Sales & Licensing. Our Bread & Butter.

Our partners benefit from the agility and strategy of a seasoned salesforce. We're all about connecting the right content with the right opportunity to reach consumers. Our pitches are customized to fit the strategies of our platform and retail partners...and our partners benefit from this feedback.

Physical Footprint: We Get You Where You Want To Be

• Our reach extends across 35,000 physical and online storefronts in the U.S. and Canada. From the biggest big-box retailers to the treasured special interest web store, we deliver.
• We have direct relationships with major national retailers. This translates to access and feedback - our team has regular pitch meetings with buyers and gets firsthand feedback on the commercial viability of products and genres--feedback that enables us to better serve our partners as they make acquisition decisions.
• Wondering about retailers who employ SBT (Scan Based Trading) for their home entertainment departments? Wonder no more--we can smoothly facilitate entry into these trading terms for our partners, so they don't miss an opportunity!
• Benefitting from AEC's immense distribution network, we are able to effectively address incremental revenue opportunities with small and midsize retail and online stores.

Direct-to-Consumer Platforms: Transactional Digital, Free Ad-Supported Television...We're There!

• We manage the complete end-to-end process for digital content—including title ingestion, licensing, and delivery to platforms across the digital entertainment ecosystem.
• Our digital strategy team evaluates each title to develop an optimal lifecycle plan across Transactional VOD (TVOD)—including Cable/Satellite VOD—Subscription VOD (SVOD), Free Ad-Supported Television (fka "AVOD") and Non-Traditional VOD platforms, such as airlines, libraries and more.
• We work closely with our studio partners, to ensure premium brand positioning for each title—optimizing art for digital storefronts, assisting with effective synopsis writing, and addressing all other performance-relevant metadata touchpoints.
• Our focus extends beyond just the “new release” window, with continued engagement for platforms’ promotional folders and Cable/Satellite partner monthly programmatic stunts.

Broadcast & Cable Television

• We've got an ever-growing roster of TV channels and platforms, so we can pitch our labels' content with precision to the right potential licensees.
• We actively seek out opportunities to aggregate our labels' content, to create library collections tailored to specific market trends.

Want to learn more? Reach out to studios@ds.aent.com today.