YouTube has signed deals with Sony Pictures, CBS (parent company of CNET News), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lionsgate, Starz, and the BBC. The deal is part of a new offering on the site for US users. There's a new channel for this content.
Vongo promotes its first run and current movies from Starz. They are feeling the competitive heat, right? In reality, there seems to be a correlation between search expertise and how movies are delivered, sold, and a few other attributes.
Starz also has a deal with Real Networks (Starz Ticket) that offers a rotating library (about 40 titles/week) of movies for downloading and offline viewing at $12.95/month. Vongo is a brand new service launched by the Starz Entertainment Group.
PaidContent's Staci Kramer, who also has a great post about Vongo, told me that Starz, the owner of Vongo, does not have distribution rights outside the U.S. Several people have sent along notes this weekend and I've seen a few blog postings...
Starz/Vongo. Vongo is a brand new service launched this week by the Starz Entertainment Group. Unless you have a 300Kbps or higher bandwidth connection you cannot access the Starz Ticket service. Starz also has a deal with Real Networks (Starz
Additionally, Starz rolled out Vongo, an online on-demand and subscription video service. No ad-supported content at this time," Starz' Eric Becker told me. Sure, we knew that anywhere, anytime anything media consumption was right around the corner...
