ViewCave and Mininova Forge Historic Partnership at Mininova blog

Today, ViewCave Inc., a new online film distribution company based in California, released its content through Mininova, a well-known peer-to-peer file sharing indexing site. The event is a world-first for a number of reasons. Firstly, most legal content video portals focus on streaming technology and primarily within the US (for Hollywood content, that is). ViewCave, on the other hand, has decided to stream and offer download options in high and low resolutions concurrently from its site as well as torrent files to international audiences both directly and via indexing sites.

Secondly, Mininova is one of the best well known legal torrent download sites in the world. For the first time ever ViewCave has enabled Mininova to offer streaming as well as progressive download options for their content. That means Mininova’s users no longer have to wait hours or days before they can watch their desired movies and video content – they can watch it immediately thanks to ViewCave’s delivery platform.

The win-win relationship allows ViewCave to reach potentially millions of international viewers and Mininova to share in ViewCave’s in-video advertising revenue. Indexing sites do not normally make money from the content that changes hands through their networks, but rather from the ads that are placed on their sites.

Adrian Bertino-Clarke, ViewCave’s CEO comments, “ViewCave is much more than an online entertainment hub. We have two main driving passions: to give independent filmmakers who are having difficulty in getting Studio distribution deals, a flexible and profitable platform to deliver their content to international audiences. And to give people everywhere access to international content without cost and without obtrusive ad breaks. The relationship with Mininova helps us to achieve both goals”.

ViewCave’s unobtrusive ad-supported patent-pending platform is currently in Alpha Release. Its content is viewable in most countries. They have licensed over 200 titles which are being uploaded periodically with more on the way. “Once content owners and advertisers realize the magnitude of what we have created and the reach we have into video consumer networks, the flood gates will be open. In this proposition absolutely everybody wins”, Mr Bertino-Clarke added.