Ireland joins the initiative with the addition of the existing pan European portals JustWatch and Pro-music to their section, where users can search for legal content in 19 sites for TV & Films and 12 for music.

Welcome in!

The recently created platform Guidinc.nl has joined the agorateka initiative. Guidinc.nl is a guiding platform, on which visitors can search for legal offers for video on demand content such as movies and series from streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime and local players like Videoland and Pathé Thuis.

Welcome!

As per request of the Ministry of Culture of Spain,  “JustWatch” which is one of the main video streaming aggregators around the world, is now part of the Spanish section with 20 legal offers for TV & films.

Great minds think alike! We are proud to present several initiatives by the European ministries of culture that facilitate national cultural content for people to use from the comfort of their own homes:

#laculturaentucasa, the Spanish initiative by @culturagob

#iorestoacasa, the Italian initiative by @mibact

On 12 March 2020, the recently created Hungarian portal “Hungaroteka” joined the agorateka initiative with a link to its platform, on which citizens can search around 15 legal offers for TV and films, music, and e-books.

Üdvözöljük!

The 2019 Intellectual Property and Youth Scoreboard launched by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that 51 % of 15 to 24 year olds in Europe say they have not used, played, downloaded or streamed content from illegal sources in the last 12 months.

The last such study conducted by the EUIPO, in 2016, showed that only 40% of young people avoided using illegal sources of digital content.

The Festival is an online event showing 120 hours of continuous content from Spanish Digital Video On Demand (VOD) platforms.  The aim is to publicise the wide and varied offer of entertainment and cultural content available on Spanish Video On- Demand platforms. .

During the festival, that will take place between the 6th and 10th of November, users can access a range of free content and also access paid services at a special discounted rate.

On 9 August 2019 the recently created Greek portal The Legal Bay joined the agorateka initiative with a link to its platform, on which citizens can search around 65 legal offers for film and tv, music, games, e-books, sport events and images.

καλώς ήρθατε!

Last June 5, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Estonia kindly hosted the agorateka roadshow. The agorateka delegation presented the European online content portal project to an audience of national experts from both the public and private sectors.

After Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary and Slovenia, this is the 5th country visited by the agorateka roadshow. The aim of the roadshow is to meet stakeholders face-to-face in countries that have not yet joined agorateka, in order to guide them in setting up their own national portals where their citizens can easily find legal content.

The Observatory’s agorateka team is pleased to announce that the agorateka awareness campaign is going to be launched today in the 18 European countries that already have one or more online content portals connected to agorateka.