Sinemia

Sinemia
Industry Film, Entertainment, Technology
Founder Rıfat Oğuz
(CEO)
Founded 2014
Investor Aslanoba Capital
Headquarters Istanbul, Turkey
Office London, UK
Website https://www.sinemia.com

Sinemia is a subscription-based movie going service across Turkey. Service is based on location technologies and banking infrastructure. Sinemia, gives its members the ability to see any film (2D, 3D, IMAX and 4DX included) everyday for a fixed monthly fee. Members may choose which theaters they wish to visit and there are no blackout dates. Members can see any film more than once.[1] Sinemia works in nearly all movie theaters that accept the MasterCard credit card. Prices start at 55TL per month.[2]

Sinemia was launched in January 2015.[3][4] They are aiming 20 countries until the end of the 2016.[5]

Service

Sinemia works via a smartphone app (iPhone, Android and Windows Phone) and a specially designed, reloadable debit card (MasterCard infrastructure), which is mailed to new subscribers when they sign up.[6]

In order to purchase a ticket, members must be within 150 meters of the chosen theater. They check-in to the theater via the Sinemia smartphone app and select their preferred movie. Once they check-in, their debit card is automatically loaded with the exact price of a single ticket for that particular theater. The card can then be used like any other form of credit or debit card to purchase a ticket at the ticket counter.[7]

Additional service

Sinemia Social is a content platform for cinema and contents are unique.[8] Platform doesn’t need subscription to Sinemia.

History

Sinemia was founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Rıfat Oğuz.[9]

Sinemia has a seed investment from Aslanoba Capital in December 2015 via Turkey's Stock Exchange Private Market.[10][11]

Sinemia has been selected as People’s Favorite Award in 14. Altın Örümcek Web Awards in Information Technologies Hardware/Software Category.[12]

Media coverage

Sinemia has been featured in a wide range of publication because of its innovative tech in Ekonomist,[13] Stuff,[6] CNN Turk,[5] Chip,[1] Webrazzi[2] and Haber Türk[7] and researches among movie-goers Milliyet[14]

Hürriyet columnist Savaş Özbey[4] and Stuff columnist İzel Özten[15] was interviewed with Rıfat Oğuz about Sinemia.

Sinemia want to fill the empty seats and contribute to Cinema of Turkey with increasing going habbits which is 0.8 in 2015.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sinemia ile boş sinema koltuklarına son!". Chip, 05 June 2016
  2. 1 2 Taylan, Erman."Sinemaseverler için abonelik modelli özel sinema kulübü: Sinemia". Webrazzi, 16 April 2015
  3. ↑ "Rıfat Oğuz: “Sinemia ile sinema sevgisini büyütmek istedik”". Digital Age, 01 July 2016
  4. 1 2 Özbey, Savaş. "Bir kartla gezdim Türkiye'nin tüm salonlarını...". Hürriyet, 23 July 2016
  5. 1 2 "Boş sinema koltuklarından ilham alan teknoloji girişimi". CNN Türk, 24 June 2016
  6. 1 2 "Sınırsız film izleme girişimi: Sinemia". Stuff, 05 July 2016
  7. 1 2 3 "Sinemia Avrupa'da bir ilke imza atıyor". Haber Türk, 02 June 2016
  8. ↑ Özten, İzel. "Boş koltukları doldurmak için geldiler". Campaign JR, 12 July 2016
  9. ↑ Özten, İzel. "Sınırsız film izleme girişimi: Sinemia". Campaign JR, 01 June 2016
  10. ↑ "Two New Investments on Borsa İstanbul Private Market". Borsa İstanbul, 30 December 2015
  11. ↑ Kara, Merve."Özel sinema kulübü Sinemia Aslanoba Capital’dan yatırım aldı". Webrazzi, 30 December 2015
  12. ↑ "Altın Örümcek Web Awards". Altın Örümcek, June 2016
  13. ↑ Atik, Sibel."Sinemia'nın Hedefi 3 Milyon Sinemasever" Ekonomist, 10 July 2016
  14. ↑ "En az sinemaya giden: Samsun". Milliyet, 04 June 2016
  15. ↑ Özten, İzel. "Banka kartı altyapısıyla sinema deneyimi: Sinemia". Stuff, July 2016
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