The Vatican will have a streaming service in 2020

Starting in the first quarter of 2020, users of streaming platforms will have VatiVision, a new service for religious, artistic and cultural content from the Vatican.

Company Driven Vetrya (25%) and the film production company Communication Office (75%), starting in the first quarter of 2020, users of streaming platforms will have VatiVision, a new service of religious, artistic and cultural content from the Vatican.

“We resort to objectives that have been neglected to date and our goal is to achieve important results, both for the quality and originality of the content and for global distribution, with a potential audience of 1 billion and 300 million people of the Catholic faith,” he said. Luca Tomassini, president of Vetrya and who will hold the same position at VatiVision. The platform was born with the same objectives as the Communication Office, which in recent years has produced, in collaboration with different Vatican organizations, documentaries, television series and films.

In addition to sharing the same ecclesiastical purposes of the office, it provides for worldwide dissemination, with an offer of “streaming on demand” content to disseminate Christian themes and values ​​through modern instruments and languages, maximizing distribution efficiency through different devices: web, smartphone, tablet and game consoles, among others.

The new delegated administrators of VatiVisión are Nicola Salvi y Elizabeth Sola, administrators of the Office of Communication, a film production company in the city of Bergamo that for years has collaborated closely with the Vatican Television Center (current Vatican Media), with the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See and other Vatican entities for the production of audiovisual products.

Many of these works were carried out in partnership with the main national and international television networks: to date, it has recorded 50 productions, including series for Italian Radio and Television (RAI) and documentaries on figures of the Church.

“We are proud to undertake this challenging project together with Vetrya, which not only represents excellence in technology but also an industrial reference model that will be the added value to offer the public content that until now is not found in traditional channels or on the available online platforms,” observed Salvi.

In fact, Vetrya will provide the distribution technology platform (Eclexia) for VatiVision, as it specializes in the development of digital services, applications and high-tech business models on the Internet.

"For me it is a source of pride to be at the head of the company that VatiVision will lead. At Vetrya we have always been convinced that platforms linked to the field of video represent an extraordinary opportunity, capable of changing traditional distribution models," concluded Tomassini, president of the new platform.