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services, Flixster differed in that its system automatically selected all contacts in the user's address book and required the user to manually un-select each address to prevent email from being sent to a user. Cofounder Joe
Greenstein described the difference between Flixster and other sites as: "We make it easy to invite your friends. Other sites don't provide good ways for people to spread the word."
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phones. In August 2010, Flixster got to 20 million combined mobile app downloads and was ranked as the top movie app on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. In April 2014, Flixster's app was updated with
Chromecast support allowing users to "cast" movies to a Chromecast-connected device. A streaming-only
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reported that the number of global daily page views for
Flixster.com peaked at 8,331,961 on January 23, 2008, and dropped to 1,325,685 by July 5, 2008. Alexa stopped reporting daily page views as of June 2008; the number of page views for Flixster as a percentage decreased by nearly two-thirds from
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as attributable to "its aggressive viral marketing practices," including "the automated selection of your email account's entire address book in order to send a
Flixster invitation to all of your contacts." Although the company claimed that the procedure was an industry standard used by other
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In June 2019, Flixster announced that it would shut down its streaming video services in all countries in which
Flixster Video operates outside of the U.S. on October 31, 2019, due to the shutdown of UltraViolet. Customers in those areas were asked to transfer their content to
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Flixster developed applications for several social networking sites. They had many of the same features as the main
Flixster site including ratings, reviews, and user-generated quizzes. In addition, all offered social media integration and
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application, Movies, was consistently one of the most popular apps on the site; its daily user totals peaked in
December 2007. By September 2010, its popularity had waned significantly; its 2.98 million
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application which allowed users to access movie showtimes, reviews, and trailers. The iPhone and iPod app for
Flixster was then the number one movie app on the platform. Flixster also released apps for
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app followed which had 3,923,506 users as of July 2008. That made it the then-fourth most popular application on the MySpace platform. In addition, Flixster also developed applications for
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usage was offered free-of-charge, allowing more users to download it. The first of the apps was released in June 2007 on Facebook. In March 2008, a
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for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies. It is currently owned by
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acquired Flixster and began migrating Flixster Video users to its competing service called
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561:Chabot, Jeff (25 August 2017).
483:"Flixster buys Rotten Tomatoes"
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886:Siegler, MG (20 August 2010).
511:Sciretta, Peter (2016-02-17).
367:Bebo, Facebook, MySpace, Orkut
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699:, accessed September 16, 2010
16:Former American movie website
731:"Flixster for Sale (Again)?"
729:Swisher, Kara (2007-12-04).
659:"flixster.com Site Overview"
607:"flixster.com Site Overview"
536:Bishop, Bryan (2016-02-17).
392:Mobile and desktop platforms
977:"Bebo All-In-One Streaming"
77:February 20, 2018
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159:January 20, 2006
87:October 31, 2019
1283:Defunct American websites
818:American Venture Magazine
350:Other supported platforms
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587:Ford, Jez (2019-06-19).
310:Flixster Collections, a
117:Film, social networking
1273:American film websites
1186:Warner Bros. Discovery
758:"Flixster on Facebook"
362:Social media platforms
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57:January 20, 2006
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326:Marketing practices
322:on August 4, 2011.
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