{"id":143276,"date":"2016-11-15T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T10:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=143276"},"modified":"2016-11-15T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T10:19:23","slug":"vodacom-adds-netflix-to-its-streaming-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/143276\/vodacom-adds-netflix-to-its-streaming-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom adds Netflix to its streaming service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix will be added to the Vodacom On Demand streaming service \u201cearly next year,\u201d said Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub.<\/p>\n<p>Joosub confirmed the addition in a recent <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techcentral.co.za\/the-talkcentral-interview-shameel-joosub\/70036\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCentral podcast<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/102727-vodacoms-netflix-plans.html\"><strong>Vodacom has been in talks with Netflix<\/strong><\/a> since at least 2014, when its parent company announced a partnership with the streaming video provider.<\/p>\n<p>Joosub said the strength of its On Demand platform will be the ability to buy data along with the content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will be able to buy a movie with or without the data included,\u201d said Joosub.<\/p>\n<p>Those with access to cheaper fixed connections at home or work can also download their videos there.<\/p>\n<p>If you have to download the video over your mobile connection, Vodacom will make it more cost effective by including the data you need.<\/p>\n<p>Before it gets Netflix, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/187079-vodacom-partners-with-dstv-and-showmax-for-new-tv-service.html\">Vodacom On Demand will launch<\/a><\/strong> with\u00a0the following services in 2017:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Subscription video on demand:<\/strong> ShowMax.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transactional video on demand:<\/strong> BoxOffice, own licensed titles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Live TV:<\/strong> DStv Now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to providing a platform for third-party services, Joosub said Vodacom On Demand will also offer bundles or boxed sets.<\/p>\n<p>These bundles will feature movies chosen around a specific theme, like \u201ccomedies for the weekend\u201d, or a set of TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>Joosub said one of Vodacom\u2019s strengths\u00a0is being able to sell daily, weekly, and monthly bundles to a variety of market segments.<\/p>\n<p>With Vodacom On Demand, they want to partner with third-party content providers to offer a similar kind of \u201cbite-sized\u201d value proposition for video content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere we can\u2019t [partner], we want to source that content to be able to provide those types of bundles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read this: <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/143114\/vodacom-boosts-revenue-profit-and-adds-1-5-million-subscribers-in-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vodacom boosts revenue, profit \u2013 and adds 1.5 million subscribers in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix will be added to the Vodacom On Demand streaming service \u201cearly next year,\u201d said Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":108355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,263,27],"class_list":["post-143276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-netflix","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143278,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143276\/revisions\/143278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}