Sky Ticket becomes Wow! Streaming service is getting ready for Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+

Of the streaming market is highly competitive and is rapidly becoming a streaming war, at least according to many analysts. The big market leader already has Netflix At the beginning of the year, the first severe setback in the success story in the form of Subscriber Losses have to put up with while next to the other two top dogs Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ other providers are pushing into the growing market.

In the middle is sky with its VoD service sky ticket. The Munich-based pay TV broadcaster Sky Germany offers its paying customers a own streaming service, which you can use to access and view Sky’s film and series offers while you’re on the go. Now, surprisingly, the VoD service has been given a new name: Sky Ticket becomes wow.

Wow in response to Netflix & Co?

The special thing about that rebranding is one thing above all: The Name Sky is omitted without replacement, which presents the streamer separately from Sky Germany, at least in terms of name. The growing offer from Sky should certainly be a reason here, as the group will be offering them in the near future German homeland for the US streaming services Peacock and Paramount+. The services, which have so far only been available in the USA, would like to go global in the future and have found a partner in Germany and other countries in the global Sky group.

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In addition, Sky would also like to take a powerful step forward in terms of content, exclusivity and quality. In the future there should be more titles in 4K HDas is already standard with the big competitors.

“WOW is unique because we combine amazing fictional content and sports content. We are particularly proud of the range of films we offer”says Kai Schmidt-Merz, Senior Vice President Content Products and Consumer Engagement at Sky, on the occasion of the renaming of Sky Ticket to Wow.

celebrate so far blockbuster cinema at Sky Premiere, for example, before they are available from the other providers – with the exception of Disney+. Especially in the area Variety of series However, Sky’s offer is far behind that of the other VoD providers. Netflix, for example, produces many times more content worldwide, while Sky licensed titles must buy: In addition to self-produced series highlights such as “Babylon Berlin” and “Das Boot”, the offer consists primarily of HBO formats such as game of Thrones and the upcoming prequel series House of the Dragon.

“We have been working to continuously develop our offering and optimize our platform to offer our customers the best streaming experience”says Sarah Jennings, Senior Vice President WOW at Sky Germany.

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Wow is the most expensive streaming service in Germany

In addition, Sky currently offers by far the most expensive streaming subscription on the German market. Nobody else has a pure subscription to series, which costs 9.99 euros a month and has a very limited offer. With its range of films and series, Wow even comes to 14.99 euros per month combined. For comparison, Netflix costs around 12.99 euros/month, Prime Video is 7.99 euros/month and Disney+ is somewhere in between at 8.99 euros/month.