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We are happy to announce that Foxxum will be present at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam this September 15-18! IBC is the premier event for professionals involved in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. 

This year, we are taking our presence at IBC to a whole new level by teaming up with our new acquisition partner, ZEASN. Together, we aim to revolutionize the CTV entertainment landscape and redefine the way people experience content on smart TVs and connected devices. 

Join us at booth #5.A08 to explore our cutting-edge solutions and experience first-hand the power of our partnership with ZEASN. Our team will be on hand to demonstrate our latest innovations, showcase our diverse range of applications, and discuss how our combined strengths will reshape the future of the smart TV experience. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with Foxxum and ZEASN and stay ahead of the rapidly evolving trends in the industry. We look forward to meeting you at IBC 2023 and forging new collaborations that will drive the future of CTV entertainment!

Book your meeting with our colleagues via email info@foxxum.com

Use our Customer Code IBC10100 and get your tickets now!

Singapore, August 1^st, 2023:  ZEASN Technology Private Ltd, a leading provider of solutions and services for smart homes, announces the acquisition of Foxxum GmbH, a leading provider of innovative CTV solutions, and rlaxx TV GmbH, an international AVOD/FAST streaming service. With this strategic move, the strengths of all three companies are combined, positioning ZEASN as the leading independent provider of CTV operating systems (OS) and AVOD/FAST products in the market.

With an installed base of 85 million CTVs worldwide and an AVOD/FAST service accessible on 1.2 billion devices in 27 countries, the combined companies offer a powerful and extensive platform for content distribution and monetization of user engagement.

As part of the integration process, Whale OS 3 and Foxxum OS 4 operating systems will be merged into the new Whale OS 4. The creation of Whale OS 4 will lead to accelerated growth and aims to grow from the combined installed base to over 200 million within 3 to 5 years. Additionally, the acquisition of Foxxum significantly expands the app portfolio of Whale OS 4. Combined with ZEASN’s AI-enabled algorithms, data tracking tools, and personalized recommendations, Whale OS 4 intelligently curates content tailored to individual preferences. This empowers viewers to explore and enjoy new and exciting streaming options while enabling advertisers to effectively reach their desired audience.

The global streaming service, rlaxx TV, will be integrated with ZEASN’s streaming service, Whale Live, to create an even more captivating platform. The merged services will continue to operate under the name rlaxx TV, offering a wide variety of appealing content to viewers worldwide.

A key aspect adopted from Foxxum’s successful business model is the unique sharing of 80% of the monetization revenue of CTV operating systems with partners. This revenue-sharing approach will be incorporated by ZEASN and retained under the current name Mission 1 Joint Venture Alliance.

All Foxxum and rlaxx TV executives will remain on board, assuming leadership positions within the newly formed group. Their expertise and industry knowledge are invaluable in driving the company’s future growth and success. The current shareholders of both Foxxum and rlaxx TV assumed shareholder positions in the group, underscoring their confidence in the combined entities’ strategic direction and immense potential.

“We are delighted to welcome the talented teams from Foxxum and rlaxx TV to the global ZEASN family operating now in Europe, China, India, and North America to serve our customers globally,” says Jason He, CEO of ZEASN. “Their expertise and market position, combined with our existing capabilities, will propel us to new heights in the CTV industry. Together, we will redefine the CTV landscape, offer a compelling alternative, and deliver world-class experiences for viewers. This is a significant step in preparing our company for a future IPO.”

“The combination of three strong companies will accelerate our strategy to form the leading independent player that our customers have long demanded,” says Ronny Lutzi, CEO of Foxxum and rlaxx TV. “From day one, we are poised to swiftly outpace other independent players, surpassing them not merely in sheer installation numbers, but also through our industry expertise.With solid support from the global TV supply chain, we aim to position ourselves at eye level with industry giants like Google TV and Roku. I am extremely excited to merge our efforts with ZEASN. It feels like two parties have found the perfect match.”

The first public presentation will take place at IBC 2023 in Amsterdam from September 15th to 18th, 2023, where ZEASN, Foxxum, and rlaxx TV will showcase their joint vision, products, and solutions.

The innovator in cutting-edge Smart TV solutions, Foxxum, is partnering with OTT & FAST channels provider OTTera, to launch a multitude of new apps on Foxxum CTV OS. The collaboration brings popular apps such as Party Tyme Karaoke, LAVA, La Bocina Latina, and more to follow to Foxxum enabled-Smart TVs worldwide.

OTTera operates a professional white label service with which content owners and creators can rapidly share their programming, courtesy of a robust development platform and customized interface and branding. Their services reach over 300+ million users worldwide and range from niche film libraries to children’s animation, providing apps like Motorvision TV, Toon Goggles, AfroLandTV, and many more.

Commenting on the partnership, Ronny Lutzi, CEO of Foxxum, says, “We are excited to enhance our partnership with OTTera. Their wide range of content brings a variety of new apps to our users that cater to a broad range of interests.”

Stephen L. Hodge, CEO of OTTera adds, “Foxxum has been on the forefront of Smart TV OS development. We are happy to have had a long time partnership with them and look forward to more successful launches as they continue to expand the reach of their OS”.

ABOUT OTTera

OTTera is a professional white label service that allows companies to quickly launch highly customized, affordable OTT services. Based in Los Angeles, OTTera powers 600+ live application deliveries and 1.5k+ live FAST channel deliveries, with more than 300 million users worldwide. The OTTera White Label Service offers companies the latest OTT technologies with one of the widest distribution reaches on the market. For over 14 years OTTera has maintained strong partnerships with the world’s largest CE manufacturers including Samsung, Vizio, Sony and Hisense.

The OTTera White Label Service is a fully managed scalable OTT service with native distribution across all major platforms including iOS, tvOS, Android, Android TV, Roku, HTML5, Chromecast and Web. The service offers linear distribution to cable/satellite services and vMVPDs (Samsung, LG, Sling, Xumo, Pluto, etc.), as well as diverse monetization including subscription, advertising via OTTera’s AdNet+ service and transactions.

Jawwy TV and stc tv, two leading streaming services from Intigral, have expanded their availability to Foxxum-enabled devices. For Foxxum, the integration of these new streaming services represents a significant enrichment, as it brings an even broader range of premium content to their vast audience in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

The content of those apps includes movies, TV shows, documentaries, kids’ programs and more from top regional and international partners such as STARZPLAY, discovery+, Wide Khaliji, Cartoon Network, Boomerang & more. Users will also be able to watch exclusives and original productions that cannot be found anywhere else, in addition to the best free-to-air & encrypted live TV channels from regional & international networks and broadcasters.

Jawwy is available in most countries in the MENA region, while stc tv is dedicated to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

Foxxum, one of the world’s leading developers of innovative connected TV solutions for TV manufacturers and content providers, is expanding its app portfolio with the Connect! Award-winning revised and redesigned app of the sports media brand kicker.

Smart TVs with Foxxum CTV OS in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can now access the latest news from the kicker editorial desk. Furthermore, the free kicker app provides transfer news and topics related to soccer as well as other sports such as motorsports, ice hockey, handball and basketball.

Just recently, the jury of the Connect! The Smart TV Award 2022 acknowledged the kicker app as “the CNN of sports” and awarded the application.

“By launching on Foxxum CTV OS, even more sports enthusiasts will see our brand’s premium content on the big screen,” says Hannes Ulbrich, Product Manager Apps, Olympia Verlag. “Partnering with Foxxum increases our reach and distribution opportunity to reach an even larger audience with our sports-related offerings.”

Ronny Lutzi, CEO and founder of Foxxum GmbH: “Sports coverage belongs on the big screen. That’s why we are delighted to make the high-quality content of the long-established sports media brand kicker available to our users on their Smart TVs with the launch of this app.”

ABOUT KICKER

Kicker combines tradition, success, and innovation – since 1920, kicker has been commenting on events on the international playing field, reporting on athletes, clubs, and associations, and covering 2,500 sporting events a month with its live ticker. kicker.tv also relies on an extensive range of video content, in the voice sector, the brand is represented with various podcasts, such as “kicker MEETS DAZN” and “FE:male view on football. Together with the print editions, the broad digital offering reaches more than 13 million soccer enthusiasts every month, making it Germany’s widest-reach sports media brand.      

Together with Olympia-Verlag, kicker promotes innovative digital concepts in the sports and media industry and participates in Tickaroo, EarlyGame and Thinking Apps, among others.

ABOUT FOXXUM

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operation, and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV solutions like the Foxxum CTV OS. As an established pioneer in the sector, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters and video-on-demand services, video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide a best-in-class content portfolio containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers. Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offer viewers the best Smart TV user experience possible, with innovative Smart TV technology, a global entertaining content portfolio and an outstanding design, which includes the Foxxum CTV OS. Foxxum provides its clients with innovative solutions, along with the possibility to jointly tap into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential. 

Foxxum, innovator in cutting-edge CTV tech, announced today a landmark partnership for its Foxxum OS 4 with CVTE, the world’s largest supplier of TV components in consumer and commercial sectors.

The partnership sees Foxxum OS 4 integrated onto CVTE’s printed circuit board (PCB). This market-ready motherboard will be available to the more than 600 local and regional OEMS and TV brands. This hardware/OS combination allows these regional players to compete with other global brands, giving them the equivalent tech at the lowest possible cost, and shortest time to market.

Foxxum’s recently announced Foxxum OS 4, based on RDK, seamlessly integrates streaming services and applications across all devices within a single OS. It is designed to meet the rising needs of CTV manufacturers to generate additional revenue sources in a highly competitive market. Foxxum OS 4 offers the only genuinely independent CTV OS solution available that allows maximum participation in viewing monetization. The partnership with CVTE provides a perfectly engineered printed circuit board paired with an extraordinary CTV operating system that maximizes platform revenues and meets the demand of OEMs and TV brands looking for a one-stop solution.

CVTE is the world’s leading and largest supplier of TV core components in consumer-grade and commercial electronics industries. Core superior technologies of display, control, and IoT connectivity, leading-edge manufacturing, and total quality management accelerate process innovation, drive cost efficiency, increase yields, for more significant product differentiation, and exceptional quality.

Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO, says, “CVTE’s technology combined with Foxxum OS 4 will solve a major problem of OEMs and TV brands. We are delighted to move our well-established partnership with CTVE to the next level of a truly global and strategic partnership that will provide the most competitive CTV solution worldwide.” 

Wang Bin, Head of RD in the TV Department of CVTE, says, “We know Foxxum since the beginning of CTV and always admired the dedication to maximize customer satisfaction. Foxxum OS 4 will allow us to offer our global customers a very attractive product they were waiting for.”

ABOUT FOXXUM

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operation, and commercial marketing for innovative smart TV solutions like the Foxxum CTV OS. As an established pioneer in the sector, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters and video-on-demand services, video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide a best-in-class content portfolio containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers. Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offer viewers the best Smart TV user experience possible, with innovative Smart TV technology, a global entertaining content portfolio and an outstanding design, which includes the Foxxum CTV OS. Foxxum provides its clients with innovative solutions, along with the possibility to jointly tap into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential. Further information can be found at www.foxxum.com.

 
 
ABOUT CVTE

Guangzhou Shiyuan Electronic Technology Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as “CVTE”) was established in December 2005 with a registered capital of RMB 668,030,956 and a number of business subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2021, the company had more than 5,400 employees, of which technical personnel account for about 60%. The average age of its employees is about 29.

To date, the company has been mainly engaged in the design, development and sales of display control products such as LCD main control boards and intelligent interactive tablets. Its products have been widely used in the field of home appliances, education information, enterprise services and so on. The company has always committed to improving user experience by product innovation and R&D design, creating constant value for customers and users. Since its establishment, the company has gradually gained a leading position in the segmented market, relying on the accumulation of software and hardware technologies in the fields of audio and video technology, signal processing, power management, human-computer interaction, application development, system integration and other electronic products, with technology innovation and product development for multiple application scenarios as well as capabilities in product and resource integration. It has also established seewo, a provider of educational informatization application tools and services, MAXHUB, an intelligent collaboration platform, and other well-known brands in the industry.

Foxxum, leading provider of innovative CTV solutions today announced the launch of the premium live sports service DAZN in Germany, Italy, and Spain – just in time for the FIFA World Cup. 

The cooperation additionally entails further territorial expansions covering DAZN’s rollout plans. It will also meet the demand for the DAZN app from existing Foxxum CTV OS clients that will subsequently onboard within the next year, following the initial launch on Vestel devices. 

DAZN offers both live and on-demand streaming of live football events such as the Bundesliga and UEFA Champions League, plus other European top football leagues. DAZN can be accessed through an annually or monthly paid membership which provides sports fans – in addition to football – with a wide range of live sport events from the US and beyond such as the NFL (American football), NBA, NCAA College Football and College Basketball NBA (basketball), as well as the UFC (MMA), EHF Champions League (handball) and MotoGP (motorsport) among others. Subscribers can also enjoy a broad selection of different sports programs including boxing, winter sports, tennis, darts, cycling and many more.

“DAZN has been a highly demanded premium TV app by our customers as sports entertainment is and will remain one of the core types of content that is preferably consumed on CTV. Therefore, we are very proud to add DAZN to Foxxum CTV OS, kicking off a long-term partnership”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Peter Parmenter, EVP Business Development at DAZN said: “A key priority of ours at DAZN is to partner with businesses who are able to support us on our mission to get our premium content to reach even more people. Therefore, we are delighted to embark on this partnership with Foxxum.” 

ABOUT DAZN

DAZN is the world’s leading sports entertainment platform. The only global digital sports broadcaster, DAZN is live in over 200 countries and is a market-leader in Italy, Japan, DACH and Spain where it holds top-tier domestic football rights.

 DAZN is reimagining the way people enjoy sport. With a single, frictionless platform, sports fans can watch, bet, play, share, socialise, and buy tickets, NFTs and merchandise. Live and on-demand sports content, anywhere, in any language, on any device – only on DAZN.

DAZN is a global, privately-owned company with employees in over 25 countries. For more information on DAZN, our products, people, and performance, visit www.dazngroup.com.

 DAZN is leading the charge to give sports fans around the world access to sports entertainment anytime, anywhere. DAZN is available on most connected devices including smart TVs, set-top boxes, streaming sticks, smartphones, tablets, PCs and game consoles, ensuring that fans have access to ground-breaking rights catalogue and slate of incredible content. In the UK and globally, DAZN can be accessed on Samsung, LG, Sony and Panasonic Smart TVs and on Games Consoles including Playstation and Xbox. Subscribers also have access to DAZN on their Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Google Chromecast and Apple TV and find the app on their iPhone, iPad, android and mobile.

ABOUT FOXXUM

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operational, and commercial marketing sector for innovative smart TV solutions. As an established pioneer in this field, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters and video-on-demand services, video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide an industry leading content portfolio, containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers. Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offers viewers the best possible smart TV user experience, with innovative smart TV technology, a global entertainment content portfolio and an outstanding design. Foxxum provides its clients with highly innovative solutions, which include the possibility of jointly tapping into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential. For more information, please visit www.foxxum.com. 

The innovator of smart TV solutions, Foxxum, is elated to announce the addition of the AVOD app Todazon which will be available worldwide on Foxxum CTV OS. In addition, Todazon’s selected content will also be featured on Foxxum’s AVOD service rlaxx TV in South Africa and Kenya with more African countries to follow.

Todazon is an AVOD streaming service from South Africa and offers on demand and live TV channels that feature news, music, sport, and entertainment programs among other categories. The wide range of movie genres span from documentaries and crime to romance and horror, ensuring a variety of content to choose from.

“We are very excited about the partnership with Foxxum. This will enable Todazon to reach more customers on Connected TVs and also on rlaxx TV. We are looking forward to growing and strengthening our relationship with Foxxum and also attracting more viewers.“, says Tshepo Phasha, CEO at Todazon.

“We are very proud to be able to realize two projects with Todazon: the launch of their app on Foxxum CTV OS for our worldwide customers and the subsequent launch of their selected content on rlaxx TV for our respected viewers in South Africa and Kenya”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Foxxum, the innovator of smart TV solutions, relaunches the new SX3 app – formerly known as Super3 – from the company Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA) on Foxxum CTV OS. SX3 is now also available worldwide.

Super3 is a Catalan public television channel broadcasting. Their latest SX3 app features new and improved designs and logos, as well as a broad selection of entertaining videos from the TV station’s animated series, plus an array of games and music in Catalan and some English programs for children up to 14 years old.

“We are excited to relaunch SX3 on Foxxum CTV OS and to offer their educational and fun children’s content to viewers worldwide”, says Ronny Lutzi, Founder and CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

The innovator of smart TV solutions, Foxxum, has added the kids TV channel app Duck TV from Mega Max Media s.r.o. to Foxxum CTV OS.

Duck TV is s a kids TV channel which offers wholesome, educational, fun, and relaxing programs for infants and toddlers. The non-violent content is created under supervision of child psychologists and features educational animations and mini cartoons with fun characters that are engaging and relaxing to watch together with their parents. The content is made to help develop the child’s cognitive and auditory abilities, with programs that contain numbers, letters, shapes, and some real-life situations.

“We are very happy to include Duck TV to Foxxum CTV OS and expand our portfolio with such an entertaining and educational children’s TV channel”, says Ronny Lutzi, founder and CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Foxxum – one of the leading providers of innovative CTV solutions for TV manufacturers and content providers – expands its portfolio with the leading German streaming service and makes the RTL+ Premium app available on Foxxum CTV OS in Germany.

RTL+ is the streaming service of RTL Germany. The diverse video offer spans from fiction to reality series and from documentaries to live sports events. This includes RTL+ Originals like Sisi, Strafe, Are you the One?  as well as future content such as Das Haus der Träume, Prince Charming or Schalke 04 – Zurück zum Wir. In addition, RTL+ features exclusive soccer tournament from the UEFA Europe League and the UEFA Conference League as well as soccer event livestreams. Users can also access highlights such as Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (GZSZ) and Alles was zählt (AWZ) via the RTL+ Premium app even before the TV broadcast.

RTL+ packages include Free, Premium (4,99 euros per month) and Max-Paket (9,99 euros per month).

Dirk Hannappel, Head of Sales & Business Development RTL+: “The partnership with Foxxum is an important step for us regarding our distribution strategy. We really look forward to the collaboration and that even more people will be able to easily and comfortably access RTL+ via the big screen in the future.”

“We are tremendously happy to partner with such an established and popular German media company as RTL Germany. The RTL+ Premium app will not only help us increase our reach in Germany, but will also perfectly complement our existing portfolio”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO and founder of Foxxum GmbH.

About Foxxum
Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operational, and commercial marketing sector for innovative smart TV solutions. As an established pioneer in this field, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters and video-on-demand services, video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide an industry leading content portfolio, containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers. Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offers viewers the best possible smart TV user experience, with innovative smart TV technology, a global entertainment content portfolio and an outstanding design. Foxxum provides its clients with highly innovative solutions, which includes the possibility of jointly tapping into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential. For more information, please visit www.foxxum.com. 

Hayu – the all-reality subscription video on demand (SVOD) streaming service from NBCUniversal – has partnered with Foxxum – innovator in cutting-edge smart TV solutions for international TV manufacturers and content providers – to launch the Hayu app on Vestel devices in 22 countries. Markets include the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria and Portugal.

