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kiosks. In 2013, Hoyts Kiosk had over 500 kiosks in Australia, located in every state and territory except South Australia, with more than 250,000 active customers.

History

Hoyts Kiosk was launched as Instant DVD by Sydney-based entrepreneurs Andrew Evetts and Ian O'Rourke in 2005. They were inspired by seeing the success of similar DVD rental kiosks in the

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. In October 2009 they sold the business to

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who rebranded the company as Oovie. In November 2017, Hoyts Kiosk was acquired by

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Express and all its machines were rebranded.

Kiosks

Kiosks were located at grocery stores, shopping centres, convenience stores, and fast food restaurants. Customers could choose a DVD or Blu-ray disc at any kiosk, or select and reserve online for collection at a kiosk. Discs could be returned to any kiosk in Australia. Movies had to be returned by 9 pm the following day or a further day's rental was charged.

References

External links

Official website (Archive November 16th, 2016)
{{Video rental shops Companies based in Sydney Retail companies established in 2005 Retail companies disestablished in 2018 Renting Vending machines Video rental services in Australia

History

Kiosks

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