I was just thinking about movies, tv, music, books, and Netflix. Anyone familiar with Netflix knows that it has a rating system that offers recommendations based on your other ratings (can you tell I wasn’t an English major in college?).
I like the Netflix system, but I started thinking that it isn’t just movies that are related to each other, all sorts of pop culture/arts are interrelated.
Based on this, someone should develop a website that allows for rating all sorts of media products. Then they would in turn recommend other products you may enjoy. For example, the kind of person who enjoyed “High Fidelity” the book, may be interested in the latest Bruce Springsteen album (I couldn’t say for sure, but it is a possibility).
So, the consumer would sign into the website (maybe like Myspace/Facebook). Then they can rate any movies they have seen, books (including comics) they have read, music they have enjoyed, or TV shows they have watched. The website would then offer up recommendations. On the recommendations, the consumer would have the option to sample the product (movie trailers, music clips or streams, book excerpts, etc.). Also, the site would provide links to purchase the product (this is how the site makes money). Really, the site could just link to amazon, but maybe for music link to that Apple website (if anyone uses that anymore).
Does any of this make sense? Has this website already been created and I’m just missing out? What do you think?
July 8, 2008 at 1:21 pm |
This is actually a pretty good idea. The only problem would be in getting other companies on board (i.e. music downloads, movie trailers, etc). Good idea though. I would definitely use that service.
July 8, 2008 at 1:30 pm |
Amazon already has a referer(sp?) program. So, the website could just set up links to the amazon pages. The only issue is that the consumers would have to buy CDs instead of downloading mp3s.
As far as movie trailers, I would think companies would willing let you slap those up there. The more publicity, the better.