Viaplay acquires Premier Sports in £30 million deal
Company has appointed DAZN's Edward Breeze as SVP and head of sports UK
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Company has appointed DAZN's Edward Breeze as SVP and head of sports UK
The long-term agreement will see more than 180 live matches from England's second tier broadcast on Viaplay every season, including the semi-finals and finals
Viaplay's new UK streaming service is expected to launch in the second half of 2022
Hub will focus on product management, design and front- and back-end development to support streamer's ongoing international expansion
Launches in the Netherlands and the UK will follow in 2022
Viaplay will launch in the UK in the second half of 2022 and then in Germany, Austria and Switzerland during 2023
Deal runs from 2022 to 2028, and is addition to the company's rights deals in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway
Streamer will launch in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the United States in 2021
Announcement part of company's Q2 results
Content spend on originals has increased while acquisition investment decreased
Local streaming players turning towards comedy content
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sky, HBO and Viaplay are behind 89 per cent of the $6 billion attributed to SVoD consumer spending in 2018
40.5 per cent more Viaplay streams started in 2017; total number of Viaplay customers grew 21 per cent
Deal will give TDC close to three million TV subscribers and access to ten million households in the Nordic region
She succeeds Jonas Karlen who has decided to leave the company
New report from European Audiovisual Observatory
Service's programme director unveils forthcoming slate and market intention.