Zoomin.TV builds streaming video apps with Vewd Snap

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
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World’s Largest OTT Enabling Player Vewd Onboards Zoomin.TV Content

  • Zoomin.TV’s Groundbreaking Stories Brought To Nearly 50m Devices Each Year

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, and OSLO, Norway — Zoomin.TV, the leading global publisher of online video content targeting Generation Z viewers, today announced that Vewd, the global market leader in enabling OTT, will make Zoomin.TV’s popular streaming video channels available for Vewd enabled devices. The channels Zoomin TV and Zoomin Games are already available in the Vewd App Store, which can be found on a variety of connected TV devices from Sony, Samsung, HiSense, Tivo, and Vestel.

Zoomin.TV used Vewd Snap, the industry’s leading app creation and distribution tool, to build their apps. Using a minimal set of inputs and in just a few minutes, Vewd Snap creates a TV app that works on Vewd enabled devices. With almost 50 million Vewd enabled devices entering the market each year, Vewd Snap offers the most cost-effective solution for content owners to create TV apps with a fantastic user experience that they can easily distribute through the world’s largest connected TV ecosystem.

“Zoomin.TV’s content has enjoyed a tremendous response from viewers around the globe,” said Jan Riemens, CEO, Zoomin.TV. “Today we’re expanding our reach through the largest connected TV ecosystem where our content can be found and enjoyed. With Vewd as our partner, we can focus on what we do best – creating groundbreaking stories for Gen Z – while leveraging the entire Vewd ecosystem to deliver and distribute our content.”

Wrapped in the mission statement, “Dare, Care, Share,” Zoomin.TV is the world’s hottest online video publisher. Publishing more than 400 videos in 20+ languages daily, and collaborating with some 3,500 freelance video journalists, Zoomin.TV tells stories that bring change to people’s lives, with a focus on inspiring, emotionally compelling and empowering content.

“We’re on a mission to enable entertainment for everyone,” said Daniel Nordberg, SVP Partnerships, Vewd. “We’re proud scaling partners of Zoomin.TV, taking on the technical complexity associated with building, maintaining and distributing OTT content on the world’s largest connected TV ecosystem. Now they can focus on what they do better than anyone – creating the stories that excite and inspire their already highly engaged audience.”

Availability

Zoomin TV and Zoomin Games are available in the Vewd App Store, which is found on TVs from Sony, HiSense and Vestel, set-top boxes from Tivo, and Blu-Ray players from Samsung.