Smits, Roderik Charles2022-06-082022-06-082017Smits, R. C. Film Distribution: A Changing Business. In: DVD, Blu-Ray and Beyond: Navigating Formats and Platforms within Media Consumption. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 115-134978-3-319-62757-1https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35035This chapter reveals the importance of the video market to processes of change and growth in the film distribution business. Film became a newly lucrative business because the demand for films in the video market grew dramatically in the 1980s. With the recent development of the digital and on-line video market, in which distributors are replaced by new gatekeepers such as digital platform providers and what are called content aggregators, the market share for on-line revenues is also growing year on year. The chapter considers: how do distributors respond to the growing on-line video market? Will digital platform providers and content aggregators become more dominant in the near future? And how does this affect film distribution processes?25eng© The Author(s) 2017Film DistributionDvdBlu-RayVODVideo On Demandbook partCiencias de la Informaciónhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62758-8_7open access115134DVD, Blu-Ray and Beyond: Navigating Formats and Platforms within Media ConsumptionCO/0000011984