§ Increased sports experience with licensed content from Motorvision.TV and More Than Sports, which includes live Nascar, Le Mans, German MMA Championship and American football
§ More children’s entertainment, popular films and famous TV programmes licensed from well-known German producer and broadcaster ZDF
§ Documentaries to appeal to a broader member base
CLIQ Digital AG (CLIQ.DE, ISIN: DE000A0HHJR3, WKN: A0HHJR), a leading streaming provider specialising in direct marketing of affordable entertainment products to consumers worldwide with unlimited access to music, audiobooks, sports, movie and games content, has signed new content deals with Motorvision.TV, More Than Sports, ZDF and Autentic for its members in the DACH region.
CLIQ has licensed additional live sports content. Motorvision.TV and More Than Sports TV are two soon to be integrated TV channels that show live broadcasts in HD of numerous sports leagues and events, including select races of the NASCAR CUP Series, IMSA WEATHERTEC SportsCar Championship, EUROPEAN LE MANS Series, European League of Football games (American football) and German MMA Championship fights. In addition, documentaries, car reviews, e-sports and also other racing series are available as well as programmes showing dream cars, car history and classic races
Furthermore, CLIQ has expanded its licensing agreement with ZDF Enterprises GmbH for TV drama favourites and popular children’s entertainment from the major German public service broadcaster ZDF. More than 400 hours of high-quality national and international drama as well as childrens’ TV series and movies are now additionally available to watch on CLIQ’s multi-content portals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The drama series include the latest seasons of famous local German productions like “Der Bergdoktor” and “Die Bergretter”, award-winning “Dr. Klein”, popular recent releases of classics like “Ein Fall für Zwei” and “Die Brücke” as well as internationally star-studded series “The Fall” with Gillian Anderson and “Jack Taylor” featuring Iain Glen. The drama movies include highly popular German classics such as “Das Traumschiff” and “Rosamunde Pilcher” as well as crime drama collection highlights such as “Wilsberg”, “Matula” and “Helen Dorn”.
The new children’s content will include much-loved animated TV series like “The Jungle Book”, “Robin Hood – Mischief in Sherwood”, “Lassie” and “Peter Pan” for younger viewers as well as popular international teen drama series such as “Dance Academy”, “Wolfblood”, “Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures” and “The Bureau of Magical Things”.
In addition, CLIQ has identified documentaries as an important content type to target members of all age groups and has licensed 29 programmes from Autentic GmbH with a total of 82 episodes. In the near future, these will offer a wide range of high-quality documentaries and factual series, which focus on future-relevant topics, machinery, nature & wildlife, history and people & places. Autentic conceptualises, develops, produces and co-produces content for major TV channels, non-linear platforms and renowned clients worldwide.
Statement from Ben Bos, member of the Management Board:
“With these new and exciting content deals we are significantly increasing the amount and the quality of the entertainment in our multi-content portals. We are very glad to add these must-see shows to our catalogue and become more relevant for our members. This major upgrade will make CLIQ even more appealing also to younger age groups with great new kids’ and teens’ content. Another milestone achieved in our ongoing content pipeline strategy.”