Hayu offers viewers who are fans of the reality genre top reality TV content including The Real Housewives, Below Deck, Million Dollar Listing and Top Chef.  As the must-have SVOD service dedicated to reality programming, Hayu offers an extensive choice of over 9,000 episodes of top-quality unscripted content with a variety of sub-genres in English language including: Home and Design, Dating, Cooking, Fashion and True Crime.

Foxxum specializes in innovative smart TV solutionswhich are developed in close collaboration with their customers, at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain, from silicon vendors to device manufacturers (OEM), CE brands, TV operators and content providers.

“We are delighted our users will now be able to enjoy Hayu’s entertaining content on their Vestel smart TVs and watch the great variety of high-profile and popular reality shows. This marks a significant addition to our premium app catalog, and we are certain that our footprint and platform’s user experience will enhance Hayu’s global audience,” says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

“We are pleased to make Hayu – and its world-renowned reality TV content – even more accessible to fans of the genre across Europe,” commented Hendrik McDermott – Managing Director, Direct-To-Consumer, Global. “Already the premiere destination for must-watch reality content globally, Hayu is building on its multi-territory collaboration with Foxxum, making it easier for Vestel customers to access Hayu’s extensive content offering.”

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About Hayu

From NBCUniversal, Hayu is the first all-reality subscription video-on-demand streaming service of its kind – available in 29 markets including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK on a full array of devices (mobile, tablet, laptop, connected TVs and selected consoles) at www.Hayu.com

Shows and episodes are downloadable to watch-on-the-go – all ad-free. The majority of TV shows debut on the service on the same day as their US launch, including: The Real Housewives, Below Deck and Million Dollar Listing TV franchises. Discover Hayu’s sub-genres of reality content: Home & Design, Dating, Fashion, True Crime.

ABOUT FOXXUM
Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operational, and commercial marketing sector for innovative smart TV solutions. As an established pioneer in this field, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters and video-on-demand services, video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide an industry leading content portfolio, containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers. Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offers viewers the best possible smart TV user experience, with innovative smart TV technology, a global entertainment content portfolio and an outstanding design. Foxxum provides its clients with highly tailored solutions, which includes the possibility of jointly tapping into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential. For more information, please visit www.foxxum.com.  

The innovator in cutting-edge smart TV solutions, Foxxum, acquires the Egyptian electronics manufacturer El Araby Group as lead customer in Egypt, Middle East, and Africa for Foxxum OS 4 built on RDK in combination with the Amlogic SoC.

Foxxum recently announced its latest release of its operating system for Connected TVs, Foxxum OS 4, which will seamlessly integrate streaming services and applications across all devices within a single OS, while maximizing platform revenues for OEM and TV brands around the world. Due to their long-standing cooperation, El Araby group will now pioneer in the launch of this game-changing Foxxum OS 4 on their CTV devices, profiting also from Foxxum OS 4’s unique revenue share of up to 70% as licensee of the Mission One JVA (Joint Venture Alliance).

The El Araby Group, one of the largest industrial and commercial corporations in Egypt, the Middle East and Africa, manufactures and markets a wide range of engineering products such as TVs, home appliances (refrigerators, washing machines, etc.), and audio systems among an array of other electronics and appliances from brands such as Sharp, Tornado, and Toshiba. El Araby has recently completed investments in Kenia, Sudan and South Africa to expand the geographic footprint as the regional market leader.

“El Araby has made important investments into expanding the TV business in our target regions. We just recently investigated several CTV OS alternatives and my team came out with a clear statement: “Foxxum OS 4” will be a game changer and outperforms alternatives by far in all dimensions. The best possible choice for us. I am looking forward to continuing our great partnership with Foxxum ”, says Mohamed Mahmoud El Araby, CEO and Chairman of El Araby.

Through this collaboration, Foxxum OS 4 will be available on all upcoming El Araby smart TV devices, providing all must-carry streaming services and applications within an exceptional UI with customized recommendations while being the most cost-efficient CTV design available on the market. Another major benefit is the Master CTV Reference Product (MCRP) Foxxum OS 4 comes with, which can be manufactured entirely by the licensee.

“Foxxum OS 4 is designed and developed to maximize monetization for our partners. We are delighted that our long-time customer and partner El Araby will be the first to launch and benefit from this next-level Foxxum OS 4. While many companies lately struggled with declining volume, El Araby is growing and investing into building new production facilities across the African continent as well as into a strong increase in its R&D capabilities. One of the future stars in the industry. Very adorable people. A perfect partner to create a lasting success. We are excited to welcome El Araby as one of the selected licensees within the Mission One JVA, which ensure our partners a real entrepreneurial participation.” says Dirk Wittenborg, President of Foxxum GmbH.

ABOUT EL ARABY GROUP

El Araby was established in 1964, and the group company presents about 4000 different SKU’s in 23 product categories. Engaged in both manufacturing and marketing of high-quality products El Araby is dedicated to preserve as well as grow their market leading position not only in Egypt but in all markets, they operate in. The company exports to many countries in Africa, Middle East and the CIS region. The number of employees in El Araby Group amounts to 43,000. Visit El Araby group’s website at www.elarabygroup.com 

ABOUT FOXXUM

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operation, and commercial marketing for innovative smart TV solutions like the Foxxum CTV OS. As an established pioneer in the sector, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters and video-on-demand services, video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide a best-in-class content portfolio containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers. Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offer viewers the best Smart TV user experience possible, with innovative Smart TV technology, a global entertaining content portfolio and an outstanding design, which includes the Foxxum CTV OS. Foxxum provides its clients with highly tailored solutions, along with the possibility to jointly tap into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential. Further information can be found at www.foxxum.com.

Foxxum, the creator of the Foxxum OS 4 and innovator in cutting-edge smart TV solutions, brings Foxxum OS 4 to Pay-TV in India together with The Bhimavaram Community Network Digital (BCN Digital, India).

Foxxum OS 4 was developed to equally satisfy the requirements of Retail TV Brands and Pay-TV Operators. The decision to have Foxxum OS 4 based on RDK led to quickly growing interest in international Pay-TV markets leading to the first contract signed only two weeks after the official announcement.

BCN Digital, one of the most established operators in its region, has over 2,300 Sub Operators in Andhra Pradesh State and Telangana States of India.

“BCN Digital invested into expanding into IPTV and reach to many regions of India. To establish full customer satisfaction everywhere and give them the best experience, we were in search for a solution that provides the best service to customers and furthermore allows us to be in full control of our very own Set-Top-Boxes. We immediately realized that Foxxum is the only CTV and STB OS provider who comes along with a realistic partnership approach”, says R Srinivasa Raju, CEO and Chairman of BCN Digital.

“We are delighted to bring Foxxum OS 4 to BCN Digital. BCN Digital will be the first Pay-TV partner to launch Foxxum OS 4 and benefit from our CTV OS partner model. BCN Digital´s strategy and go to market approach is a reference model for low-income growth regions. We are looking forward to experiencing the upcoming growth together and we are very excited to welcome BCN Digital to the family!”, says Ronny Lutzi CEO of Foxxum GmbH.

ABOUT BCN DIGITAL

Bhimavaram Community Network is one of the largest MSOs in India offering Digital Cable TV services. As a leading Digital Cable TV service provider and high-speed Broadband operator, the company subscription is about a million households in over 50+ towns throughout Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The company has over 2300 Sub Operators and provides customers with high-quality picture and sound, including 260+ SD channels and 50+ HD channels in addition to value-added services, such as VOD, at an affordable price. The Company’s mission is to simplify and enhance entertainment experience of its customers by offering quality services and products that give them the choice to relax and enjoy themselves wherever they are. For its IPTV and OTT services, BCN signed up with Tata Elxsi as its Systems Integrator, Broadpeak as its CDN solution provider, Irdeto as its security provider, Skyworth as its RDK STB supplier and many others.

ABOUT FOXXUM

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operation, and commercial marketing for innovative smart TV solutions like the Foxxum CTV OS. As an established pioneer in the sector, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters and video-on-demand services, video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide a best-in-class content portfolio containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers. Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offer viewers the best Smart TV user experience possible, with innovative Smart TV technology, a global entertaining content portfolio and an outstanding design, which includes the Foxxum CTV OS. Foxxum provides its clients with highly tailored solutions, along with the possibility to jointly tap into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential. Further information can be found at www.foxxum.com.

Our president Dirk Wittenborg gave an interview with the Medientage München Blog on how CTVs and CTV OS are already rapidly changing the world of content consumption, the impact of major gatekeepers on the market, and how Foxxum CTV OS and its AVOD streaming app rlaxx TV will help shape the future of the CTV and CTV OS landscape as truly independent providers. Below you can find the English translation of the interview.

To read the original interview in German visit the Medientage München Blog.

Dirk Wittenborg:

The Robin Hood of TV

The President of Foxxum wants to defy Amazon, Google, and the other major global tech companies. Strategist Dirk Wittenborg describes how the online giants are already pressuring TV software suppliers. And why, in his opinion, the operating systems will decide how the Connected TV market will be divided up.

In an interview with the Medientage München blog, Dirk Wittenborg outlines what opportunities regional providers have, how money can still be made with TV, and where he sees his role with Foxxum in this.

Mr. Wittenborg, how do you make money as a CTV OS provider like Foxxum?

Until Amazon and Google entered the market, providers were able to make money from both licensing revenues and the marketing of usage time.

Today, the only way to make money is to market the time of usage. The money pot is huge, but it is dependent on advertisers discovering CTV for themselves. This is increasingly happening. But the success has to prevail against seemingly invincible giants who are not afraid to use their concentrated power in this competition.

You don’t shy away from provocative statements. For example, at the Medientage Special “Connect!” you stated that there had been practically no user innovations in the TV market for decades: So why are the providers of operating systems for Connected TV (CTV) vying for this market anyway?

Assuming that in the future all media consumption in the living room will be via streaming (realistically more than 80 percent), we are talking about a market that is huge. In the future, the CTV OS will control the last mile from the device to the sofa.

Whoever is in control decides what is offered. Whoever decides what is offered, controls the money.

“TV is the last big market that will be massively changed by the Internet.” – Dirk Wittenborg, Foxxum

There are around 1.6 billion TVs in use worldwide. Of these, around 1.2 billion are CTVs. With about 3.5 hours of use per day, we are talking about 1,533 billion hours per year. Since more and more TV sets are connected to the Internet, this total usage time is up for redistribution.

With 8 to 12 minutes of advertisement per hour (standard in linear TV), an advertising duration of 20 seconds each, and revenues of $15 per thousand contacts (CPM), we are therefore talking about a market that has a potential advertising value of USD 548 to 821 billion annually. Not all revenues will be generated through advertising. But the market size remains the same, whether it’s through advertising or subscription fees.

The chance to redistribute is now luring the big American players. Who knew Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Pluto TV, Tubi TV, Samsung TV +, Roku Channel 10 years ago? All of them are today’s heavyweights. And the term CTV OS is not older than five years. Besides, the whole competition has evolved from a solely local and regional competition to a global Formula 1 race. And as in Formula 1, the key success factor is money.

Compared to this, almost all European TV stations are simply too small to keep up. And most of them have long since missed the moving train and have to settle for managing historic successes with declining significance.

The CTV OS will play the all-important role in this race and will be the key to making money.

How?

How the CTV OS can make money? Well, 10 percent comes from licensing revenue or placement fees on the home page or remote. 90 percent is based on usage time. Services like Netflix or Disney+ or Prime Video account for a large share of usage time, with more than 70 percent combined.

These services do not share revenues with the platforms, because without them no manufacturer would be able to sell any TV sets. But this will also change once the consolidation of the CTV-OS platforms begins. Currently, 80 percent of viewing time revenues come from the platform’s own ad-supported services (AVoD/FAST). Take Roku, for example: today it’s already 41 U.S. dollars per device per year.

For now, the goal is to get the largest share of TV sets united on one CTV OS. Once that is achieved, the screws will be tightened. In addition, new players will enter the TV market very soon. I’m sure we’ll soon see Microsoft, Facebook/Meta and also Nvidia here.

Microsoft has actually now been hired by Netflix as a technology partner for advertising; the streaming service is bringing an ad-supported, lower-priced offering. Are we already off and running yet?

At the moment, CTV is gaining massive shares of the overall advertising market and it was the logical consequence for Netflix to add advertising to the model. Even if the step comes much too late. Setting up everything yourself takes too long.

All alternatives to Microsoft are competitors of Netflix, directly or indirectly. So Microsoft was the only viable alternative. And Microsoft probably offered the best deal. Just a later switch from AWS to Azure would allow Microsoft to deliver everything to Netflix for free. In the end, it’s not even Microsoft that’s delivering the ad tech, but Xandr. An ad tech company that was recently purchased by Microsoft.

I assume this is just one of many steps Microsoft is taking to become a leader in TV. With the completion of the Activision purchase, Microsoft will eventually try to acquire Netflix. Perhaps even alongside acquiring Roku, which was originally created from Netflix.

This would take Microsoft from absolute abstention from TV, to the position of market leader within a rearranging TV market in no time. With all components from one source: CTV OS Roku, streaming service Netflix, ad tech Xandr and very deep pockets to outrun everyone else.

At the Connect! conference, you outlined a scenario according to which Amazon (Fire) and Google (Android) will – once again – dominate the CTV OS market, which will only be global in the future. What will the consequences be if these two are the new gatekeepers in the TV market?

CTVs have removed the regional boundaries of TV as we’ve known it for over 90 years. Disney is a good example. Five years ago, Disney was dependent on regional partners to reach customers. With Disney+, Disney has quickly created direct global access to customers and pulled content from partners.

Amazon just recently bought MGM. As a result, MGM content now goes directly to customers via Prime Video. Worldwide. Tech giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple will aggressively use their financial power.

I just read, “ProSieben is running out of Hollywood movies.” That’s no surprise. CTV allows all content providers to reach end consumers directly. Without sales intermediaries like ProSieben or RTL. Anyone with strong content will go the direct route, and we’ll see more consolidation through buys on the content side, too. What’s left for TV stations is just B-grade or expensive in-house productions. But that’s getting harder and harder with declining advertising revenues.

“It used to be: Hollywood produces, the rest of the world distributes and markets. The new reality is: big tech produces, distributes, markets and monopolizes. And all of that is 90 percent controlled from the United States.” – Dirk Wittenborg, Foxxum

What does this mean for Foxxum, what is your strategic goal?

With Foxxum, we have a CTV OS in the race. But in competition with Amazon and Google or even Samsung and LG, we have a solid challenge to overcome. However, many market players – especially the many regional brands that exist in every country – want an independent provider. Therein lies our opportunity.

With rlaxx TV, we have established a very successful ad-financed service that is already present in 26 countries and is attracting a great deal of interest from content providers, especially in the USA, as a truly independent provider.

Robin Hood took from the exploiting rich and gave to those in need. I have a certain sympathy for the idea of being the Robin Hood of TV.

Content aggregators and channel platform wanted to put themselves into position as gatekeepers; and you do both, platform and OS, with rlaxx TV and Foxxum. Will the boundaries between OTT aggregators and OS providers dissolve?

All OS providers establish their own AVOD services. Roku with Roku Channel, Samsung with Samsung TV+, LG with LG Channels, Amazon with Freevee, Google with Youtube. In the end, it’s a double gatekeeper strategy. First the OS to control access to the living room, and then using the power of the gatekeeper to direct viewers to its own service.

For some, like Amazon and Google, this is then combined with massive financial incentives to establish their own CTV OS. And big brands succumb to this incentive, like mice that only smell the cheese but don’t notice the trap.

What is left of a brand like Philips or Sony when it has been marketed and presented for years in combination with the Google brand? And what happens when Google then suddenly produces its own TV sets? What will the customer buy then? Sony or Google? The cheaper device. And that will then be Google.

Amazon has led the way. After first introducing its own CTV OS to many TV brands with many incentives, it has now launched a TV under the Amazon TV brand. Combined with the power of the sales channel, Amazon can arbitrarily influence market shares of competitors, and any brand using the Amazon CTV OS must follow the price dictate of Amazon TV. The customer no longer makes a distinction between the TV brand and the OS brand. As long as the same thing is included, the cheaper product will be bought.

What role does (quality) content still play considering these possible developments? After all, it’s expensive and currently THE argument used by services from Amazon to Netflix to Disney+ to achieve reach and money through increasing subscription numbers.

Netflix’s rising subscription numbers are already a thing of the past. While Netflix was the undisputed market leader just three years ago, Disney+ is about to overtake Netflix. And meanwhile there is more and more competition: Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney +, Paramount, Discovery, Peacock, Crackle, Starz and then also regional giants like Jio in India.

Talking about quality is only appropriate anyway if you equate quality with quantity. In the constant race for more subscribers, everyone tries to outrun the others. Unfortunately, mostly only by quantity and less by quality. In the end, a good comedy or a good action movie can always be replaced by another one. Therefore, so-called quality content is often interchangeable.

Disney is certainly an exception, as the brand itself and the content brands like Marvel etc. are particularly strong. The only remaining differentiation is in the so-called event-based content like sports or music. In other words, things that are only good as originals and that cannot be copied. This is where the money will flow in the future and the prices for such content will continue to explode.

„Only those can participate in the game, who can afford to do so financially.“ – Dirk Wittenborg, Foxxum

And those are the same ones again. The latest license purchases by Amazon and Apple are proof of that.

Furthermore, I believe that content from local cultures will play a stronger role with global distribution. Because today it’s much easier, for example, to bring a Spanish production to the screen globally within a short period of time.

You postulate that the platform (OS) will become more important than the streaming service. How can the services still counteract this now? 

Some services make it very easy for the big ones like Amazon and Google to expand their position of power. Netflix and Disney are good examples. Every new OS version from Amazon or Google is supported and smaller ones like Foxxum always have to wait. With the effect that TV brands then switch to Amazon or Google due to a timelier availability. But if Amazon or Google succeed in achieving a dominant market share, the streaming services will live to regret it. Because that’s when the power play will really begin.

But the big global streaming services have other things to worry about right now and are currently only thinking about how to gain more subscribers, and increasingly, how to avoid the decline. And everyone will be looking more and more at how to cut costs to avoid declining share prices.

On a regional level, it is frightening to see how naive many market participants are. Every now and then, there’s a discussion about what the German broadcasters could do. And then someone immediately cries “cartel” – which is ridiculous.

“Even if all German broadcasters united to create a streaming service, this service would be a barely recognizable dwarf in context of the current global competition.” – Dirk Wittenborg, Foxxum

The solution: all European TV channels on rlaxx TV. That would then be relevant and would establish the balance of power. But in Europe, we love debate and avoid decisions until once again it’s all in American control.

Beyond that, many things fail because TV broadcasters believe that all you have to do is make a streaming service and success will come because you are successful as a TV broadcaster. Relative market shares in streaming such as those of Joyn or RTL+ of less than 2 percent paint a clear picture.

The regional services simply have to understand that competition no longer takes place on a regional level and that success is only possible if you quickly join forces with old competitors. However, this will probably fail because everyone considers themselves to be the most important part and wants to dominate such a joint effort, and then it all fails in the end.

