Hollywood Exec Roy Price Launches N1BW Microdramas Platform

Roy Price, former Hollywood executive, has launched N1BW, a platform that enables user-generated microdramas with a decentralized approach.

N1BW differentiates itself from traditional centralized platforms

Distributed Production Model

The site uses a token system similar to those on major competitor platforms, enabling viewers to buy online currency to keep watching series divided into one to a few minute increments. For related coverage, explore our detailed analysis on Technology and Digital Systems.

N1BW generates revenue through the sale of tokens, with 70 percent going to the creative team and 30 percent to the platform.

For creators who use the platform to find collaborators, N1BW offers standard agreements and a revenue share of 70 percent.

Making Money Through Microdramas

As of press time, all microdramas exhibited on N1BW were made using AI-powered video generators.

Price believes that AI can create a 'good result' when it comes to verticals and make them more feasible to produce.

N1BW aims to fill gaps in mainstream entertainment with AI-powered verticals, targeting underserved genres like comedy and action.

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Price points to the growing popularity of microdramas as a sign that the business model is viable and can accommodate multiple players.

Price likened his attraction to the format to his early embrace of streaming entertainment back in the days when Hollywood remained skeptical of its staying power.

He shared, “One thing that I think you can learn from the broad sweep of Hollywood history is that change is constant, and ”

Another name to add to the list of former Hollywood execs jumping into the world of microdramas: Roy Price.

Now, he’s has returned to the world of entertainment with Number One Best Website (N1BW), betting on the idea that the world is ready for user-generated verticals. The platform both exhibits microdramas uploaded In Price’s telling, N1BW differentiates itself in the crowded microdramas space “The general idea is it’s not a centralized system,” stated Price in an interview following N1BW’s debut on Monday.

“Most of the [ microdrama platforms] that exist now are centralized and top-down, like a traditional network or studio, and they’re pretty narrow in terms of their genre or focus. We’re the opposite of that, more like YouTube or TikTok.

People can upload whatever and the production process can be more distributed.” The site — and currently it’s just a website, not yet an app — allows creators to monetize microdramas through a token system similar to those on major competitor platforms. Essentially, viewers buy online currency to keep watching series divided into one to a few minute increments.

The projects’ IP can be bought The site itself makes money For creators who use the platform to find creative collaborators, the site offers standard agreements and revenue share: 70 percent goes to the creative team and 30 percent to the platform. If a team has multiple people filling creative roles, 20 percent of revenue goes to the creator/showrunner, 30 percent to the director(s), 10 percent to the episode writer(s), 5 percent to the bible writer(s) and five percent to music supervisor.