Viaplay Group and Vodafone Greece have signed a multi-year partnership that brings the Viaplay Select branded content concept to the Vodafone TV service. Vodafone TV’s 180,000 subscribers in Greece can now access hundreds of hours of curated series and films in a Viaplay Select branded area. The agreement extends Viaplay Select’s footprint to 11 European […]
Viaplay Group and Switzerland’s CH Media have agreed a multi-year partnership that secures more than 900 hours of Viaplay Select’s content for CH Media’s oneplus streaming service. The deal is the first in Switzerland for Viaplay Select, a branded content concept for partner platforms, and follows earlier tie-ups in the DACH region with Deutsche Telekom’s […]
Viaplay Group has renewed its rights to Danish 3F Superliga football for a further six seasons. The 3F Superliga is the top Nordic football league, and fans can continue following extensive live coverage on the Viaplay streaming service and Viaplay Group’s TV channels until the end of the 2029/2030 season. The agreement will take Viaplay […]
Investment bank Jefferies has updated its forecasts for streaming service Viaplay, and they do not make the best of reading. The bank has now stripped out those international markets no longer part of Viaplay’s strategy. The bank’s numbers also reflect current guidance from Viaplay. “Our FY23-25E revenue forecasts decrease by -c.8.5% on average,” says Jefferies. […]
Vivendi is taking a minority stake (12 per cent, via Canal+) in troubled Viaplay and the move, says investment bank Jefferies, is true to form. Vivendi has a history of cannily deploying capital to promote its myriad interests. In this instance, for a c.€30 million investment (out of a Vivendi group liquidity pile of €2.8 […]
Laying off 25 per cent of one’s staff is the headline no operator wants, but a report on the mess that is Viaplay from investment bank Jefferies makes grim reading. Not helping at all is the fact that Viaplay risks breaching its banking covenants. The bank admits that with a new CEO and the “size […]
Nordic broadcasting group Viaplay, in announcing its Q2 results, revealed that it is cutting more than 25 per cent of its staff (around 450 people) and pulling its services out of the US and UK as it mulls a sale. Viaplay reported Q2 net sales of SEK4,591 million (€399m) in Q2, up from SEK3,725 million […]
The Board of Viaplay Group has announced that, due to ill health, Pernille Erenbjerg has notified the Nomination Committee that she is standing down from the Board with immediate effect. The Board, after discussion with the Nomination Committee, has appointed existing non-executive Board Director Simon Duffy as Interim Chair while they search for a permanent […]
Equity analysts at investment bank Jefferies, responding to Viaplay’s new operating model, said that a simple interpretation of the announcement is that it expects the new strategy update to yield a larger and more aggressive cost-saving programme. “Read between the lines of the [Viaplay] release, however, and you’ll find a tacit admission that Viaplay’s product […]
Viaplay Group has announced a new Nordic country-based operating model and changes to its executive management team. This follows the announcement of changes to the Group’s short-term outlook for 2023, and the appointment of Jørgen Madsen Lindemann as President and CEO. The new operating model aims to improve operating efficiency and performance, sharpen the Group’s […]