‘Storytelling hierarchy is starting to flatten’: Tribeca Enterprise CEO on why brands are making the festival a must-stop

The south of France isn’t the only place in June CMOs flock for creative currency.

The Tribeca Film Festival is fast becoming a fixture on the marketing calendar, especially TribecaX — the corner of it where marketers, talent agents and creators converge to scout projects, cut deals and talk about branded entertainment. When it launched a decade ago, brands financing films and documentaries was a fringe pursuit, the preserve of a handful of adventurous advertisers. Now, it’s mainstream. 

“The hesitation to work with brands has changed as filmmakers see that brands are really investing in storytelling,” said Tribeca Enterprises CEO Rebecca Glashow. “They’re letting them tell their stories and be filmmakers who can be supported by a brand versus being heavy-handed and trying to stick a product in the middle of their show.”

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Inside the messy middle of January Digital agency’s AI adoption

The promise of AI efficiency versus the messy, financial-based reality is creating ongoing tension as the industry continues to debate whether AI expedites work, scales creative and curbs costs.

“Whether or not it does or doesn’t is still completely all over the place,” said Vic Drabicky, founder and CEO at January Digital, an independent media agency and consultancy, based in New York.

Brands like Coca-Cola have used AI to create constantly updated, hyper-personalized digital personas to scale creative from talent partnerships. Brands and their agency partners have started using agents to plan, execute, and optimize ad purchases.

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