March 24, 2021
New over-the-top streaming services include The Roku Channel,
Rakuten TV (Europe) and more
Bloomberg Quicktake’s live stream channel reached 7.4 million average monthly viewers over its first three full months, December 2020 through February 2021, since launching the network on over-the-top (OTT) streaming on November 9. The network also had 56 million average monthly viewers of its on demand videos across social platforms over the same time period. The global business news network, delivering news for a new generation of leaders and a new era, is seeing significant audience growth since expanding its presence beyond social to a 24-hour live stream news channel.
In 2021, Bloomberg Quicktake launched on several new OTT streaming services and platforms, including The Roku Channel, Rakuten, Tubi, Haystack News, Local Now, STIRR by Sinclair Broadcast Group, News Player Plus and DistroTV. Viewers can also access the network on Bloomberg.com, YouTube, and Samsung TV Plus, as well as on the Bloomberg Media App on Apple TV, Roku, Android TV, Samsung Smart TV and Amazon Fire TV.
The global news network currently provides live shows and breaking news to deliver global insights throughout the day, along with documentary-style series on global trends. The longer-form series take a fresh spin on evening primetime programming with shows such as, “Moonshots,” which explores major breakthroughs in science from cell mapping to seafloor imaging, and “Storylines,” a deep dive on the week’s biggest business story and Businessweek’s feature journalism, covering topics such as the business of carbon reduction to animal rights and more.
Bloomberg Quicktake covers a broad range of stories across business, technology, climate, culture, politics, society, and personal finance. Follow on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and subscribe on YouTube on Quicktake and Quicktake: Now.