Hello everyone! As part of my little series of sporadic tips and features for posting here in the Movies & TV Shows Community here on Hive, I've been wanting to find ways in which this community can not just improve the types of posts we all share in the community, but seek ways in which we can expand and market such posts to a broader audience, even if that means sharing such posts across social media websites. As of late, we've been quite active on the Twitter side of things -- follow us here -- but there's still so much more we all could do.
In this post, I want to introduce you all to an incredibly useful platform: Letterboxd. I feel for many of you, this service is precisely what you'd all love to use, and it serves a lot of potential in how you may market your reviews here in the community to an outside audience; leading to not just more exposure to the community and Hive, but to additional eyes on the posts you all put so much effort into crafting.
What is Letterboxd?
To put it briefly: Letterboxd is a movie database that allows you to create lists for movies you'd like to see and archive movies you have seen. Users can post reviews of the movies they're logging on their profiles that others can see. People can follow you, like your reviews, and see your own personal lists that you've created.
When you create an account and begin logging movies, you can see which movies you've seen throughout the past year, as well as in total. Each logged movie can be rated under a star scoring system and displays the exact date it was either added or watched. This means you and all others on the site can see when you watched a movie, what you rated it, and what your thoughts are in a review.
The platform uses a database of movies that extends far beyond just western movies released in Hollywood, so there's a vast amount of support for any languages; meaning even if you wish to log movies from your own countries and comment in your own native language, you can!
The platform is entirely free, so there's no restrictions to how you interact with people or the platform itself. The Pro version is simply if you wish to support the platform financially and receive a few profile customisation features.
Letterboxd even has a mobile application which is really simple to use, and again: totally free!
How does this benefit us?
Well, as mentioned above: this community of movie fanatics can interact with each other, see what others from the community are watching, would like to watch, and even see links to their reviews here in the community when they're published.
As you can see above, I've added a link to my review on Hive to the log of the movie 'Brother', of which I did see a while ago, but only just reviewed the other day. Now imagine if we all did this! Not only would this community see an increased number of eyes appearing in it, but we'd be seeking new ways of engagement with each other both in and outside of Hive -- connecting more and establishing new friendships based on the ways we watch and review/log movies.
We could create lists of movies we've reviewed here on Hive each with links to our posts; lists of movies we wish to review, and more. All in addition to seeing constant feeds from our fellow community members, allowing us to discover new films to both watch and write about here on Hive.
Engagement
Engagement means everything to any community. The ways in which we interact with each other is what allows a community to both grow and remain. I believe Letterboxd could play a very important role in how Hive, and our community, establishes itself to a broader audience in ways that benefit each and ever single person that contributes to it.
I highly recommend each of you create an account and check out Letterboxd. Either it's something you need and will love; didn't know you needed but love, or don't need at all. It's worth checking out and seeing if there's a chance at integrating it into your Hive growth and flow.
If you create an account, feel free to follow me on there, and I look forward to interacting with you all!
