By Sean Lawson – August 9, 2018 The MovieCoin-TV-TWO partnership is part of a growing trend of blockchain innovation in the entertainment industry. The fintech entertainment company MovieCoin recently announced a partnership with TV-TWO, which uses blockchain technology to pay viewers to watch personalized television programming. MovieCoin will advertise films it finances on TV-TWO’s platform. The companies are among those looking to use blockchain to change the way entertainment is financed, distributed and consumed. Two others that...Read More

Aug. 8, 2018 5:44 PM ET | 28 comments | About: Helios and Matheson Analytics, Inc. (HMNY) Jeffrey Carr Growth, research analyst, tech, media Summary HMNY relied on income from a subscriber data play to offset losses on ticket sales. MoviePass has enough subscribers to make that model work. Unfortunately, the company picked the wrong data to monetize. Neither...Read More

Advocates of MoviePass are losing faith in the service and could switch to another. By Will McCormick On Aug 6, 2018 Although video content on the blockchain is not as novel today as it was a year ago, there are always niches to be explored. And when it comes to actually going TO the movies, rather than letting...Read More

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Reel Holdings, LLC, a Wyoming-registered fintech company that brings disruption to how movies are financed and viewed, has announced an alternative to HMNY’s (NASDAQ: HMNY) MoviePass called Reel Cash. “MoviePass’s model, even if it wasn’t intended, became a zero-sum game.” Tweet this “MoviePass’s application of the Netflix subscription model for moviegoers was...Read More

By Bitcoin Exchange Guide News Team | August 3, 2018 Despite Nielsen being a century old audience rating system, it still faces challenges to its efforts from different quarters. Such is the case with Netflix denying any insights regarding their audience retention released by Nielsen. Even with the data firm bringing in a new “listening” technology similar...Read More