Helsinki, April 24, 2025 – Finland has welcomed a new streaming service for movies and TV series: Kotikino (eng. Home Cine), launched in April by Finnish company Nordic Content Distribution Ltd.. The service is built on the Icareus Video Cloud OTT solution.
Nordic Content Distribution (NCD) introduced its first streaming service Kirjastokino, aimed at public libraries, already back in 2019. It quickly gained widespread popularity and is now available in over 100 Finnish municipalities. However, the streaming landscape has changed. Many viewers feel that digital services have become too similar and often fail to offer anything truly interesting to watch. One reason for this is that most streaming decisions are made outside of Europe, leading to increasingly homogenized content and service models – leaving many films and genres out of reach.
Home Cine’s mission is to highlight and provide access to high-quality European movie and TV-series content.
“We’ve noticed that this kind of content easily falls into limbo while major international platforms take time to decide on their acquisitions. In addition, we plan to focus on other underserved genres, such as children’s films, anime, horror, and sci-fi, which also tend to be overlooked in many streaming services,” says the team behind the service.
At launch, Home Cine offers around 2,000 films, plus TV series and episodes. The catalog will expand weekly with new titles, meaning the service is constantly evolving.
One key advantage compared to many other platforms is that Home Cine offers both a monthly subscription and a rental model for individual films.
The platform is built using Icareus OTT platform, solution packed with versatile features that enable full management of the video service, including:
- Uploading and migrating movies and TV series via a user interface or API integration
- Video preparation, transcoding, categorization, and metadata management
- Monetization through paid content packages and optionally advertisements
- End-user registration and account management
- Global content delivery via a robust CDN
- End-user interfaces and video apps for various platforms
- Analytics and reporting tools
In addition to the video platform, Icareus designed and developed Home Cine apps for iOS and Android. Smart TV applications will be released in the next phase of the service.
With Icareus Video Cloud handling the technical side, NCD can focus on content and building customer relationships instead of platform maintenance and development.
Home Cine is available on web at https://kotikino.fi and as mobile apps in app stores under the name Kotikino.
Nordic Content Distribution Oy is a Finnish company founded in 2019. It develops and operates the Kotikino (eng. Home Cine) and Kirjastokino (eng. Library Cine) streaming services. The company is privately owned, and its team has over 50 years of combined experience in the video and media industry across various companies and services. Read more: https://kotikino.fi tai https://www.linkedin.com/company/nordic-content-distribution/
Icareus Ltd is a growing and profitable Finnish company providing SaaS video cloud services. Our company serves customers from over 60 countries. Icareus OTT solution is a turnkey white-label video cloud solution for media, TV and content owners. It offers versatile tools for the production, management, publication and (optionally) commercialization of live streaming, videos and events.
More information: https://icareus.com/products/white-label-ott-platform/
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