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Workfriends.
/ Media companies · Brands · Talent · Founders

The right relationship.
A business reason to act.

Workfriends helps turn audiences, capabilities, IP and trusted relationships into a commercial opportunity that the right counterparties can understand and advance.

/ What Workfriends contributes

Commercial partnerships & monetization

A brief can involve brand deals, sponsorship sales, strategic partnerships, licensing, retail distribution or the business around a live experience. Workfriends shapes the opportunity, identifies credible relationship paths and helps establish the people and responsibilities needed to move it forward.

/ Recognize the situation?

Start with the work in front of you.

Common briefs to discuss with Workfriends.

There is an audience, but the commercial offer is unclear.

A media company, creator or talent owner wants brand revenue. Define what a buyer gets, which audience it serves, the available rights and who can reliably deliver the work.

Two businesses could create something neither has alone.

A partnership might combine an audience, technology, distribution or a product. The useful work is finding the mutual business case and the first transaction worth pursuing.

The IP could become a bigger business.

An owned property can support content, licensing, products, experiences or distribution. Workfriends helps identify a realistic first route and the specialists needed around it.

/ A scope with a purpose

Define what needs to move.

The first conversation establishes fit. A paid engagement has an agreed objective, owner, deliverables and commercial terms.

01

Opportunity and offer development

Define the audience, asset, buyer, rights and commercial purpose. Make the first realistic transaction clear before building a large partnership story.

02

Relevant relationships and commercial follow-through

Find a credible path to the decision-maker, develop the conversation and agree who advances the work. A connection has value when both parties have a reason to act.

03

Specialists around the agreement

Business and legal affairs, financing relationships and retail expertise can support an opportunity where relevant. The appropriate professionals and counterparties handle their defined responsibilities.

/ Questions worth asking

Does Workfriends work with major media companies?

Media companies, broadcasters, studios, sports businesses and publishers can bring audience, IP, sponsorship, distribution and experiential opportunities. The scope begins with a specific commercial objective and the people who own it.

Can Workfriends help sell sponsorships or brand deals?

Yes. A defined engagement can include commercial packaging, relevant brand relationships, sponsorship development and deal advancement. It needs clear inventory, rights, delivery capability, sales ownership and agreed compensation.

Where does experiential fit?

A media property, creator or brand may have a credible live-experience opportunity. The Bower Collective adds expertise across strategy, concept, partnerships, talent, production oversight, growth and measurement; Workfriends connects the surrounding commercial capabilities.

Can Workfriends help with financing or deal specialists?

Where relevant, Workfriends can help frame the commercial opportunity and identify financing relationships or business and legal affairs specialists. Funding decisions, legal advice and execution sit with the appropriate counterparties and professionals.

/ Bring it to Workfriends

A useful conversation starts with context.

Bring the property, company or talent; what you can offer; the commercial outcome; any rights or timing constraints; and the relationships already involved.

Led by Kevin McClain, founder of Workfriends. Read the founder’s background →