Stan signs deal with CBS Studios as Fetch TV adds BBC First to its service
Stan has announced a further non-exclusive content deal as it continues to round out its back-catalogue offering, with CBS Studios International the latest to sign a non-exclusive content licensing agreement with the streaming platform, as rival Fetch TV adds a further seven channels, including BBC First and Universal Channel, to its platform.
The news follows Stan signing a content deal with BBC Worldwide earlier this month, a deal with MGM which saw the platform secure the streaming rights to Fargo and a deal with SBS which sees its World Movies content available on the platform. Today Seven West Media announced it was tying up with Foxtel’s Presto service to add TV to its catalogue.
Stan’s agreement with CBS Worldwide will bolster the back catalogue offering, with earlier series of shows currently under broadcast deals with some Australian networks including The Good Wife (Ten), Blue Bloods (Ten), Nurse Jackie (Ten), Californication (Ten), Dexter (Ten). Showtime series Ray Donovan, which airs on Foxtel, is also included in the deal.
sounds like the many and varied IPTV services about to flood the market are going to be very similar in terms of both content and pricing. I predict the one (possibly 2) with the deepest pockets will win. Last man standing.
It will be interesting how fast these new platforms will be.
Has anyone tried to get a vid to play on a Fairfax site of recent? Far out, once the ad’s render I click back and find it on YouTube…….
Speaking of YouTube……………
I think the Stan infrastructure is completely different (and much better) than the video infrastructure used to serve videos on the Fairfax masthead sites.
Wow, Presto, Netflix, Stan etc – talk about fragmentation. Tribalism has gone, and there will be the same amount of eyeballs watching THOUSANDS of programs. An advertisers nightmare.
@ Geoff Field: not to mention the existing FTA networks and the catchup TV products they also have. Plus Apple TV, plus Fetch etc etc. Buying content rights to the sorts of shows people want to watch is extremely expensive. There is simply not enough ad $$ or subscription $$ to sustain all of these players. (and you need look no further than Channel 10 to see what happens when you don’t have the money to buy the big shows – audiences and ad revenue fall through the floor, which means even less money to buy quality program, even lower audiences, lower revenues etc etc) There will be a massive shakeout. A market the size of Australia can only sustain one , possibly two players in this space.
Yeah ‘need for speed’. In the past few weeks it just stalls and buffers all the time. I thought it may have been my pipe or my browser. Ta.
@need for speed: its even worse than you think. the fairfax news sites have all been off the air for over two hours now. Their tech prowess leaves much to be desired…..