It was originally based in San Francisco and was founded by Joe Greenstein and Saran Chari on January 20, 2006.

[4] On August 28, 2017, Flixster shut down its digital redemption and streaming video service and directed customers to use Vudu.

Flixster Video's website and mobile apps, including UltraViolet code redemption, streaming, and downloading services are still available in other countries such as Canada.

[7] Quantcast reported that the number of global daily page views for Flixster.com peaked at 8,331,961 on January 23, 2008, and dropped to 1,325,685 by July 5, 2008.

[13] Flixster Collections, a desktop application featuring a content discovery and management system, began open beta testing on August 4, 2011.

Cofounder Joe Greenstein described the difference between Flixster and other sites as: "We make it easy to invite your friends.

"[17] As a consequence of its policy of emailing users' entire address books with advertisements for the site, the website was criticized on numerous Internet blogs.

[24] In August 2008, Flixster released an iOS application[25] which allowed users to access movie showtimes, reviews, and trailers.

[20] In April 2014, Flixster's app was updated with Chromecast support allowing users to "cast" movies to a Chromecast-connected device.