{"id":3201,"date":"2016-04-26T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/26\/the-streaming-war-claims-a-new-casualty-quickflix-is-going-under\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:27:15","slug":"the-streaming-war-claims-a-new-casualty-quickflix-is-going-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/26\/the-streaming-war-claims-a-new-casualty-quickflix-is-going-under\/","title":{"rendered":"The streaming war claims a new casualty: Quickflix is going under"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Both Netflix and Quickflix started out their corporate lives mailing DVDs, but only one still has a vaguely healthy bank balance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Quickflix, an Australian media company that provides a subscription streaming platform, as well as a DVD service, announced it was going into voluntary administration via a statement<\/a> released to the Australian stock exchange.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Bret Easton Ellis-directed series coming to Fullscreen’s new SVOD service<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Quickflix has been facing headwinds for awhile now, competing not only with Netflix, which launched in Australia in early 2015, but homegrown streaming options, Stan and Presto. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Streaming<\/a>, Presto<\/a>, Stan<\/a>, Netflix<\/a>, and Quickflix<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both Netflix and Quickflix started out their corporate lives mailing DVDs, but only one still has a vaguely healthy bank balance. On Tuesday, Quickflix, an Australian media company that provides a subscription streaming platform, as well as a DVD service, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[764,2470,2472,2471,1263],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-netflix","tag-presto","tag-quickflix","tag-stan","tag-streaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}