Comments on: Flixster For Sale; IAC Interested

By: IAC’s Diller Summons Flixster To New York Just To Kill The Deal » DistrictSource.com - Movie Releases

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:53:33 +0000

[...] much anticipated IAC/Flixster acquisition isn’t going to happen, we’ve heard. The two parties got very close to [...]

By: IAC “Very Close” To Acquiring Flixster

IAC “Very Close” To Acquiring Flixster — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:16:11 +0000

[...] late October we reported on well placed rumors that IAC was in talks to acquire movie-centered social network Flixster. [...]

By: Saler Dave

Saler Dave — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:47:48 +0000

Have you guys heard of FilmCrave.com? Similar to spout and flixster I guess but maybe easier to use???

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:16:52 +0000

Flixster, goodness these people are imaginative with names.
http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: Jono

Jono — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:01:11 +0000

@33: Yeah IMDB is a much better resource for movie info (much better reviews and less kids just talking crap), but they need to get with the times. IMDB do not even keep trailers hosted on their site…talk about cheap.

By: » Flixster Acquisition May Not Be Too Far Away || Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles || » Blog Archive

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:07:48 +0000

[...] TechCrunch reported that we may see a Flixster acquisition happen soon. TechCrunch sources have cited that a letter [...]

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:40:55 +0000

Spout > Flixster.com

By: Alex H

Alex H — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:24:55 +0000

IMDB > Flixster

By: trevo

trevo — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:30:19 +0000

@31. Interesting to see that a company that built itself from Spamming is getting valuations of 150M.

Lets you know that you really can’t get anywhere these days being on the straight and narrow.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:35:09 +0000

They grew fast with email spam.

They, or users, even created loads of fake profiles to pump up the numbers. For example, there are profiles with thousands and thousands of reviews from a 16 year old, who had to have watched movies during every waking day since birth.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:10:40 +0000

Sorry this is unrelated, but I just saw this headline on drudgereport.com:

“HULU.COM: GE/NEWSCORP SITE SET FOR LIFTOFF… DEVELOPING…”

That’s like a big deal, and would generate tons of traffic. Matt Drudge = the new Michael Arrington! But seriously, this is interesting that hulu is getting publicity through conservative news.

By: MediaOutrage.com

MediaOutrage.com — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:03:24 +0000

Thanks anonymouse I will check comscore now. Thanks.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:00:28 +0000

hmmm, I could out buy these guys with no sweat, but would this purchase make people think we are on the leading edge? hmmm

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:39:30 +0000

@mediaoutrage – according to comscore it’s true.

By: MediaOutrage.com

MediaOutrage.com — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:13:21 +0000

Hi guys especially Mr. Michael Arrington I posted something on my celebrity/news blog and I want to know if it’s true. Forbes reported that Glam.com is the fastest growing property on the web. Is that true? They say that it is growing faster than Myspace, YouTube, and Facebook. Is this accurate? http://mediaout...s-not-facebook/

Thanks.

By: Steve Spalding

Steve Spalding — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:07:20 +0000

Yep, you can minimize the widget and I think Mike or someone wrote something earlier in the week about linking directly to companies instead of to Crunchbase. As far as I’ve seen, they’ve followed through.

Flixster has always felt like what would happen if Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB had kids. Smart as a whip but a little bit homely. It will be interesting to see what type of acquisitions that IAC arranges.

As for the Netflix argument, they have fallen into the shipping trap. Until someone finds a way to reduce the incremental costs of shipping a single DVD back and forth, the service will always be less than ideal.

By: MikeW

MikeW — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:44:30 +0000

I’d say that comcast will buy them, as they just did with Fandango.

By: SNAP Summit Wrap-Up: Facebook talks down, Lorenzen talks Bubble, Scoble talks Scoble

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:45:30 +0000

[...] blatantly contradicted a lot of what the other panels said about building apps – they represented Flixster, iLike, and more of the most complex and fully-featured applications on [...]

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:26:35 +0000

You can actually minimize the widget now – use the button in the top right corner. It will remember your preference, too.

By: James Thomas

James Thomas — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:03:13 +0000

You mean IAC *was* interested… after they read this, they’ll probably forget their intent.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:54:26 +0000

Just to confirm that the deal structure above (IAC picks up 51% of the company and then grabs the rest 2-3 years later) is entirely standard for them. They do a LOT of deals this way that nobody ever hears about (since it’s not a full acquisition up front… or at the call date).

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:29:02 +0000

Flixster = spammer

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:24:25 +0000

I personally like Spout (http://www.spout.com/) better. I can’t believe that Flixster (http://www.flixster.com/) has 1 billion movie ratings!

By: Manoj

Manoj — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:56:39 +0000

Yep, an interest from IAC would pull in more interested parties. But, seriously, is flixter that attractive? :O

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:53:56 +0000

“They own a majority stake College Humor/Vimeo (same parent company) and GarageGames”

http://www.gara...e.php?qid=52582

I’ve been a member since May 2005. I don’t see a whole lot of new stuff from them though.