Tubi TV, the ad-supported, on-demand video service, will launch in the UK in 2020 and is set to roll out a specific kids’ library service.
This comes after the service recenty rolled out in Australia as part of its first leg of planned global expansion.
Ad-supported streaming, once a marginal sector, has gained significant momentum of late. This year alone, Viacom acquired Pluto TV for $340 million, Sony set joint venture with Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment to reboot Crackle, and NBCUniversal unveiled plans for its own Avod service due out next April.
The announcements were made as the company gave a keynote address at Mipcom.
Tubi Kids will launch on October 21, a new area of Tubi that will feature a library of children’s content – over 1,200 age-appropriate movies and television shows or over 5,000 hours of content at launch – free in a dedicated section built for families.
Tubi Kids will initially...
This comes after the service recenty rolled out in Australia as part of its first leg of planned global expansion.
Ad-supported streaming, once a marginal sector, has gained significant momentum of late. This year alone, Viacom acquired Pluto TV for $340 million, Sony set joint venture with Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment to reboot Crackle, and NBCUniversal unveiled plans for its own Avod service due out next April.
The announcements were made as the company gave a keynote address at Mipcom.
Tubi Kids will launch on October 21, a new area of Tubi that will feature a library of children’s content – over 1,200 age-appropriate movies and television shows or over 5,000 hours of content at launch – free in a dedicated section built for families.
Tubi Kids will initially...
- 10/14/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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