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Thanks for your interest in writing for Shortfundly Blog. We love connecting with writers who can help make our blog a go-to place for content related to short film review, web series review, YouTube trending topic discussion, filmmaking tips & tricks, short film filmmaking tools, OTT News and everything related to the world of OTT platform. The aim is to make this blog an online academy of sorts for short film filmmaking, release short films, distribute and earn via online, where anyone who is a stakeholder in the ecosystem, can come to learn for free.

Why our Blog

Our blog attracts over 5,000+ unique page views every month and is regarded as one of the top shortfilm OTT release, review related blogs in India. We also specialise in releasing, distributing short films as well as sharing film festival event updates every month which provide deeper insights about trending short films, popular web series, top film festival events, independent filmmaking tips & filmmaking tools etc. If you are keen to understand the viewing behavior of your target audience, we will feature your product and services to help upcoming and professional filmmakers to take it at affordable discount rates. So, it will help you to reach wider audience at the same time bring engagement.

What’s in it for you?

You get a do-follow link to your website
Promotion across Shortfundly social media channels and its multiple community pages – a reach of 21,300+ newsletter subscribers, 33,000+ followers on Facebook. Plus, your post will be shared by one of our filmmakers with a heavy presence on Linkedin(1,000+ fan followers) and Instagram (2,300+ fan followers).
No delays in publishing 😎

What is Shortfundly

Shortfundly is an online technology and design-focused, data-driven OTT platform company that curates and shares the best short films and stories through our global multi-platform network. Our video and editorial platform enables a global audience to easily discover, watch, and share unique stories anywhere on their desktop and mobile devices.

Our vision is to continually grow the community of short film audiences to enable a wide and accessible market reach for short films and become the leading micro-cinema/short film platform. It’s located & Registered in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.

Blog Guidelines

Here are some of the basic the guidelines that we would like you to follow if you would like to do guest blogging for Shortfundly :

The style/tone of your blog should be filmmaking inclined.
We will not republish anything that’s been published elsewhere.
Only one link to your company’s website is allowed in the body of the post.
The content word count should be 1000 words and above.
We will not accept a biased report or blog on a content creator, MCN or a brand.
The blog shouldn’t be a promotional piece of your company.
Your completed blog post should be in Google DOC format.
Short author bio (of about 100-150) including a maximum of one anchor text link to your own website.
You’re allowed only one link (do-follow) to your company’s website, in the author’s bio; no links to your website in the article body
Image files (with attribution) should be shared in a separate folder.
Shortfundly Blog reserves the right to include calls-to-action to relevant Shortfundly content.

Author bio

Share a short and punchy byline for your bio.
Include a link to your Website and your social media profile in the google doc.
Give us a profile headshot image in JPG or PNG format OR share your gravatar link.

Post Types We Accept

Here’s a list of topics in which we accept guest posts:

OTT new releases.
New released movie reviews globally.
Upcoming web series info.
Filmmaking Pro Tips.
Upcoming film festival events in india OR any specific country.
Feature filmmaker profile
Feature Artist work.
Short film review.
Feature Crowdfunding campaign of a film or movie.
Actionable articles across anything related to filmmaking.

We always look for articles based on OTT direct released movies, Film Review, Upcoming movie release list, in-depth research in filmmaking or short film / independent filmmaking tips & tricks or filmmaking online FREE or PAID tools or Best practices in film festival event submission or upcoming web series collection or list and with actionable takeaways for the readers. Following are the examples of articles.

We also accept articles that are based on other OTT platforms like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Zee5, VOOT, VIU, SONY LIV and Disney+ Hotstar. Following are some example articles that you can go through for reference:

Guest Post review process

Once we receive your guest post submission, we take 2-7 business days to review it.
If your article meets our editorial standards and aligns with our content strategy, we will respond to let you know your article will be published. We’ll let you know even otherwise.
Please note that we reserve the right to edit your submission. We’ll review it, suggest/make any changes if needed, and then publish it.
If we feel your post needs substantial changes, we’ll email you back with our thoughts and request for revision.
If your post is accepted, you agree not to publish the post elsewhere, including your own blog or website.
In the case your post is rejected, you are obviously free to do whatever you want with it.

Formatting Guidelines

Send your content in a Google Doc and give access to [email protected]
The article must be over 1200 words
Always use simple sentences – 20 words per sentence is a good thumb-rule
Avoid unnecessary filler words, and stay away from buzzwords and jargon
Paragraphs should be no more than 3 to 5 sentences long
Use H2, H3, and H4 formatting for subheadings wherever appropriate
No more than 300 words in between each subheading
Add bulleted lists wherever possible to break up dense chunks
If you’re including images, also add the image source

How to Submit Your Post?

You can email your guest post [at] [email protected]

Thanks for your interest, and look forward to hearing from you very soon!