VMIX brings live and on-demand video rental to Facebook

By George Wong on 03/29/2011, filed in Home > Web

Yesterday we mentioned that Warner Brothers will be adding 5 new movies to their Facebook movie rental service, and today it looks like they’ll have some competition in the near future. VMIX has just announced VMIX Social – an on-demand video service that will allow media companies to rent out movies through them. In addition to bringing on-demand content to Facebook, VMIX Social will also support streaming live video content on the social network. VMIX Social will allow companies to take advantage of Facebook’s massive user base in order to reach out to them with content. While no partners have been announced at launch yet, it looks like Warner Brothers won’t be in this Facebook movie rental business alone. How many of you have rented movies through Facebook?

Facebook: Facebook is a Social Networking service launched in 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. At first, only students from Harvard could join the service, but over time more users were allowed to join. Today, Facebook remains the leader in social networking, but most importantly, it is the top online identity provider as the overwhelming majority of Facebook users have registered using their real identities.If you have a Facebook account, you can use Ubergizmo's Social Reader.

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