Paris, France — Okoo, France TV’s brand new Kids zone, is now live within the France TV apps available on all Free and Orange boxes thanks to DOTSCREEN
France Télévisions has comissioned DOTSCREEN to develop their brand new Kids corner, Okoo, now available within their France TV app across all the Free and Orange boxes in France.
This new Okoo kids section offers a whole universe dedicated to children, providing exclusive programs classified per age range. Children and their parents are able to access the Okoo universe and select from the main page a menu section ranked per age range. Age range menus are organized within three categories to match all children’s interests : a 3 to 5 year-old category and its dedicated programs; a 6 to 8 year-old one, and a 9 to 12 year-old category.
Just like any other portal dedicated to VOD, this Okoo portal provides recommended content based on kids’ previous watch history or based on trending programs within their age range. The portal also offers exhaustive player features to let kids play, pause, forward, rewind, zap or get information, as they watch their favourite programs.
“France TV is a customer we have already worked for“, says Stanislas Leridon, President of Dostcreen. “Working with France TV again for this innovative kids platform was both a privilege and a fun adventure to be part of, bringing innovation collaboratively.”
The Okoo universe is available through entering a dedicated Kids mode, leaving the rest of the application protected by a PIN code parents can set up prior to let their children use it.
About DOTSCREEN
Created in 2011, With headquarters in France and offices in Europe & U.S., DOTSCREEN is a leading European multi-screen agency that creates, designs and develops multi-screen applications and User Interfaces, available on smart TV, TV set-top boxes, game consoles, smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, connected refrigerators, for major media, telecommunication and electronics companies (HBO, ESPN, Fox, Turner, CBS, Disney, Orange, Vodafone, Telefonica, Freenet, Freesat, TF1, Beinsports, Mediaset…). The company also licenses its own, off-the-shelf UI & applications (TV User Interface, TV Everywhere, VOD/SVOD, EPG, weather, radio, etc.).
About France TV
France TV (france.tv) is France Télévisions’s TV Replay & VOD platform. France Télévisions is the French public national television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the integration of the public television channels France 2 and France 3, later joined by the legally independent channels France 5, France Ô, and France 4. France Télévisions is currently funded by the revenue from television licence fees and commercial advertising. France Télévisions is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.
