Free streamer Fawesome has dropped a pair of authentic sequence, together with its first competitors present.
Southern Meals Truck Wars and Fawesome Household Sport Present have been added to the ad-supported service, which presents family-friendly content material.
Southern Meals Truck Wars is a six-episode sequence that takes place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the place meals vehicles compete for the title of Southern Meals Truck Champion. Movie star chef Jay Ducote is host as cooks battle over their signature dishes to impress the judges on three key standards: presentation, style and execution. The panel of judges contains Ducote, together with Joshua Ok. Carpenter, Tameeka Stewart and Darrell Freeman. The general winner takes residence $1,000 and a $5,000 promoting bundle.
Fawesome Household Sport Present is billed as ‘a full of life quiz present hosted by LaTangela Fay, the place two groups compete in fast-paced, reimagined basic video games.” These embody video games impressed by Pictionary, Scrabble and Boggle, phrase chains and Household Feud-style guessing. The winner takes residence $1,000 every episode.
CAaron L. Williams of Digital Media Studios and Joshua Ok. Carpenter of International Content material are the creators. The present is directed by Aaron L. Williams and produced by Williams and Carpenter, with Vikrant Mathur and Alok Ranjan as government producers. The sequence contains six episodes.
“These reveals signify a recent tackle beloved competitors codecs,” Williams mentioned. “With Southern Meals Truck Wars, we’re celebrating the wealthy culinary traditions of the South by the lens of contemporary meals truck tradition, whereas Fawesome Household Sport Present brings a dynamic, new vitality to basic video games that households already love. Bringing these two reveals to life has been a rewarding journey, and there’s no higher residence for them than Fawesome.”
“Our knowledge reveals that households are shifting dramatically to streaming, these authentic sequence create the proper setting for advertisers to attach with engaged household audiences,” mentioned Mathur, who’s co-founder of Fawesome guardian Future In the present day. “We’re providing advertisers a singular alternative to succeed in the first buying decision-makers in brand-safe and premium environments that show to drive outcomes.”
Fawesome started making authentic reveals final 12 months by Greenwood Rising: The Rise of Black Wall Road and The Peanut Man, a pair of function movies that dropped late in 2024. The service presents a library of free motion pictures reminiscent of The Reader, The Pianist and Midnight in Paris in English and Spanish.
Mathur mentioned Fawesome was measuring the success of its originals although “viewership and engagement,” as he espoused the worth of free streaming companies.
“Whether or not our viewers is partaking with trivia, studying new recipes, or having fun with compelling storytelling, success lies in creating significant connections with our viewers and offering them with a gradual stream of latest and unique content material,” he added. “If the sequence resonates with our viewers, we purpose to discover new partnerships, broaden collaborations, and greenlight further seasons.”
Mathur claimed Future In the present day was the biggest indie streamer working, with round 10 million month-to-month energetic customers throughout 300 channels, together with Fawesome and FilmRise.
“With our in depth attain and viewers engagement, we’re open to a wide range of enterprise fashions — from totally funding productions to partial financing to completely distributing the content material to sharing rights in some capability,” he advised Deadline. “Our aim is to assist our manufacturing companions in no matter capability they want, whereas delivering premium, entertaining content material to viewers without charge, particularly throughout a time when subscription charges are at an all-time excessive.
“We imagine high quality and unique content material must be accessible to everybody. By utilizing an ad-supported mannequin, we create a platform that advantages all events concerned—viewers get pleasure from free, partaking experiences, advertisers achieve a possibility to share their messaging in a method that aligns with client pursuits, and we bridge the hole between the 2.”
