Unlike ivi, which distributed grabbed local TV signals in New York, Seattle and other markets and routed them through its servers to subscribers, Aereo at least makes the technological pretense that its subscribers are receiving the signal from a tiny individual antenna equivalent to the rabbit ears that used to sit atop every TV set. ivi.ru also holds the most prestige awards for various achievements in the field, including the Runet Award and the Golden Site Award.The decision comes a little more than a month after a federal judge in New York refused to shut down Barry Diller's Aereo service, which uses tiny television receivers to grab broadcast signals and send them to subscribers over the Internet. ivi.ru is available on a wide range of devices, including smartphones and tablets as well as Smart TVs from all of the main manufacturers. ivi.ru is the most popular service and the largest player in this segment in Russia, attracting more than 28 million unique visitors and generating more than 150 million hits per month. Ivi.ru is a leading Russian online video streaming service, which offers licensed video content, including more than 65,000 titles of movies, TV shows, cartoons and music videos. ivi.ru therefore is a key partner to this strategy in Russian speaking countries”, explains Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum. And all of our Smart TV device partners know, that one can only grow its market shares by offering access to high quality content. “Russia as one of the largest markets has always been in our focus. “The cooperation with Foxxum now extends our technical reach tremendously and puts us into a position to grow even faster into the living rooms of viewers with a Foxxum Smart TV solution”. By making our users happy we were able to gain a strong momentum within the Russian streaming market and to develop our offers, app infrastructure and partner network”, explains Irina Grandel, Head of Business Development Area, at ivi.ru. “For us at ivi.ru customer satisfaction is very important. Users are even able to choose the rental period and the price for a movie depending on its quality. The ivi.ru app itself has different functions that make it comfortable to use, such as kids protection, a watch-later-list and favorites. Ivi.ru offers movies, TV shows, cartoons and music videos licensed from all major content producers, including Hollywood Studios such as Warner Brothers, Warner Music, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Sony Music, NBC Universal, Universal Music, Disney, BBC and National Geographic as well as Russian film companies like Mosfilm, Lenfilm, Paradise, CTC Media, Gorky Film Studio STV and Central Partnership. Both companies joined forces to grow their Smart TV business in all Russian- speaking countries, by attracting device partners to switch to Foxxum and increasing the reach for ivi.ru video content. Foxxum, worldwide leading provider of Smart TV solutions, and ivi.ru, with more than 20 percent market share and about 30 million users per month one of the largest Russian online movie theaters, today announced, that the ivi.ru app is now available within the Foxxum Smart TV solution.
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