[2][3] Although the first major streaming service to operate in Australia, Quickflix quickly lost ground to much larger competitor Netflix entering the market in 2015, among others.

[7] Quickflix streaming was available over a range of smart TVs, games consoles, Blu-ray players, desktops, laptops, mobiles, tablets and other devices.

[11] Quickflix was founded by Bill Keech, Sam McDonagh and Stephen Langsford, who were shortly afterwards joined by Simon Hodge.

[13] The company would attract prominent business figures Bruce Gordon, Lachlan Murdoch and Domenic Carosa as investors.

[17] In July 2011, BigPond Movies revealed that they would no longer continue their DVD-by-mail service, selling their library of 50,000 titles to Quickflix.

[23] That same month, US premium TV network HBO, a division of global media giant Time Warner, invested $10 million in Quickflix for a strategic stake.

[1][24] However the following year saw the company face a temporary cash flow crisis that saw four of its six board members quit and its CEO depart.

[1] By the following year a number of streaming competitors had launched in Australia: Netflix, Presto and Stan, the latter a joint venture between Quickflix major shareholder Nine and Fairfax Media.

[4] On 26 April 2016, Quickflix Australia announced that the company had entered voluntary administration, appointing Ferrier Hodgson to oversee the process.

[28][11] However in the subsequent years Quickflix's streaming library saw increasingly limited updates,[29] and the company's focus largely returned to offering disc rental by mail to a niche consumer base.