Or in other words, historical success produces big egos that stand in the way of joint action until the inevitable happens and it’s too late.

Dirk Wittenborg was one of the experts at the Medientage special Connect – The Future of TV. The event can be listened to in episode 78 of the Medientage Podcast.

About Dirk Wittenborg:

Dirk Wittenborg is Co-Founder and President of Foxxum, a CTV Operating System (OS) provider used by major TV Brands worldwide. Inspired by Apple’s introduction of the iPhone shortly before, Foxxum started with the idea to develop a smart set-top box back in 2008. With the rise of smart TVs, Foxxum became increasingly requested to share experience and technical solutions with TV manufacturers helping to capture the upcoming market opportunity. Since its foundation in 2011, Foxxum has grown into a worldwide leader, partnering with major TV brands.

In 2020 Dirk and Ronny Lutzi, Co-Founder of Foxxum, launched the FAST/AVOD service rlaxx TV. Within its first 12 months the service was rolled out on 100% of all connected devices, launched in more than 25 countries, and will become a significant revenue contribution to the Foxxum CTV OS in the near future.

Before Foxxum, Dirk worked in banking and strategy consulting with one of the major consulting firms. In 1997 he moved on to his first entrepreneurial role by founding a strategy consulting boutique that developed a fast-growing international business within three years, before it was acquired by a software and technology consulting group in 2000. In 2002 Dirk established the investment holding Axxola with majority investments in fashion, education service, coffee and coffee machines, dune buggies, and hospitality in Brazil, Germany, and Spain. He also holds his Foxxum investment through Axxola.

Dirk holds a master´s degree in business administration, is passionate about water sports activities, and is a father of five girls.

Foxxum, the innovator in cutting edge Smart TV solutions, today announced the upcoming launch of Foxxum OS 4: A brand new CTV OS built on the RDK platform.

Foxxum announced this new initiative, declaring the new Foxxum OS 4 will seamlessly integrate streaming services and applications across all devices within a single OS, which aims to extend RDK’s success in the set top box and operator sectors into the CTV space.

Connected TVs operate on internal Operating Systems, which allow users to access streaming apps, gaming, system operation and more. While some CTV Manufacturers have their own proprietary operating systems, more than 100 million Connected TVs each year from more than 600 TV Brands, license operating systems from third party providers like Foxxum. Foxxum’s current operating system reaches more than 25 million connected TVs worldwide. The new Foxxum OS 4 built on RDK is designed to provide an even more robust service to TV manufacturing partners globally.

Foxxum launched its current CTV OS in 2021. Now via their new platform using RDK, Foxxum is elevating Foxxum OS 4 to meet the steeply rising demand of CTV streaming and the varied needs of streaming content on CTVs.

As Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO says, “A major complaint of CTV users around the world is friction in the discoverability of content and apps. The new Foxxum OS 4 CTV UI features extraordinary design, easy accessibility, and customizable recommendations for an outstanding viewing experience across CTVs.”

Foxxum’s use of RDK will give a major boost to the standardization of Linux based CTVs for premium OTT streaming services that have previously integrated with RDK in the past. As a result, Foxxum OS 4 is now set up to maximize platform revenues for OEM and TV Brands around the world, allowing them to control the user experience in real time. Perhaps most importantly, this new, high-end, independent CTV OS, offers smaller CTV OEMs and Brands a CTV OS from a partner who does not compete directly with them for selling devices to consumers.

The innovator in smart TV solutions, Foxxum, has made the RTVE Play app available on Foxxum CTV OS.

RTVE Play, which serves as a replacement for the previous RTVE A la Carta app, is the latest free VOD app from the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE.

The app is available in Spain and offers live and on demand content such as movies, TV shows, TV series and documentaries. The programs include La 1, La 2, Teledeporte, Playz and Canal 24 Horas, offering news, series, and sports plus exclusive live broadcasts.

“We are very pleased to work with such a renowned company as RTVE to add the RTVE Play app to Foxxum CTV OS, thereby offering more programs to our valued customers in Spain”, says Ronny Lutzi, Founder and CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Foxxum, innovator in cutting-edge Smart TV solutions for TV manufacturers and content providers, has launched the video streaming app Chaupal, which can be accessed via Foxxum CTV OS.

As a multi-regional OTT platform from India, Chaupal features movies, web series and documentaries for a global audience. Furthermore, the content on the app is available in three Indian languages: Punjabi, Haryanvi, and Bhojpuri and offers a wide range of film categories and genres like thriller, comedy, romance and action to choose from.

“We at Chaupal are excited to collaborate with Foxxum as we are confident that it will provide us with the best entertainment solutions, open doors to newer audiences and thereby expand our global reach. With our gripping content, we intend to build value through our partners for all the stakeholders,” says Sandeep Bansal, Managing Director at Chaupal.

“We are thrilled to be able to offer yet another amazing video streaming app on Foxxum CTV OS and thereby provide greater language diversity for our Indian-speaking customers”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Foxxum, innovator in cutting-edge Smart TV solutions for TV manufacturers and content providers, is proud to announce the cooperation with Awaan, a VOD service from Dubai Media Incorporated, to launch their smart TV app.

Awaan features Middle Eastern and Arab content with a wide range of categories and genres that include entertainment, drama, and news among many others. The app can be accessed via Foxxum CTV OS and is available worldwide with a focus in the MENA region.

“We are pleased to partner with Foxxum, one of the pioneering corporations in the field of creative smart TV solutions. This represents a valuable addition in our journey to enable more users all over the globe to enjoy our distinctive content and on all applications and platforms. Awaan being the largest Digital Entertainment OTT Platform in the UAE/ GCC / MENA Region today with Foxxum can expand its global reach and meet the strong demand from its users worldwide.”, says Mrs. Heba AlSamt, Digital Media Radio and TV – Department Director at Dubai Media Inc.

“We are truly thrilled to have partnered with Awaan and to be able to extend our offer with the addition of Awaan app, with its broad selection of content which can now be found on Foxxum CTV OS”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Kiel (Germany), June 15, 2022 | Innovator of cutting-edge smart TV solutions for TV manufacturers and content providers, Foxxum, is thrilled to announce the partnership with WeTV, a video streaming app launching on Foxxum CTV OS.

As the global streaming platform of Tencent Video, one of the largest online video platforms in China, WeTV is among the top three OTT platforms in Southeast Asian markets such as: Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

Through this partnership, viewers will be able to access the worldwide available WeTV app which features local, international, and original content with movies, entertainment programs and premium TV series with genres spanning from Chinese and Korean dramas to anime series. Additionally, the content library includes high-quality subtitles in Chinese, English, Korean, Thai, Bahasa Indonesian, Malay, Portuguese, and Spanish.

“By making WeTV available on Foxxum CTV OS, we will be able to provide a wider selection of diverse content as well as strengthen our worldwide offering and we are excited to partner with such a renowned company”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

ABOUT WeTV

WeTV is an Asian streaming service that sees the creation of premier video-on-demand (VOD) and provides over-the-top (OTT) local content. The streaming service provides content from around the region, inclusive of selected Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian, Philippines and Thai series and movies. Operating as a freemium service, viewers can access some content without the need for a paid subscription and premium content at a small fee. The basic features also include free subtitles.

ABOUT FOXXUM

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operation and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV solutions. As an established pioneer in the sector, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop Smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters and video-on-demand services, video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide a best-in-class content portfolio containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers. Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offer viewers the best Smart TV user experience possible, with innovative Smart TV technology, a global entertaining content portfolio and an outstanding design. Foxxum provides its clients with highly tailored solutions, which includes the possibility of jointly tapping into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential. Further information can be found at www.foxxum.com.

Users can now find Viu app, the leading Pan-regional over-the-top (OTT) video streaming service on Foxxum CTV OS.

Viu features premium TV series and movies, in full HD from top content providers, with genres ranging from drama and action to comedy and romance from Korea, Japan, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Turkey, the Middle East, and India.

The content is available in local languages along with English, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Burmese, Mandarin, and Arabic subtitles. The app also features a slate of original productions “Viu Original” and offers both ad supported and premium subscription options.

Viu is available in 16 countries which include Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Myanmar in Asia and Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the Middle East as well as South Africa.

The app has been launched on selected Foxxum-enabled devices from El Araby (Tornado and Toshiba) and is expected to expand to other devices soon.

“We are incredibly pleased to have added Viu to our portfolio as it expands our reach to 16 important international markets and makes Foxxum CTV OS accessible to other interest groups” says Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO and founder.

Foxxum, a global leader in the development, operation, and commercial marketing of innovative smart TV solutions, and Weyyak have partnered to make their global VOD app available via Foxxum CTV OS.

Weyyak, the global VOD and live streaming platform, features Middle Eastern productions from countries such as Syria, Turkey, and Egypt – plus exclusive Indian, Bollywood and international movies, TV shows and series, in addition to outstanding originals. The variety of genres within the app’s catalog ranges from action and thrillers to comedy and drama. Weyyak app has been launched on a selected number of Foxxum-enabled El Araby devices and will soon expand to other CTV devices.

“It’s great to be able to offer Weyyak app via Foxxum CTV OS. With our well-established global availability, we can offer end users a diverse and high-quality collection of content from the Middle East and India,” says Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO and founder.

“We are always keen on making our application available on additional devices for more people to enjoy watching our content. Therefore, it is a pleasure to announce that Weyyak is now available via Foxxum CTV OS”, says Nadine Samra, Chief Business Officer of Weyyak.

Foxxum has added global streaming media platform Plex to its content portfolio, making it available now on Foxxum CTV OS.

Plex is a free streaming media service, so there is no subscription or credit card required to watch the over 50,000 on-demand titles and hundreds of live TV channels.

The partnership comprises the launch of Plex on select Foxxum-enabled smart TVs worldwide, from brands such as Vestel, Medion, TCL, Toshiba, Telefunken, Noblex, Konka, Hisense, Hitachi and JVC.

Plex offers nearly 250+ channels of free-to-stream live TV, plus tens of thousands of free on-demand movies and TV shows that are available globally – 24/7 (channel and on-demand content availability varies by region). Through this partnership, viewers will gain access to a wide range of TV programming and titles that span various genres – from action and thriller to comedy and kids to world and entertainment news.

“Adding Plex to Foxxum CTV OS definitely strengthens our worldwide content offering. This will give our users, as well as our CTV clients, even more flexibility. At the end of the day, we are looking to offer a product that suits everyone’s needs,” says Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO and founder.

We have some fantastic news to share: Foxxum has been nominated as a finalist at this year’s Digiday Video & TV Awards in the category ‘Best Connected TV Platform’ among the other CTV platform nominees Atmosphere, Digital Remedy, Innovid, Premion and Publica.

Digiday Media is an American media company that delivers news on media, advertising, and publishing topics on a daily basis through its online media magazine, Digiday. Furthermore, Digiday organizes events such as industry summits and awards like the Digiday Video and TV Awards, which recognize technologies, companies and campaigns in the video and TV industries that are modernizing and innovating the scene.

We are beyond proud to be recognized for our expertise and experience which we have gained over the past 10+ years since Foxxum’s founding. During this time, we have become a global leader in the development, operation, and commercial marketing for innovative and customized CTV solutions as well as CTV/smart TV app development solutions and have been working with a wide range of TV brands and OEM manufacturers worldwide such as Hisense, Vestel, Toshiba, TCL, and Sharp.

All of this wouldn’t have been possible without our loyal and amazing team – so many thanks to everyone here at Foxxum for their hard work and dedication.

In addition, our sister company rlaxx TV has been nominated twice in the categories ‘Best FAST Service’ and ‘Best Streaming Service’. This puts rlaxx TV in line with other nominees such as Samsung (FAST Service) and CBS Interactive and Discovery, Inc. (Best Streaming Service).

We look forward to the announcement of the winners on March 24, 2022. For more information about the awards and the full shortlist, you can click here.

Kiel (Germany), January 4, 2022 | The innovator in cutting-edge smart TV solutions, Foxxum, acquires the Egyptian electronics manufacturer El Araby as its first client for the brand new Foxxum CTV OS on MediaTek chipsets.

The El Araby Group – one of the largest industrial and commercial corporations in Egypt, the Middle East and Africa – manufactures and markets a wide range of engineering products such as TVs, laptops, and audio systems among an array of other electronics and appliances from brands such as Sharp, Tornado, and Toshiba.

Through this collaboration, the Foxxum CTV OS will be available on El Araby’s smart TV devices as an additional option to their pre-existing TV line-up. The Foxxum CTV OS was deeply integrated into the underlying TV software from SoC manufacturer MediaTek. By adding a web-based layer, implemented on specially defined OS interfaces to display the TV functions on the UI, each TV function has been rebuilt and improved.

The result is a unified user interface that seamlessly combines TV functionality and connected TV features. Through this web-based approach, the management, customization, and update process of the OS is easier than ever before.

“We took a deep dive into MediaTek’s SoC hard- and software within the last 24 months and launched an amazing new Foxxum CTV OS on MediaTek technology. It runs entirely web-based to allow navigation of the entire CTV from one landing page, integrating linear broadcasting and streaming in one place. This enables our clients to support desired customization with much less engineering. In this way, Foxxum can provide a great growth and cost saving opportunity,” says Mehmet Eroglu, Chief Commercial Officer at Foxxum GmbH.

Foxxum’s CTV OS offers monetization opportunities through interactive and user-friendly ad experiences across the complete ecosystem. Furthermore, through Foxxum’s extensive portfolio, it allows customers to enjoy not just premium global applications but also a wide range of local content worldwide.

“Due to our long-standing cooperation with Foxxum, it was clear to us that we would like to be the first to add the new Foxxum CTV OS to our devices. We see great potential and are certain that the product will be a global success,” says Mohamed Negmeldin, QA Director at El Araby Group

“The Foxxum CTV OS technology makes it much easier to customize the look and feel of our customers’ brand identities and offers all our clients additional monetization opportunities through the integration of ad banners in the TV UI. We are delighted that our long-time customer and partner El Araby will be the first to launch the Foxxum CTV OS. Furthermore, we are excited to offer our customers a great alternative to Google TV, as requested by all our global customers and highly appreciated by all TV brands that are searching for protection against dominance by global tech giants,” says Dirk Wittenborg, President of Foxxum GmbH.

Kiel (Germany), December 23, 2021 | Global smart TV solution provider and innovator, Foxxum, is collaborating with Cinemo, a global leader in automotive infotainment embedded solutions, to power a new In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) experience using Foxxum’s software and customizable CTV solutions.

With 10 years of experience in developing and optimizing solutions for CTVs and its apps, Foxxum is now expanding its scope and dedicating itself to the increasingly digital automotive industry, which continues to emerge as the next level in the streaming business.

Cinemo, a leading provider of automotive infotainment middleware, develops powerful and high-quality multimedia and streaming solutions, that enable the world’s leading automotive brands to build innovative and delightful IVI solutions for drivers and passengers alike.

In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) offers car drivers and passengers an ideal combination of entertainment and information, along with a safer way of interaction by using large touch screen displays, button panels and voice commands. IVI solutions include a wide range of content, kid-friendly and safe entertainment and serve as a perfect distraction while charging the car.

Foxxum will provide automotive clients with access to a variety of its extensive global entertainment content, along with a hub that can be customized to the user’s preferences and provide access to the most frequently used content, such as VODs and live TV channels.

Through this collaboration, Foxxum can leverage its strong relationships with its content partners to give them an opening in IVI in addition to the reach in CTV, without having to work with another partner.

A first demo of this joint IVI solution will be presented at the tech conference CES, which will take place in Las Vegas on January 5-8, 2022. Individual appointments can be arranged via foxxum.com/contact.

“’Made in Germany’ is a true seal of quality in the automotive industry, and that’s exactly what we can ensure with our new IVI solution Foxxum Car OS. With Cinemo, we have found the perfect technology partner with whom we can bring German quality and innovation to the global market,” says Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO and Founder.

Kiel (Germany), November 05, 2021 – The Spanish video-on-demand streaming app ATRESplayer is now available on the Foxxum App Store. The ATRESplayer app was created as a catch-up service from Atresmedia – one of the leading media publishing houses in Spain, that owns multiple popular private TV channels like Antena 3 and laSexta, which broadcast nationwide.

With the ATRESplayer app, viewers can gain access to all the programs from Antena 3, laSexta, Antena 3 International and the entire streaming content on Flooxer.

ATRESplayer is a freemium service, offering a free but limited selection of content with ads.

Additionally, users can purchase a monthly subscription to access all the ad-free content with ATRESplayer PREMIUM. The app is accessible worldwide and users who live outside of Spain can simply purchase the ATRESplayer PREMIUM International subscription to access the exclusive premium content.

Audiences who, for example, want to catch-up on the interviews of national and international celebrities, can find all the episodes from the entire seasons of the highly popular TV show “El Hormiguero 3.0“on the ATRESplayer app. In addition, viewers can enjoy a broad variety of TV series like “Los Hombres de Paco”, TV shows like “Mask Singer: Adivina Quién Canta”, the news, Spanish movies like “Veneno” and telenovelas such as “Amar es Para Siempre”.

“We are very proud to integrate ATRESplayer in this new world of smart TVs around the globe, high quality brands and devices that will strengthen our content, and FOXXUM gave us this opportunity to be closer to our subscribers,” says Juan Ignacio Jimenez Gargantilla, Director of Digital Business Development of Atresmedia.

“The addition of the ATRESplayer app to our Foxxum App Store is very special to us and brings tremendous value to our Spanish and international market. We are extremely delighted to be able to share the incredible content on the ATRESplayer app with our Spanish speaking viewers worldwide,” says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

The ATRESplayer app is available on all Vestel devices and TV brands such as: Toshiba, Telefunken, Hitachi, and JVC.

Foxxum’s president Dirk Wittenborg sat down for a highly interesting interview with the German news magazine ADZINE to talk about the current state of the CTV world and market – from monetization options for operating systems to toll bridges, walled gardens, and the general outlook of the CTV world in the future, among other topics.

Below you will find the translated English version of the interview. To read the original German interview on the ADZINE website, click here. 

The Global Battle for Toll Bridges in CTV

When people in the advertising industry talk about CTV, most people immediately think of app providers and their streams. However, there is another level before that – the operating systems. With Foxxum, Dirk Wittenborg introduces such a CTV operating system, which is used by various TV brands in a similar way to Android TV or Amazon Fire. After Samsung, Foxxum is the second largest CTV platform in Europe, but nobody knows this because it’s used as a white-label solution. Simultaneously, Foxxum’s Kiel-based team develops CTV apps and operates rlaxx TV, a linear AVOD+FAST service. In this interview, Wittenborg explains why the real battle in CTV is taking place worldwide at a platform level and who will win the race.

ADZINE: Hello Dirk. How does the marketing on CTVs work when we go to the level of operating systems?

Dirk Wittenborg: Generally, the app providers work together with the platform partner, for example with us or Samsung. Nowadays, this often boils down to an inventory split because Amazon has shaped it that way. The platforms often want thirty percent of the inventory – which is just insanely expensive because it’s usually not there as a margin. We do this differently. For example, the TV manufacturer Sharp uses our operating system in Europe. We take over the marketing here and share the revenue with the brand.

ADZINE: What are the monetization options for operating systems?

