On Demand Group secures TVOD deal with Fox for Greece, Cyprus and Middle East

Content aggregator On Demand Group and Fox Home Entertainment have struck a deal to bring Fox titles to On Demand Group (ODG) Transactional Video On Demand (TVOD) services in Greece, Cyprus, UAE, Qatar, Egypt, and Morocco

ODG’s operator clients in the territories included in the deal include OTE in Greece, PrimeTel in Cyprus, and du in UAE.

The deal includes recent titles Gulliver’s Travels, Rio, and 127 Hours as well as older library films.

Tony Kelly, CEO of On Demand Group, said, “We’re very pleased to bring content from one of the world’s premier movie studios to our clients in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, which is further evidence of our successful cross-territory content aggregation strategy and the development of compelling VOD services that we bring to operators. We fully expect to be able to announce further operator contracts in both regions shortly as further evidence of our rapid growth.”

On Demand Group, a subsidiary of SeaChange International, manages the on-demand businesses of service providers including Virgin Media in the UK, SFR Neuf in France, OTE in Greece, TTNET in Turkey and du in Dubai.