Blockbuster

1985-1987	1987–1996	1996	1996–2014 (company), 1996–present (franchise), 2023-present (website)	2011–2014 (stores), 2023–present (website)

Blockbuster Videos

1985-1987

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Designer:  Lee Dean

Typography:  ITC Machine

Launched:  Unknown

Alternate version

Blockbuster was founded on October 19, 1985 as Blockbuster Videos. This "ticket" logo has been the only one used by the company, undergoing minor changes in its life.

Blockbuster Video

1987–1996

Designer:  Lee Dean

Typography:  ITC Machine

Launched:  Unknown

Print version

Alternate version

Logo with slogan

Logo with slogan

This was a simplified version of the first logo, in addition to the 's' being dropped from the Video name; many locations used this logo until its closure.

Blockbuster identity - Fonts In Use

Blockbuster Entertainment

1996

Print version

Byline

This logo was often used as the byline on the Spelling Television and Worldvision logos on TV.

Blockbuster

1996–2014 {company}, 1996–present {franchise}, 2023–present {website}

Total Access version

Print version

Wordmark

In 1996, Blockbuster Video announced its rebranding as simply Blockbuster; the word "Entertainment" (and formerly "Video" until 1994) was dropped from the logo as a result in 1996, although older stores still used the previous logo.

Blockbuster was acquired by Dish Network in 2011. However, the use of the Blockbuster brand name still continues through the Blockbuster on Demand and Blockbuster @ Home services. Later, however, all Blockbuster stores in Canada were closed.

This logo was still used for Blockbuster Australia, one of the remaining countries which still had store franchises until the last Blockbuster in Australia closed in March 2019. As of January 2014, all of Blockbuster's company-owned locations were closed. As of April 2019, only one Blockbuster remains open in Bend, Oregon. Its website also remains online and got updated in 2022, most likely to tease Netflix’s Blockbuster series.

2011–2014 {stores}, 2023–present {website}

In 2020, Blockbuster teased its comeback by a Twitter account tweet. However, it wasn’t until 2022 when they started being active on social media again.

See also

• Blockbuster Music
• Blockbuster Express