Ida Solberg
Fifteen years in public-service broadcasting, most recently running the digital division of a national network.
NordicCast
NordicCast started because two people were tired of paying for a cable package, a dish, three streaming apps and a sports add-on to watch about six things. Seven years later we are still independent, still in Oslo, and still bundling while everyone else unbundles.
Live channels
Movies & series
Households watching
Stream uptime
Choosing what to watch is the enjoyable part. Everything around it — a box, a dish, an engineer's appointment, four apps, a sports add-on and a bill you keep forgetting to cancel — is plumbing. Plumbing should be invisible.
So we obsess over the unglamorous half: rights that are properly licensed, a stream that holds its bitrate at kick-off on a Saturday night, a source that fails over before the picture ever freezes, and a support inbox where a real person answers before your coffee goes cold.
We are deliberately small, profitable and independent. No investor timeline tells us to add an advertising tier, and nobody is waiting for the quarter where we start selling your watch history. That is not on the menu.
Public status page, published uptime, every price on the website. If a channel is leaving you hear it from us before you notice.
We do not sell data, there are no ad trackers in the player, and your watch history is never handed to a broadcaster or an advertiser.
Delivery, uptime and billing are unglamorous. They are also what you actually depend on, so they get our best engineers.
Every engineer takes support shifts. It is the fastest way to keep the roadmap honest.
From eleven channels in a Grünerløkka flat to 1.9 million households in 31 countries.
Ida and Kasper launched with eleven licensed channels and a player written over one long winter. The first thousand subscribers all came from word of mouth.
Added a catch-up and box-set catalogue, and the first NordicCast Original — a six-part drama filmed in Lofoten on a budget that still makes the finance team wince.
Signed our first full-season sport rights and built the low-latency delivery path that makes them watchable. Sport has been included in the plan price ever since.
Rebuilt the encoding pipeline end to end. Every original since has been mastered in native 4K with Dolby Vision and an Atmos mix.
Passed a million paying households across the Nordics and opened the Oslo studio, where four of our originals are now made in-house.
Carrying 30,000 channels to 1.9 million households in 31 countries from 42 edge locations — still independent, still headquartered in Oslo.
Broadcasters, video engineers and one rights lawyer who reads every contract twice. Here are the people you are most likely to hear from.
Fifteen years in public-service broadcasting, most recently running the digital division of a national network.
Built video delivery platforms that have served several billion streams. Owns the player and its opinions about buffering.
Former commissioning editor. Decides what we make, what we buy, and what we politely decline.
Mastered films before he mastered streams. Responsible for every HDR grade that leaves the building.
Answers faster than most chatbots. Has personally talked more people through an HDMI handshake than she can count.
Negotiates the licences and keeps the lawyers happy. Every channel on the service went through him first.
We hire slowly and rarely, but when we do we look for people who care more about a clean failure mode than a clever abstraction. Remote across EU time zones, four-day summer weeks, and no on-call heroics.
Cancel in two clicks and keep watching until the term you paid for ends. Lock-in is a bug, not a business model.
We started with Nordic broadcasters and Nordic languages. Doing that properly first is why the other 31 countries work.
Senior Streaming Engineer (Go), Customer Success Lead (Nordics), and a Product Designer who can prototype in the browser.
Storgata 12, 0155 Oslo, Norway. The studio is open to subscribers on Thursdays — come and see where the originals are made.
What is arriving, what is leaving, and the fixtures worth staying up for. Two e-mails a month, no filler, no selling your address.