Wittenborg: There are three levels: firstly, there’s the placement – if someone wants to, for example, sit next to Netflix on the landing page. These are the so-called placement fees. That’s when display banners are possible on the landing page of the platform.

And thirdly, you can work with pre-rolls or post-rolls, depending on the legal agreements in the video playout. Of course, you need the appropriate permissions for this. At rlaxx TV, we show an advertising video in a recommendation layer, where we recommend content from another app before it gets clicked. However, the partner must first allow the recommendation, followed by the marketing.

ADZINE: What about pre-, post-, and mid-rolls within streams?

Wittenborg: At this point, we’re directly in the video playout. Starting from an ecosystem, you take the app to a foreign country. Usually, the app owner takes over the marketing there, but signs a revenue share agreement with the platform. The classic rate for distribution is thirty percent, which dates all the way back to the old YouTube world. As I said, today it’s often not thirty percent of the revenue, but rather thirty percent of the inventory.

ADZINE: Advertisers are very interested in advertising on CTV, but it hasn’t really taken off yet, at least in Germany. What’s the problem?

Wittenborg: Germans are, simply speaking, specialists in making everything complicated. Marketing in CTV in this country often runs through sisters of the traditional TV marketers. Prosieben and RTL try to keep this situation as stable as possible for as long as possible. And the advertising industry is very conservative, they are doing what they know for now.

Nevertheless, U.S. players like Roku and Pluto are already here. Their advertising models are already established in the U.S., and they will also establish themselves here through view time and aggressive marketing.

ADZINE: The CTV market in Europe is very fragmented. Recently, one of our guest authors – from RTL – outlined an AdTech platform for CTV that covers several European markets and bundles TV-like advertising inventory. Do you think this is realistic?

Wittenborg: It’s realistic, but it won’t happen. It’s like the old Roman Empire. It’s a question of who sets up the toll stations. On the one hand, we have the cable network operator, who determines – via his subscribers and his set-top box – which of the advertisers gets into the living room. Then we have the satellite distribution channels like SES Astra, which in turn determine what it costs there.

In CTV, you’ll find walled gardens like from Samsung or LG. Sony and Phillips run ninety percent of their TVs on Android TV, so this walled garden is effectively run by Google. If someone wants to start an advertising community for CTV, then it’s called Google in the end anyway. But they’re definitely not going to join anywhere.

ADZINE: Who is building the most toll bridges?

Wittenborg: There’s a lot of speed on the market. In the U.S., Amazon has just announced that it’s developing its own TV set. They already sell their own chips for their cloud service, and the next step will be chips for end devices, like Apple is already doing. The goal here is maximum distribution of the toll bridges.

At a local level, the players are all different. The television market in Austria is perhaps still similar to the one in Germany, but in France or Spain it’s completely different. In the CTV field, Android, Amazon, Roku and maybe Facebook are the main players with global ambitions. There just aren’t many that market globally.

ADZINE: What made you think of Facebook?

Wittenborg: Facebook is looking for growth. Users on social media are no longer growing as strongly and advertising intensity has been exhausted there too. So, outside of the mobile space, the big TV screen is still the best place to advertise.

It’s just a question of who Facebook buys. Maybe it will be Roku – they only cost forty-five billion. Microsoft is sure to follow the same strategy soon. They could even buy Roku and Netflix with ease. And Disney, too, if they wanted to. In two years, Disney will have surpassed Netflix, and then it will be exciting to see what the even bigger ones do.

To put it this way: The giants in the USA have woken up. Amazon has just bought some content from MGM for 9 billion. But that’s still low compared to what one can spend.

ADZINE: Who do you see as the winner of this game?

Wittenborg: Netflix doesn’t have the financial strength to compete against players like Amazon, Google, or Facebook once they build the toll bridges and simply copy and displace Netflix. Disney, too, is very strong worldwide and has content brands like Mickey Mouse or Marvel and even theme parks – Netflix is far away from that. Plus, a lot of the content today is produced just to keep subscribers from leaving. So, the cost of content is going up, as is the cost of marketing due to increased competition.

ADZINE: How is this resolved?

Wittenborg: Above all, there will be a big race for the toll bridges, i.e., there will be a battle for the operating systems. Sixty percent belong to the big brands like Samsung, LG etc. forty percent are independent. Here in Germany these include Medion or Orion from the Otto Group. In each country, there are between three and five local brands, which are usually as big as Samsung. Everyone is fighting for this market right now. Samsung has gone from being a manufacturer to a global broadcaster. No one is attacking them directly, so it’s better to offer the local brands an operating system. That’s what we’re doing. For two years now, we’ve been competing with Android, Amazon, and Roku.

Google pays manufacturers ten dollars to use their operating system. At one-hundred million TV sets, Google is pricing the ticket to enter the game at a billion – in the first year. To build a base, they need five to seven years. That puts us at five to seven billion U.S. dollars, and that’s how much it costs just to participate. That’s an expensive gig.

ADZINE: Thank you very much for the interview!

Kiel (Germany), October 19, 2021 – Foxxum, global and innovative leader in the Smart TV solutions sector, has partnered with Turkey’s first and biggest premium AVOD streaming service puhutv to develop their smart TV app.

puhutv is part of the Doğuş Group (Doğuş Holding A.Ş.), which is one of the largest, privately held conglomerates in Turkey. Their portfolio includes more than 300 companies with six core businesses in the automotive, construction, hospitality & retail, real estate, energy, and media sector, to which puhutv belongs.

Foxxum has been collaborating with Doğuş for years, having developed other smart TV apps such as Kral TV, and they are now continuing their successful partnership by utilizing Foxxum’s outstanding smart TV know-how for the app development of the premium AVOD streaming service puhutv.

The puhutv app offers viewers TV and film content, comprised of foreign and Turkish films that range from dramas to comedies, Turkish soap operas, documentaries, music and TV shows, live broadcasts as well as their originally produced content, puhutv Original.

The app will be available in Turkey in Turkish, Arabic, and Spanish and can be accessed on the Foxxum-enabled smart TV devices Hisense, Blaupunkt, Profilo, Vestel and Sharp and on the smart TV brands Samsung, LG, Beko, Grundig, Philips and Sony. 

“In line with changing user and content consumption reflexes, we are very pleased to leave the development of smart TV of our new puhutv product focused on user experience to the deep experience of FOXXUM. We are confident that this long-term collaboration will have successful results”, says Anıl Taşhan, Business Development Manager at puhutv.

“We are very proud to collaborate with the Doğuş Group once again and to develop the app of their AVOD service puhutv. Through this collaboration, we are gaining another valued premium client and further expanding our market share in Turkey”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

End-users with a Foxxum-enabled smart TV can enjoy the breadth of flamenco culture – with its hundreds of unique and fascinating dances, instrumental performances, and songs – straight from the comfort of their living rooms, in 4K resolution and without advertisements.

The All Flamenco smart TV app offers viewers a broad selection of content, ranging from flamenco festival, recitals, fashion and dancing shows, to concerts, exclusive interviews, reports, films, and documentaries – including monthly premieres.

For viewers who want to learn and immerse themselves even deeper into the world of flamenco, the All Flamenco app additionally features flamenco dance classes as well as master classes, to turn flamenco enthusiasts into true afficionados.

“All Flamenco is an important app for the Spanish and international market, as this partnership makes the Foxxum App Store attractive for yet another interest group”, says Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO. “Furthermore, we are proud to contribute to making the flamenco culture easily accessible worldwide.”

“We are delighted with the collaboration with Foxxum, as it broadens the scope of such a universal art as flamenco, allowing its large international audience to continue to experience it with the highest quality”, says Carlos Navia, CEO of Digital Cornucopia, ALL FLAMENCO’s publishing company.

The app is available in English, Spanish and Japanese and can be accessed worldwide on the TV brands: Hisense, Medion, Kayve, Profilo, Toshiba, Hitachi, JVC, and Telefunken.

Istikana, a leading video-on-demand service from the Arab World, has released its smart TV application on the Foxxum App Store. Istikana offers a unique Arabic library of over 7 thousand hours of independent films, documentaries, short films, classics, and more. The new Istikana smart TV app will allow for a convenient and unique viewing experience for its subscribers directly on their televisions.

Tareq Abu-Lughod, Istikana CEO, said, “Our partnership with Foxxum is important to us since it provides our content to a wider customer-base in a form that is convenient to them. We are committed to showcasing the best independent Arabic video content to our subscribers and helping Arab filmmakers expand their audiences globally”.

“Through our cooperation with Istikana, we are bringing a large library of unique independent Arabic content through our well established globally available platform in the region and to Arabic speaking viewers around the world”, says Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO

The Istikana streaming app is available on select El Araby devices with the Foxxum App Store, such as Tornado and Toshiba amongst a variety of other smart TV brands such as Daiko and Profilo in the MENA region as well as Medion, Hisense, Sharp and Blaupunkt internationally.

Users can enjoy the app by searching for Istikana within the device’s app store.

About Istikana

Istikana is a Subscription Video On Demand Platform that brings the best Arabic independent cinema to the world. The platform showcases never-seen before independent films, documentaries, short films, hard to find classics, and more. Istikana is available on the web, mobile web, mobile devices, and Smart TVs. To learn more visit:  www.istikana.com

Foxxum has developed its first smart TV app for the Australian market, and the customer is none other than Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company Telstra.  Foxxum has undertaken a complete revamp of the popular Telstra TV Box Office app bringing it up to speed with the latest smart TV trends.

The TVOD offering can be installed on Telstra’s Set-top-box (TelstraTV), PC and laptop as well as iOS and Android mobile phones. The smart TV integration completed by Foxxum, brings the Box Office app to customers’ big screens at home via Panasonic, LG and Samsung devices in Australia.

Telstra TV Box Office contains a large library of recently released and back catalogue movies and TV series and box sets from numerous movie studios and production houses which users can either rent or buy.

“We are very proud that we were able to work with the major telecommunications provider in the Australian market and demonstrate our design, development and delivery qualities”, says Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO.

The app has been available for Australian users since mid-January.

Classical music fans with Foxxum-enabled smart TVs from the brands Newsan & Philco (Argentina), Hisense (Europe & APAC), Panasonic (Brazil & LATAM), among others, can now enjoy subscription-based VOD service Selecta TV’s operettas, concerts and ballets in their living rooms around the globe.

The content from Selecta TV is available in the languages English, Spanish and Portuguese and classified in the three categories: concerts, operas and ballets. Additionally, classical music fans can enjoy special editions of iconic pieces and weekly content releases.

“We are pleased with this partnership as it allows us to reach more and more smart TV users with our application and to enable them to enjoy our content with the best image and sound quality”, says Federico Scialabba, Founder of Selecta TV.

“With Selecta TV, we are expanding the range of the Foxxum App Store content portfolio, delivering classical music to all generations and tastes. What makes the app even more special is that it addresses a particular audience, which is all too often not considered in smart TV and app development nowadays”, comments Ronny Lutzi, CEO of Foxxum.

Users of Tornado and Toshiba smart TV devices can now enjoy a library of millions of Arabic and international songs, music videos and podcasts on their smart TVs – for free. Through the partnership with Anghami, Foxxum has brought the MENA region’s leading music platform on board of its Foxxum App Store.

With the Anghami smart TV app, viewers with a Toshiba or Tornado smart TV can listen to music or to users’ live radio broadcasts and enjoy live concerts on the big screen. Other smart TV brands from the Middle East like Hitachi and Vestel will follow soon. 

The app features licensed content from leading Arabic and International music labels, while the service has everything else you would expect from an excellent music app.

“At Anghami, we are continuously aiming to be available across all devices and platforms that our users love. We are delighted to be working with Foxxum to increase our reach across the network of television partners they provide in the region, hence further extending the Anghami music experience to our user’s living room”, says Choucri Khairallah, VP of Business Development at Anghami.

“With the Anghami app, our portfolio in the Foxxum App Store becomes even broader. Not only can we offer good music on the TV but we have also gained the most popular music app provider in the MENA region”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

ABOUT Anghami

Anghami is the leading music platform in the MENA region with more than 50 million songs to search from, stream, download and share. The unlimited, on-the-go music streaming service enables users to discover new music, share tracks in real-time through social networks and download content for offline play.

The company’s mission is to pioneer an ecosystem for the production and distribution of music in the Arab world, connecting artists, fans and emerging talents around music. Anghami features licensed content from leading Arab and international labels.

Founded in 2012 by Eddy Maroun and Elie Habib, a team of music and tech fanatics, Anghami is a company with affiliates and offices in Beirut, Dubai, Cairo and Riyadh.

Foxxum is proud to cooperate with MENA’s leading entertainment hub, with the rights to broadcast in 17 countries across Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA).

The OSN streaming app now enriches the Foxxum App Store with premium content from HBO, Paramount+ and Universal in Arabic, English and Filipino. In addition, OSN is the exclusive distributor of Disney+ originals, including Disney Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and National Geographic, in the Middle East. In addition to bringing the latest first-class international content at the same minute as in the US, the app features OSN originals and eleven local and regional channels.

At this stage, the OSN streaming app is available on select El Araby devices with Foxxum App Store, such as Tornado and Toshiba. Other smart TV brands like Hisense, Vestel, TCL, Daiko and more will follow in the coming months.

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Foxxum-enabled device users can now enjoy the most popular live TV and Video-on-demand service in the Slovak Republic. With this partnership, Foxxum has one of the Slovak key video libraries of FTA broadcasters with the largest market share on board.

The SVOD-App VOYO provides a wide variety of premium content such as popular pre-premieres of national series and shows such as Oteckovia, Pán profesor, Horná Dolná or Farma, which can be viewed up to 24 days prior to the official TV or movie premieres. Furthermore, VOYO offers famous soap operas, live sport events as well as kids programs. The application is now available on the devices from Foxxum’s client Vestel, which include TV brands such as Hitachi, JVC, Telefunken and Toshiba.

“Our priority is to provide customers with as much new high quality content as possible, which can be consumed by subscribers on a wide range of devices. Furthermore, we plan to continue to strengthen VOYO‘s brand position in the market of premium SVOD services with a lot of attractive and exclusive content,” said Tony Zdarilek, Markíza Group´s Head of Digital and Diversification.

Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH adds: “We are very proud that we have been able to win the strongest TV group in the Slovakian market as a partner, so now our end users have access to the largest content provider in the country”.

ABOUT Markíza

 Markíza Group is the leading TV group in Slovakia, which operates four TV channels (Markíza, Doma, Dajto, Markíza International), one streaming service (VOYO) and several online and mobile offerings. Markíza Group is part of the media and entertainment company Central European Media Enterprises (CME), which is active in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia and was recently acquired by the Czech investor – PPF Group. 

Foxxum is happy to welcome a new member to its Smart TV app family.

WATCH iT! enriches the Foxxum App Store with premium content for Arabic-speaking viewers all over the world.

WATCH iT!, established in 2019, is Egypt’s first Video-on-demand service which caters to the Arabic audience around the world. This new Smart TV App on Foxxum-enabled TVs provides an amazing viewing experience combined with a varied content offer across different categories. The extensive catalogue of the SVOD app includes top series, sports, documentaries, blockbuster movies and theatrical plays; in Full HD quality, live and on demand. Other highlights include exclusive new Ramadan releases and original WATCH iT! content. The media library is updated monthly.

“Through our cooperation with WATCH iT!, we can introduce best in-class premium Arabic content to our viewers around the world”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH

WATCH iT! is available on Foxxum enabled devices from El Araby (Toshiba, Tornado). Other devices like Hisense, Vestel, TCL, Daiko and more will follow soon.

Linear television experience with video-on-demand comfort.

As one of the world’s leading developers of Smart TV apps and platforms, Foxxum knows exactly what a good streaming service needs. With the experience and knowledge of user’s video content consumption, the founders of Foxxum have now launched their own free video streaming product rlaxx TV.

rlaxx TV combines the advantages of a linear television experience with flexible video-on-demand comfort. The content in the rlaxx TV app is presented in theme-based channels, which viewers can simply tune in to avoid long search times. Moreover, it’s possible to skip content by fast-forwarding and rewinding within the channel. Viewers can also access individual videos from the programming at any time in the on-demand section of the service. These features combine the relaxed enjoyment of linear TV with the individuality and precision of video-on-demand, in just one app.  

The channel offering, which includes anything from music, sports, kids, lifestyle to adventure as well as international feature films, mainly stems from Foxxum’s extensive content partner network, which expanded over the years and is constantly growing. rlaxx TV is financed through advertising and is therefore completely free for viewers to enjoy.

Through the connection to the sister company Foxxum, rlaxx TV is available from day one in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and UK on Smart TVs from Hisense, Medion, Metz, Sharp, Telefunken, TCL, Toshiba, Vestel, and many more.  Currently reaching about 25 percent of the Smart TVs in each of these European markets, rlaxx TV will soon be launched in further countries and all Foxxum-enabled Smart TVs worldwide.

As its official app development partner, Foxxum will also support rlaxx TV in their multiplatform strategy that embraces all OTT devices. At the end of November 2020, rlaxx TV will be launched on Amazon Fire TV. Further apps for other smart TVs, media streamers, mobile phones, tablets, games consoles, desktops and laptops will be released in the next months.

New York, October 26, 2020: Vevo, the leading all-premium music video platform, today announced a partnership with Foxxum, an innovator in cutting-edge Smart TV solutions for TV manufacturers and content providers. The agreement will make Vevo’s unparalleled premium music video content catalog available on over 20 million Foxxum-enabled devices.

The partnership will bring the Vevo catalog to a broad array of smart TVs managed by Foxxum in North America, Europe, Australia, and South America. Vevo will retain full editorial control of its content, with audiences having access to localized and global content dependent on geographic location.

“The addition of Foxxum as a smart TV scaling partner is a significant effort in our OTT strategy,” said Bernarda Duarte, VP Business Development, Vevo. “With the vast scale provided by Foxxum’s network of television partners, we will have the opportunity to deliver our library of music videos and original content to even more viewers around the world, tapping into key growing markets, and expanding our efforts around returning music videos to the living room.”

Foxxum specializes in tailor-made smart TV solutions which are developed in close collaboration, with their customers, at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain, from silicon vendors through to Device Manufacturers (OEM), CE brands, TV operators and Content Providers.

“We are delighted to collaborate with Vevo. Our users will now be able to enjoy Vevo’s brilliant music video experience on their smart TVs and watch the great variety of high-quality music video content offered in their application. This is a significant addition to our premium app catalogue, and we are certain that our footprint and platform’s user experience will enhance Vevo’s global audience”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Read more to get an overview of some of our latest App additions.

MUBI

MUBI a popular movie streaming app showing accomplished film hits to viewers worldwide has been added to Foxxum’s portfolio. The SVOD service offers a big variety of critically acclaimed movies. MUBI presents handpicked shows from new and upcoming directors as well as award-winning titles and is continuously on the hunt for the most exciting, fascinating and beautiful films for their audience.

Layalina

Earlier this year 7awi made its debut on Smart TV with Foxxum and we are now launching Layalina, a service belonging to the 7awi group. Layalina is developed by Foxxum and offers premium infotainment content about the Middle Eastern fashion, health, beauty and celebrity lifestyle.

