Jungo TV

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Jungo TV
Company type Private (Joint venture)
Industry Entertainment, cable and satellite television, Over-the-top media service
Founded2016;8 years ago (2016)
Founder
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States
Key people
  • Nasser Kazeminy(Chairman / Co-Founder)
  • George Chung(Chief Executive Officer / Co-Founder)
  • Miguel Santos(Chief Content Officer)
  • David Liao(Chief Business Officer)
  • Trang Nguyen(Chief Administrative Officer)
Brands
Website jungotv.com
jungoplus.com
jungopinoy.com

Jungo TV, LLC (or Jungo) is a privately-held media company that owns and operates television channels and streaming apps founded in 2016. Jungo TV is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in San Diego, Mumbai, and Manila. [1] [2]

Contents

History

Jungo TV was founded in 2016 by a team of four successful individuals in entertainment Nasser Kazeminy, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Sandy Climan and George Chung. [3]

International expansion

The company specializes in providing film and television content internationally through pay television providers and OTT platforms, and partnership with third-party media companies such as Ethnic Channel Groups, Cinedigm, MX Player, Bharti Airtel, GMA, VTVCab, and ABS-CBN. [4] [5]

As of September 2020, Jungo TV reached over 2 billion views monthly and entertaining audiences globally across all devices as per the report. [6]

Partnerships

In 2018, the company partnered with Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) to launch the digital first Kpop Asian Pop Culture network Hallypop. [7] [8]

In September 2019, Jungo TV partnered with the media division of Hinduja Group to bring an international slate of Video-on-demand (VOD) services in India. [9]

Jungo TV launched their digital-first linear channels "Combat Go" and Hallypop on Stirr, an American ad-supported streaming service owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. [10]

In November 2019, Jungo TV partnered with Durga Jasraj's entertainment programming company "Art and Artistes (AAA)" to launch music platform 'Waah'. [11]

Jungo TV was partnered with Verizon Media to power Global Ad Network. [12]

Partnered with other notable companies such as Amazon Fire TV, [13] LG [14] and Apple TV+ [15] and MX Player [16] for broader reach.

In April 2020, the company partnered with Black Belt (magazine) to host the world's first Virtual Global Martial arts seminar called "Fight Back". [17]

In September 2020, Jungo TV partnered with GMA Network and launched Hallypop, Asian Pop-culture Digital Channel in the Philippines. [18] [19]

In July 2021, Jungo TV launched a streaming app in the Philippines called Jungo Pinoy, in partnership with Dito Telecommunity. It features live TV channels and the largest Tagalog-dubbed movie library in the world.

Milestones

2016

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Video On Demand (VOD)

OzTube (Health and Wellness)

OzTube.com is the digital video platform spinoff of The Dr. Oz Show. Programming is curated to expand Dr. Oz's audience demographic who seek information on medical, diet, beauty, fitness, meditation and wellness topics. [25]

Go Russia (Russian entertainment on Amazon Prime)

Go Russia features dramas, comedies, and new and classic movies from CTC Media, TV Centre, and Ivi.ru, including Petrovka, 38, Kitchen, and ABVGDeyka.

YouTube MCN

Jungo TV in partnership with European media agency Greater Fool Media (GFM) runs a boutique YouTube Multi-Channel Network. With 400 managed and owned and operated channels, Jungo TV currently boasts of 2Bn monthly minutes viewed on the network. [26]

Jungo TV has partnered with the following major YouTube creator networks like Dr. Oz, Deepak Chopra, Jordan Peterson, World of Dance, Brooke Burke, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Black Belt Magazine, Radio Caracas Televisión, Anusha Dandekar among others. [27]

Jungo+

Jungo+ was launched as a standalone global video-on-demand streaming service of Jungo TV that features the full catalog of international live channels, as well as contents consist of movies and programming seasons or episodes of programs, series and shows. Jungo Plus is available globally either as an ad-supported platform or as a premium service. [28] [24] [29] [30]

Jungo Pinoy

Jungo Pinoy is a subscription entertainment streaming mobile app catered to the Filipino diaspora featuring the largest Tagalog-dubbed movie library in the world. It also has a large free library of movies and TV shows.

Current channels

Board of directors

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