YouTube is offering free online Hollywood movies including 'Terminator' with ads

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If YouTube has released an official channel that allows full-length feature film viewing for free from October 2018, AdAge from overseas media reports. Some of the delivered works also include works called masterpieces such as " Terminator " " Rocky ". However, it is said that advertisements are attached to movies that are released for free.

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Until now, YouTube has provided movie on demand paid delivery services, like Amazon videos and Apple's iTunes . YouTube's secretly established channel " Free to watch " is free to watch by attaching advertisements to movies. Offered are Hollywood masterpieces such as "Terminator" and "Rocky", as well as comedy movies such as " Mr. Zookeeper's Marriage Gardens ", " Cutie Blonde ", " Agent Cody " and family movies And that. At the time of writing the article, you can not access "Free to watch" from Japan.

by Garry Knight

Several "existing services with streaming distribution of free images with advertisements" have existed so far, and in 2017 video-on-demand services " Tubi " and " Roku " were advertised with free movie distribution service It became a hot topic after opening a channel. Also, Walmart is a leading supermarket chain, video-on-demand service " Vudu or deliver a free video content", film distribution company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and (MGM) tie-up or made the original content by It is.

In addition, in August 2018, it is reported that Amazon plans to offer free video distribution service "Free Dive" with advertisement for users of Fire TV.

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Farhad Massoudi, CEO of Tubi, commented, "The free video distribution service with ads has a huge market, all major companies are going to ride this wave from now on." A well established veteran of streaming video distribution services, YouTube has Google's advertising technology and boasts 1.9 billion active users per month. By entering YouTube in the rapidly expanding "free video distribution service with advertisement" market, it is expected that market competition among video distribution services will further intensify.

Rohit Dhawan, director of product management at YouTube, informed AdAge, "By request from the user, we were able to offer free movies with advertisements, not only to offer paid movies, but to advertisers It is a very big opportunity, "he says, but he does not disclose how to distribute YouTube's terms and conditions and advertising revenues.