YouTube Movies has just taken a turn for the better thanks to a huge influx of new content. YouTube has taken the opportunity to talk up the variety of videos it now offers. And who can blame them?
YouTube Movies
YouTube Movies is changing, with the company having added a lot of new content to service. The number of films available to rent on YouTube has more than doubled to 6,000 thanks to new deals with major Hollywood studios Sony Pictures, Universal, and Warner Brothers.
The new content is much fresher than most of what was previously available, with the new movies on offer being fresh new releases such as Inception, The King’s Speech, and The Green Hornet.
An industry standard price of $3.99 has been set for new releases, and the movies are available to rent by all U.S. residents with a YouTube account. All major credit cards are being accepted for the one-off transactions, with viewers having 30 days to watch their film after purchase, 24 hours after viewing begins.
There’s more than just Movies available on YouTube though…
The Spice Of Life
Variety is often cited as being the spice of life, and that’s exactly maxim YouTube seems to want to live by going forward. At least according to a YouTube Blog post from the Head of YouTube Salar Kamangar titled ‘Welcome to the future of video. Please stay a while.’
In it Kamangar mentions the additions and improvements made to YouTube Movies while also listing YouTube Partners, videos from friends, music videos, sporting events, live concerts, and breaking new videos.
The idea being to show the huge range of content now available to watch on YouTube.
Conclusions
What was once a site where anarchy ruled and which then came to be an online version of America’s Funniest Home Videos has now evolved into something different altogether, and all, it seems, are catered for.
Acquiring YouTube may have cost Google a small fortune but it’s now sitting on a goldmine. If it can just sort the revenue/bandwidth conundrum out.
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