By Stuart Thomson
Chinese tech giant Huawei’s Huawei Video unit has struck an agreement with Clubbing TV to distribute the music channel across more than 60 countries in Europe, the Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
The strategic partnership gives Huawei Video users access to Clubbing TV’s linear feed and video portfolio.
Huawei Video subscribers will be able to watch Clubbing TV’s linear feed via a premium linear section of the service that will be advertising free. In Western Europe countries, with a subscription fee of €3.99 (US$ 4.87) per month.
In addition to the linear feed, the long-format video assets of the channel will be rolling out across all Huawei Video platforms in the Premium VOD section.
The VOD service will offer more than 300 pieces of content including concerts, festivals, sets from the biggest DJs and long-format documentaries. The Freemium VOD offering will include more than 1,500 dance music short-format videos, reports, interviews and talk-shows.
Huawei Video is a monthly app-based subscription service available to users with a Huawei smartphone or tablet with EMUI 5.x and above.
“Clubbing TV’s music and lifestyle TV channel is proud to offer its premium content to Huawei Video’s viewers around the world. With a potential global audience of over 700 million smartphone and tablets users, Huawei is one of the leading smart device manufacturers. Thanks to this strategic partnership Clubbing TV will extend its footprint to more than 60 countries worldwide and reach a new audience of music enthusiasts that will be able to watch live and on demand the very best of Clubbing TV’s content. Whether it’s DJ sets, broadcasts from festivals, concerts or interviews, Clubbing TV will unquestionably be the one stop destination all dance music and electronic music lovers on Huawei Video,” said Clubbing TV’s founder, chairman and CEO Stéphane Schweitzer.
“Huawei Video’s positioning is to deliver high-quality video services to users based on fully equipped infrastructures. We are cooperating with Clubbing TV to accurately provide the linear feed of the channel and its quality video content to Huawei users, and we will keep working together for mutual development. We are always willing to provide our client with the content they love, and we are thrilled to expand our content offering with Clubbing TV, a channel dedicated to music and lifestyle lovers which represents the perfect asset to our World line-up,” said consumer cloud service and video business department director, Huawei Video, James Xu.
