Tamedia becomes majority shareholder in Zattoo

Tamedia has held a stake in the TV streaming provider Zattoo since 2008. Tamedia has held a 29 percent stake in Zattoo International AG since 2015. Tamedia sees great potential in the Zattoo product and in the Zattoo business - both in the end customer and corporate customer business - and is therefore expanding its involvement.With Tamedia as the main shareholder, Zattoo is continuing its growth course and further expanding its position as European market leader. Tamedia is relying on the Zattoo team in Zurich, Berlin, Ann Arbor and Singapore and, together with Bea Knecht (founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zattoo) as the second-largest shareholder, will drive the further development of the company.

About the B2C and B2B business at Zattoo

In the end customer business, Zattoo successfully focuses on its core markets, Switzerland and Germany. The company has around 2 million users on the platform every month, who stream over 200 TV channels (in Germany: over 100 TV channels) with Zattoo, which has also been active in the B2B sector since 2012. Zattoo is the leading technology partner of telecommunications companies and network operators worldwide. It currently serves 20 business customers from Europe and the USA, who in turn have several million end customers without having to invest in their own infrastructure. At the beginning of the year, Zattoo opened a location in Singapore to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. On its platform, Zattoo offers advertising space for classic digital formats such as display advertising. The portfolio also includes programmatic TV with the innovative TV advertising format Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) developed by Zattoo.