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STV Player secures additional new content partners
STV Player secures additional new content partners.
About this update from Stv Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 9154R STV Group PLC 05 March 2019 \n\n \n \n \n \nPRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE\n \n \nSTV PLAYER SECURES ADDITIONAL NEW CONTENT PARTNERS \n \n5 March 2019\n \nSTV has confirmed two new partnerships with international content providers, Flame Distribution and Jukin Media to provide additional programming and choice for viewers as its video on demand service, STV Player, continues to expand. \n \nJukin Media is owner/ operator of multimedia entertainment brands FailArmy, The Pet Collective, and People Are Awesome; those immensely popular properties provide comedic and inspirational video content to tens of millions of followers on social media, and will now be available on STV Player.\n \n\"We're committed to making our brands available everywhere there's an active, enthusiastic audience consuming video content, and STV Player absolutely fits that description,\" said Cameron Saless, Chief Growth Officer of Jukin Media. \n \nFlame Distribution is an international distributor of factual, unscripted and documentary content representing more than 140 independent producers from around the world. Programmes which will air on STV Player include Recipes That Rock and Grand Tours of Scotland.\n \nThomas Gould, Flame's VP Sales - Middle East, Hungary & Turkey Worldwide Transport Sales & Digital Sales EMEA, said: \"Flame is delighted to be working with STV. We feel that our titles will be a perfect match for their customers and will play a role in generating more customers for their service. We look forward to working with STV on more future deals!\" \n \nLast year, STV announced a new strategic growth plan for the business, creating a dedicated digital division to drive growth through the STV Player and deliver a personalised STV for everyone. These new partnerships follow recent extensions to the range of content available through Eleven Sports, Hopster and Little Dot Studio to deliver increased choice across children's, factual, drama, entertainment and sports programming.\n \nToday's announcement follows the laun...