Media Musings

Blogs promote the exchange of ideas. I've used this blog for several semesters to get students talking about media industry topics. Articles you read, post and comment about should deal with media programming topics, and this is a wide-open arena—programming developments, traditional and new distribution channels, technology developments, job and career matters, regulation (FCC?), program performance--including the new fall television season. I hope you’re beginning to get the picture.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Youtube Rentals

So Youtube announced on their blog today that they are going into the movie rental business. Five films from the Sundance film festival (2009 and 2010) will be available on the Youtube rental site over this coming weekend.
Their deal seems interesting, especially for fledgling, independent movie makers because they promise complete control over the distribution of their films on the site down to the price and rental duration.
So what do you think? Is Youtube the next big challenger for the movie rental throne? Do they have enough to seriously compete with Netflix or RedBox?
Discuss...