{"id":41839,"date":"2020-07-07T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clearvoice.com\/resources\/hollywood-teamlancing\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:07:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:07:48","slug":"hollywood-teamlancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearvoice.com\/resources\/hollywood-teamlancing\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Hollywood Model Can Teach Us About the Future of Teamlancing"},"content":{"rendered":"

From ‘Jaws’ to ‘Godzilla,’ it usually takes anywhere from three people to an entire city to slay a beast in the movies. Interesting because, as a metaphor, the portrayal of on-screen unity is not dissimilar to the monstrous undertaking of producing a film off-screen. The cast and crew behind any TV show or film make every frame, scene, and magical screen element happen.<\/p>\n

For over a century, Hollywood has been creating content using the best talent available. It’s a “ramp up” model that finds the most in-demand people \u2014 available at that time \u2014 to fill all the roles necessary once a film or TV show gets green-lit into production. Freelancers, independent contractors, gig workers… call them what you will. They’re the grease that makes the Hollywood machine go ’round.<\/p>\n

It’s an employment model that has existed in a Hollywood bubble for quite some time, largely ignored by the business and marketing world for most of the 20th century who opted instead for full-time hires with fringe benefits and 401K plans.<\/p>\n

But in the era of the gig economy, remote work and the pandemic \u2014 which has stress-tested industries forced to rethink existing work models on the fly \u2014 the teamlancing\u00a0model<\/a> (for companies big and small) is finally ready for its Hollywood close-up.<\/p>\n

\"Teamlancing<\/p>\n

This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship…<\/h2>\n

When it comes to content marketing, using flexible, experienced, freelance content teams (versus full-time hires) has the potential to radically redefine where we go from here. As the work-from-home experiment brought on by the pandemic continues to play out, the idea of hiring remote teams to execute projects is becoming more attractive by necessity.<\/p>\n

In fact, in a national poll conducted by\u00a0getAbstract<\/a>\u00a0(April 16-17, 2020) comprised of 1,200 full-time Americans working from home during the pandemic, telling statistics emerged that show how remote work, to a large degree, could be here to stay. (For context, the study points to a stat from\u00a0Brookings Institution\u00a0<\/a>revealing that 50 percent of Americans worked from home during the pandemic.)<\/p>\n

Here are a few eye-opening numbers from the study that could support a model where freelancing teams become needed:<\/p>\n