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VOD Type
TVOD

Availability
MacOS • Android • Android TV • Roku • Chromecast • Windows • Samsung Smart TVs

Content
Narrative, Documentary, Episodic

D.I.Y. via Aggregator or Direct?
Via Aggregator

If Aggregator, is Pitch required?
Pitch is not required for features. Episodic needs to be scheduled.

Non-Exclusive possible?
Yes

Territories
United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Korea, Japan, Australia, India, Brazil, Mexico

GooglePlay is the third biggest TVOD player, although our experience is that it lags considerably behind AppleTV and Amazon in terms of projected earnings. Nevertheless, TFC recommends adding this platform because, as Google owns both GooglePlay and YouTube, once a title is in the GooglePlay system, any attempts by unauthorized users to upload a pirated copy of the film to YouTube are purportedly flagged by their system and taken down.

Variety

Disney Movies Anywhere Adds Fox, WB, Universal (Report)

Erik Gruenwedel
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October 10, 2017

The industry divide between UltraViolet and Disney Movies Anywhere could be ending. But instead of merging cloud-based storage platforms, UltraViolet backers 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures are joining Disney’s KeyChest storage platform, according to //Bloomberg//. A formal announcement is pending.

Lionsgate is said to be interested, while financial disagreements are keeping Paramount Pictures on the sidelines, according to the report. No word about Sony Pictures.

Disney Movies Anywhere, launched in 2014, enables consumers to peruse branded digital movies online and purchased them from authenticated platforms iTunes, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Microsoft and Fios by Verizon.

UltraViolet, with more than 20 million registered accounts, includes Fandango Now, Vudu, Kaleidescape, Fios, Sony Pictures, and Paramount.

It remains to be seen what role, if any, Warner CEO Kevin Tsujihara played in the transfer. Two years ago, Tsujihara said Disney’s separation from the rest of the industry was problematic to consumers and the growth of electronic sellthrough.

“It would be my goal to bridge [UltraViolet] with what Disney is doing, so the consumer doesn’t have to guess is that a Disney movie, or is that a Fox, Sony, Paramount, Universal or Warner Bros. movie?” Tsujihara told an investor group in San Francisco.

The executive said Disney and other studios could maintain separate sellthrough platforms while combining cloud-based functionality on the backend. He said combining user data between UltraViolet and Disney would help the industry grow digital content sales.

“To be more profitable, we don’t need consumer spending [on discs] to grow,” Tsujihara said at the time.

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