NOMADslow.tv: Launching a FAST Streaming Platform for Cinematic Slow Media and Environmental Viewing
Executive Summary
NOMADlife.tv partnered with FAST Channels TV to launch NOMADslow.tv, a streaming platform built around a singular idea: screens can become environments. Designed as a cinematic slow-TV channel for homes, workplaces, hospitality spaces, and cultural environments, NOMADslow.tv transforms connected televisions into immersive windows of landscape, movement, and atmosphere.
The platform presents atmospheric programming rooted in slow travel, environmental storytelling, and long-form cinematic observation. Rather than competing for attention, NOMADslow.tv offers an alternative viewing experience, one that accompanies daily life and reshapes how audiences inhabit space with media.
Based in Montreal’s Mile-End district, NOMADlife.tv operates from a multidisciplinary creative studio that combines film production, live performance, installation work, and collaborative storytelling. This same philosophy informs the platform’s design: a carefully curated environment where image, sound, and duration are experienced rather than consumed.
To expand its reach across connected-TV ecosystems, NOMADlife.tv partnered with FAST Channels TV, whose white-label infrastructure enables global distribution across major streaming platforms while supporting both ad-supported and premium viewing models.
The result is a streaming platform designed not to capture attention, but to sustain presence, positioning NOMADslow.tv as a distinctive voice within the evolving landscape of connected-TV media.
A Creative Hub in Montreal
Located in Montreal’s Mile-End district, NOMAD operates from a multidisciplinary creative studio that functions as both production space and cultural laboratory. More than a traditional studio, it is an environment where filmmaking, music, performance, and collaborative storytelling converge.
Spanning 10,000 square feet, the space supports a wide range of activity, from long-form cinematic production and live audiovisual performance to artist residencies, installations, and public gatherings. Founded by filmmaker Jason Rodi, whose early career included founding Moment Factory, NOMAD reflects a sustained commitment to experimentation, independence, and cross-disciplinary creation.
The studio brings together:
a versatile cinematic shooting studio
transmedia video production
a dynamic coworking environment
an event and creative collaboration space
This same philosophy informs NOMAD’s streaming platforms. Through NOMADlife.tv and NOMADslow.tv, the studio extends its atmosphere beyond physical walls, bringing its distinct approach to image, sound, and duration into homes, workplaces, and cultural spaces worldwide.
A New Way to Experience Streaming
NOMADlife.tv is built around a simple premise: screens do not have to demand attention, they can shape atmosphere. Rather than competing within the attention economy, NOMADslow.tv offers a different mode of viewing grounded in duration, observation, and presence.
Its programming centers on long-form cinematic experiences designed to accompany daily life rather than interrupt it. Drawing from slow travel, environmental cinema, and immersive sound design, the platform presents work that unfolds gradually, inviting viewers to inhabit time and space differently.
Programming spans natural landscapes, extended travel crossings, poetic visual essays, and atmospheric soundscapes. Together, these works form what NOMADlife.tv describes as ambient streaming: media intended not simply to be watched, but to be lived with.
Whether experienced in homes, hospitality spaces, workplaces, or public environments, NOMADslow.tv transforms screens into quiet architectural elements, environments of light, movement, and sound that support calm, focus, and reflection.
Leadership Vision
Jason Rodi
CEO & Founder – NOMADlife.tv
Jason Rodi founded NOMADlife.tv with the aim of rethinking how moving image and sound function within everyday environments. His work focuses on long-form cinematic observation, environmental storytelling, and the creation of media experiences grounded in duration and presence.
Rather than designing content to capture short bursts of attention, Rodi’s approach centers on continuity, films and soundscapes intended to coexist with daily life and reshape how viewers inhabit time and space.
“Most media is engineered to compete for attention,” Rodi said. “We were interested in something quieter, work that lives alongside you, that becomes part of the environment rather than interrupting it.”
With the launch of NOMADslow.tv, Rodi extended this philosophy beyond the studio, establishing a global streaming platform dedicated to cinematic slow media and environmental viewing.
The Opportunity: FAST and the Future of Television
Audience behavior has shifted decisively toward connected television. As traditional broadcast declines, streaming through connected-TV platforms has become the primary mode of viewing across many households, with Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) emerging as one of the fastest-growing segments of the industry.
At the same time, viewers increasingly seek flexible access, cross-platform availability, and more intentional programming environments. Platforms such as Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and Android TV now function as central gateways to the largest screen in the home, a space largely distinct from mobile and social media consumption.
While platforms like YouTube and Instagram offer scale and visibility, they rarely provide the conditions for sustained viewing. NOMADlife.tv recognized an opportunity to build a streaming platform designed specifically for connected-TV environments, one aligned with long-form cinematic work and slower modes of engagement.
The Solution: NOMADslow.tv
To expand its reach across connected-TV platforms while maintaining full creative control, NOMADlife.tv launched NOMADslow.tv, a FAST streaming channel and platform dedicated to cinematic slow media and environmental viewing.
The platform centers on NOMAD’s original long-form programming, including cinematic travel crossings, environmental films, and atmospheric audiovisual works designed for sustained viewing. These are complemented by a carefully selected range of on-demand and linear programming that aligns with NOMAD’s editorial approach to duration, tone, and visual composition.
