We interviewed them! Editing now and posting soon as part of the 47384747393 more videos to come.

Nope, we messed up in the madness of all we've seen at NAB—corrected. Thanks Elliot and Jesse.

This is not a sponsored post, no money changed hands, etc. etc. We always label sponsored posts clearly (and in multiple places).

I get why you guys might think it is since clearly Jack has a dog in this fight. But we reached out to him, as an expert in the field, and asked him to write up an analysis of what happened with Relativity given we are not data scientists ourselves.

The point of reading No Film School, I hope, is not to agree with everything that's posted here. You can believe that trying to predict financial success (or failure) of art is trying to quantify the unquantifiable. However anyone who works in the industry is certainly being judged by algorithms, whether it is in the areas of genre, cast, foreign territories, audience size, demographics, video views, etc.

I read this and learned something. I hope you did too. As a director, on the creative side, I'd like to know more about what the gatekeepers and studios are thinking when they evaluate a project of mine. If you don't want to know that, you don't have to read.

It's not particularly different than someone running a Kickstarter campaign doing a guest post to help promote it, or a DP sharing a BTS article and promoting his work—absolutely everyone is promoting something. Just know that this is not sponsored content, and we have never run anything of the kind without labeling it clearly.

Despite all of this, I absolutely AGREE that we should've put Jack's involvement in an analytics company up top. That's something a site design refresh will help, so all authors have a mini-bio up top. Since that design is not yet live on the site, I'm adding that detail to the top. Hope that helps.

Thanks Jose,

I JUST responded to this in another thread -- you're absolutely right and it was in our original design spec, but just didn't make it into our launch version. I don't have a timetable but it's coming soon.

Thanks Derek. This was actually in our design specs for our relaunch two years ago, but didn't make it in for launch. It's at the top of our list for community features... no date for you but it's coming!

We're testing it out. "We'll have much more for you when it officially launches next month." Do you read any of this stuff before you comment?