sizzle reel

noun

: a short, usually flashy video used to promote a product, service, proposed project, etc.
He and Kari are also pitching a family show to the networks. … The sizzle reel has his two teenage daughters in Maui, learning to cut sugarcane.—Rebecca Flint Marx

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Every year, studios, streamers, agencies, financiers and production companies are flooded with scripts, pitch decks, lookbooks, sizzle reels and proof of concepts all competing for the same limited attention. — E'ian West, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The panel begins with a sizzle reel of clips from throughout the MCU, plus the original X-Men films. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 26 July 2026 Those moments became the sizzle reel at the start of Pfister’s post to his YouTube channel, Welcome to this World Media. — Kyung Lah, CNN Money, 25 July 2026 The pitch deck, the sizzle reel and the international sales document are all useful, but nothing proves a television idea like a real audience showing up, night after night, until the show becomes part of the furniture. — Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sizzle reel

Word History

First Known Use

2006, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sizzle reel was in 2006

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