European streaming platform with TVOD, AVOD, and FAST channels across 43 territories
Rakuten TV operates a multi-tier streaming business (transactional, ad-supported, and free) across 43 European markets as part of the larger Rakuten Group ecosystem. The tech stack reveals a finance and reporting-heavy operation: Snowflake, Airflow, Talend, and Matillion power data pipelines, while Tableau, QlikView, and Domo handle visualization. Active projects center on billing consolidation, cross-border revenue reconciliation, and content discovery—pain points that mirror the operational complexity of serving fragmented regional markets with different licensing, tax, and advertising rules.
Rakuten TV is a European streaming platform headquartered in Barcelona, available in 43 territories. The service combines three monetization models: transactional video-on-demand (TVOD, rental/purchase), advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVOD, ad-supported free content), and FAST channels (linear, ad-supported programming). The company is part of Rakuten Group, Inc., a diversified internet services conglomerate. Rakuten TV's current focus spans content discovery optimization, personalization, compliance with regional accounting and legal standards, and the operational challenge of reconciling cross-border advertising revenue across multiple jurisdictions.
Rakuten TV uses Snowflake for data warehousing, Apache Airflow and Talend for pipeline orchestration, Matillion for data transformation, AWS/Azure/GCP for cloud infrastructure, and Tableau, QlikView, and Domo for analytics and reporting.
Rakuten TV is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. The company currently hires exclusively in Spain and has 201–500 employees.
Rakuten TV is available in 43 European territories, supporting multiple monetization models: TVOD (transactional), AVOD (ad-supported), and FAST (free ad-supported) channels.
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