Wirecard provides international payment services for BluTV, Turkey's leading subscription video-on-demand service

Aschheim (ots) - BluTV is the world's number one streaming
platform for Turkish content Wirecard to support BluTV with digital
payment services Europe-wide BluTV has more than four million
subscribers

Aschheim (Munich). Wirecard, the global innovation leader for
digital financial technology, now supports BluTV, Turkey's leading
streaming subscription service with over four million subscribers, in
its global expansion. BluTV is a Turkish digital streaming platform
and offers Turkish content on a worldwide scale. As part of the
internationalization of the streaming service, Wirecard is providing
BluTV with digital payment solutions across Europe.

The streaming services industry is growing rapidly worldwide. A
global study carried out by the Motion Picture Association of America
revealed that in 2018, the number of subscriptions to streaming
services increased to 613.3 million, a 27% increase in comparison to
the previous year. In fact, subscriptions to streaming services
surpassed cable subscriptions in 2018.

"As the first Turkish digital platform to go truly global, it is
essential that we have an experienced partner by our side," said
Alptug Copuroglu, Head of International at BluTV. "Wirecard's
long-standing experience in digital payments is instrumental in
enabling us to grow our streaming subscription services beyond
Turkey. We look forward to continue bringing our broad content
offering to millions of viewers around the world."

Boris Bongartz, Head of Sales Digital Goods at Wirecard, added,
"Streaming subscription services are growing at an incredibly fast
pace. Our digital payment services will allow BluTV users to have a
smooth and enjoyable customer experience, and focus on their main
objective: enjoying great TV content, no matter where in the world
they are."

Turkey is amongst the top three exporters of TV series in the
world. BluTV is available globally, and offers a broad content
offering including record-breaking Turkish series, BluTV original
series, and mainstream TV series from around the world. Reaching
Turkish and Arabic communities, among others, around the world, BluTV
hosts the largest online catalogue of Turkish TV series. In addition
to the European expansion, BluTV is focusing on further strengthening
its position in the MENA and Latin American markets.

About Wirecard:

Wirecard (GER:WDI) is one of the world's fastest growing digital
platforms in the area of financial commerce. We provide both business
customers and consumers with a constantly expanding ecosystem of
real-time value-added services built around innovative digital
payments by using an integrated B2B2C approach. This ecosystem
concentrates on the areas payment & risk, retail & transaction
banking, loyalty & couponing, data analytics & conversion rate
enhancement in all sales channels (online, mobile, ePOS). Wirecard
operates regulated financial institutions in several key markets and
holds issuing and acquiring licenses from all major payment and card
networks. Wirecard AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (DAX
and TecDAX, ISIN DE0007472060). Visit us on www.wirecard.com, follow
us on Twitter @wirecard and on Facebook @wirecardgroup.

BluTV media contact:

BluTV Tugce Gürkaya Email: tgurkaya@blutv.com

About BluTV:

BluTV is the world's leading platform for Turkish content and
Turkey's #1 subscription video-on-demand service. Founded in 2015 in
Istanbul, BluTV grew to the leading platform of long form Turkish TV
content in the last years. Turkish TV series became very popular in
the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. Currently, Turkey is
amongst the top 3 exporters of TV series in the world. BluTV hosts
the largest online catalogue of Turkish TV series. With its Turkish
and Arabic services, BluTV is available globally. The offering
includes popular record breaking Turkish series along with BluTV
original series like Masum (Innocent), 7Yüz (7Faces), Sifir Bir (Zero
One), Bozkir (Steppe). BluTV is available on www.blutv.com.tr and on
mobile platforms iOS and Android.

Wirecard media contact:
Wirecard AG
Jana Tilz
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 4424 1363
Email: jana.tilz@wirecard.com

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