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"In the UK, Domino's has launched what it's calling Pizza Box Office, an initiative giving online pizza orderers their choice of complementary movie streamed to PC, Mac or tablet (release). The initiative is designed to incentivise ecommerce orders and illustrates how digital movies, like music tracks before them, can now be used as the auxiliary content of wider marketing campaigns."

"Hulu, the online aggregator of repurposed TV content and subscription video-on-demand, continued its apparent slide by failing to rank among the Top 10 U.S. online video sites in September, according to new data from comScore. Reston, Va.-based comScore found that Amazon, which includes Amazon Prime Instant Video and Amazon Instant Video (transactional VOD), ranked 10th with more than 31 million unique viewers who watched nearly 107 million videos at 12.8 minutes per viewer."

cable companies starting to focus on VOD cordcutters up 23% over the past year

This article touches on the need for services that make it easy for viewers to discover content from multiple sources: TV, online, social, VOD, etc. Specifcally, the article mentions a service called LocateTV, which lets users track actors, tv shows, movies, etc. and notifies them when they are on-air. Could be useful for something like the Verizon/NFL tie-up to track talent, etc.

so. people who pay like $25-$50 to see a movie PPV earlier on than usual will get a coupon for a free DVD. daily 9.30