FilmAffinity
FilmAffinity is a movie recommendations website created in 2002 in Madrid, Spain by the film critic Pablo Kurt Verdú Schumann and the programmer Daniel Nicolás.[2] As of 2016, the site listed 125,000 movies and series and had 556,000 reviews written by its users.[3]
Type of site | Film, TV movie, and TV series database |
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Available in | English, Spanish |
Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
Created by | Pablo Kurt Verdú Schumann and Daniel Nicolás |
URL | www |
Alexa rank | |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 2002 |
Current status | Active |
Registered users can rate movies, find recommended films based on their personal ratings, create any kind of movie lists and — in the Spanish version — write reviews. The site also includes information about contents of the main streaming services, such as Netflix, HBO, Movistar+, Filmin and Rakuten TV. This feature is currently limited to Netflix in the English version.
The site has 3 million unique users in Spain, which accounts for 70% of its total traffic, and serves more than 47 million pages worldwide. Advertisements are the site's only income, totaling more than half a million dollars annually.[4]
International expansion
In 2016 the site launched adapted versions for the US, Mexico, Argentina and Chile, offering specific information about release dates for movies, local critics, box office and cinemas. A UK version was later added.[5]
The English version is more limited than the Spanish, not offering the chance for users to write reviews.
A German version of the website is expected to be released in the future.
References
- "filmaffinity.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa". alexa.com. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- "About Us: Who Are We? Our History". FilmAffinity.com. FilmAffinity. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- Blanco, José Manuel (2 September 2016). "El español que viajó a Canadá para montar FilmAffinity, el IMDB patrio". El Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- "Filmaffinity: así crearon dos jóvenes el negocio detrás de la mayor base de datos de cine en español". El Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- "Filmaffinity, la web española de cine que planta cara a IMDb y Amazon". Sabemos Digital (in Spanish). 22 May 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2017.