Moviestorm also makes use of Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to release the latest news on the software and to interact with both current and potential users and website ranked it as best software for beginners [1] Founded as a startup in Cambridge by Machinima experts Matt Kelland and Dave Lloyd, Moviestorm got three investment rounds of £400k in 2005, £900k in 2007 and $3M in 2008.

Moviestorm Points can also be bought to acquire additional content from the online marketplace, or gifted to other users in return for advice or assistance or in payment for a user-created modification.

Subscribers have access to the Modders Workshop a tool which allows them to create their own 'props' and a wizard allows the direct import of models from Google SketchUp version 6.

Blockhouse TV, based in Norwich, UK, utilised Moviestorm in their animated series for children, Jack and Holly.

[7] In addition to film teaching, Moviestorm has been used in educational contexts for a variety of other media, including computer games[8] and music.

Paul Carr at Sakuragaoka Junior and Senior High School, Japan uses it to help teach English to Japanese students.

[11][12] Commercial companies including Oracle Corporation[13] and Fujitsu[14] have used Moviestorm to create low-cost training videos.

Think Industries in Eastern England is an advertising and marketing company that uses Moviestorm to pitch its ideas to prospective clients.

"Music videos are a very expensive and time consuming process but Moviestorm allows me to achieve shots and effects that even with a modest budget would still be very out of reach," she said in an interview in late 2010.

[18] In November 2011, Chicago chiptune band I Fight Dragons ran a contest challenging Moviestorm users to make the official video for their single, Working.

[21] London-based scriptwriter Dean P. Wells uses it to test out movie ideas and then creates trailers based on his scripts.