Ghoomo.com - First MovieFinder & Ticket Purchase Service for India November 6
Ghoomo.com (Bangalore, Karnataka, India) is the latest innovation from the YouMagix.com family that strives to fill the gap in user generated services that are not available in countries such as India. Ghoomo, fills that void quite well as an excellent movie finder source that covers 25 Indian cities and over 500 movie screens. The site provides show times of movies and is progressing towards offering the additional luxury of paying for the movies in advance by credit card.
I had a chance to interview Subodh Vinchurkar, founder of Ghoomo.com and YouMagix.com, and previous manager at Yahoo.com. Following is an excerpt from the interview.
How is Ghoomo.com different from other players?
What makes Ghoomo.com unique is the breadth and depth of movie finder services available to consumers in India. At present, Ghoomo covers 25 Indian cities and over 500 movie screens. By the end of this quarter Ghoomo plans to make movie finder services available to 50 cities & over 1000 movie screens in India.
What is the business plan or model?
At present it is supported by paid advertising at various places on the website.
Why did you start this web site?
Though there is a lot of movie content available on Internet. There are specific gaps in content structure and availability. These gaps prevent available content from being useful to people especially is countries such as India. Ghoomo.com intends to fill this gap and make movie planning a seamless and integrated experience of Ghoomo visitors.
When was the site launched?
The new Ghoomo.com alpha site has been open to public since middle of Oct, 2007, the beta site is available starting Nov 2007.
How are You Planning to Market it?
Predominantly via word of mouth. We request you to help us make the product information available to interested audience.
It is remarkable for a country that prides itself in producing the greatest number of movies per year. Yet, India doesn’t have such a service to order movie tickets online. This in itself is assurance of the depth of opportunity available in such countries that are yet to be discovered.
Click here for the press release for Ghoomo.com
Click here for the previously boosted YouMagix.com
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Subodh Vinchurkar Nov 6
Jey,
Thanks for your review.
There is a small factual correction needed in the review. In current shape, Ghoomo is trying to tie-up the movie intermediary supply chain and yet has not started ticket booking operations. Though, we would soon provide interesting options to visitors in this area.
Thanks again for encouraging words. It surely helps in our efforts to create a useful place on Internet.
Regards
Subodh
kunendran Nov 7
Thanks for informing us of the factual error on our part. We have corrected that error and reflects the current shape of Ghoomo. Regardless, its great that Ghoomo is making an effort in this front.
Good luck.