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Websiteflixster.com
CategoryWeb
Emailbiz@flixster.com
Employees17
Founded1/06

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[map] San Francisco, USA

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Co-founder & CEO
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Funding

Total$7M
Series A, 2/07
Lightspeed Venture Partners
$2M
Series B, 4/08
Pinnacle Ventures
Lightspeed Venture Partners
$5M

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Flixster

Flixster is a social networking site for movie fans. Users can create their own profiles, invite friends, rate movies and actors, and post movie reviews as well. From the site, people can also get information about movies, read user-generated movie reviews and ratings, converse with other users, get movie showtimes, view popular celebrity photos, read the latest movie news, and view video clips from popular movies and TV shows.

With so many features, Flixster seems to have created a fairly comprehensive movie social networking site, which may in turn explain its rapid growth in popularity. Flixster currently has over 50 million registered users with over 1.5 billion movie ratings, and has already outpaced (in total page views) other movie sites such as Fandango. And while the site is still dwarfed in terms of total page views by the more informationally-based IMDB, its emphasis on combining social networking with movies and rapid rise in user base make for a promising company future.

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Flixster

Websiteflixster.com
StageLive
Launch DateJanuary 20, 2006
Tags social-networking
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Comments

Jackson - June 13, 2008 at 5:00am
Nice idea, poor execution. The interface is confusing and I hate the MySpace -type modifiable personal profiles.. just gives me the creeps and brings up memories from the good ol' '90ies geocities -homepages with animated gif's etc. I most definitely prefer and recommend http://www.filmgator.com
amina - November 7, 2007 at 1:18am
flixster is great, i like it
Tim Johnson - August 5, 2007 at 6:33am
This site is fairly decent. The problem is that it is farily complicated and not really worth a second visit. I personally prefer filmcrave.com, but it is a lot newer.

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  2. Flixster Raises $5 Million Of Planned $8 Million Second Round; No Sale (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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