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First Kill All of the Video Distributors...Paramount Runs an Experiment
What would happen if Random House launched an online competitor to Amazon's book site? Crazy right? But Paramount is running a little experiment that is basically the same thing. They quietly launched direct rentals of Transformers: Dark of the Moon from their web site. Sounds crazy but combine original content with an off-the-shelf video rental platform and a little known effort called Ultraviolet and it might payoff, just not in the way you think.
Amy Powell, Executive VP Interactive Marketing and Film Production at Paramount says "We're testing the waters and interested to see consumer feedback. It's just a little toe-dip to move in the direction we believe will be one of the future distribution means for content." It's a "little toe-dip" designed to kick the distribution/technology wannabe gatekeepers in the nuts. But more on that in a minute.
The offering is being delivered on CSGI's Content Direct platform. Content Direct is an off-the-shelf video rental platform that allows content providers to offer content directly to consumers. It includes member management, billing, ad monetization, and of course content management.
So Content Direct is a new wrinkle in the diffusion of video distribution. Most of the headlines have focused on Netflix, Apple, and Google and their TV/mobile plays. A platform like Content Direct means the content providers can open another front in the war for video dollars to scare distributors.
Another interesting wrinkle adjacent to direct-to-consumer rentals is Ultraviolet. It's a standard/platform/alliance backed by most of the major studios and a who's who of video industry and technology players. It basically allows for media portability. Bought a video through iTunes on your computer and want to watch it on your Android tablet? Not possible now. But if Ultraviolet takes off you could.
That all said, who really wants to have to go to twenty web sites to shop for a movie. Nobody. But this isn't about Paramount or other studios offering direct rentals. This is 100% about leverage. The industry fears Apple dominance in video the way they dominate music. They fear Google almost as much. Add direct to consumer offerings and media portability to distribution contract negotiations and the content guys get more leverage. As a result, content providers can ratchet down Apple's, or anyone else's, aspirations to take 30% of the dollars in the industry. Even if those would-be gatekeepers own the hardware, software, and ultimately the customer relationship.
Just another interesting salvo in the $500 billion television battle. [ less... ]
What would happen if Random House launched an online competitor to Amazon's book site? Crazy right? But Paramount is running a little experiment that is basically the same thing. They quietly launched direct rentals of Transformers: Dark of the Moon from their web site. Sounds crazy but combine original content with an off-the-shelf video rental platform and a little known effort called Ultraviolet and it might payoff, just not in the way you think.
Amy Powell, Executive VP Interactive Marketing and Film Production at Paramount says "We're testing the waters and interested to see consumer feedback. It's just a little toe-dip to move in the direction we believe will be one of the future distribution means for content." It's a "little toe-dip" designed to kick the distribution/technology wannabe gatekeepers in the nuts. But more on that in a minute.
The offering is being delivered on CSGI's Content Direct platform. Content Direct is an off-the-shelf video rental platform that allows content providers to offer content directly to consumers. It includes member management, billing, ad monetization, and of course content management.
So Content Direct is a new wrinkle in the diffusion of video distribution. Most of the headlines have focused on Netflix, Apple, and Google and their TV/mobile plays. A platform like Content Direct means the content providers can open another front in the war for video dollars to scare distributors.
Another interesting wrinkle adjacent to direct-to-consumer rentals is Ultraviolet. It's a standard/platform/alliance backed by most of the major studios and a who's who of video industry and technology players. It basically allows for media portability. Bought a video through iTunes on your computer and want to watch it on your Android tablet? Not possible now. But if Ultraviolet takes off you could.
That all said, who really wants to have to go to twenty web sites to shop for a movie. Nobody. But this isn't about Paramount or other studios offering direct rentals. This is 100% about leverage. The industry fears Apple dominance in video the way they dominate music. They fear Google almost as much. Add direct to consumer offerings and media portability to distribution contract negotiations and the content guys get more leverage. As a result, content providers can ratchet down Apple's, or anyone else's, aspirations to take 30% of the dollars in the industry. Even if those would-be gatekeepers own the hardware, software, and ultimately the customer relationship.
Just another interesting salvo in the $500 billion television battle. [ less... ]
First Kill All of the Video Distributors...Paramount Runs an Experiment
What would happen if Random House launched an online competitor to Amazon's book site? Crazy right? But Paramount is running a little experiment that is basically the same thing. They quietly launched direct rentals of Transformers: Dark of the Moon from their web site. Sounds crazy but combine original content with an off-the-shelf video rental platform and a little known effort called Ultraviolet and it might payoff, just not in the way you think.
[img width="299" height="235" title='Paramount Offers Direct Rentals' caption='']http://library-trefis.s3.amazonaws.com/94-paramount_offers_direct_rentals.png[/img]
Amy Powell, Executive VP Interactive Marketing and Film Production at Paramount says "We're testing the waters and interested to see consumer feedback. It's just a little toe-dip to move in the direction we believe will be one of the future distribution means for content." It's a "little toe-dip" designed to kick the distribution/technology wannabe gatekeepers in the nuts. But more on that in a minute.
The offering is being delivered on CSGI's Content Direct platform. Content Direct is an off-the-shelf video rental platform that allows content providers to offer content directly to consumers. It includes member management, billing, ad monetization, and of course content management.
[img width="300" height="194" title='Content Direct - Direct to consumer video rental' caption='']http://library-trefis.s3.amazonaws.com/95-content_direct_-_direct_to_consumer_video_rental.png[/img]
So Content Direct is a new wrinkle in the diffusion of video distribution. Most of the headlines have focused on Netflix, Apple, and Google and their TV/mobile plays. A platform like Content Direct means the content providers can open another front in the war for video dollars to scare distributors.
Another interesting wrinkle adjacent to direct-to-consumer rentals is Ultraviolet. It's a standard/platform/alliance backed by most of the major studios and a who's who of video industry and technology players. It basically allows for media portability. Bought a video through iTunes on your computer and want to watch it on your Android tablet? Not possible now. But if Ultraviolet takes off you could.
[img width="385" height="399" title='Ultraviolet Alliance' caption='Ultraviolet Alliance']http://library-trefis.s3.amazonaws.com/97-ultraviolet_alliance.png[/img]
That all said, who really wants to have to go to twenty web sites to shop for a movie. Nobody. But this isn't about Paramount or other studios offering direct rentals. This is 100% about leverage. The industry fears Apple dominance in video the way they dominate music. They fear Google almost as much. Add direct to consumer offerings and media portability to distribution contract negotiations and the content guys get more leverage. As a result, content providers can ratchet down Apple's, or anyone else's, aspirations to take 30% of the dollars in the industry. Even if those would-be gatekeepers own the hardware, software, and ultimately the customer relationship.
Just another interesting salvo in the $500 billion television battle.
Netflix IS going in the right direction NOW! DOWN! They are bunglers! They have limited business experience and NO customer service intelligence at all! They have single -handedly destroyed half their equity and have created a fury of angry people who talk to other angry people who inturn ask why they are angry and then quit NETFLIX! They have created from a business model that was stellar, a advertisement nightmare that may never be extinguished. Blockbuster did it with late fees and went under and know Netflix is doing it again by upping their fees by 60% and splitting the companies benefits in two while doing it ( ARE YOU CRAZY!!!). Whomever came up with this idea should be thrown out the 60 storie window he is looking out and /or learn to fly!