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Subsidiary | |
Industry | Electronic commerce |
Founded | 2010 |
Founder | Jacinto Roca, Josep Mitjà |
Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
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Key people
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Jacinto Roca (CEO) Josep Mitjà (COO) Miquel Barba (CTO) |
Products | Video on demand films and tv series |
Number of employees
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200 |
Parent | Rakuten |
Website | https://www.rakuten.tv/ |
Rakuten TV is a video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service, offering movies and TV series for subscription, rental and purchase. Rakuten TV’s catalogue includes content from the biggest studios around the world including Warner Bros., Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, local distributors, and independent labels, being the largest service among its competitors.
Rakuten TV’s content can be streamed to computers, laptops, Chromecast, gaming consoles, tablets, smartphones and Smart TVs, being the service with more apps in the market.
The company is headquartered in Barcelona and currently operates in 11 eleven countries around Europe; Spain, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland.
In June 2012 – Rakuten, the world’s third largest e-commerce company, acquired the company previously known as Wuaki.tv.
In July 2017 – Wuaki.tv changed its name to Rakuten TV