SEO News: Google to Offer Pay-Per-View Movie Service


Later this year, Google may begin offering pay-per-view movies via online video site YouTube. This will include new releases, possibly offered at $5 per film. YouTube already offers some older titles for a rental fee of.99 to $4, but their catalog is limited. Google is currently talking with various movie studios, such as Lions Gate, Sony, MGM, and Warner Bros. about including their titles in the YouTube catalog. New titles will possibly be offered the same day they are released on DVD.

It's also speculated that this service will be integrated with upcoming Google TV. According to Google Senior Product Manager Rishi Chandra, the purpose of Google TV is, "to bring the entire Web to the television set