Buyer Intelligence

Buyer intelligence for TV distribution

ONE reads every buyer signal, then hands your sales team a plain-English read on who is buying and a ranked list of exactly what to do next.

Most TV distribution sales teams still follow up on instinct, a hunch about who seemed keen at the market. ONE replaces the hunch with evidence. It reads every buyer touchpoint, screener plays, watch-through, catalogue dwell time, return visits, downloads and territory, and turns it into something no CRM can: a plain-English read on where demand is really building, and a ranked list of what to do about it.

ONE turns raw buyer plays into a plain-English read on where demand is building

From raw plays to a plain-English read

ONE does not just draw charts. It reads the signals and writes the insight. In one view you get a summary in words: that demand is concentrated in a handful of named buyers rather than broad discovery, that one buyer is running repeated, deep plays of your lead episode, that a scout is quietly evaluating across six territories, and that a smaller lead is just starting to emerge. It is the read a sharp sales lead would write after hours in the logs, produced automatically, the moment the activity happens.

Every buyer scored by intent: hot, warm or cool

ONE ranks each buyer and company by how seriously they are actually engaging, not by who happens to be in your address book. The buyer with the longest single programme view and repeated plays of your first episode is flagged hot. A scout with multi-territory views across several markets is warm. A single shallow clip view is cool. Every score carries the behaviour behind it, so your team knows not only who is interested, but why, and how much.

Buyers scored by intent as hot, warm or cool

A ranked list of your next moves

The most valuable part is not the data, it is the decision. ONE turns engagement into a prioritised action list: call the hot buyer while interest is high and offer the full screener; pitch the multi-territory scout a market-specific package toward a pilot or option; nurture the emerging lead with a tailored clip to test depth. Each action names the person, the company and the recommended move, and marks it priority or watch, so your team spends the day on the deals most likely to close, in the right order.

ONE feeds real buyer behaviour into your CRM so nothing gets lost

The silent evaluator problem: why CRM data alone is not enough

The buyers who matter most are often the quietest. A CRM only records what your team remembers to log, so a buyer can watch a screener to the end, return a week later and download the press pack, three clear signals of intent, without any of it reaching your pipeline. ONE captures what buyers actually do and, just as importantly, tells you what it means, then feeds those signals straight into Salesforce or Dynamics 365 so nothing gets lost.

Frequently asked questions about buyer intelligence for TV distribution

What is buyer intelligence for TV distribution?

Buyer intelligence for TV distribution is the ability to see which buyers are seriously evaluating your content, not just who received a screener, but who watched deeply, returned, downloaded assets and signalled genuine interest, and to act on that data before the window closes. ONE (thisisone.tv) is the platform purpose-built to deliver this intelligence to distribution sales teams.

How does ONE surface buyer intelligence for a distribution sales team?

ONE tracks every buyer touchpoint: screener start and completion, catalogue dwell time, programme page depth, return visits, asset downloads and meeting interactions. It aggregates these signals into natural-language insights per programme, per company and per territory, and sends proactive notifications with a recommended next action, for example, alerting a sales manager that a specific buyer watched three titles and suggesting a follow-up meeting.

Why can't a standard CRM replace a buyer-intelligence platform for content distribution?

A CRM records what sales teams enter manually. ONE captures what buyers actually do. A buyer can signal serious interest three times, deep screener view, return visit, press-pack download, without any of it surfacing in a CRM unless a sales rep happened to notice and log it. ONE closes that gap by feeding buyer signals directly into Salesforce or Dynamics 365 automatically.

Which TV distributors and studios use ONE for buyer intelligence?

ONE is used by A+E Networks, AMC Networks, Fremantle, Banijay, Cineflix, Fifth Season, Red Bull Media, All3Media and FOX. These teams use ONE as the single source of truth for buyer engagement across markets, from MIPCOM in October to the London Screenings in February and March.

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