Coming soon: Boxee Payments
Users want to see more content on Boxee. Content owners want to be paid for what they produce (whether that’s TV Shows, movies, music, or applications). We don’t believe these are conflicting interests.
This is why we plan to release a Payment Platform this summer where users will be able to make purchases with one click on the remote. The content partners we launch with will offer shows, movies and channels that were previously not available to Boxee users. The content owners will be able to package and price as they wish, including pay-per-view and subscription. Content partners will have the flexibility to decide what they make available, whether it’s premium content, content from their existing library, or extras that will never make it “on air”.
As content owners benefit, so will Boxee. While details are still to-be-determined, Boxee will charge a small fee (i.e. lower than the 30% charged by many app stores) for transactions which we enable. This beginning to the Boxee business model ties our success as a business to the success of our partners.
This is a direct result of the generational shift towards over the top video during the past few years. Recent college grads will tell you the Internet is vital to them in a way PayTV could never be. Their social, professional, and family lives are reinforced by (and sometimes wholly self-contained within) the social networks, blogs, and interaction the Internet provides. This generation has turned to the Internet for their entertainment needs as well.
The move towards the Internet as a main source of entertainment does not mean everything will be free however. The iTunes store has already shown us that people are willing to pay for content when it’s affordable and easy to access. Our goal is to equip the content providers that we’ve spoken with over the past year, both big and small, with a way to monetize their content above and beyond the advertising-only model.
It’s our belief that the Internet is ready to become the 4th method of distribution for broadcast & premium content after Cable, Satellite, and IPTV (FiOS, u-Verse, etc.). In the case of Satellite and IPTV, it took an act of congress to open up these delivery methods. This time it’s people who are demanding this change.
The Internet represents a great opportunity for the major media companies and for the independent content producers to create more engaging and immersive experiences around their content and for them to be paid for more eyeballs on yet another screen. The connected living room represents a new medium, one in which great value could be generated. There are also many business models that will thrive including Ad-supported, pay-per-view, subscription and authentication (e.g. TV Everywhere).
We hope we can play a key role in enabling these content owners to showcase and monetize their offerings while creating the best experience possible for users.
If you are a content owner and interested to be one of our first launch partners please email content@boxee.tv to start a conversation.
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Wow, boxee is really moving forward and growing up fast. All I have to say is when is boxee gonna become a public offering? I’m ready to buy stock.
first we need revenues. then would be nice to be profitable. then we could plan our IPO.. or in other words, it’s going to take us a while.
Now we are cooking! This is the future of media. I am so glad someone finally seen the light. I must admit I was once one of the loyal customer of a certain russian mp3 store (later to be closed down after serial of court trilas) where you could find your favourite music in an easy manner. I think that store was the first time I actually paid for media content. Why the change in heart? It was easy. Affordable. And that store gave me the customer the driving seat. Meaning I suddenly could not only buy great music from a huge amount of artists, I could even get the correct format that I needed. Lossless.
And guess what, I was not alone. Millions of users thaught the same way and within short the russian online music store was one of the great ones on the net. Well we know how it ended and that is ok. But the story still stands and it proved to me and many with me that if media or content is easily accessible, in the quality users need the customers suddenly become paying loyal advocates rather then free spirited pirates.
As for now I pay for last.fm, spotify and to watch content on a few local TV stations, along with a fully subscription to two newspapers so I have access to news in pdf along with the paper issue.
If we the customers are given the right choices we end up taking the right decision.
It is like with kids, you would not ask your 4 year old if he is tired 10 in the evening. Rather you take command and tell him to go to sleep.
If the media world will finally give people the options to get content in an easily and affordable manner people will not think twice about lurking for hours on the net to find a movie or whatever. And then we can finally say piracy is not mainstream. For that was the direction we where heading before Itunes, spotify and thelike.
And I am not speaking for me only. Me I am getting old and are soon not in any target groups anymore. But I see people everday that have changed the way they consume content based on a few good providers we have today. Let your box be mainstream. Serve us movies, music, bonus material clips not shown elsewhere. This will prove to be a untapped goldmine I am sure of. For both content owners, users and providers.
Give us a forum for the us nerds and respond well to our needs, whises and upgrade needs and I am sure you will rake in more money then …!
It has a front facing USB. I don’t care if I need to grab a $5-6 IR dongle but I’m really starting to wish they included IR just to shut people up. [/rant]
@Boxee Can you guys work to make available an “official” mini IR USB dongle so that they can go back to moaning about not being about to wrap their little minds around the shape?
LOL. that may be the thing that will get us to do it!
And the BoxeBox fanboy is born! Pathetic.
i agree with you. the best way to fight piracy (and to keep making content a really good business) is to support legal, easy-to-use, affordable alternatives.
there are many in the media business that share the same view as you just outlined. hopefully their voices will prevail.
Too bad these owners / studios don’t wanna pay actors for it. Majority of the acting community, not the celebrities, can’t even make a living anymore because of the internet.
They’re getting pennies for internet usage of there image/likeness.
I have no problem paying for content in fact there is certain content I would love to have access to that I would be willing to pay for. The only question I have is will this content be DRM restricted? We should avoid DRM at all costs because it will lock down our content and make it difficult to transfer and use in an enjoyable way. IMO if Boxee moved to a DRM system I would not use it anymore and boycott the software.
If we pay for content, will they remove the stupid GEOip restrictions? If I buy content, I don’t want to be told I can’t view what I paid for from Canada.
If we are going to pay I would like to just pay for what I wish to watch like 1 hbo or 1 showtime not all 5
hi all, we´re are a platform for the purchase of digital art and design you use on screens and projectors. half a year after launch of http://www.digitalbloom.com we´re representing over 50 artists around the globe. next step will be to partner with companies which offer boxes like boxee does. the main problem for us as a content provider is a working payment system. when boxee can offer this, we´re ready!!
Do you plan to do this worldwide or it will be a service US based like many other. in the case you only think in us ppl i think i´ll chose voddler.
I love what you guys have to offer, and are making something happen that should’ve a long time ago. Thanks so much! Can’t wait for the hardware! How do I invest?
But since Boxee’s partnering with content providers this summer, to provide a way to pay for that content,
Big ‘Kudos’ to Boxee. Being among the first to get to where we need to be re: internet to tv content.
Most all the comments voiced above are “my thoughts”.
I prefer to live in remote areas, where ’satelitte’ is only service available and expensive. In order to get the dozen channels you prefer, you pay dearly for the other 200 they make you take.
The idea,(several years ago) was to allow consumers to “pick their own TV channel(s)” at a fair price. That idea was killed fast by ’satelitte/cable corps’ lobbyists.
I now have ‘cut off’ satelitte and moving all to PC-TV. Hoping that this new wave of tech continues to move to the future. I welcome the “choice” of paying a reasonable ‘fee’ for content, same as I do not mind watching “free content with commercials”.
Hopefully, Boxee will be keeping us informed as to ‘channel-cable’ providers they attain, (and maybe a more definitive idea as to service fees). I AM READY TO PURCHASE MY NEW “BOXEE”.
Also to note…I am not a younger generation..just a “over the hill” person who loves “good change and ideas”.
I’m thrilled that boxee has come this far. I’ve been using it since alpha and have loved every improvement. Keep up the good work!
I don’t think people with HD cable subscription would even think about switching to SD Boxee!
Until then, it’s a nice niche for cheapskates who lives in apartments and/or don’t want to pay for cable. Doubt they’d want to pay either.
Might work in less developed countries though, so not completely impossible.
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