Video-on-demand and free ad-supported streaming television platform
This article is about the global electronic commerce and television service. For video-on-demand streaming service of Rakuten Viki, see
Rakuten Viki
. For video news agency of Reuters, see
Reuters TV
.
Rakuten TV
Logo used since 2010
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Company type
| Subsidiary
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Industry
| Electronic commerce
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Founded
| 2010
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Founders
| Jacinto Roca
,
Josep Mitja
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Headquarters
| ,
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Area served
| Asia:
Japan
Europe:
Aaland Islands
,
Albania
,
Austria
,
Belgium
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
,
Bulgaria
,
Croatia
,
Cyprus
,
Czech Republic
,
Denmark
,
Estonia
,
Faroe Islands
,
Finland
,
France
,
Germany
,
Greece
,
Greenland
,
Hungary
,
Iceland
,
Ireland
,
Italy
,
Latvia
,
Lithuania
,
Luxembourg
,
Macedonia
,
Malta
,
Montenegro
,
Netherlands
,
Norway
,
Poland
,
Portugal
,
Romania
,
Serbia
,
Slovakia
,
Slovenia
,
Spain
,
Sweden
,
Switzerland
,
United Kingdom
, and
Ukraine
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Key people
| Jacinto Roca
(CEO)
Josep Mitja
(COO)
Nikhil Deora
(CSO)
David Villanueva Cabezas
(CTO)
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Products
| Video on demand
films and tv series,
TV channels
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Number of employees
| 200
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Parent
| Rakuten
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Website
| Rakuten TV
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Rakuten TV
is a
video-on-demand (VOD)
and
free ad-supported streaming television
(FAST) platform, providing movies and TV series for subscription, rental, and purchase as well as FAST channels with a mix of local and global content.
[1]
Since 2019, the platform has provided users access to different content via TVOD, AVOD,
[2]
SVOD,
[3]
and FAST.
[4]
It is owned by the Japanese company,
Rakuten
.
Rakuten TV's VOD catalogue includes content from studios around the world, including
Warner Bros.
,
Disney
, and
Sony Pictures
, local distributors, and independent labels producing both locally and globally oriented content. Similarly, Rakuten TV's distribution of FAST channels includes both its own Rakuten curated channels as well as FAST channels and TV channels operated and curated by its partners around the world.
[5]
Rakuten TV's content can be streamed from most devices, offering a similar service to
Netflix
and other streaming services.
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
The company is headquartered in
Tokyo
and
Barcelona
and currently operates in Japan as well as several countries around Europe;
Aaland Islands
,
Albania
,
Austria
,
Belgium
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
,
Bulgaria
,
Croatia
,
Cyprus
,
Czech Republic
,
Denmark
,
Estonia
,
Faroe Islands
,
Finland
,
France
,
Germany
,
Greece
,
Greenland
,
Hungary
,
Iceland
,
Ireland
,
Italy
,
Latvia
,
Lithuania
,
Luxembourg
,
Macedonia
,
Malta
,
Montenegro
,
Netherlands
,
Norway
,
Poland
,
Portugal
,
Romania
,
Serbia
,
Slovakia
,
Slovenia
,
Spain
,
Sweden
,
Switzerland
,
United Kingdom
, and
Ukraine
.
[10]
In Japan, the video streaming service Rakuten SHOWTIME changed its name to Rakuten TV on July 1, 2017 and has been operating under the new name since then.
Rakuten also operates another global
video-on-demand (VOD)
streaming service called
Rakuten Viki
which is headquartered in
San Mateo
,
California
with additional offices in
Tokyo
,
Japan
,
Seoul
,
South Korea
, and
Singapore
.
[11]
Rakuten Viki focuses on distributing content from parts of Asia to the rest of the world. This includes drama, variety shows, and animation from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, and Thailand.
[12]
History
[
edit
]
In June 2012,
Rakuten
, the world's third largest e-commerce company, acquired the company, previously known as Wuaki.tv.
[13]
In July 2017, Wuaki.tv changed its name to Rakuten TV. Rakuten took over the user base from
TalkTalk TV Store
(previously Blinkbox) including migration of user purchased titles, in June 2018.
Rakuten Sports
[
edit
]
On 11 June 2019, Rakuten announced the launch of Rakuten Sports, a new live streaming and video on demand (VOD) sports entertainment platform to expand and deliver sports content to several countries around the world, after eleven countries across Europe.
In November 2019, Rakuten Sports provides the subscription streaming coverage of
Davis Cup
for two seasons
2019
and
2020
, also as the part of main sponsorship, starting from the
2019 finals
.
[14]
References
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Rental and purchase
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Discontinued
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