Magnite, the independent sell-side advertising company, has announced the appointment of Natasha Westlund as the Head of Nordics and the opening of a new office in Stockholm, which will serve as the company’s base across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. As Head of Nordics, Westlund is the commercial lead across both seller and buyer teams […]
A three-season, English-language adaptation of the bestselling novels co-authored by Camilla Läckberg, one of the world’s most popular crime writers, and renowned mentalist Henrik Fexeus, is Viaplay’s latest international production. Scripted by Gunnar Järvstad (‘Top Dog’; ‘The Truth Will Out’) and Britain’s Simon Kassianides (‘The Mandalorian’; ‘Quantum of Solace’), the ambitious trilogy is produced by […]
ITV Studios has announced a slew of new sales in the Nordics across its drama slate. The deal, which closed at the ITV Studios’ Drama Festival, part of the third annual London TV Screenings, sees five major Nordic public broadcasters: SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway, YLE in Finland, DR in Denmark and RUV in […]
Swedish streaming service SF Anytime, owned by SF Studios, has acquired the Danish streaming service Blockbuster from Nuuday. By acquiring the right to use the Blockbuster brand and all customer relationships, SF Anytime says it creates a “leading Nordic platform for digital rental and purchase of films to consumers”. The two businesses will continue to […]
Nordic media-tech platform Clipsource has appointed Maria Campo as the new Head of Marketing and Communication. Campo joins from the ‘smart button’ provider Flic, where she was Marketing Manager.Clipsource is a communication platform used by many of the world’s largest TV and streaming brands and the company currently has customers in 23 countries. The mission […]
The Nordic TV distributor Allente has launched the Allente Streaming Hub – a Google TV streaming dongle, with Chromecast and Bluetooth built-in. Allente’s TV app is pre-installed on the device, as well as many other streaming services. Users can access both linear TV channels and streaming services via the Allente Streaming Hub, which comes with […]
BBC Studios will launch BBC Nordic and BBC Nordic+, an enhanced linear channel and dedicated on-demand service for Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic viewers from April 17th. Linear channel BBC Nordic brings together the best content from BBC Brit and BBC Earth and will replace them in the current channel mix. BBC Nordic+, a […]
Pay-TV streamer Viaplay has somewhat earned increased confidence with a set of solid Q4 numbers and a reiteration of its 2023 and longer-term guidance. “But with the trading backdrop still complex and breakeven in the International segment still a year away, there remains much to be seen before the market discounts a sustainable group EBIT […]
Viaplay has reported paying subscribers are up 83 per cent YoY to 7,318,000 with 890,000 subscribers added in the last quarter as the streaming service continues its international roll out. Viaplay Group posted an adjusted quarterly operating loss of SEK 294 million (€26 million), compared with a profit of 69 million crowns a year earlier, […]
Three million SVoD subscriptions in the Nordics are currently accessed via an account borrowed from another household, according to Mediavision’s latest analysis of the Nordic TV and streaming market. Looking at all subscriptions for the 15 largest SV0D services, close to 20 per cent is shared with a non-paying household. Netflix has the highest share […]