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Author Topic: Webedia Alternatives? Sean Fuhrmann Film Handler Posts: 2 From: New Hope, MN USA Registered: Jan 2012 posted 11-08-2018 01:02 PM                        Hello all - we've been paying Webedia (formerly West World Media) to utilize their CS Express tool $80/mo for our small 3 screen theater for years. Just curious if there are any cheaper alternatives? We used to email showtimes for free, but, that was unreliable - Is that still even a viable option?  |  IP: Logged Kevin Fairchild Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Kennewick, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 11-08-2018 01:19 PM                     csXpress should be free to CBG and IMC members. http://www.cbgpurchasing.com/cbg-homepost/indie-marketing-coalition/  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 11-08-2018 01:23 PM                        I've never paid any of those outfits for posting my "what's playing". Three or four of them have actually signed up for my weekly email so they get the same email that my customers get. Their listings are usually accurate, somewhat to my surprise. Occasionally they are wrong, but if anyone complains I just tell them that the only website that I control is my own, so if they want the most accurate information they should always check my website rather than relying on what some random website tells them.  |  IP: Logged Kevin Fairchild Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Kennewick, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 11-08-2018 01:26 PM                     Or setup for them to automatically pull showtimes from your POS. Here’s the instructions from RTS. http://wiki.readyticket.net/mw/index.php/Setup_third_party_show_time_data_feeds  |  IP: Logged Sean Fuhrmann Film Handler Posts: 2 From: New Hope, MN USA Registered: Jan 2012 posted 11-08-2018 02:12 PM                        Awesome - thanks everyone. I am going to look into CBG/IMC  |  IP: Logged Harold Hallikainen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 906 From: Denver, CO, USA Registered: Aug 2009 posted 11-08-2018 03:16 PM                        James Gardiner (CineTech Geek) has been looking at how to get show times into Google. What he's found so far is in a video. The forum won't let me link to the video, so do a Google search on "getting exhibitor session show times into google search" Harold  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 11-08-2018 06:36 PM                     The trouble is , there are local agencies trying to make a business from aggregating show times as well. If they screw it (and they screw often), our schedule is belly-up even in our major local papers. All in all, it's ridiculous. 2018, and 'KI' is not able to fetch a title, a date, and a time... - Carsten  |  IP: Logged

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