Dipolium is a platform which builds a bridge between cinemas and their customers by providing ticketing system and Movie Night events where cinemas can share their special offers with their audience.
2. PEOPLE HAVE TO CHECK EACH MOVIE WEBSITE TO FIND TICKETS
▸ Comparing ticket prices and available seats in cinemas
becomes a problem with increasing number of cinemas
▸ Each cinema website has different user interface
▸ Each cinema website requires several steps before getting
information on available seats and prices
▸ Deals for specific movies appear only on specific cinema
websites or social pages
▸ Each cinema requires entering personal details for
purchases
3. HOW DO PEOPLE CHECK FOR CINEMA SHOWTIMES BEFORE GOING FOR A MOVIE?
0%
15%
30%
45%
60%
A B C
9.38%
40.63%
59.38%
A - Go to the websites of specific cinemas to check their showtimes
B - Search for movie showtimes on Google or an alternative search engine
C - Other
Source: Dipolium survey
4. PEOPLE USUALLY LOOK FOR TICKET DEALS
BEFORE PURCHASE FOR CINEMA
Source: Dipolium survey
48% 52%
Occasionally & Always
Never
PEOPLE MOSTLY PURCHASE TICKETS
ONLINE
4%
24%
72%
Online In the cinema
Other
5. CINEMAS GETTING HARDER TO REACH THEIR AUDITORIUM
▸ Cinemas having plenty of empty seats on post-premiere
days*
▸ Promotion in social medias getting harder due to noise
▸ No specific place for providing special offers for getting
more customers
▸ New small cinemas having obstacles on acquiring early
customers
*More info on next slide
6. WEEKEND GROSS OF AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (2018)
£0
£7,500,000
£15,000,000
£22,500,000
£30,000,000
27-29 APRIL 4-6 MAY 11-13 MAY
£5,706,170
£10,143,580
£29,379,496
Source: BFI / Film industry statistics and reports
▸ 65% decrease in second weekend box office after premiere
weekend
7. DIPOLIUM SOLVES A PROBLEM ON BOTH SIDES
▸ Building a bridge between cinemas and movie fans
▸ Easier to start selling tickets for new cinemas (no need to
install any ticketing software)
▸ Allows to find best location with available seats, compare
prices and purchase for tickets for any cinema with 1 click
▸ Provides tools such as Movie Night Events to deliver best
offers for customers
▸ Social Platform with focus on user needs: movie
information, collections, release notifications and reviews
8. PROVEN BUSINESS ON OTHER MARKETS
▸ Fandango (USA, South America): 36 million users each month
▸ MovieTickets (USA)
▸ AtomTickets (USA)
▸ Maoyan (China)
▸ Taopiaopiao (China)
▸ Moviepass (USA) - Cinema subscriptions
▸ Sinemia (Turkey) - Cinema subscriptions
▸ Cinemap - Aggregator of cinemas and showtimes
9. EXCLUSIVE FEATURES TO KEEP RETURNING USERS
▸ Collections of Movies and TV-Series
▸ Release Notifications
▸ Personal Recommendations
▸ Public User Profiles
▸ Movie Nights
11. SEVERAL REVENUE STREAMS TO REDUCE RISKS
▸ Affiliate Programs - a cut from each sold ticket
▸ Contextual Advertisement - targeted ads for film studios
and distributors
▸ Native In-App Promotions - cinema promotions
12. FUTURE GROWTH
▸ The global box office reached a new record high of $40.6
billion in 2017 – up five percent from the previous year*
▸ The ease of purchase tickets will grow ticket sales
▸ Self-promoting tools will let cinemas to do their own
marketing in order to sell more tickets
▸ Open API will allow to use ticketing system by others
▸ Easy on-boarding process will speed up partnership
process with other cinemas
* https://www.mpaa.org/research-docs/2017-theatrical-
home-entertainment-market-environment-theme-report/
13. TEAM
Vladyslav Selitbovskyi
CEO / Co-Founder
MSc Information Systems, Experienced
Software Developer in Startup Industry,
Active Conference Attendee
Sam Yu
CTO / Co-Founder
MSc Computer Science, Experienced
Full-Stack Developer, Hackathon
Participant
14. WHAT WE NEED
▸ Experienced Mentor who has experience in startup industry,
with connections in film industry (ideally with cinemas)
▸ Partnerships with cinemas, which are happy to provide their
API for benefits in return
▸ £300,000 investments as pre-seed round for software
development, sales and marketing until our next round in
less than 1 year