Little Dot Studios has renewed and expanded its strategic content partnership with ZDF Studios, the commercial subsidiary of ZDF, Germany’s leading public-service broadcaster. The multi-year agreement scales the distribution and monetisation of ZDF Studios’ extensive factual catalogue across global digital platforms.
Under the agreement, Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company) will license over 600 hours of high-end programming from the ZDF Studios library, covering both German-language content for the GAS region and English-language titles for the UK and international markets. Key distribution platforms include Little Dot Studios’ owned-and-operated YouTube channels, FAST, History Hit SVOD, and Germany’s Waipu and Joyn. The content strategy prioritises high-performing genres such as science, engineering and natural history, alongside historical biographics.
Publishing content is already underway across Little Dot Studios' genre-based YouTube Channels, including Timeline, Spark, Real Wild, Wild Waters and Real Royalty, as well as German channels Real Stories Germany, Real Crime Germany and Timeline Germany. Featured titles include the immersive documentary Great White Shark: Beyond the Cage of Fear, The Trojan Horse: On the Trail of a Myth and the acclaimed series Women Who Made History, profiling era-defining figures like Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great and Joan of Arc.
Connie Hodson, Director of Content Acquisitions & Partnerships at Little Dot Studios, says: “This expansion marks a pivotal development in our relationship with ZDF Studios. Since our initial collaboration in 2021, which successfully utilised premium content to bolster our network presence in both the UK and Germany, the partnership has matured into a comprehensive international, multi-platform remit. With this latest renewal and the addition of new hours, our total acquired volume from ZDF Studios now reaches over 1,000 hours of premium content. We are committed to ensuring ZDF Studios’ world-class factual portfolio continues to resonate with and monetise across new global audiences, directly supporting their strategic objectives for digital growth.”
Linette Zaulich, Head of B2C for ZDF Studios, says: "ZDF Studios’ factual catalogue is defined by high-quality storytelling, and Little Dot Studios has consistently demonstrated their ability to bring such programming to life on digital platforms. This extended agreement strengthens our shared commitment to making exceptional documentaries and factual series accessible to global audiences, wherever and however they choose to watch.”
Little Dot Studios’ Digital Media Network is the UK’s second largest streamer by catalogue size*. It is currently home to over 135 actively managed digital broadcast channels (and growing), as well as a suite of seven FAST brands streaming across 130+ channels. Licensing over 27,000 hours of hand-picked long-form content from distributors, producers and studios, this expanded content partnership with ZDF Studios is the latest in a string of deals secured for Little Dot Channels.