the lineup.
Each one gives you a brief you can download.
The same problem shows up anywhere people have to choose a small lineup from a much larger pool. A broadcaster might be deciding what to put on its schedule, an airline selecting from a larger entertainment catalogue, or a conference choosing which speakers make the final programme.
Slate has been tested on films, music, books, podcasts and TV shows.