Bernama

The Malaysian news app Bernama broadcasts and reports the latest national news. The app also lets users utilize the other broadcaster’s services such as the Bernama radio channel, a 24-hours news and radio station as well as Bernama WebTV, which brings news from Bernama TV to the live stream. The app is available in Malay and English language.

myTuner radio

This service, based in Portugal, brings over 50.000 radio stations and one million podcasts created all over the world to the big screen. The channel holds radio stations of 200 countries and has over 30 million users. Viewers can select between well-known and popular, regional and global content  from African, Asian, North and Latin American, European and Oceania regions.

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Kiel, September 21st, 2020: FITE, the premier digital platform for global sports and entertainment, is proud to announce that its streaming app will be distributed globally via premium partner, Foxxum. The Foxxum Smart TV App Store serves leading television brands such as Panasonic, TCL, Toshiba, Vestel, Sharp, Medion, Metz, Hisense, JTC, Blaupunkt, Skyworth, Axen, Ergo, CTVE, MasterG, Kayse, Profilo, Sunny, Tornado and UMC. 

Headquartered in the USA, FITE is a worldwide brand with an expertise in combat sports and long-time partnerships with major leagues like the WWE, NJPW, Premier Boxing Championship, Top Rank, Impact Wrestling, AEW, Brave and UWN. In March 2020, FITE decided to expand its offerings to include motorsports, basketball, soccer, tennis, music and films. FITE continues to break new ground with emerging partnerships and exciting new productions as well as offering lots of free programs each week.

FITE is now fully launched on Foxxum-enabled devices, which means Smart TV users can now access the FITE app on their TVs to enjoy global events in the following regions: Europe, Western Europe, CIS countries, Latin America, Oceania, Middle East and Arabic-speaking countries.    

“We are known for delivering the most popular sports and content providers of events,” said Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH. “So, adding the FITE app to our Smart TV consumer offering was a very exciting development for us. FITE offers some of the biggest sports brands as well as exclusive events from around the globe. The app also offers some events in additional languages which are made to be especially consumer-friendly by displaying countdown-clocks, reminders, ratings, suggestions and of course replays with PPV purchase.”

“Over the last two years FITE has been focused on reaching all of our fans, old and new, on the platforms, devices and in the territories where they live and consume our world class programming. Launching on Foxxum allows us to further extend our reach,” remarked Louis Lewow, VP of Distribution for FITE. “Foxxum enables us to serve large and small markets around the world. We are excited to partner with them.”

Kiel, September 14th, 2020: Filmzie a.s., operator of the free movie streaming platform Filmzie, now releases a Smart TV app together with Foxxum GmbH,

an internationally leading Smart TV solutions provider.

Filmzie is on a mission to support independent filmmakers and small studios by providing a platform where they can showcase their films and connect with true film fans. This platform enables filmmakers to reach a broader audience meanwhile allowing movie lovers to enjoy unique, award-winning and hard-to-find movies as well as well-known films, free of charge. Filmzie has already attracted viewers from all over the globe with tens of thousands of active movie watchers on its mobile application (Android & iOS) and web-based platform.

The partnership enables Foxxum to present Filmzie’s large catalogue of high-quality content in their own app store worldwide. Users will appreciate the wide, HD quality video-on-demand content library including all movie genres, top festival winners, independent films, exceptional short movies and much more. Filmzie’s Smart TV app is available on all Foxxum enabled TVs, like Hisense, Sharp, LG, and Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Samsung meanwhile, app for Panasonic Viera Connect will follow later this year.

“We are thrilled to have created a movie streaming platform with a rapidly growing community that cares about and gives back to the independent movie industry. The launch of our first TV application will only enhance and strengthen our community and we are proud to have worked side-by-side with Foxxum to deliver this app to their users”, expressed Matej Boda, CEO & Founder at Filmzie, a.s.

“We appreciate the intuitive user-friendly concept of Filmzie, especially in times of content overload, and are therefore very happy that this partnership exists. We can now offer this remarkable service in the Foxxum App Store and our users will be able to access a new large content catalogue and social platform specifically for movies.”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Kiel, May 26th, 2020: Foxxum, innovator in cutting-edge Smart TV solutions for TV manufacturers and content providers, is pleased to announce the partnership with Globo.

The deal encompasses the launch of the Globoplay app on selected Foxxum-enabled devices in Brazil.

Globo is part of the largest media group in Latin America, with their offering spanning from TV broadcasting, OTT, film production as well as telco capabilities such as internet and music.

Globoplay’s video streaming and on-demand content originates from the free-to-air television network Globo and both will be available within the Smart TV app. Globo offers a huge library of international movies and exclusive shows. All of Globoplay’s independently produced films and series which are particularly popular by viewers, including ‘Arcanjo Renegado’, ‘It’s a Match’ and ‘As Five’, will also be included. This diverse and popular content catalogue makes Globoplay the biggest Brazilian streaming service.

Within the app users can choose between content from various categories such as documentaries, music, soap operas, sports and comedy. Through this association Foxxum can now offer Globoplay in the app store, as well as expand and manifest its reach in the Brazilian market.

“We are very happy with this partnership as it is a great opportunity for Globoplay to amplify its distribution base. Foxxum is already internationally acknowledged and has great potential to grow its local footprint in Brazil.”, says Marcelo Souza, OTT Video Products Director at Globo Technology.

“We are very proud to work with this enormously prominent company. Through the collaboration with Globo, we can expand our Brazilian content collection, which in connection with our user-friendly design provides a delightful Smart TV experience to our viewers”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Mehmet reveals the best sales strategies, talks about his experience working in the Smart TV industry, shares good reads and gives an insight into the future of TV. 

Can you tell us a little about yourself Mehmet? What are some of the best highlights handling sales for the SmartTV/ B2C segment?

I consider myself as someone who loves to go out onto the field, try to find and meet people and organizations with a need for something that I am offering and who enjoy it as much as I do. Smart TV as a whole, its technology and how it is used and liked by many millions of people globally, provides me the joy of selling something which is adored and used day by day, by so many. That’s why I will always remember the first time when I was standing in the TV and electronics isle of a retail store in Germany, watching 2 friends checking a TV of a brand which uses our Smart TV technology while I was doing some market research myself. These kind of circumstances, I’d always consider as my highlights as it allows me to see the direct impact of what I do- day in, day out.

Given your expertise in Tech/B2B, B2C Business Development and Sales – we’d love to know about some of your top must-haves for a basic Sales or Business Development outreach – what best practices are ideal for a B2B environment versus B2C.

For me as a person, one of the biggest challenges has always consisted of being able to adapt quickly to the person sitting on the other side of the table. This is valid for both environments, B2B and B2C customers. In both cases we still deal with human beings who have different characteristics while taking decisions. Some people are outspoken and loud whereas others are considered introverts who like to speak more about facts and figures rather than start off discussions with small talk. I strongly believe that a good Salesperson is someone who has a general plan of his/her own in mind but is capable of adapting to the personality sitting in front of them. Most important is to keep the “goal” of finalizing the deal in mind and working towards it. In most cases I also think that being prepared and having a healthy “hunter” mentality of never giving up and following up closely goes a long way. And last but not least: The main point is to listen to the needs of customers, whether B2B or B2C and supply them with exactly that.

What would you say are some of the biggest challenges in B2C/B2B sales and business development today? What would your top tips be for them to overcome these challenges?

There are 4 main challenges today that create obstacles for any Business Development and/or Sales professional.

Firstly, to remember to communicate the value of the product: I realized too often early in my career that after several rounds of negotiation I was not focusing anymore on explaining why our products would help the customer but would talk about other issues instead, losing focus on what’s vital.

I also believe that Salespersons should show more and tell less. Especially when selling SaaS or other intangible products, a Demo can change a lot. Words, most of the time are no substitute for images to be shown.

Mapping out the Buyers and understanding who they are and what their needs are, are also the right keys to success. In addition to that, identifying the correct decision-makers on the table are also important in any sales process.

And lastly, being able to connect with the customers emotionally offer tremendous advantages, as it allows to speak openly also about problems when they come along making them easier to solve.

What have been some of your most successful revenue generation and sales tactics and strategies from your time in the industry so far?

Tough question! I am not sure if there is a certain tactic or even trick that can be applied to a success as such. I find it to be usually a combination of many different things. For example: Understanding what the customer needs and how we can offer that; building relations over the years with people in the industry; you may have some customers where the time is simply not right but who then come back to you at a time when you do not expect it. That has actually happened quite a lot to me and has also created some successful revenues for our company.

How according to you will the typical role of tomorrow’s B2B/Technology sales person evolve, given the dynamics and innovations in salestech today? What should today’s salesperson do to prepare for the future role of tomorrow?

I believe that the key word or answer to this is to anticipate and to embrace change. Changes are and will always be happening. Change is also in the DNA of our industry. We need to believe and understand that change is inevitable and that each change brings new opportunities. For example: The B2B customer has also dramatically changed when I compare them to my first years in the industry to today. In the past we would go and knock on the door of B2B customers and explain to them what we offer and who we are. If they would have a need right in that moment, chances were high, they would agree to buy or contact you when they are ready to buy. Nowadays it is not that simple anymore, as many B2B customers have much higher requirements and boundaries where a simple visit and introduction alone does not guarantee the success of the sale. To understand how they changed and adjust yourself and the company to it, is the key ingredient to create future success.

What would you say or do in your capacity to turn Sales and Business Development into the most exciting job of the decade?!

For me it is already the most exciting job of the decade otherwise, I would not be doing this for more than a decade…!!!

Tag (mention/write about) the one person in the industry whose answers to these questions you would love to read!

#Michael Paull, President at Disney Streaming services

Your favorite Sales/SalesTech quote and sales leadership books you’d suggest everyone in Sales reads

There are a lot of fantastic books out there that over time allowed me to learn from and utilize in my own little ways. Some of them are “classics” that I would suggest to everyone working in Sales and Business Development. “Winning” by Jack Welch and “Getting to Yes” by Fischer, Ury and Patton are 2 of those must-reads for me. I also believe that anyone aspiring to become a sales expert and leader within any organization should be reading the “The Goal” by M. Goldratt and “The Art of the Start” by G. Kawasaki, as both books provide different insights on how organizations work and how success itself is a mixture of “traditional” business management as well as entrepreneurship in many different ways.

Tell us about some of the top sales/salestech/fintech/ other events that you’ll be participating in (virtually!) (as a speaker or guest!) in 2020!

As you know, we are experiencing some challenging times right now, on a global scale making those attendances quite difficult due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Before this however, I was planning to attend multiple events during 2020 which now are mostly on hold for the greater good of course. Like many, I also hope and believe we will defeat this virus and return to normal times very soon, allowing again to exchange ideas and business thoughts during future events.

We’d love to know a little about your future plans!

We are very excited to be launching our new OTT service called “Rlaxx.tv” very soon. It will be our very first B2C product which entails the mission of bringing (back) lean-back TV experience to Smart TV’s. In today’s world of connected devices and applications the supply of content is massive which causes end users to spend a lot of time whilst searching for content. “Rlaxx.tv” is a product that is based on our philosophy of “Launch, lean back and relax!” and hence allows end users to simply watch any content of their interest on their Smart TV’s without all the hassle of surfing through many different apps. Especially in the US there is a big demand of this type of content consumption now. We plan to apply this idea on all other markets outside the USA towards and by the end of the year. Our installed Smart TV base as well as our existing partnerships with content partners allow us a quick market entry. At the same time, we are also capable to launch on all relevant devices worldwide as we have an experienced and very talented development team behind Rlaxx.tv.

Kiel, May 5th, 2020: Foxxum is excited to announce the official launch of 5flix, the new Smart TV app of the German television broadcaster TELE 5.

The app is the result of the newly formed partnership between TELE 5 and Foxxum, innovator in cutting-edge Smart TV solutions for TV manufacturers and content providers, who have developed the app which will now be available on various platforms in Germany and Austria.

TELE 5 has become a successful private television broadcaster in the DACH region and is famous for its “Different is better” approach, which is mainly reflected by their eclectic and offbeat choice of content. Their carefully selected content library has already won over a large fanbase, by not showing the mainstream movies and series, but focusing on unique films and shows viewers would otherwise have missed.

5flix is an advertising-based video-on-demand service, which is a significant step for TELE 5 as it enables everyone to access their exclusive video portfolio free of charge. TELE 5 has won over the German artist Liam Mockridge as ambassador around the campaign. He has delivered a humorous 90s style commercial in which he sings a song explaining why he loves his 5flix app to promote the app launch.

Within this app users have access to hundreds of movies and series in German language. 5flix features iconic action classics, sparkling romance series, horror movies, SciFi series and inhouse productions such as “SchleFaZ – the worst movies ever”. Additionally, some of the regions’ biggest comedians feature their independently produced shows in the app: Serdar Somuncu’s “KAFFEEPAUSE”, Oliver Kalkofe’s “MATTSCHEIBE” and many more. Besides the VOD library, 5flix also contains the original Live TV channel of TELE 5.

Through this collaboration, the Smart TV app will be available on LG, Fire TV, Samsung and Android TV as well as Foxxum enabled devices such as VESTEL, Sharp, Medion, Hisense, Metz, JTC and many more. Users can now enjoy the diverse TELE 5 library via 5flix and stream all content around the clock for free.

“With Foxxum we have found the perfect partner to develop the 5flix app for Smart TV devices. We are very pleased to work with a business partner who truly understands what TELE 5 stands for and who is able to transfer the spirit of our channel into a great VOD application for the big screen. With this brand-new service our fans have the possibility to stream their favorite TELE 5 movies and series comfortably at home on TV – at anytime”, says Michael Damm, CDO at TELE 5.

“Our partnership with TELE 5 means a huge expansion of our content library for our native market. 5flix fills our Smart TV app store with peculiar German content, which perfectly caters to users’ modern demands. This fresh content, in combination with our user-friendly app UI design, serves the best Smart TV experience”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Kiel, April 1st, 2020: Foxxum GmbH, collaborates with Dogus Media Group, who shape the identity with innovative and stable media sector in Turkey, to offer the Smart TV app Kral.

The app was developed by Foxxum, pioneer of cutting-edge Smart TV solutions for TV brands and content provider and is available worldwide on Foxxum enabled devices.

Kral, a famous Turkish television and radio channel, who are successfully focusing on offering Turkish music only is now available as Smart TV app. The app not only offers the popular radio channels Kral FM and Kral Pop but also includes Video-on-demand and live TV content. Users of the Foxxum App Store will be able to easily access the radio channels and further have the possibility to watch music videos on the built in linear tv channels Kral TV and Kral Pop TV. The Video-on-demand section also offers music videos, concerts and much more music content as Sila, Buray and Aleyna Tilki to enjoy.  

As part of the collaboration, Kral will provide its library of premium content to Foxxum enabled devices including Profilo, Sunny, Vestel, Axen, Panasonic, Hisense and many others. The collaboration further increases Foxxum’s reach and strengthens its presence in Turkey; one of the company’s key markets.

Zafer Ilik, Kral Group Content Coordination Manager comments: “To work with Foxxum and to utilize their expert knowledge in the Smart TV industry is of great value to us. Content consumption through smart TV is thriving, it was therefore paramount for us to build this partnership and have Foxxum develop our own app showing our Turkish music content and making it available to everyone.”

“Foxxum always strives to cooperate with partners from key markets such as Turkey. For this reason, we are delighted to collaborate with one of the top companies in the Turkish music industry. The application offers a huge variety of excellent music content and widely popular radio broadcasts, which our users will no doubt enjoy”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

Mumbai, March 12th, 2020: EPIC ON, the premium video-on-demand platform known for its diverse India-centric content by IN10 Media Network today announced a major partnership with Foxxum GmbH, global leader in the development and operation of innovative Smart TV solutions. As part of the collaboration, EPIC ON will provide its library of premium content on the Foxxum-enabled devices worldwide, including Panasonic, Vestel, Hisense, Skyworth, and Sharp among many others. 

This association further increases EPIC ON’s reach across Smart TV platforms and strengthens its presence in key markets such as America, Europe and MENA with large Indian diaspora. Users of Foxxum can now easily access EPIC ON’s eclectic content library with renowned shows like ‘Stories By Rabindranath Tagore’ directed by film maker Anurag Basu; ‘Mid-Wicket Tales with Naseeruddin Shah’; Indian mythological courtroom drama, ‘Dharmakshetra’; ‘Umeed India’ with ace cricketer Virender Sehwag; ‘Sharanam’ with Juhi Chawla; ‘Raja, Rasoi aur Andaz Anokha’ hosted by renowned chef Ranveer Brar; Sakshi Tanwar’s ‘Tyohaar Ki Thaali’, among others.

Commenting on the collaboration, Sourjya Mohanty, COO at EPIC ON, said, “At EPIC ON, we are tirelessly working towards associating with global brands to enhance the consumer viewing experience and engage with a newer set of audiences. Our partnership with Foxxum further fortifies our mission of robust alliances and expanding our reach across Smart TV users.” Further added, “EPIC ON’s content encompasses diverse tales about India, varying perspectives and narratives which have not been seen before and travels well without boundaries of geography, or nationality.”

“A paradigm change is happening within content landscape. Content production, organization, distribution; all are in midst of tremendous change. EPIC ON, with its focus on myths, folklore and cultural tales and Foxxum with its know-how of Smart TV technologies join hands to make the EPIC ON experience available on Smart TVs worldwide and push the envelope for digital content consumption”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum GmbH.

As part of the re-launch of Cinedigm’s (NASDAQ: CIDM) popular Viewster ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) service, the Company announced today a partnership with Foxxum

— a global leader in the development, operation, and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV solutions — to expand Viewster’s device support to include Foxxum-supported devices worldwide, including TCL, Sharp, Hisense and Vestel televisions. The Viewster app was developed using Cinedigm’s proprietary Matchpoint Blueprint™ application development platform.

The agreement further establishes Cinedigm’s status as an emerging leader in the international OTT marketplace, making the Company’s acclaimed roster of diverse and eclectic content easily accessible to viewers across the globe on televisions from most major manufacturers. In addition to the Foxxum-supported Smart TV devices, Cinedigm’s growing portfolio of premium digital-first networks now have wide distribution across all top-tier TV manufacturers including Samsung, VIZIO, Philips, and LG, among many others.

This move not only increases Cinedigm’s massive global footprint — delivering Viewster’s library of hit films and series to even more viewers around the world — but it also allows Cinedigm to utilize Foxxum’s unprecedented expertise in the areas of content and channel development, operations, marketing, and more, by providing the Company access to the platform’s global ecosystem of connected Smart TV devices.

The Viewster app is powered by Cinedigm’s highly-scalable application development platform Matchpoint Blueprint which enables content distributors and content owners to efficiently and cost-effectively create compelling ad-supported and subscription-based video streaming services. Matchpoint Blueprint will play a crucial role in the international rollout and market expansion of the Viewster app, as the Company utilizes the platform for all of its end-to-end needs in order to enable a more robust user experience across a wide range of connected televisions.

“Foxxum is a leading force in the international Smart TV marketplace, providing dynamic and innovative services to a wide array of connected devices across the industry,” said Tony Huidor, Cinedigm’s Senior Vice President of Product & Technology. “This partnership is a vital piece of Cinedigm’s continued mission to redefine the traditional television experience — expanding Cinedigm’s global footprint even further while also allowing us to introduce the tremendous capabilities of our Matchpoint Blueprint service to additional markets through Foxxum’s extensive reach on Smart TVs.”

