Categories: Web

YouTube adds 3,000 full-length feature films with new content partnerships

Google has today announced that its video service YouTube is adding 3,000 new movie titles available to rent and view on-demand to users in the United States. YouTube has partnered with  Universal, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros to begin offering thousands of full-length feature films, bringing the total number of movies available to stream on the video platform to around 6,000.

YouTube

Movie titles available to stream directly from the 350 millions devices that support YouTube include new releases like Inception, The King’s Speech, Little Fockers, as well as cult classics like Goodfellas, Scarface, and Taxi Driver. The price of each movie rental has been described as “industry standard pricing” and can be purchased on a title-by-title basis.

In a blog post concerning the announcement Salar Kamangar, head of YouTube, stated,

“You’re finding more and more of the content you love on YouTube, which is now available on 350 million devices. We know this because you’re watching videos to the tune of 2 billion views a day. But you’re spending just 15 minutes a day on YouTube, and spending five hours a day watching TV. As the lines between online and offline continue to blur, we think that’s going to change.”

YouTube are challenging traditional notions of its video platform as one comprising solely of short-form user content to a fully rounded video service. It hopes that by offering a “complete movie service” and by providing extra additional content around the main title, like cast interviews, clips, and alternate movie endings, it can compete with other established and very popular movie on-demand services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon.

Image courtesy of jonsson on Flickr

Albizu Garcia

Albizu Garcia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gain -- a marketing technology company that automates the social media and content publishing workflow for agencies and social media managers, their clients and anyone working in teams.

Recent Posts

Horasis addresses global turbulence with assembly of influential leaders in São Paulo, Brazil this October

After many years of relative stability, it seems clear we are now in a period…

5 hours ago

A cyberattack or software update could trigger a robot insurgency: RAND

A future cyberattack or software update could trigger a robot insurgency, according to a report…

7 hours ago

Off the grid: the rise of mobile charging amidst the electric vehicle revolution

In its century-long history, the automotive industry has not undergone a revolution quite as significant…

8 hours ago

As demand for energy booms, Think Power Solutions appoints Daniel Helman as Chief Executive Officer

Across the U.S., the power industry has seen a massive spike in capital investments. In…

8 hours ago

Will AI take your job or just rewrite it? (Brains Byte Back Podcast)

The future of work is already here, and it's moving fast, particularly in the U.S.,…

10 hours ago

This AI Copilot Doesn’t Wait for Prompts — It Thinks Like a Hacker

Hey HackerNoon, it’s Kuwguap again. A while back, I wrote about building RAWPA, my AI…

5 days ago