Are Telecom Providers Finally Becoming Service Aggregators?
ZilliongTV, a Sunnyvale, California based startup, is trying what everybody is talking about. They are trying to build a working model for viewing movies and TV programs over the Internet on demand. Instead of the traditional push, a functioning model for pull. There is already one, Hulu, but Hulu is very(!) much an extension of the big content owners who own the movies and does not work outside the US for this very reason. ZillionTV would be a step towards away from them, even if a small one. In effect, ZillionTV mixes Spotify, Videoplaza and Blyk models.
Just as with Spotify, ZillionTV has partnered with big content owners who are trying figure out how to monetize their content with poor results. What Spotify does for music, ZillionTV tries to do for moviews and TV programs. The vision is nothing short of Spotify's neither: To secure all the content that's ever been made in the world. Unlike many others in the IPTV industry, ZillionTV has also something to show as they have some really big companies already onboard (Warner, Universal, Fox and Disney).
