Original documentaries shot on location with practicing SEO operators. We follow agency founders for a quarter, embed with eCommerce teams during peak season, and sit with publishers as their AI traffic shifts. No talking-head interviews. No stock B-roll. Just the real work.
Filmed over six months inside a London SEO agency facing a question every founder is asking: what happens to retainer income when AI overviews eat the traffic? We follow CEO James Mitchell as he restructures pricing, rebuilds his service model around AI visibility, and bets the company on a new specialization. Includes raw client calls, board meetings, and the moment two anchor clients renewed at higher rates.
Yes. Every documentary on this page is free to watch — no signup, no paywall. They're hosted on our site and YouTube, both with full subtitles. We produce these as long-form educational pieces, not gated lead magnets.
Episodes range from 18 to 52 minutes. Feature-length series average 38 minutes. We aim for the runtime each story needs — short profiles stay short, deep investigations get the time to breathe. Total runtime across all released series is 14 hours.
Rankar's in-house film team in partnership with practicing SEO professionals. Every documentary is shot on location with the actual operators — agency offices, eCommerce warehouses, publisher newsrooms. We don't use stock footage or AI voiceover. Every interview is real.
Yes — we're actively scouting. If you've built something interesting in SEO (an unusual agency model, a sub-niche site flipping into a media brand, a unique link-building system), email pitches@rankar.ai with a paragraph on the story and your verifiable metrics. We greenlight 6-8 new episodes per year.
We ship one feature documentary per quarter and 4-6 shorter episodes per year. New releases are announced via our weekly newsletter and the Resources dropdown above. Watch the latest first — every release tries to capture where the industry is right now.
Streaming only on this page and YouTube. We don't offer downloads to keep view metrics honest and prevent reuploads. If you need offline access for a team workshop or conference screening, email permissions@rankar.ai — we grant non-commercial screening rights freely.
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