17 Oct, 2011
With Warner Home Video likely to lengthen the 28-day embargo to 60 days for kiosks such as Redbox and Blockbuster Express beginning next month, independent kiosk operators welcome the news.
“Bring it on,” said Dan Kearney, who owns and operates two rental kiosks under the DBA “EnjoyNewReleases” with his wife, Mary, in Milford and [...]
As the market success of various self-service solutions continues to grow, more and more retailers are looking into the benefits from the direct ownership of kiosk networks.
Samimi is unveiling a kiosk membership program as part of a new pricing model to “allow consumers to have a physical DVD plan like Netflix, but enjoy the convenience of being able to come and get a DVD any time that they want,” he said.
Only days after reporting $363.9 million in quarterly revenue and $79 million in operating income, up 34% and 99% year-over-year, respectively, DVD kiosk company Redbox has released some more impressive figures. With more than 27,000 kiosks spread across the country, the Coinstar-owned service is now seeing an average of 55 million monthly rentals and up to 40 rentals per second.
Rental kiosks have surpassed traditional retail shops as the go-to option for film fanatics eager for convenience and low prices. Though Redbox and Blockbuster Express command the lion’s share of consumer interest in the novel service, retail company FYE is now eying up the relatively young industry with a run of new rental kiosks. Could a full-fledged service be in the cards?
TreeHouse Movies, a growing regional operator of DVD rental kiosks that provides movies and video games, has recently launched its first location in partnership with Denver based Sunflower Farmers Market.
MediaMatic Ventures Inc. continues building the expansion of its network by signing a distribution and support partnership with Ash Payment Solutions to deploy in hundreds of additional retail locations in Eastern Canada.
MediaMatic Ventures Inc., is aggressively pursuing the next phase of its growth by signing an exclusive manufacturing partnership with iMOZI to ramp-up production and deployments of its DVD Kiosks to hundreds of locations in the coming year…
Public Media Works Inc., the Los Angeles-based parent of upstart DVD kiosk rental company EntertainmentXpress, Sept. 30 said it inked a deal to install 500 branded kiosks with an Asian retail group comprising more than 90,000 independent businesses.
EntertainmentXpress says it is on schedule to roll out in quantity next year an advanced DVD kiosk that adds some new wrinkles to the vending machine business model.
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