Europe's largest commercial TV network is launching a first-of-its-kind streaming service that will combine video, e-books, podcasts, digital magazines, and music. 'The only thing [Netflix] is afraid of are the local players.'
a sensation this week
when RTL invited a select group of industry journalists to a hip concrete-and-glass party spot in Berlin to unveil details of an ambitious, and entirely original, streaming service. Called RTL+, the service will offer up more than 60,000 hours of video content — including historic drama, which recently won the Dior Grand Prize at the CanneSeries festival — in combination with tens of thousands of ebooks from Penguin Random House , thousands of podcasts and audiobooks from Bertelsmann-owned AudioNow, digital magazines and articles from Bertelsmann’s Gruner + Jahr publishing group , as well as some 73 million songs on demand, supplied through a deal with French-owned music...
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