Blackpills streaming platform launches, has mobile viewers in its sights

Blackpill's You Got Trumped is a dark comedy satirising what Trump's first 100 days in the White House might be like.

Blackpills has landed. Thursday, May 4, the streaming platform launched in 15 European countries, as well as the USA and Canada. What makes this streaming service different is that it specialises in short series designed for viewing on mobile devices.

For the last year, Deezer founder Daniel Marhely and Patrick Holzman, formerly of France's cable television Canal+ and cinema website Allociné, have been working on building Blackpills with the support of French entrepreneur Xavier Niel. This streaming platform, which specialises in content designed for watching on mobile devices, is billing itself as a whole new digital media studio, creating, producing and screening short-format series.