--- title: Letterboxd: 2026 TIME100 Most Influential Companies description: Find out why Letterboxd was selected for TIME‘s list of the most influential companies of 2026. canonical: https://time.com/collection/time100-most-influential-companies/2026/letterboxd/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-04-30T13:21:33.845Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-12T07:03:08.073Z article:section: Business og:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2026: Letterboxd og:description: Find out why Letterboxd is on the list og:url: https://time.com/collection/time100-most-influential-companies/2026/letterboxd/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51b22cb721270d6d/69dee7e44c83060a7aa3b4d8/time100-companies-2026-letterboxd.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2026: Letterboxd og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2026: Letterboxd twitter:description: Find out why Letterboxd is on the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51b22cb721270d6d/69dee7e44c83060a7aa3b4d8/time100-companies-2026-letterboxd.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 30, 2026 # Letterboxd Promoting film by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/) ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent  Courtesy Letterboxd The film discovery and review platform Letterboxd is best known as the social-media app for cinephiles, but now it’s also helping indie movies reach wider audiences. Founded by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow in 2011, the Auckland-based company’s wave of pandemic-era growth set the stage for greater influence: from January 2019 to January 2021, users jumped from more than 1 million to more than 3 million. By April 2026, that number had grown to more than 28 million across more than 190 countries. (Last year alone, users published more than [143 million reviews](https://letterboxd.com/2025/#the-year-in-numbers) and logged nearly 900 million films.) Letterboxd’s immense reach, particularly among young people—more than half of its users are under 35—now shapes the film industry directly. _Everything Everywhere All at Once_ directing duo The Daniels attributed the film’s early success to a groundswell of Letterboxd enthusiasm. When A24’s _The Brutalist_ was released in 2024, nearly half the opening-weekend audience had [reportedly heard about the film](https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-brutalist-brady-corbet-andrien-brody-indie-film-box-office-1236240420/) on the app. NBCUniversal chairperson Donna Langley [has dubbed](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/donna-langley-letterboxd-generation-fast-and-furious-tiff-1236363940/) young moviegoers “the Letterboxd generation” and credited the platform with boosting repeat viewings of _Oppenheimer_ attendance. Major industry players—from _Anora_ director [Sean Baker](https://letterboxd.com/lilfilm/) to musician and actor [Charli XCX](https://letterboxd.com/itscharlibb/)—are Letterboxd users themselves. In December 2025, the company launched its Letterboxd Video Store, a TVOD rental platform surfacing films not easily available elsewhere. (In January, after just eight days on Video Store, the Gen Z road thriller _It Ends_ was picked up by Neon.) This year, Letterboxd will include seasons of television for the first time, though the addition will exist in its own silo on the app. "We want to be very careful not to upset the experience for film purists," Buchanan says. Canadian holding company Tiny is now reportedly exploring a sale of Letterboxd. "There’s nothing specific for us to share at this time,” a representative for Letterboxd said in response. “Any decision about Letterboxd’s future would involve the founders." ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-most-influential-companies/2026/letterboxd/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-most-influential-companies/2026/letterboxd/"},"headline":"Letterboxd","datePublished":"2026-04-30T13:21:33.845Z","dateModified":"2026-05-12T07:03:08.073Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collection/time100-most-influential-companies/2026/letterboxd/","keywords":["TIME100 Companies","franchise","list"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51b22cb721270d6d/69dee7e44c83060a7aa3b4d8/time100-companies-2026-letterboxd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"creator":"Eliana Dockterman","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51b22cb721270d6d/69dee7e44c83060a7aa3b4d8/time100-companies-2026-letterboxd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-most-influential-companies/2026/letterboxd/","name":"Letterboxd"}}]}] ```