The Federacion Paulista de Futbol (FPF), entity that regulates football in São Paulo, Brazil, has announced this last Monday, June 7th, an agreement with YouTube (Google) through which the platform will be able to broadcast Paulistão’s matches, name by which the Paulista Football League is known, made up by professional football clubs of São Paulo. [...]
After announcing that the services of the ‘Net’ brand would become available under the ‘Claro’ brand in Brazil, now América Móvil renewed the navigation interface of several STBs of Net customers, which now began to visualize a a visual aesthetic more related to Claro. America Movil began the Claro/Net integration in 2015, although, in July [...]
HBO Latin America announced that it will begin the filming process of ‘Os Esquecidos’ (Los Olvidados), next February 17th, a suspense and mystery series that will be recorded for four months with locations in San Pablo, Paranapiacaba and other cities in that State. Throughout 10 episodes, Os Esquecidos will tell the story of a group [...]
After announcing the opening of offices in Mexico City (CDMX) in 2019, Netflix decided to move its headquarters for Latin America to the Mexican capital, where its programming, marketing and advertising executives for the region will be located. The company’s office in San Pablo will continue to command its operations in Brazil and the south [...]
Netflix is developing the ‘Tudum Festival’, its own festival in Brazil. It is taking place between January 25th and 28th, and is based on an exhibition where, through different stands, audiences that attend will be able to live experiences based on series, special productions and films of the platform. This is the first festival that [...]
In its Q3 2019 results report, Telefonica Brazil – where it operates under the Vivo brand – added 33 new cities to its FTTH network between January and September, which, to date, amount to 154, taking into account the 121 where the company deployed FTTH in 2018. At Q3 2019, the company has also covered [...]
Brazilian Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT) launched SBT Videos, its own OTT platform, a content aggregator that makes videos from SBT hosted on YouTube. At present, only the OTT web version is available for free, with no need to pay any subscription. The platform’s offer also includes live SBT programming. Some of the contents available [...]
Brazilian pay TV operator Sky is starting to offer the integration of its services with Alexa, the intelligent virtual assistant developed by Amazon, which was recently launched in Brazil. Commands can be made through the voice-activated smart speakers of the Echo line. Currently, Amazon devices are available in three versions in the country (Amazon Echo, [...]
In its Q2 2019 results report, the Brazilian company Oi recorded 2.8 million homes passed with FTTH in 68 municipalities in Brazil. This way, coverage increased by 381% compared to Q2 2018. Oi’s strategic plan expects to reach 4.6 million homes passed by the end of 2019 and 16 million in 2021. Oi reported 291 [...]
Brazil recorded 16,709,668 households with access to pay TV in June. The already mentioned figure means a 1.23 million subscribers fall during last 12 month-period, according to what the country’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) officially informed. According to the entity, in June almost half of Brazilians households had access to pay TV through the Claro [...]