Zattoo

Europe's leading Internet TV provider

Zattoo is a TV streaming service with live, replay and on demand offerings for connected devices. Its B2C-service with more than 17 million registered users is currently available in Europe, its B2B-Service worldwide. The technology was originally developed at the University of Michigan, and has been regarded as the best live P2P television platform. Live Content available on Zattoo a number of public, private and international European channels as well as video on demand contents from TV producers such as BBC, ProSiebenSat.1, Spiegel TV. Chip.de tested Zatoo and other German TV streaming service in the following four categories in June 2017: number of channels, picture quality, type of end-user use and range of functions / service. According to Chip.de Zattoo, the best price performance with additional functions such as the break and restart functions is offered. Zattoo is the second platform in Germany that offers the restart function functionality for 50 TV channels for its German customers including channels offered by RTL and ProSiebenSat.1. If a user missed the beginning of a show, they can start the show from the beginning. Zattoo offers dynamic advertising insertion to TV broadcasters since March 2017 – allowing advertising content to be cut from the broadcast stream of linear German TV programming and replaced in real time with different content from an advert server. Since 2012, Zattoo additionally offers B2B TV Solutions. As a technology partner, Zattoo delivers TV and VOD solutions to over 15 cable network operators, FTTH providers, internet service providers, and telecom companies. The portfolio ranges from backend services (ingest, encoding, and transcoding, DRM, streaming) to fully hosted and fully managed end to end White Label solutions for first screen IPTV and second screen mobile/web TV.