YouTube today announced that its movie rental service is now available in Canada (joining the US service). It promises everything from local Canadian hits to the latest global blockbusters. Most rentals will cost CA$3.99 or CA$4.99 but there is also a selection of free movies. Once rented, you will have 30 days to start the movie and 48 hours from the time you started it to finish it.
But your experience doesn’t need to end there because there’s always more to get into on YouTube. Many movie pages feature YouTube Movie Extras – free behind-the-scenes videos, cast interviews, parodies, clips and remixes from YouTube’s unique community of content creators. Over time we’ll also be adding additional videos and features to YouTube Movie Extras so that you can get even more into movies on YouTube.
A quick glance shows that YouTube offers more recent movies than competitor Netflix Canada which launched last fall and offers unlimited rentals for a flat monthly fee of CA$7.99 but a catalog that could do with better and more recent movies.
You will find YouTube’s Canadian movie rentals at YouTube.ca/movies.