Flixster
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Flixster was a North American social-networking movie website for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies. It is currently owned by Fandango Media. The formerly independent site allowed users to view movie trailers as well as learn about new and upcoming movies at the box office. It was originally based in San Francisco and was founded by Joe Greenstein and Saran Chari on January 20, 2006. It was also the former parent company of Rotten Tomatoes from January 2010 to February 17, 2016. On February 17, 2016, Flixster, including Rotten Tomat
Key facts
- Website.name
- Flixster, Inc.
- Website.logo
- Flixsterlogo.png
- Website.logo_size
- 188px
- Website.logo_alt
- A red and white stripe bucket full of popcorn beside the word Flixster, written in white letters with a blue outline.
- Website.type
- Social networking service
- Website.company_type
- Subsidiary
- Website.dissolved
- (USA) (Internationally)
- Website.founder
- Joe GreensteinSaran Chari
- Website.services
- Film, social networking
- Website.employees
- 75
- Website.parent
- Fandango Media
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- myflixer.ing
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- inception
- 2006-01-20
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-18
- social media followers
- 12261
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10 sectionsContents
- History
- Site information
- Marketing practices
- Other supported platforms
- Social media platforms
- Bebo, Facebook, MySpace, Orkut
- Mobile and desktop platforms
- Android, Blackberry, iOS, Windows Phone
- See also
- References
Flixster was a North American social-networking movie website for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies. It is currently owned by Fandango Media. The formerly independent site allowed users to view movie trailers as well as learn about new and upcoming movies at the box office. It was originally based in San Francisco and was founded by Joe Greenstein and Saran Chari on January 20, 2006. It was also the former parent company of Rotten Tomatoes from January 2010 to February 17, 2016. On February 17, 2016, Flixster, including Rotten Tomatoes, was acquired by Fandango.
==History== In February 2016, Fandango acquired Flixster and began migrating Flixster Video users to its competing service called FandangoNow then closing the Flixster Video service. On August 28, 2017, Flixster shut down its digital redemption and streaming video service and directed customers to use Vudu. On December 22, 2017, the company sent an email to customers saying that it would cease all operations in the U.S. as of February 20, 2018. Starting in late January 2018, visitors to Flixster.com were encouraged to download the Flixster app or were redirected to Fandango.com. They were also directed to continue watching videos and redeeming digital codes via Vudu.