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13 Mar 2023

DAZN

DAZN launches women’s sports FAST channel DAZN RISE DAZN will launch a free, ad-supported streaming channel dedicated to women’s sports in Germany and Austria on March 16, 2023. The FAST channel DAZN RISE will initially be available on Samsung TV Plus and waipu.tv, with other platforms such as LG and Cliq to follow. The line-up will include live broadcasts and highlights, in football for example the UEFA Women’s Champions League, the French and Spanish first leagues, Division 1 Féminine and LaLiga Femenina, and from September 2023 the Women’s Bundesliga, as well as golf, handball, basketball, hockey and boxing. Documentaries will also be shown. Upcoming UEFA Women’s Champions League games on DAZN RISE include FC Bayern Munich’s quarter-final matches against FC [...]

13 Mar 2023

wedotv

wedotv launches FAST channels on Freeview Ad-supported streaming service wedotv has launched its FAST channels wedo movies and wedo big stories on UK TV platform Freeview. wedo movies is a movie service featuring high-quality contemporary films. Factual Entertainment channel wedo big stories features nature and science documentaries and outdoor/adventure lifestyle programming. Both are delivered as FAST channels and are now available to consumers on Freeview as part of Channelbox’s bundle of curated channels. “Our focus on FAST is at the centre of our expansion plans for 2023 and we’re pleased to be a part of the Freeview platform in the UK,” said Philipp Rotermund, co-CEO of wedotv. “Bundling our FAST services is going to be the answer to channel discovery [...]

13 Mar 2023

Zattoo

Zattoo launches FAST movie channel Netzkino TV streaming provider Zattoo has launched its first own FAST channel: Netzkino shows movies from the genres romance, comedy, action, thriller and horror. For the free, ad-supported streaming channel, Zattoo uses content from German provider Netzkino, a Plaion Pictures brand, that is already available in the on-demand area, to which more than 20 new titles are added every month. Following wedo movies, wedo big stories and Beauty TV, Netzkino is the fourth FAST channel on the Zattoo platform. “FAST channels are one of this year’s big streaming trends. Their great popularity shows that linear television continually manages to adapt to changing usage needs. With our first very own FAST channel, we are expanding our [...]

20 Jan 2023

YouTube

YouTube tests suite of FAST channels YouTube is looking to introduce a range of FAST channels as its ambitions continue to lean further towards traditional video. Wall Street Journal reported the Alphabet company was in talks with a number of potential partners to include their films and TV shows. In launching its own FAST channels, YouTube would put itself in competition with international players Roku, Pluto TV and Tubi, and country-specific operations such as ITVX. FAST channels screen a mix of archive content and some more recent hits. For example, Pluto TV has debuted episodes on Star Trek on its platform as a means to promote the paid-for Paramount+. In the United States, YouTube has already established a marketplace for [...]

13 Jan 2023

Amagi

Amagi: Significant growth for FAST channels Year-on-year growth in the FAST channel market continues to outpace predictions, according to the cloud-based technology Amagi. In the sixth edition of its Quarterly Global FAST Report, the company says growth in Q3 (Jul-Sep) 2022 compared to Q3 (Jul-Sep) 2021 in Europe saw an increase of 99.97% in ad impressions and over 51% in Hours of Viewing. The report aggregates data from the company’s proprietary viewership and ad analytics platform, which brings together data and insights from 50+ platforms and over 2,000 channels that run on Amagi’s SSAI platform. “Recent global events have contributed to a difficult economic climate in Europe and across the world. Against this backdrop, the FAST sector has displayed the [...]

09 Dec 2022

Warner Music

Warner Music Launches First Free FAST Channels, Exclusively on Roku Channel Warner Music Group has punched its way into the free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) segment, with the launch of a trio of genre-based channels exclusively on the Roku Channel. The new channels from the music company — WMX Pop, WMX Rock and WMX Hip-Hop — are now available to stream for free on the Roku Channel through the service’s Live TV Guide. WMG is giving Roku a three-month exclusive window on the FAST channels for the U.S. before widening distribution to other platforms. The new FAST channels come from WMX, the division WMG formed a year ago that houses the company’s content, ecommerce, fan experience and commercial services businesses. [...]