The Walt Disney Company Iberia and Telefonica announced that Movistar will be the strategic partner for the distribution of Disney + at its launch in Spain. While the OTT has not yet launched in Latin America, Telefónica integrated Netflix and Amazon Prime Video in countries in the region, and is expected to offer its customers [...]
On its results report for the period January-December 2019, Telefonica reported that its video revenues were valued at € 769 million (USD 857.9 million), and experienced a growth of 6.8% year-on-year, with 9.7 million accesses. The OTT ‘Movistar Play’ recorded an 86% year-on-year growth in Latin America, where it had 1.3 million active accesses at [...]
On its January-December 2019 period results report, Telefónica reported that Vivo, its subsidiary in Brazil, has 36% of the broadband accesses already connected to its FTTH network, which already reaches 11 million HPs. Likewise, the company reported that IPTV accesses grew 23% year-on-year and recorded 715 thousand, and also remarked that, in Q4 2019, Vivo’s [...]
After the launch of its Peruvian productions ‘El dia de mi suerte’ and ‘Un dia eres joven’, part of the plan to produce series in several Latin American countries announced last year, Movistar showed some advances of Ruido Capital, its first series produced in Colombia, soon to be released, in two videos with the first [...]
From this last Thursday, December 19th, Movistar Play, launched in Mexico in March this year, added HBO content. The OTT subscribers in that country can access it directly from the Movistar Play app. They can also enter HBO, HBO2, HBO Family, HBO Plus and HBO Signature. ‘The exclusive HBO programming is available for Movistar Play [...]
Argentine telecom company iPlan announced an agreement with DirecTV to market the company’s DirecTV GO OTT within its FTTH network, and is also negotiating with Movistar and Cablevision to do the same with Movistar Play and Flow. As reported by the Argentine newspaper La Nación, the company will offer DirecTV GO in 2020 and, during [...]
‘El dia de mi suerte’, the second Movistar original series produced in Peru, will have its final episode this Friday, December 6th. From that day on, the four-episode-series, premiered on November 15th on Movistar Play and Movistar Series will be fully on demand on Movistar Play in seven Latin American countries. The Movistar series, inspired [...]
Movistar Chile announced the integration of Amazon Prime Video content to Movistar Play in that country. Those Movistar OTT subscribers who activate Amazon Prime Video can enjoy its titles on up to three devices at the same time and download content without an internet connection, from any place and time. Amazon Originals titles are available [...]
Samsung Electronics and Telefonica announced the OTT Movistar Play will be added to the apps portfolio available on Samsung smart TVs interface. The app will be available on all models made from 2016. Movistar Play offers various live TV channels and a VOD content catalog with more than 10 thousand titles, including movies, series, documentaries [...]
Following its series production plan in several Latin American countries, Movistar launched the trailer of ‘El dia de mi suerte’, its second original series produced in Peru, and announced it will premiere next November 15th on Movistar Play. The series is a four-episode comedy inspired by Puerto Rican singer Hector Lavoe visit to Lima, in [...]