Mansha Daswani

Matt Schnaars, president of content distribution at NBCUniversal, discussed how the company is approaching FAST channel opportunities at the FAST Festival.

Marcos Milanez, the chief content officer at Rakuten TV, told FAST Festival viewers about the European platform’s FAST channel bouquet and approach to acquisitions and originals.

Haymi Behar, chief marketing and digital officer at SPI International, told FAST Festival delegates about how the CANAL+ Group-owned company is tapping into its long history of operating pay-TV channels as it expands into the FAST space.

Olivier Jollet, executive VP and international general manager at Pluto TV, delivered a keynote at the FAST Festival on what’s driving viewership gains at the Paramount-owned AVOD service.

ITV Studios’ Graham Haigh, Cineflix Rights’ Mike Gould, Banijay Rights’ Shaun Keeble and All3Media International’s Gary Woolf talked about how their companies are pursuing opportunities in FAST as the FAST Festival kicked off today.

Kicking off on Tuesday, July 25, the virtual FAST Festival will feature sessions on all segments of the booming FAST business; register today to make sure you receive access to our post-event White Paper delivering key intel from the event in a compact, easy-to-digest format.

Korean content continues to drive online viewing across Asia according to a new report from Media Partners Asia (MPA), accounting for 50 percent of SVOD viewing and 42 percent of freemium views in the first half of this year.

Netflix reported second-quarter revenues of $8.2 billion and ended the period with 238.4 million subscribers, adding 5.9 million in the period.

Viaplay Group is letting go 25 percent of its workforce as it shifts course, setting a new strategy to focus on its Nordic, Dutch and Viaplay Select operations and mulling a potential sale.

Tune in to our virtual FAST Festival next week, where we’ll deliver insights on selling to channel operators, curation, managing catalogs of scale and so much more. Register now to ensure you receive our post-event FAST trends White Paper.