Rakuten TV

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This article is about the Spanish electronic commerce and television service. For For video news agency of, see Reuters TV.
Rakuten TV
Subsidiary
Industry Electronic commerce
Founded 2010
Founders Jacinto Roca, Josep Mitjà
Headquarters Barcelona, Spain
Area served
 Spain, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Ireland, Belgium, Croatia, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Malaysia, and Ukraine
Key people
 Jacinto Roca (CEO)
Josep Mitjà (COO)
Nikhil Deora (CSO)
David Villanueva Cabezas (CTO)
Products Video on demand films and tv series
Number of employees
 200
Parent Rakuten
Website Rakuten TV
Rakuten Sports

Rakuten TV is a video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service, listing movies and TV series for subscription, rental, and purchase. Since 2019, the platform has provided users access to different content via TVOD, AVOD,[1] FAST,[2] and SVOD.[3] It is owned by the Japanese company Rakuten. Rakuten TV's catalogue includes content from studios around the world, including Warner Bros., Disney, and Sony Pictures, local distributors, and independent labels, being the smallest and least known service among its competitors.

Rakuten TV's content can be streamed from most devices, offering a similar service to Netflix and other streaming services.[4][5][6][7]

The company is headquartered in Barcelona and currently operates in several countries around Europe; Spain, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Ireland, Belgium, Malaysia, Croatia, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Ukraine And Switzerland.[citation needed]

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.

History

In June 2012, Rakuten, the world's third largest e-commerce company, acquired the company, previously known as Wuaki.tv.[8] 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

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.[9]

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