TORONTO (June 17, 2024) – Canadian producer, Incendo, and groundbreaking audio entertainment company, Meet Cute, revealed today that they have joined forces to co-develop a slate of Meet Cute Originals for film and television. Leveraging five fan favourite audio titles, this strategic partnership marries Incendo’s established record of delivering exceptional, multi-genre visual content to audiences around the world and Meet Cute’s unparalleled footprint with millennial and Gen Z listeners, craving addictive genre-bending stories.
“Incendo and Meet Cute feels like a match made in heaven,” said Meet Cute CEO, Naomi Shah. “From our first conversation, we knew that we wanted to curate a diverse slate from our library that speaks to modern audiences. Each story is uniquely its own, but they all have the same backbone of hope, with a feel-good through line connecting them.”
Graham Ludlow, Head of Development & Production, Incendo added “Partnering with Meet Cute is a refreshing and exciting opportunity to access stories that have already proven their appeal to discerning millennial and Gen Z audiences.”
The co-development slate was hand-picked to build upon the success of five current Meet Cute Original Titles, collectively boasting a consumption rate of more than 120% as repeat listeners keep coming back for more. From sit-coms and rom-coms, to fantasy, romance, and mysteries, the roster includes hit audio titles James Is Missing, Clever After, The Golden Palm,andthe celebrity-driven shows Christmasuzannukkah and Kerri, which cast Amy Sedaris and Pauline Chalamet, respectively, in lead acting roles.
About Incendo:
Incendo is a Canadian company specializing in the development, production, and international distribution of compelling content for audiences all over the world. Founded in 2001, Incendo boasts an exceptional multi-genre development and production slate, an extensive multiplatform programming library, expanding strategic partnerships, and unique format pipeline as a subsidiary of Groupe TVA.
With offices in Montreal and Toronto, Incendo’s most recent productions include Guess Who, The Amityville Curse, and Terror Train, as part of its Tubi content partnership, and the limited series Clean Sweep, an international co-production. For more information, please visit www.incendo.ca.
About Meet Cute
Meet Cute is the destination for feel-good stories. With immersive soundscapes and talent you love like Bridgerton’s Charithra Chandran, Partner Track’s Arden Cho, and The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Pauline Chalamet, Meet Cute is an ever-growing library of addictive originals, bringing you premium audio stories that let your imagination take the lead. Meet Cute has unlimited stories for every mood and every moment. Each month, Meet Cute produces a premium cinematic audio series in six episodes.
Given the breadth of their library, Meet Cute takes creative risks in both form and content, such as point of view switching and genre-bending (e.g., scifi, fantasy, and horror rom-coms). They use data-backed insights from their audience by tracking hundreds of tags (like plot points, settings, tropes, and relationship types) to inform which stories to tell next. Meet Cute has also secured a number of movie and TV development deals, including one with wiip (producer of Dickinson and Mare of Easttown) to adapt a select number of Meet Cute stories into television series anthology.
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For Media Inquiries please contact:
Andrea Allen, Streaming & Marketing Executive, Incendo
Sam Pennington, Head of Community & Growth, Meet Cute