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Ask HN: Monetizing Streaming Movie Search
2 points by willholloway on Feb 27, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
How would you monetize streaming movie information?

If you had code that created a database of every movie ever made, it's IMDB rating and whether or not it was streamable on the big services, could you make money with it?

There already exists caniwatchit and flixfindr, but I was thinking an API service might be valuable for 3rd party apps to access.

If you had this code, how would you monetize it?



Adsense? Knowing what movies the user likes, you could probably relate that to products that people are selling.


It's a search service, so it's best to took at existing / similar services for inspiration like Google and Yelp.

So that means allocating placements to be used either for adsense / auction-style ad placements.




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