Company
RightsTrade is the industry’s leading online marketplace for film, television and digital media distribution rights. By connecting distributors with content owners, our global Market on Demand™ makes it easier, faster and more cost-efficient for buyers and sellers to license content rights. Our unique SaaS platform transforms the licensing process by automating every step from lead to close, and generates incremental sales for content owners.
Studios, content owners, distributors and sales agents already trust RightsTrade to promote, screen and sell 5435 titles to our growing community of 23416 industry executives in over 125 countries.
Leadership Team
Our leadership team has 100+ combined years of experience in the entertainment industry, with a strong focus on developing and implementing commercial and back-end solutions for leading film and television companies.
In addition, RightsTrade employs a team of highly qualified IT engineers and developers with decades of experience implementing back-end and front-end solutions for more than 50 leading media and entertainment companies.
Jaime Otero
Managing Director
Jaime Otero is a senior management executive and entrepreneur with 15 years of broad international experience developing, financing, producing and distributing content across all platforms and territories. Since early 2014, Mr. Otero has been instrumental in establishing RightsTrade as the industry’s premier online marketplace for film and television rights licensing. Prior to RightsTrade, he founded and directed companies in entertainment and e-commerce and served as Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Culture of Spain, in charge of revitalizing the European and Latin America film and TV industry. Jaime was born in Toronto, speaks six languages and holds an MBA from IE Business School and UCLA Anderson, as well as a Master in Film Production by the Superior School of Image and Sound of Madrid and a BA in Business and Economics by the University of Barcelona.
Laurie Woodrow
Sales and Client Relations
Laurie is a veteran industry executive with over 25 years of experience in international film distribution, specializing in the acquisition and worldwide distribution of independent feature films. Laurie was Executive Vice President of Fierce Entertainment, and President/Owner of Trans-Pacific Media. She has advised over 40 international distribution companies, and been instrumental in the acquisition of hundreds of films, including major theatrical titles and award winning festival films. She has been a featured speaker for Film Independent, Women in Film, the American Pavilion in Cannes and is a voting member of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts).
Joanna Syiek
Marketing and Business Development
Joanna Syiek has significant experience developing global growth and marketing strategies for companies with international ambitions and holds an MBA from HEC Paris. She enjoys working at the intersection of entertainment and technology and has a background in digital marketing, strategic planning and new media initiatives, with a focus on VOD platforms. She has previously worked at Disney and the Independent Film and Television Alliance where she was charged with finding growth opportunities for 145 member companies.
Jason Kassin
Board Member
Jason Kassin is co-Founder and CEO of FilmTrack, the leading cloud-based, SaaS, IP Management platform for the Media and Entertainment industry. FilmTrack, backed by Insight Venture Partners, currently enables over 150 clients worldwide to manage, monetize and measure their content and related assets. An industry expert in the development of rights and content management solutions, Jason launched FilmTrack in the 1990s and has been instrumental in establishing FilmTrack as the largest content and right management platform globally. Jason, an accomplished screenwriter, actor and software engineer, navigates seamlessly between the technical and creative worlds from artistic inception through commercial exploitation.
Stephen Kassin
Board Member
Stephen Kassin is Co-Founder and President of FilmTrack , the leading cloud-based, SaaS, IP Management platform for the Media and Entertainment industry. Stephen’s relationships with hundreds of content owners and sales agents across the production and distribution spectrum provide him with in-depth knowledge of international content distribution, licensing and rights management. Exceedingly devoted to customer satisfaction and a key asset in shaping FilmTrack's identity, value and recognition in the industry, Stephen’s work has been crucial in establishing new paradigms in the IP management and distribution industries.
Partners
We are proud to work with industry leading solutions to ensure the highest quality experience for our community of vetted industry professionals.
Over 150 leading media and entertainment clients trust FilmTrack to manage their content rights and metadata. RightsTrade has integrated with FilmTrack’s cloud-based platform, allowing their clients to automatically migrate and sync all of their metadata and rights availabilities to the RightsTrade marketplace.
Amazon Web Services is Amazon’s premier suite of global storage, analytics, application, and deployment services that enables RightsTrade to optimize secure streaming, reduce transfer time and scale applications. Amazon S3 is also compliant with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) set of best practices for securely storing, processing, and delivering protected media and content.
RightsTrade is an official Industry Partner of EIDR, an association to provide universal identifiers for film and television assets across the entertainment supply chain. With membership from major studios, distribution service providers, digital and physical distributors and retailers including NBCUniversal, Time Warner, Disney, Sony, Paramount, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Rovi, Comcast, Verizon, Technicolor, Deluxe, RightsTrade has integrated EIDR into its marketplace platform, and fully supports the establishment of this universal industry standard for title management and rights licensing.
Freeway Entertainment is a leading financial services company active in the global entertainment industry and an official financial partner of the RightsTrade marketplace. RightsTrade members' licensing contracts which use Freeway Entertainment can rely on a seamless collections process and communication flow between buyer, seller, collection agent and their RightsTrade account.