Blim TV

This article is about the video subscription service. For the Black music organization, see Black Lives in Music.
blim tv
Type of site
Public
Available inSpanish
Dissolved31 March 2023; 19 months ago (2023-03-31)
Headquarters
Mexico City
,
Mexico
OwnerTelevisa S. de R.L. de C.V
CEOLuis Arvizu
Products
Services
URLwww.blim.com
RegistrationRequired
Launched22 February 2016; 8 years ago (2016-02-22)

Blim TV (stylized as blim tv) was an on-demand video subscription service, offered online via TelevisaUnivision,[1] through an Internet connection, which offers access to programs strictly for personal use, in exchange for payment of a monthly subscription fee.[2]

Its center of operations was in Mexico City. It was made available in 18 countries: Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Honduras, Paraguay, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Dominican Republic and Belize.[3]

It owned the productions of Televisa, as well the broadcast rights for titles from creators and distributors like Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and BBC.[4]

To compete with other on demand video services, it initially offered a monthly subscription for 109 pesos (approximately $5.65 US).[5] Like Netflix, blim tv offered the first month of its service free of charge.[6]

On 3 September 2019, Blim was relaunched as "Blim TV", adding 30 live television channels like Las Estrellas, Canal 5, Tlnovelas, Telemundo Internacional and Antena 3.[7][8]

As of July 2021, Luis Arvizu was the CEO of the company.[9][10]

In 2022, Blim TV merged all assets to Vix.[11]

  1. ^ "Televisa lanza servicio de contenido bajo demanda". eleconomista.com.mx (in Spanish). 22 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Términos de uso". blim.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Televisa le entra a la competencia en "streaming"". eluniversal.com.mx (in Spanish). El Universal México. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  4. ^ Elias, Irán (22 May 2016). "El imperio del streaming". elsiglodetorreon.com.mx (in Spanish). El Siglo del Torreón México. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Conoce Blim, la nueva plataforma de contenidos en español". espectaculos.televisa.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  6. ^ Gutiérrez, Óscar (15 March 2016). "Todo lo que necesitas saber de Blim, el competidor mexicano de Netflix". cnet.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  7. ^ Martínez, Carla (3 September 2019). "Televisa relanza servicio de streaming "Blim"". eluniversal.com.mx (in Spanish). El Universal. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  8. ^ "blim evoluciona a blim tv". televisa.com (in Spanish). 3 September 2019. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Blim TV encontró su modelo con el AVOD". TTV News (in European Spanish). 14 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  10. ^ ""Queremos ser la plataforma donde más gente consuma video on demand"". Expansión (in Spanish). 3 June 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  11. ^ "TelevisaUnivision unveils Vix and Vix+ streaming brands". CSI Magazine. Perspective Publishing. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2023.