In a move steeped in irony and German pragmatism, Zattoo has acquired back-end TV platform specialist Green Streams—a company founded explicitly to outmaneuver Zattoo in areas where it had historically underperformed. The deal of an undisclosed sum sees Zattoo effectively absorb a splinter group that has, in just a few short years, gained traction with a handful of top-tier operators. Co-founded in 2021 by Gernot Jaeger, a former Zattoo executive who helped architect the company’s original B2B strategy, Green Streams was conceived to solve the problem of rigid, monolithic video platforms. Jaeger envisioned an in-between layer—something modular and agile for telcos and pay TV operators who didn’t want to start from scratch, but also didn’t want to settle for a…