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Leading Nordic streaming platform featuring 150+ original series, films and documentaries. Specializes in crime, thriller and dramedy content available worldwide.
European content & media alternative based in Sweden.
Viaplay is a European streaming platform offering a curated catalogue of Nordic original series, live sports, films, and kids' programming to audiences across the Nordics, the Netherlands, and the Baltics. The service is best known for its award-winning "Viaplay Originals" β high-end crime, thriller, and dramedy productions filmed in Scandinavia β alongside rights to major European football, ice hockey, motorsport, and winter-sport competitions.
The platform streams on smart TVs, consoles, streaming sticks, web, and mobile apps, with downloads for offline viewing, multi-profile households, and local-language audio and subtitles. Viaplay commissions and produces its own Nordic dramas in-house and licenses international hits, giving European subscribers content they cannot find on US-centric catalogues and keeping home-language productions in prime position.
Key benefits:
- Nordic Originals including acclaimed crime, thriller, and dramedy series
- Live sports rights for football, ice hockey, motorsport, and winter sports
- Family-friendly profiles with kids' content and parental controls
- Multi-device streaming on smart TVs, consoles, web, and mobile
- Offline downloads for travel and commutes
- Local languages with native audio and subtitle tracks across markets
Viaplay Group is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, and operates under Swedish and EU consumer, broadcasting, and data protection law with full GDPR compliance. As a European-owned streamer, it offers audiences and regulators a sovereign alternative to US-owned platforms, with editorial decisions and subscriber data staying under European jurisdiction.
Trusted by millions of subscribers across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, and the Baltics for premium Nordic storytelling and live sport.
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