Discover everything you need to know about the new American streaming platform accessible for free!
If Netflix remains, for many years, the world giant of SVOD (video on demand service), other platforms are emerging. After Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+, Salto, OCS, Pluto TV is coming to France. Here's what you need to know about this streaming platform.
Pluto TV is an American video-on-demand and streaming service. The platform was founded in 2013 by Tom Ryan, Ilya Pozin and Nick Grouf and the website went live in 2014.
Then, the platform becomes the property of the American multinational ViacomCBS (formerly Viacom), which buys it in 2019 for the sum of 340 million dollars. The same year, Pluto TV decides to extend its distribution to Europe. After traveling through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the streaming service is coming to France in February 2021 .
Pluto TV is a kind of service halfway between TV channels and online video sites like Youtube or Dailymotion. As of August 2020, the Pluto TV service had 25.6 million active users worldwide (in comparison Netflix has more than 200 million subscribers).
You are probably saying to yourself "another streaming platform"! But, unlike its predecessors and competitors such as Netflix, Prime Video or Salto, Pluto TV is totally free . Indeed, it is not paid subscriptions that remunerate the platform, but advertising . Users have unlimited access to many programs without paying a penny.
Thus, Pluto TV stands out offering a wide content without costs or registration . It is available in Metropolitan France and Overseas .
To access the streaming service, there is nothing complicated! It is possible to watch Pluto TV programs via various sources :
Moreover, what makes Pluto TV original is the fact that there is a live TV part with different thematic channels that broadcast, like a television channel, programs throughout the day; and part of video on demand on which you can watch any content present on the platform.
This streaming service, although completely free, offers a wide choice of programs . The purchase of Pluto TV by ViacomCBS notably enabled the platform to broadcast content from the television channels belonging to the group:
At the start of 2021, upon its arrival in France, Pluto TV offers a total of 84 thematic channels . Among the programs broadcast on Pluto TV, there are of all genres and for all types of audience . There are cult series, French and international (Hélène and the boys , Louis the flea market , Walker, Texas Ranger , Baywatch , South Park ...), films (classic cinema, action, romance, drama, science fiction, thrillers...), programs (MTV flagship programs for example), telenovelas, documentaries, reports or even a continuous news channel.
In addition, Pluto TV has a youth catalog particularly interesting with Nickelodeon programs (Dora the Explorer , Spongebob , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ...).
Pluto TV also stands out by broadcasting music concerts, sports programs, poker, and even yoga sessions!
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