Roku announced yesterday its upcoming launch in Brazil, that is happening in tandem with local smart TV manufacturing and subscription streaming partnerships. Roku is partnering with manufacturer AOC to release a pair of smart TVs for the Brazilian market, AOC Roku TV models will be available online today in Casas Bahia, Ponto Frio and Extra, [...]
Globoplay is already available in the US, since last Sunday, January 19th. This way, audience in the country is able to access the vast Globo programming, with over 500 titles available on demand and the content of the international Globo channel. The app is available to download it via App Store, Google Play, on Samsung [...]
Jorge Nobrega, CEO at Grupo Globo, announced in an interview with the Brazilian Valor Economico newspaper that the company plans to make a R$ 1 billion (USD 237.7 million) investment in Globoplay and new technologies during 2020. ‘There are different opportunities for Globoplay compared to competitors such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, which, although [...]
As of January 2020, TV Globo, Globosat, Som Livre, Globo.com, Globoplay and DGCorp will come together to form a single new company which will bear the name Globo. Announced today by Executive Director Jorge Nóbrega, the new integrated organizational structure is the result of Globo’s digital transformation strategy, initiated in 2018 with a unification program [...]
BBC Studios announced an agreement that grants Brazilian Globo Group the Doctor Who exclusive rights, the oldest BBC global franchise, together with a large number of other content, to be broadcast throughout Brazil. The agreement includes the British science fiction series 1-11 seasons and 12th exclusive rights for pay TV and SVOD format, and other [...]
The Aruanas series, a co production project between the Brazilian Globo Group and Maria Farinha Filmes, has is international platform -aruanas.tv- enabled to access for free for a 7-day period from September 5th, day on which Amazonia’s Day and the anniversary of the Amazonas State creation is celebrated in Brazil. In ‘Aruanas’, three idealist friends [...]
Globoplay, Brazilian Globo Group’s OTT, announced that it will premiere the fourth season of the Sessão de Terapia series next August 30th, as an original production of the platform, which will last 35 episodes. Its first three seasons were watched in the country between 2012 and 2014, and the fourth one will be produced [...]
From 2020, Brazilians living in the US will have the option of accessing the Globo Group’s TV programming through Globoplay. The Group informed that, from next year, it will be focused on expanding its strategy with its audience outside Brazil, and will make its platform available in the North American country. The information was released [...]
Since last week, Globoplay -the Brazilian’s Globo Group OTT- is offering to selected clients access to 19 channels from the pay TV operator Globosat, also belonging to the previous mentioned group. Through an email, Globoplay subscribers who are elected are notified, that the initiative is part of a test, valid until July 10th. ‘We invite [...]
Aruanas, title of the new production between the Brazilian Globo Group and the company Maria Farinha Filmes, inspired by real events related to the global environmental crisis ant the work developed by activists to protect the planet, will be launched globally in more than 150 countries next July 2nd. Its first season will last 10 [...]
