 In February 2016, Fandango acquired Flixster and began migrating Flixster Video users to its competing service called FandangoNow, closing the Flixster Video service.On August 28, 2017, Flixster shut down its digital redemption and streaming video service and directed customers to use Vudu.On December 22, 2017, the company sent an email to customers saying that it would cease all operations in the U.S. as of February 20, 2018.