“It is great to keep growing with partners like Cinedigm who add value to the Foxxum App store through Viewster and offer our viewers a huge variety of films and series all over the world. Such kind of cooperation strengthens our App Portfolio and boosts user engagement on our Smart TV platforms”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

In the last couple of months, we released a great number of new apps in the Foxxum App store. Right here we will give you a quick summary of some of these apps.

From now on we will regularly keep you updated on all app launches within our store.

ViNTERA TV

With this IPTV service it is possible to watch hundreds of TV channels online for free like Vietnam TV and Armenia 1. Additionally, there is a paid package which includes popular kids and sport TV channels such as Karousel, Kids Movie, Auto 24 and Russian Extreme.

Puhu TV

This app has its roots in Turkey and offers hundreds of national TV series and movies. Alongside this collection they also show a huge variety of international films.

Mitele

Mitele is the on-demand service of Mediaset España. It contains a big catalogue of national and foreign series, movies, entertainment programs, sports and kids’ content. All in one single app.

Z5 Weyyak

This is Zee Entertainment’s AVOD service which targets the MENA region with content for all ages and tastes of the Arabic audience. Find a portfolio with the best Arabic series, exclusive Indian films and entertainment programs here.

asTV

The most read online sports newspaper from Spain: AS.com now is available as a Smart TV app. AS TV covers breaking news, live results and coverage of football league matches as well as Formula 1, MotoGP, basketball and tennis events.

You want to know more?

For further information please visit our social media channels! On there you will find the latest news on our app launches, collaborations and trade fairs as well as have the chance to gain exciting insights of our life in the office.

Ravi Kumar, responsible for Content Partnerships in India and Southeast Asia, will attend this year’s Global Content Bazar India in Mumbai.

He would be glad to meet you there. Please follow the link below to book your meeting. Looking forward to hearing from you! 

Kiel, January 2020: Foxxum GmbH and Jordan Media City (JMC), a private media service provider and TV broadcaster, are announcing their partnership which brings AlMamlaka TV,

a live streaming app, to Foxxum enabled devices. JMC has formed a strategic partnership with Foxxum, the leading provider of Smart TV solutions, to place its big catalogue of premium content in the Foxxum TV App Store.

Through this association, JMC continues its global expansion as well as amplifying its footprint in the Arabic speaking countries. JMC is intending to create and distribute further Arabic TV channels in the future.

Users can watch their favorite AlMamlaka TV programs and news on Foxxum enabled devices, not only in Jordan but also across a wide range of devices worldwide. AlMamlaka TV is an established 24 hour news channel in Jordan, which is free to use with no advertisements now coming to Smart TV with their very own App.

The AlMamlaka TV app is integrated within the Foxxum App stores and is now available for all users worldwide.

Kiel, January 2020: KONKA LTD, a leading consumer electronics manufacturer, has signed on to collaborate with Foxxum, the globally leading provider of Smart TV solutions,

to develop a fully customizable portal for Konka’s ODM customers. The portal will be pre-integrated inclusive of the huge library of Foxxum’s app portfolio to offer an entertaining end-user experience.

Foxxum specializes in tailor made Smart TV Solutions which are developed in close collaboration, with their customers, at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain, from silicon vendors through to Device Manufacturers (OEM), CE brands, TV operators and Content Providers.

Konka’s customer branded devices will be made available for all markets in 2020 for both Linux and Android OS TVs. Through this collaboration, Konka will have a continuously growing App offering, whilst Foxxum keeps strengthening its presence in the Latin American markets.  

Kiel, November 2019: VEGA CORPORATION and Foxxum GmbH are pleased to announce their collaboration to offer the VOD service Clip TV on Foxxum-supported devices in Vietnam.

Vega is one of the most successful online and mobile services developers in Vietnam and is now working together with Foxxum, leading provider of Smart TV solutions, to bring its vast library of premium content to the Foxxum App Store worldwide.

The extensive catalogue of more than 1,000 Hollywood, European and Asian movies, especially exclusive Vietnamese theater movies will be made available and updated constantly to the Vietnamese Smart TV users across a wide range of Foxxum enabled devices including Skyworth and Hisense. Users will also have access to over 130 TV channels, including leading regional TV networks like VTV, HTV and THVL as well as international channels such as Fox, Fox Movies, BBC and Bloomberg.

It is a growing concern worldwide but piracy has especially been a huge concern in Vietnam for quite some time. Despite this issue, the Clip TV app is only offering content which is 100% copyrighted.

The Clip TV app is integrated within the Foxxum App stores and is now available for all users in Vietnam.

Kiel, November 2019: Foxxum, global leader in the development, operation and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV solutions is happy to unveil a new partnership with Touché films for the Smart TV App Enchufe.tv, which is available worldwide.

Touché films is a digital media publisher as well as an arising production company of sketches, medium-length films and advertisements. Their first feature film was premiered in cinemas last week.

For Enchufe.tv it’s the first time on Smart TV. The first steps are important to assure a successful incorporation. Due to this, Foxxum is especially proud about the collaboration. Enchufe.tv is the first Spanish-speaking sketch channel with more than 20 Million subscribers on YouTube and can boast with a reach of 33 Million followers on social media.

This collaboration enriches Foxxum’s global app portfolio whilst delivering fresh and new content for the Spanish-speaking users.

Kiel, November 2019: Azoomee, an entertaining educational content platform for kids aged 4+, has today announced its launch on TV screens worldwide, in partnership with Foxxum.

This means customers can access Azoomee’s amazing content on any smart connected TV, anywhere, anytime!

”Launching Azoomee on Smart TVs is a natural step for us to meet the strong demand from our users across multiple devices,” said Azoomee’s co-founder and COO Estelle Lloyd. “Foxxum have both the expertise to develop the best TV solution and the reach to significantly expand our footprint. Their team is a delight to work with. ”

Big name manufacturers like Vestel, Panasonic, Toshiba, Polaroid, and Hitachi will be releasing Azoomee today, with brands such as Apple TV, Samsung, and LG to follow.  Azoomee is thrilled to reach so many homes and connect with kids across the world.

“Today’s Smart TV users include several generations, and for us it is essential to cater to their needs,” said Foxxum’s CEO Ronny Lutzi. “We continue to work toward providing the best user experience, which we feel is greatly improving with the addition of the educational and child-friendly App Azoomee.”

Azoomee is an ad-free streaming service that offers award-winning TV shows and imaginative arts and crafts activities to foster a sense of wonder and curiosity in kids. Azoomee is available everywhere. In addition to the amazing TV experience, customers also get access to the Azoomee mobile app, which includes hundreds of brain-boosting games, puzzles and creative DIY projects.

61 days – We are counting down to the start of CES 2020 in Las Vegas.

No matter if you are already a partner, interested in our products or want to chat about all things Smart TV, simply follow the link below to book your meeting with us.

We can’t wait to see you!

United States and India, July 2019: DocuBay, the premium international documentary VOD streaming service by IN10 Media, announced a significant collaboration with Foxxum. 

As part of the collaboration DocuBay will provide its library of premium content on the Foxxum-enabled devices worldwide, comprising of several major markets including Europe and the United Kingdom (UK).

Through this collaboration, DocuBay continues steadfast on its global proposition through a clear and focused content positioning with universal appeal. Foxxum’s platform expertise offers viewers the best Smart TV user experience, and a customised user-friendly design. The extensive catalogue of documentaries will be deep linked, and video thumbnails will be made available to their millions of users across a wide range of devices. Users will have access to DocuBay’s exciting features including thematic curated Bays like Nature, Action, Travel, Culture, Science, Sports etc. that showcases documentary features from over 80 countries, and counting.

Commenting on the collaboration, Akul Tripathi, COO, DocuBay said, “Launching DocuBay on Foxxum, one of the finest Smart TV platform solutions providers, reinforces our presence and our reach strategy worldwide. This collaboration strengthens our reach in Europe and UK. We continue to work toward providing the best of content across multiple screens with seamless user experience.”

Ronny Lutzi, Chief Executive Officer, Foxxumsaid: “We are convinced that Smart TV is the best form of home entertainment now and in the future; and therefore we are very happy to contribute our expertise and outstanding services to DocuBay.”

Today we proudly present our new logo. As we constantly grow and become more mature we felt it was time to represent that in a new logo but without loosing our recall value. We are now using a fresher green and modern font that is optimised for mobile screens. Furthermore we added a box, showing the FOXXUM X, which is a mixture of an app icon and a TV screen representing our work and passion.

If you are a partner and you are using our logo please request a full resolution logo at designteam@foxxum.com

Kiel, January 4th, 2019: Foxxum, global leader in the development, operation and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV solutions is happy to unveil a new smart TV customer: Profilo branded TVs and devices under OEM license, will be exclusively available with a Foxxum Smart TV App Store. The deal defines a 5 year exclusive partnership between Promarket and Foxxum. Foxxum will continuously develop new portal features and new content for the Promarket TV brand while Promarket maintains its own branding and design for the brand. The joint solution enables a state of the art Smart TV experience and offers cost-effective, high quality User Interfaces to drive forth a competitive, next generation smart TV. The Foxxum App Store features customizable interfaces, local content including all major Turkish content partners, recommended content based categories and a wide selection of international applications. The focus for Profilo’s TV sets lies on local Turkish premium VOD services including applications such as Blu TV and Puhu TV. Thanks to this new alliance Profilo will have a continuously updated content portfolio while Foxxum keeps strengthening its presence in Turkey. All devices will be exclusively sold in Profilo stores in Turkey.

Devrim Üner, General Manager at Promarket comments the exclusive deal: “We are happy to collaborate with Foxxum to take the next important step in Smart TV with Profilo. Foxxum’s technology and services are a valuable complement to our trusted devices.“

Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum says: “We are very proud to be working exclusively with Profilo in Turkey. This collaboration not only brings strategic value to Promarket but also strengthens Foxxum’s footprint in the region. Combining our technology and Profilo’s high-quality products means that together we can provide customers, partners and viewers with a delightful watching experience.”

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ABOUT FOXXUM

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operation and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV solutions. Founded in 2011, the headquarter is based in Kiel, Germany and operates worldwide. As an established pioneer in the Smart TV sector, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop Smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters and video on demand services, video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide a best in class content portfolio containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers. Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offer viewers the best Smart TV user experience, innovative Smart TV technology, a global entertaining content portfolio and a user-friendly design. Foxxum provides highly tailored solutions and personal collaborations to it’s partners, which include the possibility of jointly tapping into profitable revenue streams.

Kiel, September 11th, 2018: ACCESS CO., LTD and Foxxum GmbH have announced a collaboration to offer cost-effective, high quality User Interfaces (UIs) for multi-platform services based on Linux for Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The joint solution enables operators in emerging markets to offer competitive, next generation smart TV user experiences (UXs) that rival Android TV and proprietary solutions. At launch, the solution has already been adopted by Latin American operator MP3 for TV platforms designed by Diggio, Innova, Global, Hyundai, Nakamichi, Icesa and Ecoline.

The solution is based on ACCESS’ Chromium-based NetFront™ Browser BE for Android pre-validated with the Foxxum TV App Store and launcher and pre-integrated into the TV hardware itself to maximize the capabilities of each device and deliver a unified experience for all services. The flexibility of the solution enables Foxxum to customize the launcher for each operator, creating a fully branded environment that caters to different audiences. The launcher includes local content alongside the Foxxum App Store, which gives access to over 1 billion video titles across multiple content providers. It is already available in 36 languages for a wide range of Smart TVs from over 50 different manufacturers.

ABOUT ACCESS

Since 1984, ACCESS CO., LTD. (Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index, 4813) has provided advanced IT solutions centered around mobile and network software technologies to telecom carriers, consumer electronics manufacturers, broadcasting and publishing companies, the automotive industry and energy infrastructure providers around the world. The company develops mobile software solutions that have been installed on over 1.5 billion devices, and network software solutions that have been used by over 300 telecommunication equipment manufacturers. Utilizing its network virtualization technology skills and knowledge, the company is currently focusing on the development and commercialization of Internet of Things (IoT) and media solutions that combine embedded and cloud technology. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company operates subsidiaries and affiliates in Asia, Europe and the United States to support and expand its business globally. Learn more about ACCESS at www.access-company.com

Foxxum, global leader in the development, operation, and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV solutions is pleased to announce that Vestel signed a long-term agreement to make Foxxum the single worldwide Smart TV partner for Vestel branded and OEM Products running on its Linux based operating system.

Vestel will consolidate the portfolio of its third party Smart TV partners and all new as well as the installed base of Smart TVs manufactured by Vestel will be available with a Smart TV solution in cooperation with Foxxum. With Vestel as a new partner, Foxxum’s extending Smart TV customer portfolio makes the company the largest connected device platform in Europe in addition to the company’s leading position in South America and South East Asia.

Ronny Lutzi, CEO of Foxxum says: “We are delighted to start this new partnership with Vestel, one of the most respected and ambitious companies in the TV business worldwide. This deal marks not only a deep understanding of our professional skills but also shows the strong recognition of our philosophy: Passionate focus on customer satisfaction far beyond expectations! Signing Vestel brings us significantly closer to becoming the worldwide leader in Smart TV solutions.”

“Vestel has been leading the Smart TV segment and content, and has achieved one of the leading installed bases of Smart TVs in Europe. Winning Foxxum as a long-term partner will allow us to further strengthen our products with more local premium content and an improved user experience. Foxxum’s knowhow, speed and professionalism in satisfying our high-quality standards and the demand for customization from our OEM customers make our collaboration the perfect fit to reinforce our leading position in Europe” says Hakan Kutlu, Vice President at Vestel.

Pack your bags – Exhibition season is here!

Whilst struggling to close our suitcases, we hope that you are as excited as we are for IFA, IBC and MIPCOM.

You’ve booked your tickets? Let’s meet! We are continuously searching for new business opportunities, distribution channels, new devices as well as content.

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Isle of Man, January 22, 2018 Eros International Plc (NYSE: EROS) (“Eros”), a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry, announced today that Eros Now, its cutting-edge digital over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform has forged a strategic partnership with Foxxum, the leading provider of Smart TV solutions, to provide its vast library of premium content on the Foxxum TV App Store worldwide.

Through this association, Eros Now continues its global expansion. Apart from the extensive catalogue of Bollywood and regional language films, music videos, TV shows and original shows will be pre-integrated on Foxxum’s Smart TV Store and made available to their millions of users across a wide range of devices worldwide. Users will also have access to Eros Now’s exciting features including full length movies, thematic curated playlists, English and Arabic subtitles for movies, music video playlists, regional language filters, video progression and access to a watch list of titles.

Eros Now is Eros International Plc’s leading on-demand South Asian entertainment network accessible anytime, anywhere, on most Internet-connected screen including mobile, web, and TV. Eros Now offers its 55 million registered users worldwide the promise of endless entertainment hosting one of the largest libraries of movies, as well as premium television shows, music videos and audio tracks, unmatched in quantity and quality. Product features, such as video in HD, subtitles in English and Arabic, movie downloads, and high quality original drama series differentiate the Eros Now entertainment offering.

Isle of Man, January 22, 2018 Eros International Plc (NYSE: EROS) (“Eros”), a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry, announced today that Eros Now, its cutting-edge digital over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform has forged a strategic partnership with Foxxum, the leading provider of Smart TV solutions, to provide its vast library of premium content on the Foxxum TV App Store worldwide.

Through this association, Eros Now continues its global expansion. Apart from the extensive catalogue of Bollywood and regional language films, music videos, TV shows and original shows will be pre-integrated on Foxxum’s Smart TV Store and made available to their millions of users across a wide range of devices worldwide. Users will also have access to Eros Now’s exciting features including full length movies, thematic curated playlists, English and Arabic subtitles for movies, music video playlists, regional language filters, video progression and access to a watch list of titles.

Eros Now is Eros International Plc’s leading on-demand South Asian entertainment network accessible anytime, anywhere, on most Internet-connected screen including mobile, web, and TV. Eros Now offers its 55 million registered users worldwide the promise of endless entertainment hosting one of the largest libraries of movies, as well as premium television shows, music videos and audio tracks, unmatched in quantity and quality. Product features, such as video in HD, subtitles in English and Arabic, movie downloads, and high quality original drama series differentiate the Eros Now entertainment offering.

Technology is borderless. This year as always, we are bringing our leading Smart TV solutions to the Consumer Technology Trade Show in Vegas. As an international team, Foxxum commits itself to optimizing Smart TV user experience by bridging manufactures and content providers across the globe. We are seeking to expand our service region, diversify contents and increase the number of supported devices.

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Shenzhen Chuangwei-RGB Electronics Co.Ltd, a global provider of smart home solutions, has decided to outsource their complete Smart TV strategy and quality assurance process to Foxxum, the global leading provider of Smart TV solutions, from the planning and content aggregation, application QA and testing, to the design and implementation of a fully customizable TV Store.

Skyworth branded TVs and devices available under its OEM license, will be shipped to market starting Q4 2017 with Foxxum’s Smart TV App Store pre-integrated. Thanks to this association, Skyworth will have a continuously updated content portfolio without the necessity of OTA updates, while Foxxum keeps strengthening its presence in the European Union, United States, Japan, Russia and other regions such as east and south Asia, south America and Middle East.

“Content is the key that brings additional value. At Skyworth, we have been dedicated to looking for a steady and premium content supplier,” says Steven Wang, EU Region Sales Director at Skyworth. “Now after cooperating with Foxxum, we are able to offer a complete smart solution with an amazing international and the strongest local content portfolio in Europe, North Africa , Middle East and South East Asia to our worldwide consumers”.

At IBC2017, SERAPHIC teams up with well-known Smart TV solutions’ provider Foxxum to demonstrate a brand new white-label product. The “Foxxum TV” is a unified TV UI solution, based on SERAPHIC’s powerful HTML5 browser engine, which allows the combination and interconnection of basic TV and Smart TV features. Every TV setting and content is accessible from a main menu. The menu consists of linear TV programs, TV guide, content recommendations, app store, configuration of input sources, and adjustment of general TV settings into one consistent UI, creating a more dynamic viewing experience.

At IBC2017, SERAPHIC and Foxxum, in collaboration with major Smart TV and STB SoC vendors, will show a Web-based joint demo of this product.

Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum, commented, “It is a natural evolution that basic TV features merge together with Smart TV features into a joint solution. “Foxxum TV” is the only truly white-label, completely customizable product that can be rebranded by any TV manufacturer that is striving to empower its brand to compete with other TV systems. The possibility to browse OTT apps like Youtube TV, Dailymotion, Magine TV, BBC iPlayer, etc., which are supported by Sraf HTML5 Browser, while watching the current TV program, ensures a much smoother user experience. We are confident that the ground-breaking UI solution will facilitate device manufacturers to optimize their brand value and increase their market share.”

Feel free to request your personal demo under www.foxxum.tv

The brand new Smart TV app developed by Foxxum is going to be launched on all devices using a Foxxum TV Store such as Blaupunkt, Haier, Hisense, JTC, Medion, Metz, Orion, and Sharp in Germany.

