Elisa Viihde


Elisa Viihde is a Finnish entertainment service produced by Elisa. Elisa Viihde offers video-on-demand services, pay-TV packages, recording space, and application for smartphones, tablets and laptops as well as broadband. Elisa Viihde offers original series, movies, tv programmes and sport.
On November 2018 Elisa Viihde had over 400,000 customers and over 300,000 in Finland.

History

Elisa Viihde was founded in 2009 as an online recording service.
In spring 2010 Elisa and Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio launched their collaboration that provided hundreds of Yle Areena programmes via Elisa Viihde.At the beginning Elisa Viihde financed Finnish movies. In 2014, Elisa Viihde started producing also original series, the first one being the sketch comedy Molton Klubi. Elisa Viihde is constantly publishing new original series, in the spring 2018 it had published about ten original series and by the end of the year there were five more released. At the end of March 2020, there were 19 series.

Elisa Viihde Aitio

Elisa Viihde Aitio is a streaming service offering original series in addition to other series and movies. Aitio also features music related content, e.g. documentaries, concert recordings, musicals and Spotify.
Aitio can be viewed via television, computer, tablet and smartphone. Elisa pays copyright royalties based on its revenue. Royalties are increasing as Elisa's subscription base grows.

Elisa Viihde original series

Elisa Viihde original series, e.g. Bullets, Arctic Circle and All the Sins, have gained international recognition.
Original series published by March 2020 :
Elisa Viihde Sport offers various sports that don't usually receive screen attention in major channels. It features e.g. Finnish Korisliiga, Finnish Ykkönen and from European field basketball, German Bundesleague and Spanish Liga ACB and Swedish football Allsvenskan . From December 2018 Elisa has offered 4k resolution -broadcasts.