The German commercial broadcast group shares a 50:50 partnership on the AVOD, which was established with Discovery in 2017, and has operated under the name Joyn since 2019.
His main responsibilities will be to educate and promote the growing opportunities of AVOD, connected TV applications and Fast channels all over the continent.
Amazon announced that its free streaming service Freevee is now available in Germany. This is the second international launch for the AVOD platform, following the UK last year.
The contract will give SPI non-exclusive worldwide AVOD and SVOD rights (with the exception of a few territories per program) on SPI platforms such as FilmBox+, FilmBox on Demand, Film1, ToonzBox, and ToonzStream.