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Pluto TV launches Chefclub in US, LatAm

Chefclub has announced an agreement with free streaming television service, Pluto TV, in the US and Latin America. Chefclub will bring over a hundred episodes of cookery content to Pluto TV in both Spanish and English, starting with the  immediate launch of Chefclub Kids content on Pluto TV’s Find Out Why channel. “Culinary entertainment transcends […]

April 11, 2022

Wurl FAST channels on LG Channels

Wurl, a specialist in powering streaming TV, has entered into a partnership with LG Electronics that will see Wurl powered FAST Channels on LG Channels worldwide. Wurl will be distributing the FAST channels globally while also providing monetisation services and maximising revenue to the company. Per the deal, Wurl will be available on all LG […]

April 8, 2022

Telecoming, OKAST join forces

Telecoming, a company specialising in the development of digital services monetization technologies, has signed a strategic agreement with OKAST, a SaaS solution for the creation of streaming video platforms, to boost the online video market. Launched four years ago, the OKAST solution has experienced rapid growth, driven in part by the explosion in online video […]

April 7, 2022

PlutoTV adds new channels from A+E Networks UK

Pluto TV, the FAST TV service from Paramount, has launched two new channels in partnership with A+E Networks UK. Inside Crime UK and Mystery TV are the first themed channels from the broadcaster to launch on Pluto TV in the UK. Inside Crime UK goes behind the headlines of some of the country’s most infamous […]

April 6, 2022

ShortsTV acquires Campion’s short films

ShortsTV, the global short film network, has acquired multi-year rights to a collection of short films by Jane Campion, winner of Best Director at the 94th Academy Awards. In a celebration of Campion’s Academy Awards success, becoming only the third woman in history to win the Oscar for Best Director with The Power of the […]

April 6, 2022

TelevisaUnivision chooses WHATS’ON for ViX streaming service

MEDIAGENIX, the Media Business Management Platform solution provider for the M&E industry, has announced that TelevisaUnivision will be leveraging WHATS’ON to manage, schedule and optimise programming for ViX, the global large-scale streaming service created specifically for the Spanish-speaking world. WHATS’ON allows ViX to plan more than 50,000 hours of Spanish-language content across genres, including original […]

April 6, 2022

Research: US internet twice as fast as EU

Both the US and the European Union saw median internet speeds rise dramatically in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite this, the Fair Internet Report found that the increase slowed significantly across the west in 2021. While both the US and EU continued to make gains, the pace of change was more than cut in […]

April 5, 2022

VIDAA, SeaChange addressable ad partnership

Smart TV operating system and content platform provider VIDAA USA, and video delivery and ad insertion solutions specialist SeaChange International have partnered to develop jointly a streaming and ad insertion solution to accelerate the expansion of free ad-supported content on VIDAA tv globally. VIDAA will provide a seamless interface to bring SeaChange Xstream platform customers […]

April 5, 2022

Beyond branded blocks on Insight TV

Beyond Rights and millennial focused digital channels provider Insight TV have entered into a partnership, which will see the launch of Beyond branded blocks on Insight TV’s science and technology focused InWonder channel. Initially, the Beyond branded blocks, which will play at weekends in primetime, will comprise content drawn from Beyond Rights’s catalogue of science […]

April 4, 2022

Pluto TV now on Xbox, PC

Pluto TV, a Paramount company, has announced that its free streaming service is now on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and on PCs with Windows 10 or Windows 11. Users can now access the entire library of channels available directly from Pluto TV app in the UK, GSA, Italy and Latin America. The service will […]

March 31, 2022