VIACOM LAUNCHES PARAMOUNT+ STREAMING SERVICE IN LATIN AMERICA

Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) – Americas announced the launch in Latin America of Paramount+, the new SVOD service (Video-On-Demand by Subscription) for the whole family.

Paramount+ offers premium content in the most popular genres including the The Handmaid’s Tale, Yellowstone, as well as an extensive and curated series of global box office hits, in addition to more than 2,000 episodes from global brands of Viacom: MTV, Comedy Central and the Paramount Channel. Additionally, the new streaming service Paramount+ will include the extensive library of international children’s shows and original local Nickelodeon series.

Paramount+ is available in Brazil on May 1 for subscribers of NET on its NOW platform during this initial launch. It will also soon be available to the rest of Latin America through Claro video. After this debut, Viacom will extend the availability of Paramount+ throughout the region through other pay TV, internet and mobile providers, soon to be announced.

“We are thrilled to offer Paramount+ to Latin American audiences launching with two important partners such as NET and Claro video,” said Pierluigi Gazzolo, President of VIMN Americas. “This new on-demand subscription streaming service expands our strong presence in the non-linear world and complements the entertainment experience of our Viacom TV-Everywhere signals and services with an extensive, curated and powerful content offering for the whole family.”

Paramount+ will offer audiences of all ages access to iconic movies and the extensive library of content that includes successful series, reality shows, and factual programs in multiple genres of the global brands of Viacom, as well as hundreds of episodes of Nickelodeon children’s and youth programming.

Subscribers to Paramount+ will have access to an extensive and curated catalog of more than 150 films including iconic titles and blockbusters from the Hollywood studios, award-winning films, and fan favorites.

Paramount+ will offer the premiere in Latin America of the third season of the internationally critically acclaimed and winner of multiple Emmy and Golden Globe awards, The Handmaid’s Tale, in addition to its first two full seasons. Paramount+ will also have the Latin America exclusive premiere of the fascinating drama series, Yellowstone, starring Oscar® winner Kevin Costner and written and directed by Oscar®-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. In addition, the platform will offer an exclusive of The Unsettling, the new highly anticipated horror series produced by AwesomenessTV.

Paramount+ will include more than 2,000 episodes of popular international programs and first-window of some of its successful original local productions of MTV and Comedy Central such as De Ferias Com O Ex Brazil, Acapulco Shore, Jersey Shore, dozens of Latin American stand-up comedy episodes, Are You the One? in its Latin America, Brazil and UK different versions, Just Tattoo Of Us, Broad City, among others.

The children programming available on Paramount+ includes hundreds of episodes of the most internationally viewed animated shows, live-action series and other Nickelodeon Latin American shows including SpongeBob, Ninja Turtles, The Ninja Turtle Ascent, The Penguins from Madagascar, Hey Arnold!, Kung Fu Panda, The Magic Godfathers, Avatar – The Last Airbender, iCarly, Victorious, Sam & Cat, Noobees, Vicky RPM, I Am Frankie and Every Witch Way, among others.

Paramount+ debuted as an SVOD aggregation service in 2017 in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, with Finland added in 2018. Also in 2018, the service debuted in Poland under the name Paramount Play and in Hungary as Paramount+.

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