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IMDb hosts videos, pushes Withoutabox service

By Tim Conneally | Published September 16, 2008, 5:50 PM

The Internet Movie Database, known in the vernacular as imdb, has launched a beta update of its site featuring full-length movies and television episodes, in a move that may draw attention to its Withoutabox video monetization service.

Amazon's IMDb, the premier resource for information on actors' movie and television appearances, is now making full-length movies and television episodes available on its Videos site.

Most of the content, however, is not hosted on IMDb, but rather just mirrored from sites such as Hulu, the WB.com, and CBS.com. Any ads that are hosted in the video viewing window have been carried over to IMDb as well.

Content that is not from other video hosts will be coming from IMDb's independent filmmaker service Withoutabox. Not to be confused with Amazon's Unbox, IMDb and Amazon's Withoutabox offers members of the independent film community a means of distributing and monetizing their content.

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Wynner3
Sep 18, 2008 - 3:41 AM

I was fine with the clips and the shows but the damn ads, NO! I hate that it has a lot of ads, I'm actually starting to dis-like the website.

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imafurby
Sep 17, 2008 - 1:17 PM

Withoutabox offers unlimited spam with information about dodgy film festivals, which you are encouraged to submit your idependent film to, for a fee of course. Your crappy film will be ignored, and you will have a lighter wallet. You will feel like you are participating in the glamorous, radical and largely Anti American world of independent filmmaking however, even though your only association with an Oscar ceremony will be through your TV screen.

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