The offerings include Entertainment, News, Sports and True Crime channels that will feature past seasons of reality programming including The Real Housewives franchises, true crime and sports content, and acclaimed library series including Murder, She Wrote, The Lone Ranger and Little House on the Prairie. NBC and Telemundo Local FAST channels are set to arrive later this year.
Paramount Streaming has elevated the top programming executives at flagship platform Paramount+ and free, ad-supported service Pluto TV. Jeff Grossman, most recently EVP, content & business operations, Paramount Streaming for Paramount+, has been named EVP, Programming, Paramount+. Amy Kuessner, most recently Pluto TV’s EVP, content strategy and global partnerships, has been named EVP, programming, Pluto TV. Both report to Tom Ryan, president-CEO, Paramount Streaming, and will closely collaborate in their new roles.
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Paramount Global said it was taking EyeQ, its digital video advertising platform, global. The move will make it easier for multinational marketers to run campaigns across the company’s footprint, which has been boosted by the international expansion of Pluto TV and the launch of the ad-supported version of Paramount+ in Australia, Canada and other markets in 2024.
There will be more options for watchingBig Brother live feeds for the show’s upcoming season. Pluto TV, Paramount Global’s free streaming outlet, will be home to the show’s live feeds for Season 25, while sibling Paramount+ will mark its third year airing the live feed in one dedicated stream, ad-free, for all subscribers. Both will be available following the Aug. 2 West Coast premiere of the hit series.
Walmart+, the retail giant’s paid subscription membership service, is now offering access to Paramount’s Pluto TV. Interestingly, select Pluto TV programming will be available ad-free. Starting this week, Walmart+ subscribers can use the member portal to create a free Pluto account, which will allow them to watch a lineup of curated content. According to Walmart+, members can watch up to six TV shows (one season each) ad-free.
Drew Barrymore is appearing in a new series of ads for Pluto TV, the streaming service owned by Paramount Global, which also distributes her daily talk show via CBS Media Ventures. The tagline for the campaign, whose TV spots will launch in the U.S. and Canada tomorrow, is “Stream Now. Pay Never,” a reference to Pluto’s ad-supported business model.
Shopping-centric QVC and HSN have made their way to Paramount’s Pluto TV as the service’s first live streaming shopping channels. The channels will collectively air approximately 40 hours of virtual commerce programming, showcasing purchasable content to Pluto TV viewers in the U.S.
Paramount Global’s free streaming outlet Pluto TV has launched channels dedicated to syndication mainstays Judge Judy and Let’s Make a Deal and plans to debut Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! channels on Aug. 1. The moves are part of a broader reorganization and expansion of the programming categories offered by Pluto, with five new ones bringing the total to 18.
Pluto TV is — finally — bringing its free, ad-supported streaming service to Canada. Launching in the fall of 2022, Pluto TV Canada will include more than 100 curated channels and more than 20,000 hours of content, all available for free across a range of devices and with no registration required.
60 Minutes is stepping into the streaming arena once again. 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens informed staff that there’s a deal in place for a 60 Minutes channel to live on Pluto TV, Paramount’s ad-supported streaming service. The 60 Minutes channel will run in partnership with the Pluto TV programming team, and be led by 60 Minutes Senior Producer Nicole Young.
Free, ad-supported streaming TV services are growing fast and expected to command significantly more advertising dollars this year.
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau says ViacomCBS’s Pluto TV has agreed to pay a $3.5 million civil penalty over claims that Pluto TV streamed off-TV video on some platforms without the availability of the requisite captions, in violation of FCC rules. The company has also admitted to liability for its actions.
‘Taxi,’ ‘Charmed,’ ‘The Brady Bunch’ Among New Additions To Pluto TV This Fall Pluto TV, the free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service, with more than 52 million global monthly active users, today announced […]
ViacomCBS on Wednesday unveiled its content leadership structure for its global streaming services. The moves include appointing Tanya Giles, currently GM of MTV Entertainment Group, as “a centralized programming head” to oversee content strategy for Paramount+ and Pluto TV globally.
Pluto TV, ViacomCBS’s free, ad-supported television service, looks to be ahead of financial projections as it closes in on $1 billion in annual ad revenue. ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish, speaking Monday at an Evercore investor conference, said that, on a run rate basis, Pluto TV is on track to exceed $1 billion in total ad revenue during the fourth quarter.
International news network Euronews has signed a global partnership with free streaming television service Pluto TV that started with the U.S. launch of Euronews’ Spanish language edition on May 5. […]
Pluto TV, the free streaming television service, is now the exclusive free streaming home to the Daytime Emmy-winning The Dr. Oz Show. The launch of the new dedicated channel, “Dr. Oz”, will […]
Pluto TV and Verizon have activated their game-changing distribution partnership and revealed new programming details. Starting today, 100,000-plus hours of free, ad-supported programming on ViacomCBS-owned Pluto are available to Verizon customers. The service will come in the form of an app on Android mobile devices and pre-installed on Fios cable boxes and Stream TV and 5G Amazon Home Fire devices.
ViacomCBS next week will add a tranche of 40 shows from CBS and Comedy Central to its free, ad-supported Pluto TV streaming service. The slate of library titles, including mainstays like Survivor, CSI: Miami, Star Trek: The Next Generation and the first 10 seasons of South Park, will give Pluto more than 100,000 unique hours of programming.
