Still, an influx of new users will only be a good thing for Fandango. It's hard to tell how successful Flixster was when it came to streaming - many consumers ended up using it just to redeem Ultraviolet digital copies of films. There was a similar conflict with Flixster's Rotten Tomatoes integration, but that app relied on to complete ticket sales - Fandango, on the other hand, will own the entire pipeline.įlixster's existing streaming service won't be part of the deal, instead it'll eventually shut down and its users will be pushed towards Fandango's streaming offering. In particular, it'll be interesting to see how Fandango ends up handling movies with very low scores, which could push audiences away. Now, it's going to be an even more formidable opponent against the likes of Moviefone (which is owned by AOL).įandango says it'll integrate its ticketing capabilities into Flixster's app over the next few months, and you can expect Rotten Tomatoes scores to pop up in Fandango's app eventually. On August 28, 2017, Flixster shut down its digital redemption and streaming video service and directed customers to use Vudu. The news comes after Fandango also snapped up the streaming video service M-Go back in January, a move that made it clear it wanted do more than offer showtimes and online ticketing. In February 2016, Fandango acquired Flixster and began migrating Flixster Video users to its competing service called FandangoNow, closing the Flixster Video service. As part of the deal, Flixster owner Warner Bros.
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Get more from Deadline.Fandango is growing its cinematic empire by acquiring the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company Flixster, Deadline reports. Warner Bros Taps Barry Ziehl As SVP Public Affairs & Strategic Initiatives 'Deadpool's $152.2M Opening: Why The Town Didn't See It Coming Until It Happened - Finalįandango Buys VOD Service M-GO To Offer New "Super Ticket" Bundles Brazil has a leading moviegoing population, accounting for 40% of Latin American box office in 2014, according to comScore. Fandango Movieclips added 4M new subscribers to its network of nearly 13M and generated a total of 4.5B video views, a 54% annual increase.įandango also made its first move internationally into Latin America, acquiring Brazil’s largest online ticketer,, in November. Last year was a banner year for Fandango, with 81% growth in U.S. The company plans to integrate the services across both the Fandango and the Flixster app, and the move comes one month after Fandango acquired M-Go in. M-GO will be rebranded later this year and become part of Fandango’s digital network. Flixster seems to be shutting down, it already has shut down its API and its public Press J to jump to the feed. With M-GO, Fandango plans to work with move theater chains and studios to build streamlined solutions for “super tickets” and other theatrical ticketing and home entertainment products.
In January, Fandango acquired M-GO, a leading digital distributor of new release and catalog movies to a wide variety of connected, over-the-top and mobile devices including Android, iOS, Samsung, LG, Roku and others. “Bringing these properties together into a single, integrated portfolio creates an opportunity to truly accelerate innovation in movie discovery and ticketing, making moviegoing an even more compelling experience.”įlixster Video, the home entertainment and digital video redemption service, is not included in the transaction but is expected to transition its users to Fandango’s new VOD service later this year, and will sunset thereafter. “Combining the expertise and assets of Fandango, Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes will create an incredible resource for consumers to fulfill all their moviegoing needs,” added Thomas Gewecke, Chief Digital Officer and EVP Strategy and Business Development at Warner Bros Entertainment. NBCUniversal-owned Fandango continues to expand beyond movie ticketing, announcing today that it has acquired Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes from Warner Bros. Together, Flixster and Fandango’s mobile app downloads total more than 100M. Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes together get 20 million unique visitors per month, and Fandango claims the acquisition will increase its own traffic to 63 million unique visitors per month. Fandango reports that it will be extending its ticketing capabilities to the Flixster app in the coming months. It provides consumers with movie information, audience and critic ratings as well as reviews, courtesy of the Tomatometer. Flixster is a leading website and mobile app for discovering movies, with more than 50M app installs.
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