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The benefits of launching your own streaming service

Streaming is no longer an alternative to traditional television, it’s now the leading way audiences choose to consume content. For content owners, operators, and niche creators, the question isn’t if you should join the streaming landscape, but how. While hosting your content on third-party platforms may seem like the simplest route, building your own branded […]

October 27, 2025

Billiard TV FAST channel on Prime Video UK

Billiard TV, a 24/7 television network with programming dedicated exclusively to cue sports, is now available as a FAST channel via Prime Video UK. Billiard TV was founded in 2021, and its FAST channel debuted on Prime Video US in April. Billiard TV, in partnership with Matchroom, airs highlights and full-event footage from the past […]

October 22, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Spain: BBC Player on Movistar Plus+

BBC Player has debuted on Movistar Plus+, offering viewers in Spain up to 700 hours of curated content on-demand from the BBC Studios catalogue. Curated specifically for the Spanish audience and available in Spanish, BBC Player features a mixture of drama, natural history, documentaries, lifestyle, and entertainment titles. Launch titles include Louis Theroux documentaries, Natural […]

October 20, 2025

Research: 45% of US internet homes watch FAST services

Parks Associates reports that 89 per cent of US internet households subscribe to at least one streaming service and 45 per cent watch free ad-based services. Additionally, the firm reports that 59 per cent of subscriptions across the eight leading SAVoD (subscription ad-based video on demand) services are subscriptions to the basic tier with ads. […]

October 16, 2025

Forecast: LatAm FAST households at 52m by 2029

The Latin American media and entertainment market is experiencing unprecedented transformation, with streaming adoption and ad-supported business models propelling the region toward $55 billion (€47.2bn) in revenues by 2025, according to Omdia research presented at MIPCOM. Maria Rua Aguete, Head of Media and Entertainment at Omdia, revealed during a MIP Cancun preview panel that Latin […]

October 16, 2025

Encompass powers Blue Ant Media’s Love Nature UHD channel in Netherlands

Encompass Digital Media has announced the successful delivery of a new Love Nature UHD channel in the Netherlands for Blue Ant Media, an international streamer, production studio and rights-management business. The launch brings a dedicated Love Nature with more local programming to Dutch audiences, while also supporting its established ad sales business in the market. […]

October 15, 2025

Fremantle partners with MyTime Movie Network

Fremantle is partnering with MyTime Movie Network, in a dual-agreement to represent both their FAST and YouTube channels. This global carriage deal will begin from November 1st offering MyTime Movie Network’s content to audiences in the US currently live on Roku, LG and TCL and across three YouTube channels in the US and Latin America […]

October 14, 2025

wedotv partners with ZDF to launch Legacy FAST channel

wedotv, the free ad-supported streaming network, has partnered with ZDF Studios to create and distribute a FAST channel featuring the popular South African drama series Legacy. ZDF Studios represents the series globally and the single IP channel – wedotv: Legacy — is created and distributed by wedotv. Legacy transports viewers into the high-stakes world of investment […]

October 13, 2025

Rakuten TV Enterprise powers 3 studios’ first FAST launches

Rakuten TV, through its B2B brand Rakuten TV Enterprise, has announced distribution and technology partnership deals with Ace Entertainment, Reframed Content Studios and Shanghai Media Group. For the first time, each of these content owners will have their first dedicated Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV (FAST) channels. These new channels, set to roll out during Q4, […]

October 9, 2025

Zattoo adds Telenovela ZDF, KultKrimi FAST channels

Viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can now stream the KultKrimi and Telenovela ZDF FAST channels from Mainstream Media via Zattoo. Telenovela ZDF offers gripping and feelgood stories, with classic titles such as Bianca – Ways to Happiness, Julia – Ways to Happiness, Hanna – Follow your Heart and Alisa – Follow Your Heart providing […]

October 9, 2025