In addition to its core offering, the platform integrates a limited number of external FAST channels to provide broader viewing flexibility while preserving the overall viewing environment. This balance allows audiences to move fluidly between NOMAD’s authored work and continuous programming without disrupting the platform’s calm, cinematic rhythm.
Together, these elements position NOMADslow.tv not as a conventional entertainment service, but as a curated streaming environment built around continuity, atmosphere, and long-form engagement.
Technology Partner: FAST Channels TV
To launch and scale NOMADslow.tv across connected-TV ecosystems, NOMADlife.tv partnered with FAST Channels TV to provide the technical infrastructure supporting the platform’s global distribution.
FAST Channels TV delivers a fully managed, white-label streaming environment that enables NOMADslow.tv to operate across major connected-TV platforms, including Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, web streaming environments, and mobile devices. Their infrastructure supports linear FAST channel integration, on-demand programming, and programmatic advertising, allowing NOMADslow.tv to maintain broad accessibility while sustaining multiple revenue models.
FAST Channels TV also oversees platform operations, including content ingestion, playout, and global distribution workflows. This operational support allows the NOMADlife.tv team to remain focused on creative production, editorial direction, and strategic partnerships while maintaining a stable and scalable streaming ecosystem.
A New Kind of Partnership Model
Beyond its streaming platform, NOMADlife.tv collaborates with brands, destinations, and cultural institutions to develop long-form cinematic storytelling aligned with its editorial philosophy of atmosphere, duration, and place.
Rather than producing conventional advertising, NOMADlife.tv creates environmental films in which partners are integrated organically into the narrative structure. These works are designed for long-term circulation across streaming platforms, hospitality environments, cultural venues, and installation contexts, extending well beyond the lifecycle of traditional campaigns.
Partnerships take multiple forms, including commissioned productions, co-created projects with institutions and agencies, curated placements within the NOMADslow.tv ecosystem, and licensing for travel, wellness, and public environments. In each case, the emphasis remains on continuity, tone, and cinematic integrity rather than short-term promotional visibility.
This model positions NOMADlife.tv not simply as a content producer, but as a long-term creative partner working at the intersection of cinema, place, and cultural experience.
Hybrid Monetization Strategy
NOMADslow.tv operates through a diversified model designed to support long-term sustainability while preserving its editorial independence and creative focus.
The platform combines ad-supported streaming with premium viewing tiers, allowing broad accessibility alongside dedicated engagement with NOMAD’s long-form programming. This dual structure supports both scale and depth without compromising the platform’s tone or pacing.
Additional revenue is generated through brand collaborations, commissioned cinematic projects, and licensing across hospitality, travel, wellness, and cultural environments. Together, these parallel streams enable NOMADlife.tv to maintain a stable operating model while continuing to invest in original production and platform growth.
Strategic Impact
The launch of NOMADslow.tv has extended NOMADlife.tv beyond a production studio into a global streaming platform for cinematic slow media.
Since its launch, the platform has established a consistent presence across connected-TV ecosystems while strengthening NOMADlife.tv’s position within hospitality, travel, and cultural environments. Its hybrid model supports long-form production, ongoing distribution, and strategic collaborations without compromising editorial focus.
More broadly, NOMADslow.tv demonstrates how independent creators can build sustainable streaming ecosystems around distinct aesthetic and experiential approaches, positioning slow cinema and environmental viewing as viable formats within the evolving connected-TV landscape.
Leadership Perspective
Russell Foy
CEO – FAST Channels TV
“NOMADslow.tv shows how independent creators can use FAST infrastructure to reach connected-TV audiences in new ways. By combining cinematic storytelling with scalable streaming technology, NOMADlife.tv has created a distinct and compelling viewing experience.”
About FAST Channels TV
FAST Channels TV enables broadcasters, platforms, brands, and content owners to launch fully managed FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channels and streaming services.
FASTChannels.tv provides end-to-end solutions for building and operating FAST ecosystems, including channel creation and playout, content sourcing, white-label OTT apps, ad monetization, and global distribution. Its platform powers hundreds of live linear channels and AVOD streaming experiences across major connected-TV platforms.
By combining premium content, scalable streaming technology, and proven monetization infrastructure, FAST Channels TV helps partners launch and grow streaming services efficiently, without the complexity of building their own technical systems.
Learn more:
www.fastchannels.tv
info@fastchannels.tv
About NOMADlife.tv
NOMADlife.tv is a streaming platform and production studio dedicated to cinematic slow media, experiential storytelling, and long-form audiovisual experiences.
Based in Montreal’s Mile-End district, NOMAD operates from a multidisciplinary creative studio where filmmakers, musicians, and collaborators produce atmospheric works that explore duration, movement, and place.
Through NOMADslow.tv, NOMADlife.tv extends this practice globally, bringing its distinct approach to image, sound, and time into homes, workplaces, hospitality spaces, and cultural environments worldwide.
Learn more:
https://www.nomadlife.tv/
j@nomadlife.tv