Television production houses · Lead generation
Find the programming head who has a slot open before the slot is filled.
Lead generation for a television production house means finding the channel, platform and agency people who commission shows, and reaching them while a gap exists. GullySales works on the list of buyers, the format matched to each slot and the record of every approach.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

What lead generation means
Lead generation is the combined work of every channel that brings in a new enquiry, whether from search, adverts, referrals or a stall at an exhibition. GullySales runs these channels together and reports the number of enquiries each one produced, not the activity behind it.
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Sales and marketing for television production houses, the overview.
Last updated 18 Oct 2026.
For television production houses
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“A lead is a slot, not a company”
A channel is not a lead. A lead is a named programming head with a time band to fill and a genre in mind. Sending a general showreel to a channel address treats a hundred different slots as one, and the reader finds nothing that fits.
“Branded briefs arrive from people you have never met”
A media agency planning a festival programme or a sports-season show searches for a house, asks two or three for a sample and a rough cost, and starts with whoever replies first. These leads come from search and referral, and nobody tracks them.
“Platform acquisition teams read formats differently”
A streaming acquisition lead looks at season shape, episode count and whether a television format can be remade. A pitch written in a channel's language about slot and audience misses what they are scanning for.
“Each pitch is a lead that goes cold”
A good meeting with a commissioning editor is the best lead a house gets. If no note follows and nobody records the feedback, that lead is a pleasant memory, and the same format gets pitched again with no change.
What we do
What we deliver for television production houses.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A buyer list by slot and genre
Channels, platforms and agencies are listed with the person who holds each genre and slot, and a note of your history with them.
Result: A sheet that shows who programmes reality, fiction or non-fiction at each channel.
Format-to-slot matching
Each format on your list is matched to the slots and platforms where it fits, so an approach carries one idea and one reason.
Result: Every outgoing approach names a slot and carries one format.
Agency and brand-team outreach list
Media agencies and brand content teams that brief sponsored programmes, with a short note on what each has commissioned before.
Result: A list of planners to approach before a festival or sports season is planned.
Enquiry capture from the website
Separate enquiry routes for channels and for agencies, each logged with its source.
Result: You can see which enquiries came from search, referral or outreach.
A pitch log
One record of each pitch, the person, the format, the response and the agreed next step.
Result: A new team member can read what was said to a channel without asking around.
How the result is measured
- Enquiries generated
- Cost per enquiry
- Enquiries by source
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Who it is for
This is written for these television production houses.
- Fiction serial and daily soap production houses
- Reality and game-show format producers
- News and current-affairs programme producers
- Non-fiction and documentary series producers
- Regional-language channel suppliers
- Branded-content and corporate-programme producers
- Format adaptation houses that localise international shows
How it works
How the lead generation work runs
The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.
- 1
Understand your capacity
We agree how many enquiries your sales team can actually handle well, so the system is not built to overwhelm it.
- 2
Audit current sources
We check what already brings in enquiries today, even informally, before adding anything new.
- 3
Strategise the channel mix
Content, search and paid channels are chosen based on where your buyers already look.
- 4
Implement capture and follow-up
Pages, forms and a follow-up process are built and connected end to end.
- 5
Measure and optimise
We track enquiry volume and quality and adjust the channel mix to match.
Where this fits
Three pieces of sales work, in this order.
This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.
Step 1
Sales audit
Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.
Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.
Step 2 · you are here
Sales process design
One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.
Start here if every salesperson sells differently.
Step 3
Sales management
A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.
Start here if the team has targets and no routine.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
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Should we pitch every format to every channel?
Where do branded-content leads come from?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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