Two top executives at Pluto TV gave an update on the top ad-supported streaming player’s progress and fielded questions about the increase in competition during a NATPE keynote appearance Tuesday.
Chief Business Officer Jeff Shultz and Amy Kuessner, SVP of business partnerships, each offered takes on the burgeoning…
EXCLUSIVE: Pluto TV is rolling out a new logo as the streaming company begins its first CES since being acquired by Viacom nearly a year ago.
The new look, which is debuting in industry and trade circles at the Las Vegas convention, will reach consumers as part of a branding campaign planned for the first quarter of…
Viacom is ramping up its international streaming and production plans with Pierluigi Gazzolo taking on a new role.
President of Viacom International Media Networks Americas and Executive Vice President of Nickelodeon International Gazzolo has been appointed as President of OTT International and Viacom International…
EXCLUSIVE: Pluto TV, the ad-supported live streaming offering owned by Viacom, has lined up its latest pop-up channel: Pluto TV 007, a 24/7 streaming network dedicated to James Bond.
Timed to the ramp-up of interest in the super-spy ahead of No Time to Die, the 25th installment in the franchise due out on April 8, the…
The NFL and Pluto TV have reached a deal to launch the NFL Channel, a curated library offering, on the ad-supported streaming service.
Because Pluto is available free for consumers, much of the programming on its 150-plus networks approximates but does not duplicate what pay-TV subscribers get via the traditional…
As media giants gird for battle with Netflix and Amazon, CBS and Viacom continue to pursue marginally more patient streaming strategies, gaining steady ground without spending their way into trouble.
Now, as the companies prepare finally to consummate a merger that has been many years in the making, they stand to…
The name Bob Bakish and the word “swagger” do not usually go in the same sentence, but the Viacom CEO got to take a genuine victory lap on Thursday’s conference call with Wall Street analysts.
The company released third-quarter results that topped Wall Street expectations, along with an accomplishment that Bakish…
Viacom’s Pluto TV has launched Pluto TV Latino, a new category on the platform featuring 11 linear Spanish and Portuguese-language channels.
The company says it is the first offering of its kind to be introduced on a major ad-supported OTT service. In the pay-TV arena, programmers and distributors have saturated the…
Call it a bundle within a bundle.
Viacom’s Pluto TV, a free, ad-supported streaming offering with more than 100 live and curated channels from a range of programmers, is expanding to Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform. Comcast, the No. 1 U.S. cable operator, has said that X1 accounts for more than two-thirds of its total…
Viacom said its flagship networks BET, Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon will be added to the free, ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV, which it acquired in January.
The company made the announcement and unveiled a slate of digital programming during its second annual NewFronts pitch to media buyers at the…
Viacom is to roll out its ad-supported video streaming service Pluto TV internationally after its $340M acquisition closed earlier this month.
James Currell, President of Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) in the UK, Northern and Eastern Europe, said that it will largely focus on advertising-backed services…
