Gofobo

What Gofobo does

Gofobo is a direct-to-consumer entertainment access platform founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Diego, operating across 20+ countries in North America, Western Europe, and Latin America with English and Spanish localization. The platform connects movie fans with advance screenings, premieres, exclusive events, sweepstakes, verified movie ratings, trailers, a rewards loyalty programme, and code redemption, all delivered through a web-only product at gofobo.com. A separate Concierge Plus group ticketing service supports bulk and organized screening events. No mobile app is offered and no public API, SDK, or disclosed integrations exist.

The business model is two-sided and ad/promotion-driven: consumers access screenings and content for free in exchange for registration and engagement (sweepstakes, ratings, rewards), while studios, production companies, and entertainment brands pay the platform to reach this audience for marketing campaigns around films, premieres, events, and TV shows. No end-user pricing is published; no advertiser pricing, contract terms, or revenue figures are disclosed. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds, investors, ownership structure, or management team in the source data.

Underlying technology is a standard consumer web platform with localization, authentication, code redemption, and rewards mechanics; there is no indication of AI/ML capabilities, proprietary data assets, patents, or third-party platform integrations. The operating footprint is broad in geographic reach but small in scale, with headcount stated at 11-50 employees, no disclosed social media presence, and no disclosed partnerships, certifications, or regulatory milestones.

Name

Gofobo

Legal name

Gofobo

Website

https://gofobo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gofobo is a direct-to-consumer entertainment platform that connects movie fans with advance screenings, premieres, and exclusive events across 20+ countries, while serving studios and entertainment brands as a promotional channel.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Entertainment Marketing Platform

NAICS

Media Representatives (541840)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Distribution (7822), Services-Allied To Motion Picture Distribution (7829)

akta.pro primary industry

Pay-TV / Premium Window Distribution (MPADAJAH)

Keywords

• Advance movie screenings
• Entertainment marketing platform
• Fan rewards programs
• Movie sweepstakes
• Group ticket booking

Headquarters

HQ city

San Diego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Gofobo operates an online platform that gives fans access to advance movie screenings, premieres, and exclusive entertainment events across 20+ countries. The platform bundles sweepstakes, verified movie ratings, trailers, a member rewards program, promotional code redemption, and group ticket bookings (Concierge Plus) into a single destination. It also provides advertising and promotional campaign solutions sold to entertainment industry partners such as studios and film distributors.

Product overview

Gofobo is a unified entertainment access platform offering multiple interconnected services. The core offering centers on movie screenings and events, where users can find and attend advance screenings, premieres, and exclusive entertainment events. This is complemented by a sweepstakes platform for promotional giveaways, verified movie ratings for audience feedback, a trailers section for video content, a rewards loyalty program for point accumulation and gift card redemptions, code redemption for promotional access, and group ticketing services. The platform operates across multiple English and Spanish-speaking markets including the United States, Canada, Mexico, and various South American countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Movie Screenings Provides fans access to advance movie screenings and premieres before public release, available in 20+ countries including the US, Canada, Mexico, Spain, the UK, Ireland, and Latin America.
• Sweepstakes Hosted movie-themed sweepstakes that members can enter for a chance to win prizes related to upcoming film releases.
• Verified Movie Ratings Verified movie ratings content provided within the Gofobo platform for fans researching new releases.
• Trailers Streaming access to movie trailers through the Gofobo platform, allowing members to preview upcoming releases.
• Rewards Member rewards program that lets fans accumulate rewards points through engagement with screenings and other platform activities.
• Code Redemption Allows members to redeem promotional codes for access to screenings, sweepstakes entries, or other rewards.
• Group Tickets (Concierge Plus) Premium product (branded Concierge Plus) that lets fans book group tickets for special screenings and events through a dedicated concierge workflow.
• Advertising and Promotional Solutions Paid advertising and promotional campaign solutions sold to entertainment industry advertisers (studios, distributors, brand partners) that want to reach Gofobo's engaged movie-fan audience across multiple countries.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Goldstar: Goldstar is a half-price events and activities marketplace that prominently features advance movie screenings, premieres, and entertainment events. It overlaps directly with Gofobo on advance-screening discovery, sweepstakes-style promotions, and connecting studios with engaged local audiences.
• Tugg: Tugg enables organizers to host private and group movie screenings, including indie and theatrical releases, by aggregating demand. It overlaps with Gofobo's advance-screening and Concierge Plus group-booking offerings, both serving as intermediaries between studios/distributors and screening audiences.
• Atom Tickets: Atom Tickets is a movie ticketing app with social features, advance screenings, and promotional offers integrated with major theater chains. It competes with Gofobo's screening discovery and code-redemption features, particularly for consumers booking promotional passes.
• MovieTickets.com: MovieTickets.com is a long-standing online movie ticketing platform offering advance ticket sales, screening discovery, and promotional screening programs. It directly overlaps with Gofobo's core advance-screening functionality for both consumers and studio promotional partners.

Broad incumbents

• Fandango: Fandango is the dominant US movie ticketing platform, owned by NBCUniversal, and also runs promotional advance screenings and the Rotten Tomatoes reviews network. It is a much larger incumbent serving the same consumer use case (advance screening access) and the same studio advertisers Gofobo serves.
• National CineMedia (NCM): NCM is the largest cinema advertising network in the US, selling pre-show on-screen ads and promotional content to studios and brands. It competes for the same studio promotional marketing budget that funds Gofobo's advance-screening programs, but operates at much broader scale across thousands of screens.
• Screenvision Media: Screenvision Media is a major cinema advertising and theatrical marketing partner for studios, providing on-screen and lobby promotions. It targets the same studio marketing spend pool as Gofobo's advance-screening campaigns, but from a much larger, more established position.

Others

• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a broad self-serve events ticketing and discovery platform used for premieres, fan events, and entertainment gatherings. While not a screening-focused platform, it intersects with Gofobo on the events-discovery and ticketing side, particularly for premieres and exclusive entertainment events.
• Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten Tomatoes is the leading movie review aggregation and discovery platform, owned by Fandango. It overlaps with Gofobo's verified movie ratings feature and serves the same studio-adjacent audience for movie discovery, though it does not handle advance screenings or ticketing.

Emerging players

• Fever: Fever is a global experiences marketplace offering curated local events including immersive cinema and themed screenings. It overlaps with Gofobo's events-discovery and ticketing use case, though with a broader experiential focus and stronger mobile-app infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/gofobo
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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