Alchimie to provide VOD content to SFR

Content aggregator and distributor Alchimiehas signed a three-year agreement with Altice France/ SFR to provide the operator with 2,000 hours of documentaries for SFR’s factual VOD channels for its Power and Premium subscribers. 

Alchimie will provide SFR with a selection of 2,000 hours of documentaries spanning nature, culture, travel, history, science and technology programming. The shows will be themed into range of topics such as Nature, Culture, History, Society and Travel and will be available in the replay category of SFR Power and Premium subscribers.

“We’re delighted to partner with SFR. This deal demonstrates Alchimie ability to offer a selection of the best of factual programming, one of the most extensive in Europe, across a range of topics that can be tailored to the subscribers’ interests of any pay TV operators in Europe. We’re also proud that SFR has assigned Alchimie with the task to animate its Documentary Replay category with the objective to maximise subscribers engagement,” said Nicolas d’Hueppe CEO of Alchimie.

Alchimie themes, curates and promotes channels in partnership with rights holders and owners on a revenue share basis, Alchimie’s services provide digitisation, translation, subtitles, dubbing and promotion.The company also offers Watch-It!, a branded OTT platform that aggregates third-party channels on a number of platforms. The outfit recently struck a new deal with France’s Mediawan to provide replay/catch up service for nine Mediawan linear channelsto subscribers on Watch-It!