KickTraq

As we enter the final week of the Kickstarter campaign for the PreShow Private Launch (Closed Beta), and as we prepare to enjoy more films on the Big Screen together going forward ... ... perhaps it's pleasantly fitting we also get to enjoy - right... (Read More)

1,000 BACKERS. WOW, AWESOME and THANKS!! Sorry for the pun in the headline. But if you scroll down, you will see me smiling. This is not the natural state of my facial muscles, but for this occasion, it is. :) Behind the scenes, our engineering team... (Read More)

Hey, it's Stacy - wanted to post this update because we passed 600 backers. What's the significance of 600, you ask? Well, for one thing, the number 600 is a composite number, an abundant number, a pronic number, and a Harshad number. And we don't... (Read More)

Stacy Spikes, a founder of MoviePass, is launching a new service that gives users free movie tickets if they watch adverts. Called PreShow, users will be shown 15-20 minutes of adverts while facial recognition software tracks how much attention they pay to the ads. (Read More)

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the first Backer Update for PreShow!  It's certainly been a whirlwind of activity since our launch yesterday morning. Today, we passed our target of $10K, and since then we passed 300 backers, too! Very nice milestones... (Read More)

How many commercials are you willing to watch for free movie tickets? A new Kickstarter project is aiming for 20 minutes. "PreShow" launched the Kickstarter project on Thursday seeking $10,000 from backers. Users will be given free tickets to the movie of their choice if they watch ads before going to the box office. (Read More)

Summer blockbusters and Oscar contenders don (Read More)

After watching the millionth ad play before finally getting to see the movie he (Read More)

The co-founder of MoviePass has developed a new idea to get people to the theater. Called PreShow, users would be able to earn free movie tickets if they agree to watch advertisements for blocks of time between 15 and 20 minutes. (Read More)

Stacy Spikes just wants to get people to the movies. As the co-founder and CEO of MoviePass, he helped popularize the idea of cinema subscriptions. (This was before MoviePass brought in a new CEO and his ambitious -- but ultimately unsustainable -- $10 monthly plan.) As he pondered his next endeavor, he started noticing just how many ads we're subjected to in theaters, something that seems especially egregious as ticket prices keep climbing. And that's not counting the product placement we see in films. (Read More)