Zattoo
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| Developer(s) | University of Michigan and Zattoo Inc. |
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| Operating system | cross-platform |
| Type | Internet Television |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.zattoo.com |
Zattoo is a TV streaming service with offices located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and in Zürich, Switzerland. Live TV and on-demand content from Zattoo can be watched on computers, smartphones (iPhone, Android, WP7), and tablets (iPad, Android, Windows 8, Windows 10). Zattoo also offers TV applications for Internet-connected TVs (LG, Samsung, VideoWeb TV box), Xbox, Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, and supports streaming via Apple AirPlay and Chromecast.
Zattoo was created to stream the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. On 20 April 2007, Zattoo launched in Denmark with ten channels and started piloting in the United Kingdom. On 4 October 2007, Zattoo reached one million registered users in Europe.
Zattoo has been available in Spain since 10 June 2007. On 5 August 2008, Zattoo asked its Spanish users for a €2.40 charge by SMS in order to continue with the service during August and September. In March 2009, Zattoo removed its services from Belgium in an attempt to keep its costs down. Despite this removal of services from Belgium, Zattoo would return if it found a suitable marketing partner. Zattoo is now available in Germany, Spain, Denmark and Switzerland.
In May 2009, lawyers for Universal and Warner Bros. instigated legal proceedings against Zattoo claiming that the Swiss website - which rebroadcasts a number of television stations live online - is adding advertising to films that are shown on German TV via its online service.
On 23 April 2010, Zattoo dropped all the BBC channels from their UK channel list, after ongoing pressure from the BBC to remove them. On 15 June 2010, Zattoo dropped ITV1, Channel 4 and Five from their UK channel list, leaving none of the main UK channels; however, ITV's Northern Ireland (UTV) franchise remain.
Since June 2015, Zattoo Germany integrates an on-demand TV function, which enables viewers to watch a broadcast up to seven days after their TV broadcast in full length. The UEFA Euro 2016 provided Zattoo with a new user record: a total of 1.8 million viewers watched the games on the OTT platform, more than 800,000 of them in Germany. A quarter of the TV consumption during the Euro 2016 through Zattoo took place using TV sets connected to the internet, further narrowing the gap to smartphone/tablet usage (35%) and web usage (40%).
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