How old is redbox

For Family Video, renting movies is the past, present and definitely part of the future. A: They care about saving that money. A five-minute drive is not going to be that much gas or time. In 11 minutes, you've got that movie at your house. Q: Last year, the company announced it was removing 1, kiosks. Now you're putting in 1, What changed? A: We see real opportunity to reach more consumers and drive more top- and bottom-line revenue by installing more kiosks.

Our focus is really on driving profitability and cash flow, and to do so, we want to install more locations. Q: Is there something different about the locations you're choosing this year than the ones you removed last year? A: We continue to see where consumers want to go shopping. We continue to see real demand at Walmarts — also in the drug store channel and the dollar store channel. So we're expanding in all of those. Q: How many titles are in a Redbox kiosk, and how much business does a good kiosk do in a typical day?

A: Typically it's to different titles that are in a kiosk. Obviously, for newest releases, you're going to have multiple copies of each movie; we want to make sure that we satisfy demand.

Q: Millennials have been leading the cord-cutting charge in favor of streaming. Are they renting DVDs? A: They are renting DVDs. Millennials see us as a great access point to watching new release movies.

Contrary to what people think, we actually skew a lot younger in terms of our age makeup. A: Game rental is about 4 percent of the business today, but we're focused on really growing that business. We see a real opportunity in allowing consumers to try a game before they buy it.

So we're expanding that as we go. What went wrong with Redbox Instant? A: I think our consumers are transactional in nature. Those screens will be able to not only promote movie, TV and video game titles, but also run advertising.

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And then there's Redbox Entertainment, the company's movie acquisition arm, formed several years ago to even out "gaps" in the major-studio release schedule that might harm the kiosk business. Redbox executives have visions of this division possibly overseeing the production of original shows for various Redbox platforms in the future. Artboard Created with Sketch. The smarter way to stay on top of the streaming and OTT industry.

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