Comcast, ViacomCBS to launch streaming service SkyShowtime in Europe, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity
By Helen Coster and Chavi Mehta
Comcast Corp and ViacomCBS will launch streaming service SkyShowtime in Europe bringing content material from Nickelodeon, Paramount+, Sky and others, the businesses mentioned on Wednesday, as they be part of fingers to tackle heavyweights Netflix and Disney+.
SkyShowtime will likely be streamed in markets together with Spain, Portugal, the Nordic nations, Netherlands and Central and Japanese Europe, the businesses mentioned. They mentioned they may have equal funding and management within the three way partnership and can announce SkyShowtime’s subscription value at a later date.
ViacomCBS has greater than 42 million international streaming subscribers whereas NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service, whose choices may even be out there on SkyShowtime, has greater than 20 million lively month-to-month accounts.
Comcast is utilizing its Sky platform to extend Peacock subscribers in bigger European markets. In July, it introduced that Peacock will likely be out there at no extra value to just about 20 million Sky prospects in bigger markets in Europe.
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Sky can be distributing ViacomCBS’s Paramount+ streaming service in these markets, ViacomCBS introduced earlier in July – a part of an effort to broaden Paramount+ into 45 markets by the top of 2022.
SkyShowtime, which will likely be constructed on the Peacock expertise platform, is a manner for each firms to cost-effectively break into smaller European markets the place neither has a robust footprint. Sky isn’t within the markets the place the brand new service will likely be launching.
