Viewster announces deals with with FremantleMedia, Content Media, FUNimation and others

"We are in a transition from a broad library toward top international series that we are making available free and ad-supported. Our young audience just loves discovering international series with us," said Kai Henniges, Viewster CEO. “There are fantastic formats out there, often the original version that is re-made in the US. We find these formats and make them available in markets that would otherwise not see them.”

The MIPCOM announcements in detail include:

• 110 Hours from six different BBC series available to American viewers, including popular and critical hits like That Mitchell and Webb Look, Merlin and Pulling from FremantleMedia.

• Exclusive series provided by Content Television, a division of Content Media for the UK, Germany and other European countries.

• 130 hours and 18 titles of Japanese Anime from FUNimation, including fan favorites Girls Bravo and Deadman Wonderland.

• Hundreds of hours of series programming from Starz Digital Media, Shine Group, Dori Media Group and ALL3MEDIA now live on Viewster.

Viewster is a global fast-growing video 'on demand' platform, offering thousands of films and TV series ad-based and free-to-watch. In 2012, more than one billion videos were viewed through Viewster's service. Viewster was launched in 2008, is headquartered in Zurich and has offices in Adelaide, London, New York and Singapore.