THEMA, a Canal+ Group company, has announced a partnership agreement with Amagi, a global player in SaaS for broadcast and connected TV on the cloud, to distribute channels across FAST platforms around the globe, such as two in-house FAST channels VIVE KANAL D DRAMA and WANNA SEE TV. THEMA will use the award-winning broadcast-grade channel playout […]
VICE Distribution, the distribution arm of VICE Media Group, has secured a new content partnership with the Viaplay streaming service for over 210 hours of VICE programming for the Nordic and Baltic regions, with titles spanning true crime, investigative documentary, entertainment, sport and lifestyle. The partnership covers Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced that UniversCiné, a French VoD platform dedicated to movie lovers and arthouse films, is partnering with Amagi for the launch and playout of its channel to Samsung TV Plus. Launched in 2007, UniversCiné is the result of 47 independent French […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has partnered with the global smartphone brand Xiaomi, to manage and monetize their linear TV and Video-On-Demand offerings to their mobile and connected TV consumers across multiple countries. The content would be a part of Xiaomi’s direct-to-consumer app. Xiaomi is a consumer […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced that Blue Ant Media is partnering with Amagi for channel delivery in the US market. Blue Ant Media has deployed Amagi’s award-winning cloud-based channel playout solution, Amagi CLOUDPORT, for rapidly spinning up new channels and delivering them to multiple Free […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has strengthened its partnership with Rakuten TV, one of the leading VoD platforms in Europe, for channel distribution and monetization. Rakuten TV is the first VoD platform in Europe combining Transactional Video-On-Demand (TVOD), Advertising Video-On-Demand (AVOD), Free Ad Supported Streaming TV (FAST), […]
Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced that Accel, Avataar Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, and existing investor Premji Invest have collectively invested over $100 million in the company. The venture funds have bought out the stake held by Emerald Media (an investment platform backed by KKR) and […]
Amagi, the global leader in SaaS for broadcast and streaming TV on the cloud, has announced a sequential growth of 18% in revenue in the quarter ending June 2021, amid strong global demand for CTV-led Free Ad Supported Streaming TV solutions. The company’s revenue in the quarter grew 110 per cent in comparison to that […]
Vice Media has launched a free online television channel available on the Roku platform in the US this week, as it markets an IPO to refinance some of the funding taken from TPG private equity in 2017 when it was valued at $5.7 billion (€4.7bn) – it is now hoping for a value of $3 […]
Youth-focussed TV and media business Vice Media is slashing costs in Europe which could also see the end of its TV channels. A report in the Sunday Telegraph said that its relationship with Virgin Media is also ending having failed to reach terms with Virgin over carriage of the channel. However, the report comes only […]