Magine TV allows the streaming of all well-known German TV channels, from public to private broadcasters and pay TV, over the internet. Magine TV therefore is a relevant player in the German TV sector, offering a competitive product to cable TV, satellite TV, or the DVB-T2 services launched early this year, since the service will be available on every device but without the need of buying a smart card or a new receiver.

“We are very pleased to join forces with Foxxum in order to make Magine TV’s web streaming service available on all kind of high-class Smart TVs and reach an increased number of connected homes”, says Rafael Heuer, Director Business Development of Magine TV Germany. “With the Magine TV app and our variety of TV packages, all audiences will find a suitable and easy way to enjoy public and private broadcasters as well as pay tv channels over the internet on the big screen in their living room.”

ABOUT MAGINE TV

Magine TV offers linear TV over the Internet live, time-delayed (“startover”) or as an on-demand offer (“catch-up”). Whether you’re at home or on the go, Magine TV enables online TV on smartphones (iOS, Android and Windows), tablets, laptops, PCs, Smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV, Google Chromecast, Xbox and Apple TV, on up to five devices, two of them at the same time. Magine TV’s broad selection of TV channels comprises 77 national and international broadcasters (ARD HD, ZDF HD, RTL, Sat.1, ProSieben, VOX, RTLII, kabel eins, TNT Film, Sony Channel, Universal Channel HD, AXN HD, E! Entertainment, and many more), over 30 of them in HD. 28 broadcasters (including public broadcasters) are free. The free and pay TV packages “Basic” and “Premium” are available without long-term contract binding and can be canceled monthly. Magine TV is clear to the viewer, practical and personalized, the operation simple and intuitive.

Further information can be found at https://de.magine.com.

Like every year, we are delighted to meet our current and new partners at trade shows like IFA, dmexco and IBC.

If you have a business proposal, are looking for distribution channels for your content or own a device which does not contain content yet, please send us a message and let us know your availability to meet up.

It would be great to get to know you and to find a way of working together. We are always open to new opportunities!

From now on users of Foxxum connected devices can enjoy the TRT World Live Stream, a channel that covers 24/7 news, live reports and documentaries with a focus on global responsibility. The channel belongs to Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, Turkey’s national public broadcaster. Since its early days in radio and television, the company has prided itself on providing quality and balanced programming.

The App TRT World is available in English and it targets a worldwide audience. Not only because of TRT strong brand recognition but also because breaking news make up one of the most watched contents among live TV viewing on Smart TV, this content acquisition is very valuable. Through this partnership, both companies aim at reaching global viewers who look for a reliable source of information.

“We are pleased to announce the signing of this agreement with Foxxum. TRT World is strengthening its worldwide position as a global news organization and our partnership with Foxxum will expand the distribution of our content to any Foxxum connected device. We will continue to bring the news directly to our audience, wherever they are and in whichever way they prefer to receive it”, says Ibrahim Eren, Director General and Chairman of TRT.

ABOUT TRT WORLD

TRT World, Turkey’s first English broadcasting international news platform is launched in 2015 and headquartered in Istanbul, with four newsrooms and an extensive global bureau network covering major regions and hot spots. Strategically designed to maximize its global reach, it is broadly available in all major English-speaking territories and can be accessed via traditional media, including free-to-air, cable and satellite, and other digital platforms, including mobiles, desktops and social media. A distinctive voice to the global news landscape, this is TRT World.

Further information can be found at www.trtworld.com.

El Araby Group and Foxxum have decided to build on their long-term cooperation and include Tornado, El Araby’s own TV Brand, as part of the strategic partnership announced this past June between the two companies.

Foxxum will design and maintain the Smart TV App Store of Tornado TVs that will be distributed throughout Egypt and neighboring Arabic countries. This pre-integrated Solution will be running until at least 2022 with ongoing renewal options. The Foxxum Smart TV Solution will enhance Tornado TVs with a rich set of features, a state-of-the-art user experience as well as a high quality local and global content portfolio.

“Thanks to the strong foundation we have built together, it has been possible to include our own brand Tornado under the supervision of Foxxum. This seemed to us to be the most logical next step to fully get the most out of our strategic partnership. Having Tornado supported by the Foxxum TV Store will further elevate our capabilities to supply quality products that strengthen our position in the local Smart TV business”, said Mr. Mohy Elaraby, Chief Marketing Officer of El Araby Group.

Mr. Ronny Lutzi, Chief Executive Officer at Foxxum, says: “Having El Araby’s own TV brand running our Smart TV Solution is a big honor for us. We are ready to support and accompany El Araby, one of the largest North African and Middle East manufacturer of TVs and white good products, on their way to increase their market presence and customer trust. Our partnership marks a milestone in our efforts to expand into the MENA region”.

ABOUT EL ARABY GROUP

El Araby was established in 1964, and the group company presents about 4000 different SKU’s in 23 product categories. Engaged in both manufacturing and marketing of high quality products El Araby is dedicated to preserve as well as grow their market leading position not only in Egypt but in all markets they operate in. The company exports to many countries in Africa, Middle East and the CIS region. Besides consumer electronics products El Araby also produces a wide array of electrical and domestic appliances. The number of employees in El-Araby Group amounts to 24,000.

Visit El Araby group’s website at www.elarabygroup.com.

The world’s largest OTT player in South-Asian content, YuppTV, is making strong strides in expanding globally. YuppTV has formed a strategic partnership with Foxxum, the leading provider of Smart TV solutions, making its envious collection of online TV channels & movies available on an exclusive range of new devices, hence further extending its global reach.

YuppTV provides content in 14 languages with an offer of over 250+ TV channels, more than 100 TV shows and over 5000 movies. Following the association, YuppTV services will be available on the Foxxum TV App Store, having presence in Western and Eastern Europe, Nordics, Russia, Northern Africa, Australia and Latin America.

Further commenting on the development, Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO of YuppTV said: “We are glad to enter into an alliance with Foxxum, hence extending the content offered by YuppTV to an exclusive range of devices. We have always endeavored to provide the South Asian expat community with the most enthralling entertainment solution and are excited to open our doors to newer audiences.”

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads. For more information: www.yupptv.com

The Toshiba El-Araby group has chosen Foxxum as their Smart TV Solutions provider to launch a new series of LED TVs in the Middle East, Africa and CIS countries.

The manufacturing Joint Venture (JV), Toshiba El-Araby Visual Products, a company that was created in 2011 as a partnership between Toshiba Corporation and El-Araby, has already established itself as the pioneer in high-technology products in the region, with a localized manufacture and supply base of TVs. This union has strengthened the JV’s ability to provide products that meet regional market requirements and that offer high-quality products at competitive prices. The group now wants to reinforce their presence in the TV business and gain a competitive advantage with a reliable partner like Foxxum on their side, who will take care of the whole Smart TV strategy.

Foxxum’s Smart TV App Store will be pre-integrated on the brand Toshiba for the next 5 years. This represents a vast additional reach for Foxxum’s already existing content partners and one more reason for potential content providers, who are looking for distribution to expand to new regions, to join the Foxxum TV Store.

“We are confident that this partnership with Foxxum will further elevate our capabilities to supply quality products that truly respond to content demands of end users in our markets. The Smart TV Solutions deployed on our brands reflect a dynamic and successful cooperation”, said Mohamed A. Attia, Deputy General Manager of Toshiba El Araby Visual Products.

“The pre-integration of the Foxxum’s Smart TV App Store on Toshiba devices will allow us to supply our TVs with up-to-date innovative solutions. Foxxum’s expertise in the Smart TV business and its ability to quickly and flexibly react to our needs and expectations have convinced us that they are the right partner to success in the Smart TV industry”, comments Rihito Sato, Managing Director at Toshiba El Araby Visual & Appliances Marketing Company.

ACCESS CO., LTD today announced that its portfolio of TV browsers are being pre-integrated by the Smart TV solutions provider Foxxum. Through support for the latest industry standards, the partnership aims at overcoming Smart TV vendors’ challenges and improve the quality of experience of Foxxum’s Smart TV App Store on Linux and Android devices. Foxxum’s Smart TV Solution is already available in 20 languages for a wide range of Smart TVs from over 30 different manufacturers, including Hisense, Haier, Sharp and TCL among others.

Foxxum provides Smart TV Solutions in close collaboration with leading brands across all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain, whether silicon vendors, device manufacturers, operators or content partners. Foxxum has developed and distributes premium Smart TV Apps like Dailymotion, Deutsche Welle, Giallo Zafferano, Howdini, SBT and PlayKids. Building on premium content partnerships around the globe, Foxxum TV App Store gives access to over 1 billion video titles across multiple content providers.

“Smart TVs have long been plagued with slow, clunky user interfaces, but these days are now over thanks to companies like Foxxum,” said Dr. Neale Foster, Chief Operating Officer at ACCESS Europe. “Since the inception of ACCESS back in the 1980s, we have constantly focused on delivering a better quality of service to consumers, regardless of the platform, device or access method. Today, we are proud to be involved in enabling Smart TV services to compete with linear TV, using lightning speed browser engines and improved search and recommendation systems that adapt to any consumer on any continent.”

About ACCESS

Since 1984, ACCESS CO., LTD. (Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index, 4813) has provided advanced IT solutions centered around mobile and network software technologies to telecom carriers, consumer electronics manufacturers, broadcasting and publishing companies, the automotive industry and energy infrastructure providers around the world. The company develops mobile software solutions that have been installed on over 1.5 billion devices, and network software solutions that have been used by over 300 telecommunication equipment manufacturers. Utilizing its network virtualization technology skills and knowledge, the company is currently focusing on the development and commercialization of Internet of Things (IoT) and media solutions that combine embedded and cloud technology. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company operates subsidiaries and affiliates in Asia, Europe and the United States to support and expand its business globally. Learn more about ACCESS at www.access-company.com.

With the latest innovative Smart TV technology, a global application portfolio that contains unlimited hours of entertainment and an outstanding TV Store design, Foxxum offers the best Smart TV experience for end-users, TV manufacturers and content providers.

Learn more about our current projects, discover some of the new features of our Smart TV Solution and be part of our future plans.

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The strong Smart TV growth experienced in Europe in 2016 and the positive predictions pointing to a rise in the number of households with connected TVs in France have led to a long-term partnership between the major consumer electronics player in France and the leading global provider of Smart TV solutions – the ADMEA Group and Foxxum have signed an exclusive collaboration agreement for domestic and overseas markets.

The Foxxum Smart TV Store will be integrated on ADMEA’s connected TVs under the brands Schneider, Radiola and Schaub Lorenz. The launch into the market is planned for the fourth quarter of 2017. At a first stage, France and Spain will be the main target markets, which will not limit the group from expanding to potential new territories together with Foxxum.

Foxxum’s user friendly portal solution will be specially customized in line with ADMEA’s demand to meet the French customers’ expectations. Main focus is put on the maximized user experience – easy, intuitive and innovative – and on a big selection of major international and local content brands which are available through the Foxxum App Store.

“It is an honor for us to work with the pioneer in the design of television sets in France. ADMEA’s ambition to remain innovative and its commitment to quality couldn’t have matched better Foxxum’s vision statement to continually improve and have our product in all households that are looking for a best-in-class Smart TV experience”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

Founded in 1994, the ADMEA Group designs, manufactures and sells ranges of televisions, videos and audio products, telephones, and household appliances. Their brands guarantee their recognition with both their consumers and their distributors.

Outdoor Sport Channel®, the leading international outdoor sports television company, today announced a comprehensive distribution partner deal with German based Foxxum GmbH. Foxxum designed and developed the Outdoor Sport Channel®HD Smart TV subscription App for all Foxxum connected smart tv devices. Foxxum brings Outdoor Sport Channel® services to many different devices, brands and operators all over the world by a single integration process (one App to rule them all).

“In order to successfully offer and launch our live brand further and to affiliate operators, we did team up with Foxxum for its excellent television App market experience and distribution penetration”, comments Henk van Meer, Founder & CEO of Outdoor Sport Channel®-Global wide, Outdoor Sport Channel®-News247® and Outdoor Sport Channel®-VOD (Video On demand). Exlusive, unique and fun.

Outdoor Sport Channel® will be a true and unique live HD value like never experienced in these countries, as it covers all international major sports into one single television network. Outdoor Sport Channel® prides itself on being an exclusive, unique, fun and both a “family and animal friendly®” sports channel.

“It is great to keep growing with partners like Outdoor Sport Channel® that add value to the Foxxum App store and provides our viewers an alternative to watch a great variety of international 24 hour global sports television without time restrictions”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

www.outdoorsportchannel.com

Toon Goggles, one of the world’s leading providers of 4K on-demand video content for kids, is now available on all connected devices running the Foxxum Smart TV solution. The application offers a wide range of animated series for children of all ages, covering educational, adventure, fantasy, action and comedy cartoons like Badanamu, Bernard, Super Geek Heroes, Boing, Om Nom, Karl and SpacePop.

Toon Goggles has set the focus on a fun and enjoyable user experience with an easy, intuitive user interface, and a quick search and find function. Users can create his own log in account for free, add favorite videos to his watch list and navigate through his favorite cartoon characters. Moreover, the Foxxum app store’s built-in recommendation and search features, which simplify content discovery within the Smart TV platform, allow the end-user to rapidly find Toon Goggles videos and be automatically redirected to the app.

“We are delighted to have our portfolio of kids’ content offered to many more viewers around the globe by partnering with Foxxum’s Smart TV platform. We have worked hard hand-in-hand with Foxxum in order to accomplish the app certification process successfully and we are proud of the results. Having Toon Goggles more readily available to families worldwide is our consistent goal, and partnering with Foxxum was a great way to achieve this,” explains Stephen L. Hodge, C.E.O. of Toon Goggles Inc.

“The integration of Toon Goggles undoubtedly enriches our kids’ recommendation feature within the app store worldwide. Being dedicated to connecting attractive international content with a great user experience and powerful TV devices, we are very happy about adding Toon Goggles’ high quality 4K videos to our platform, for kids and parents to enjoy”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

Toon Goggles is the premier on-demand entertainment destination for children, offering a vast and diverse amount of animated and live-action programs, engaging games, radio and news. The kid-safe and parent-friendly service lets children be in charge of their viewing experience. Parents can feel safe knowing the platform is fully COPPA-compliant (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), with a strict screening process to ensure all material is clean, safe and age-appropriate. Toon Goggles is available on many smartphones, tablets, Smart TVs and set-top boxes, as well as online at www.toongoggles.com

Pelmorex Media, multimedia specialist for international weather content and technology, and Foxxum, global leader in Smart TV solutions, announce the launch of The Weather Network application on all Foxxum connected Smart TV devices. The app, containing many dedicated services, such as El Tiempo.es, Wetter Plus, Météo Media, Clima and Meteo Mia, covers ten major regions in Europe and North America as well as six languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese.

By entering Foxxum’s Smart TV portal, users get access to very detailed on-demand weather information and 14 day forecasts right on the big screen and worldwide without geo-blocking limits.

“We are very happy about this partnership with Foxxum because it brings our Weather services to many different devices, brands and operators all over the world by a single integration process, perfectly fitting our own strategy of covering many regions and many languages”, explains Carlos Astorqui, Managing Director at Eltiempo.es.

“Detailed weather information and forecasts is in fact some of the most appreciated content for users, since it affects their daily life. Making it available on the big screen is a logical step from the content, the platform, the device and the user perspective. We are very proud to now offer so many different high quality weather services in a simple and central user experience created by Pelmorex Media”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

Foxxum’s growth aspiration has always been closely related to targeting new markets and covering new regions with our cutting-edge Smart TV solutions. Southeast Asia and India have been one of our main focuses in the past months and the rapid economic growth of these territories in consumer demand and digital consumption have shaped our next step investing in the region from a local perspective.

We are therefore pleased to announce that Ravi Kumar has joined the Foxxum Team as EVP to lead our business development activities in SE Asia and India. Ravi Kumar has accumulated a rich portfolio of expertise and know-how over his 12 years of working experience in the digital ecosystem and Smart TV space, starting with the management of the Smart TV activities of Samsung in India, positioning the integration and distribution of HOOQ in the Asian market, and building the internet ecosystem of the Chinese manufacturer of Smartphones and Smart TV LeEco.

We are convinced that he will add another layer of success to our quality efforts by directly supporting our local customers from our office in Delhi, as well as supporting the device and content aggregation process of the major players from the region.

We are glad to have the opportunity to work together and we wish him good luck in this exciting and eventful journey!

If you would like to welcome Ravi Kumar personally, make a business proposal or if you are just interested in learning more about the company and our possibilities of working together for the SE Asia and Indian region, please reach out to him at kumar@foxxum.com.

New features to cover broader perspectives

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” Nelson Mandela

Since Foxxum aims at reaching the hearts of every viewer in the world, we are very proud to announce the availability of three new UI languages within our Smart TV Portal: Hebrew, Arabic and South Korean.

This again emphasizes our company philosophy in terms of thinking globally and acting locally, offering international as well as regional access to content addressed for specific regions

New year, new plans

Las Vegas celebrates 50 years of success with the long-awaited consumer electronics and consumer technology tradeshow: CES 2017.

Let’s make out of 2017 a promising year together in the Smart TV world!

Come and meet us at CES, Las Vegas.

The world’s largest Kids Platform will now be available on the big screen

PlayKids, the leading mobile entertainment and education platform for children, has partnered with Foxxum to launch its Smart TV and Game Console applications worldwide. With a cheerful and beautifully designed interface, the PlayKids TV App will now bring its extensive content to the long-awaited big screen.

Searching for a strategic partner to meet the strong demand from its users for making the App available on Smart TVs and other Connected Devices, PlayKids found on Foxxum’s expertise in developing and distributing online video content the best suited company to create a new milestone on the global Smart TV business.

The video-meets-education app for young kids has reached impressive numbers since it was launched 3 years ago. Available on IOS and Android devices, PlayKids is already used in more than 100 countries, and offers more than 80 TV shows and 5,000 videos. The user base of over 6 million users generates an impressive average of 75 million sessions per month.

The project aims not only to meet its current customers’ desires, but also to attract new users by offering access to the brand’s impressive content via a best-suited platform. “Launching PlayKids on Smart TVs is a strategic step for us and we are confident that this project will help us build customer loyalty and increase our customer base”, said Eduardo Henrique, Co-Founder & Head of Global Expansion at PlayKids.

The PlayKids TV Apps will include all of its video content and will be launched on all major Smart TVs by December 2016, followed by the Roku, Sony Playstation and Microsoft X-Box platforms in 2017. As stated by Ronny Lutzi, Foxxum CEO: “PlayKids is a key player in the Online Video Market worldwide and Foxxum is glad to be selected as the partner to launch this benchmark project”.

About PlayKids

Developed by Movile, the PlayKids platform was created to strengthen the bond between parents and their children through fun and educational digital content. There are thousands of books, games, interactive activities, lullabies and shows that contribute to the development of children from toddlers to preteens.

There are four children’s apps in the PlayKids family, which are global leaders in their own categories: As mentioned above these apps include PlayKids, with videos and games; Stories, a virtual library with more than a thousand books from Disney, among others; Learn, that makes every unique moment of learning fun and engaging; Party, that brings ten fantastic games aimed for kids from 2 years old. With a single subscription to PlayKids Premium service, all of these apps are unlocked and ready to use.

