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Viaplay

Media & entertainment company

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1001+ employees
  • B2C
  • Content
  • Entertainment
  • Digital Media
  • Video
Maria, Stockholm, Stockholms län

Company mission

To create meaningful moments and evoke emotions with our content.

Our take

While the streaming media model has been a great success with the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime successfully disrupting the media landscape, continually changing viewing habits means there is plenty of room in the market for new entrants. Specialising in local content and new media technology, Viaplay Group is a rapidly-growing Nordic media and entertainment provider with global ambitions.

Viaplay Group offers a video on demand service, commissions films and series in its studios, operates several TV chanels in the Nordic region focused on sports and its own content and runs one of the largest commercial radio networks in the Nordic region. This diversity of offerings stands it in good stead to tackle its larger rivals, and its data-driven approach to its offerings means it produces content that its audiences wants to see, including local films and content that larger rivals might miss or not produce at all.

Leading with its Viaplay streaming service, it has expanded rapidly from the Nordic region, first to the UK in 2022 and then to the US and Canada in early 2023. It has enjoyed double-digit year on year growth and added almost 900,000 subscribers in the last quarter of 2022 alone. While it lacks the size of its rivals' media libraries, it has developed a solid base from which it can grow into a major competitor in the digital media market.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • 25 days of paid vacation every year
  • Summer hours
  • An attractive pension scheme
  • Private medical insurance
  • Generous maternity/paternity leave
  • Flexible work arrangements with our hybrid work model
  • An innovative environment with Hack Days, not once, but twice a year
  • A genuinely international and diverse group of colleagues to connect with
  • Free Viaplay subscription to keep up with all the latest series and movies

Company values

  • Bravery
  • Equality
  • Appreciation
  • Trust

Leadership

Anders Jensen

(President & CEO, not founder)

Was Non Executive Director and Board Member for Guardian News & Media, PICTURESTART and Millicom. Before that was EVP & CEO of Nordic Entertainment for Modern Times Group.