PlayKids products are available in more than 100 countries, available in 5 different languages, and have been downloaded by more than 17 million families.

Working together closely since 2012 on an exclusive basis for Western Europe, high-tech specialist Hisense and Foxxum, global leader in Smart TV solutions, have built up a successful Smart TV platform for the Hisense brand in this entire area. In order for Hisense, one of the strongest growing brands, to take advantage of this highly sophisticated platform outside of Western Europe the contract between the two companies has now been expanded to a worldwide scope.

It includes Hisense branded products as well as White Label Products manufactured by Hisense. The contract will continue at least until 2019 with ongoing renewal options and now covers 15 more countries: Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine.

At the same time Foxxum has managed to further improve content discovery for the users, by integrating an even easier structure, new categories, additional content sources and a highly sophisticated search.

“Thanks to our partnership with Foxxum we have set a benchmark for Smart TV platforms in Western Europe. And we are very happy about signing Foxxum as our Smart TV service provider of choice for another long term period and to bring our Smart TV platform offer to all our customers worldwide”, explains Dr. Charlie Wang, CTO at Hisense.

“We are proud of playing such an important part within the Hisense Smart TV success story leaving our footprint with users all over Western Europe. By supporting the expansion of the Hisense Smart TV platform solution worldwide we are ready to accompany Hisense on their way to continuously gain market share”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

About Hisense

The high-tech enterprise Hisense was founded in China in 1969 and is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of flat panel TVs, household appliances and mobile communication devices. Hisense entered the European market successfully a few years ago with its wide range of LCDs/LEDs, refrigerators, airconditioners and recently also with Smart TVs and smartphones. Both Hisense Germany and Hisense Europe are located in Düsseldorf, as well as the European Research and Development Centre. More European branches are in Spain, Italy, the UK and Belgium.

Atmaca Elektronik A.Ş., third largest electronics manufacturer and third biggest exporter in Turkey, today announced, that it has chosen Foxxum as their exclusive Smart TV solution provider for all of today‘s and future Atmaca brands worldwide.

The agreement includes its most popular brand Sunny as well as all international OEM projects and devices. Through this cooperation and by taking advantage of Atmaca‘s export activities into more than 40 countries, Foxxum is adding even more distribution power to its platform while creating a solid, yet innovative foundation to increase Atmaca‘s Smart TV and STB market shares.

“We are delighted to announce our cooperation with Foxxum, a strong and trustful partner with global scale“, explains Adem Atmaca, CEO and President of the Board at Atmaca. “Choosing Foxxum as our exclusive partner, underlines our strategy to only work with the best, with experienced players who are able to adapt vastly to our ideas and who can contribute to our future success. Together we will create a strong momentum within the Smart TV and STB market – not only in Turkey, but worldwide.”

“Our partnership with Atmaca is an important step to defend our leading position as provider for international Smart TV solutions. Highly sophisticated products, innovative user experience and attractive content has always been the key to our successful growth. Therefore we are very happy to create a strong and long lasting partnership with Atmaca, a company that stands for excellent quality”, says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

About Atmaca Elektronik A.Ş.

Atmaca Elektronik A.Ş., founded in 1979, today is Turkey‘s third largest electronics manufacturer and third biggest exporter with more than 35 years of manufacturing and marketing experience, belief in social responsibility and ethical values. Products range from electronics and small electric household appliances, industry like television and satellite receivers to vacuum cleaner, heater, tea-maker and kettle. Hi-tech manufacturing plants operate in Istanbul at 110.000 square meter indoors area. The R&D department in the body of Atmaca Elektronik A.Ş. constantly produces and develops new projects to satisfy customer expectations. The company is also constantly investing into Quality Management, Ecology and Environmental as well as Safety and Health Management Systems in order to harmonize with all legal requirements.

More information can be found at

www.atmacaelektronik.com.tr

FOXXUM is going there where business takes place and partnerships are born. Next stops are China and France! We will be in Canton Fair, the largest biannual trade fair held in Guangzhou and it goes on with MIPCOM in Cannes, the world’s entertainment content market. We would like to meet you in person and explore new collaboration opportunities. Join us and lead with us the Smart TV industry with the biggest players

Chinese Cultraview, world’s leading TV mainboard manufacturer, and Foxxum, global leader in Smart TV solutions headquartered in Germany, have signed a Smart TV pre-integration deal, which adds Foxxum technology and content portfolio to Cultraview mainboards. That way Foxxum will instantly become available on a huge part of the TV production worldwide to enable content providers to monetize their Smart TV investments on an additional range of brands and products.

If you are a content provider looking for different ways to expand to new territories, a Smart TV or STB manufacturer who would like to enrich your content portfolio, or if you have any plans to enter the Smart TV world but still need to explore new possibilities, this is your chance.

Furthermore, aiming at the customers of Cultraview, pre-integration of the Foxxum Smart TV solution offers them to upgrade their devices to state-of-the-art Smart TV products and to compete with leading TV brands at peer level. Additionally, this collaboration will allow Cultraview customers to reduce time to market and development cost significantly.

“Moving forward and steadily adding value to our solutions has always been one of our principles”, says Yan Xiaodong, Marketing director at Cultraview. “With the pre-integrated Foxxum Smart TV solution we are exactly doing that and are now able to offer the leading turnkey solution to our worldwide customer base with an amazing international content portfolio and the strongest local content portfolio in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Asia”.

“Pre-integration is one of our main business strategies to reduce time and cost of new product development. We want to focus on product design to differentiate in local markets early in the development process. With Cultraview we cover a big share of the annual Smart TV production worldwide once again proving our leading role in Smart TV solutions”, explains Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

About Shenzhen Cultraview Digital Technology Co., Ltd

Shenzhen Cultraview Digital Technology, founded in 2005, today is one of the world’s largest audio and video system integration solutions provider, leading innovation and design solutions for the global television market. Over the years, the company has focused on the development of the company’s mainboard product, registering a number of technical patents, industry qualification certificates and licenses. Cultraview now has a staff of 1200 people, including more than 400 in Research and Development. About 80% of the world’s television manufacturers, providers of network television products and solutions, highly recognized domestic and foreign counterparts, selling products in more than 100 countries and regions, and international giant chains form close strategic partnerships with Cultraview.

New insights into the Smart TV world

Learn more about Foxxum’s products and our new partners at IFA in Berlin, IBC in Amsterdam and Dmexco in Cologne. Check our Smart TV Store live at our customers’ exhibition booths.

If you are a content provider looking for different ways to expand to new territories, a Smart TV or STB manufacturer who would like to enrich your content portfolio, or if you have any plans to enter the Smart TV world but still need to explore new possibilities, this is your chance.

Innovative OTT-service «Divan.TV» is officially presented starting from July 2016 on all connected devices maintained by Foxxum such as Sharp Smart TV, Haier Smart TV and Hisense Smart TV in Ukraine and other 200 countries all over the world.

From July 2016 thanks to the cooperation with Foxxum, owners of Sharp Smart TV, Haier Smart TV and Hisense Smart TV have a possibility to watch their favorite programs and movies with the help of «Divan.TV» interactive service.

Currently, in Ukraine there is an upward trend in the number of Smart TV devices. According to the forecasts of the consulting agency J’son & Partners Consulting, the figure of sold devices will exceed 44% and 57% in 2016 and in 2017 respectively. In Europe, the number of sold Smart TV devices has already surpassed the number of regular sold TV devices.

“We are pleased that respected brands such as Sharp, Haier and Hisense have added up to our existing partners Samsung, LG and Philips. Our service offers watchers worldwide a full range of the most popular Ukrainian and World’s TV channels. We grow, develop, and welcome the owners of Smart TV to grow with us“, commented Arcadiy Kanyuka, executive director of “Divan.TV” company.

“Foxxum has aimed to cooperate with Ukrainian partners that represent one of the fast developing markets in Eastern Europe. The application offers a huge variety of films and programs that will be of interest for Russian-speaking communities all over the world. Such kind of cooperation increases the attraction of our Smart TV platforms“, explains Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

DIVAN.TV is an international interactive service of OTT television targeted for ethnic groups from ex-Soviet Union now living worldwide. The service is available on all screens: Smart TV, tablets, media consoles and computers in 200 countries and only requires connection to the Internet. Broadcasting technology is also adapted for mobile 3G nets.

Premium VOD content for Russian users

Foxxum, worldwide leading provider of Smart TV solutions, and ivi.ru, with more than 20 percent market share and about 30 million users per month one of the largest Russian online movie theaters, today announced, that the ivi.ru app is now available within the Foxxum Smart TV solution. Both companies joined forces to grow their Smart TV business in all Russian- speaking countries, by attracting device partners to switch to Foxxum and increasing the reach for ivi.ru video content.

ivi.ru offers movies, TV shows, cartoons and music videos licensed from all major content producers, including Hollywood Studios such as Warner Brothers, Warner Music, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Sony Music, NBC Universal, Universal Music, Disney, BBC and National Geographic as well as Russian film companies like Mosfilm, Lenfilm, Paradise, CTC Media, Gorky Film Studio STV and Central Partnership.

The ivi.ru app itself has different functions that make it comfortable to use, such as kids protection, a watch-later-list and favorites. Users are even able to choose the rental period and the price for a movie depending on its quality.

“For us at ivi.ru customer satisfaction is very important. By making our users happy we were able to gain a strong momentum within the Russian streaming market and to develop our offers, app infrastructure and partner network”, explains Irina Grandel, Head of Business Development Area, at ivi.ru. “The cooperation with Foxxum now extends our technical reach tremendously and puts us into a position to grow even faster into the living rooms of viewers with a Foxxum Smart TV solution”.

“Russia as one of the largest markets has always been in our focus. And all of our Smart TV device partners know, that one can only grow its market shares by offering access to high quality content. ivi.ru therefore is a key partner to this strategy in Russian speaking countries”, explains Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

About ivi.ru

ivi.ru is a leading Russian online video streaming service, which offers licensed video content, including more than 65,000 titles of movies, TV shows, cartoons and music videos. ivi.ru is the most popular service and the largest player in this segment in Russia, attracting more than 28 million unique visitors and generating more than 150 million hits per month. ivi.ru is available on a wide range of devices, including smartphones and tablets as well as Smart TVs from all of the main manufacturers. ivi.ru also holds the most prestige awards for various achievements in the field, including the Runet Award and the Golden Site Award.

Chinese TV manufacturer to enter European Smart TV business

Expressluck International, one of the largest TV manufacturers in China, has signed Foxxum to provide an exclusive Smart TV solution to its Romanian subsidiary Contex Digital Electronics SRL. Both companies are going to develop a new Smart TV product range to extend their recent impact within TV markets all across Europe. The Foxxum Smart TV solution will enhance Expressluck‘s own brands as well as future OEM devices with a rich set of features, a state-of-the-art user experience as well as a high quality local and global content portfolio.

“It has always been clear to us, that we as a company will only work with very experienced, flexible and innovative partners – particularly when entering new markets or segments. Foxxum has met all of our expectations from day one and pushed us even further to a point, where we will make a heavy impact on all European Smart TV markets. We are looking forward to many more supporting ideas and innovations from our new partner Foxxum”,
explains Jacky Dong, Europe TV Director at Expressluck.

“We are proud of Expressluck‘s decision to put us in charge of their Smart TV solution for the entire European market. Together we will create something great – for the users and the company – by combining exceptional hardware, the most advanced Smart TV solution, attractive content and customer oriented business models. Expressluck has an outstanding ambition in conquering the European market and we are going to support it by any means of our expertise“,
says Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

About Expressluck International Company Limited

Expressluck International supported by its European subsidiary Contex Digital Electronics SRL, is one of the foremost professional manufacturers of LED TVs in China and Romania. Through dedicated and effective research and development, as well as its’ belief in continuous improvement, Expressluck continues its quest for leadership in the flat panel TV marketplace. Expressluck manufactured products have a proven sales record in East Asia, Europe and North America and have established a stable sales network and maintained sound cooperative relationships with many of the world’s largest retailers.

Proactive sales channel support and very short time to market

Foxxum, worldwide leading provider of Smart TV solutions, and THTF Global, a China based LCD TV manufacturer selling multiple brands globally, have signed an exclusive 5-year contract. THTF launched the Foxxum TV Store on its brand Orion in Europe and will add more brands and territories soon.

To support Orion’s sales channel relations and activities, Foxxum has developed new features to allow the sales channel to integrate its Smart TV app and to promote their products on the main page of the Foxxum TV Store to end users. As a result Orion has been able to create increased sales with its sales channel partner QVC in the first step and all other business partners soon as well.

Orion is now providing a state-of-the-art content centric Smart TV offer which includes specialized regional content, catch-up TV, online shopping and a state-of-the-art search and recommendation service to its customers.

“We are thrilled to use a Foxxum Smart TV solution for our TVs now. Great content combined with impressive skills to support our sales activities and their reliable on-time delivery to meet our customers deadlines convinced us to engage with the worldwide market leader”, explains Bruno Seibert, President at Tongfang Global Germany.

“THTF Global’s appreciation of Foxxum’s technology to promote their sales makes us proud and represents another major step to further establish our leading position to provide a superior Smart TV user experience”, explains Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

Two weeks left to get prepared for the next event: ANGA, the exhibition and conference where broadband meets content takes place in Cologne and Foxxum will be there to meet you. We would like to get into conversation with new partners, exchange ideas, discover and discuss new collaboration possibilities, and present our newest clients and products.

Let’s expand our business networks, share challenges and experiences!

The world´s leading conference for the connected entertainment industry is just around the corner and we could definitely not miss this great event. Foxxum will attend the TV Connect in London and would like to share with you our plans to build a successful partnership by bringing hardware platforms and attractive content together.

Driven by the motivation of providing state of the art Smart TV Solutions, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop Smart TV products – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and content providers. Building solid and close partnerships have proven to be key in order to grow and continuously provide innovative solutions. As an established pioneer in the Smart TV sector, we would like to invite you to be a part of our business network, benefit from and contribute to our outstanding content portfolio customized for international brands as well as for specific local partners.

For its fleet of highly innovative TV sets in the Australian and South American markets TCL Multimedia, one of the largest television manufacturers in the world, has signed an agreement with Foxxum, worldwide leading in the fields of Smart TV Solutions, to provide a state of the art Smart TV portal.

Both companies stated, that the cooperation marks an important step towards an even stronger growth of market shares in those parts of the world. With TCL providing its highly sophisticated, feature rich Smart TV products and Foxxum adding its Smart TV expertise as well as a dedicated Foxxum TV store, users will now benefit from even more integrated, well designed, easy to use and feature rich entertainment offers.

„As we are growing our TV business in all parts of the planet at high speed, we can only work with very trustful and strong partners. So we are very pleased, to have found such a company in Foxxum, supporting our ideas and strategy with tremendous amount of experience as well as the necessary flexibility for today‘s markets“, explains Jeff Huang Overseas TV+ Director at TCL Multimedia.

„We could not be happier about TCL‘s decision to work with us“, explains Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum. „Sharing our ideas about customer oriented business models and being able to fully adapt to the TCL Smart TV ecosystem while adding to it with high quality regional and local content offerings we will create something great for the users.“

Radioline – the first European aggregation platform of radio stations and podcasts – and Foxxum, worldwide leading provider of Smart TV Solutions, today announce a strategic partnership to jointly work on further shaping a strong international Smart TV environment for radio stations and radio content.

As Smart TV is the number three device category after mobile and PC used for online radio listening in the US and in France, it has become a strategical element and distribution channel for the entire radio industry. Therefor Radioline has developed a full range of solutions for TV, including an HTML5 TV application that is now made available on all devices using the Foxxum portal. While Radioline adds even more international high quality content to the Foxxum bouquet, for their aggregated radio content providers the integration process is a one step expansion to a very large number of Smart TV devices worldwide, including international TV and set-top-box brands such as Hisense, Haier, Sharp, Orion, Medion, Metz, and many more.

“This partnership with Foxxum, one of the most demanding and reliable Smart TV Platform Solutions with strong positions within markets all over the globe strengthens Radioline’s footprint on connected TV” says Geoffroy Robin, CEO at Radioline.

“Radioline’s innovation, experience and vision of a strong Smart TV based radio distribution is a perfect match with our philosophy bringing relevant, high quality international content to Smart TV devices – in this case especially to those connected to the best audio solution within the household” says Ronny Lutzi, CEO of Foxxum.

The TV app is available in 6 languages (French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish) and offers the biggest European catalogue of 60,000 radio stations and podcasts from 130 countries, including great functionalities (favorites, access by topics, music genres, countries…).

Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster offering news, features and documentaries covering everything from business, science and politics to arts, culture and sports, is now available on all Foxxum partner brands and devices worldwide, such as Blaupunkt, Haier, Hisense, Medion, Sharp and Vantage. The according app has been developed by Foxxum, leading provider of Smart TV Solutions, itself and in close cooperation with DW. Depending on user‘s hardware, even live streaming will be available within the application.

The new app offers dynamic search and a very intuitive structure in order to get straight to the content desired, sorted in Latest, Programs, Lifestyle & Culture, Business, Politics & Society, Science & Health, Travel, Sports and Automotive. All content – live and on demand – will be available in German, English, Spanish and Arabic right from the start with more languages coming soon.

“Adding to our global satellite network, partner stations and online services, distributing our VOD and live TV content via Smart TV and OTT Solutions became an important part of our distribution strategy,” explains Petra Schneider, Director of Sales and Distribution at DW. “In one single step, Foxxum has proven to be a great addition to our partner network by opening doors to a wide range of devices and audiences in many different countries.”

“Bringing together hardware platforms and attractive, relevant content on an international scale – that‘s what Foxxum Smart TV Solutions are about. With Deutsche Welle we now have another unique partner who represents high quality content in the strongest and purest possible way“, so Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.

Do not miss the opportunity to learn more about Foxxums current projects, products, new features and future plans. We will be at CES, the global consumer electronics and technology conference. Foxxum is permanently interested in new partnerships that contribute to our outstanding international content portfolio and innovative solutions.

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operation and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV Solutions. As an established pioneer in the sector, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop Smart TV Solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters, the most important video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide a best in class content portfolio containing the most important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers.

SBT, the second largest and fastest growing TV network in Brazil, has partnered with Foxxum, worldwide leading provider of Smart TV Solutions, to launch a new Smart TV App reaching out to 9 million Smart TV households on the Brazilian market. With an intuitive and beautifully designed interface, the SBT TV App will add real value to the Smart TV experience of Brazilian users, bringing them a rich suite of entertaining and informative content.

„By adding the expertise of Foxxum in developing, distributing and monetizing content on Connected Devices to the quality and attractiveness of SBT’s content, we are certain that this will create a new milestone for our Smart TV business in the entire country“, says Fernando Pensado, Head of Digital & Interactivity at SBT.

SBT initially launches on SONY Smart TVs creating a new reference within the VOD business by offering what consumers are actually looking for: local content from big TV Networks, to be watched at any time.

With 18 channels to choose from, users will be able to catch up with all the TV shows they missed or want to watch again. And the SBT TV App offers not only full episodes, but also extracts of the most interesting parts of every show, always through a user friendly and easy to find navigation structure.

Free to the consumer and already available on SONY Smart TVs, the SBT App will soon be launched by Foxxum on all major TV brands and game consoles in the market.