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June 26, 2024. hoopla Digital announces latest BingePasses with TN Marketing, expanding current offerings with educational and instructional courses to libraries. hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one digital media app for public libraries and their patrons, today announced Get Healthy U TV BingePass, joining two recently-launched BingePasses from Craftsy as a part of an expanded partnership with TN Marketing, a global video streaming service focused on creating and cultivating communities by engaging people with their passions.

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June 26, 2024. Pottermore Publishing and hoopla Digital bring the original Harry Potter audiobooks to libraries for the first time. hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one digital media app for public libraries and their patrons, today announced, together with Pottermore Publishing, the global digital Harry Potter publisher, that the highly-requested Harry Potter audiobook series –– as narrated by award-winning actor Stephen Fry –– will be made available to public libraries and their patrons in the U.S. and Canada for the first time ever starting July 1.

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April 30, 2024. hoopla Digital expands popular BingePass offering with launch of Pokémon partnership. hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one digital media app for public libraries and their patrons, announced today a partnership with Pokémon, one of the world's most popular entertainment franchises, to launch a new BingePass. hoopla's new Pokémon BingePass is one of more than 20 BingePasses available to public libraries and their patrons, supporting hoopla's commitment to providing unique content for free to library patrons. BingePass is a unique innovation from hoopla, offering unlimited access to educational and entertaining collections of streaming content and platforms for seven days with just one borrow. BingePass is accessible anywhere, either on the web or via the mobile app, with no commercials or ads. Patrons of all ages and interests can find something to borrow including magazines, eBooks, popular movies and TV series, puzzles and more.

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March 26, 2024. hoopla Digital partners with All3Media International to bring gardening icon Monty Don to libraries. hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one digital media app for public libraries and their patrons, today announced a partnership with All3Media International, one of the world's leading production and distribution groups, to launch a new BingePass.

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March 20, 2024. hoopla Digital Announces Latest BingePass with medici.tv, Bringing World-Renowned Classical Music and Fine Arts Video Platform to Libraries. hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one digital media app for public libraries and their patrons, announced a partnership with medici.tv, the world's premier source for classical music programming, to launch a new BingePass. medici.tv streams live events from prestigious halls like Carnegie Hall, La Scala, the Royal Opera House and the Paris Opera worldwide. Their extensive video-on-demand catalog is now accessible with the hoopla BingePass and includes 1,500 concerts, 350 operas, 150 ballets, 1,300 documentaries, 250 master classes, and 550 jazz performances. Through the partnership, patrons of participating libraries will receive unlimited access for a week to all of this content for free with a library card.

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January 16, 2024. hoopla Digital Expands BingePass Offering with Filmocracy. hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one app for public libraries, today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind BingePass with Filmocracy that will bring film festivals into the homes of library patrons, no matter where they are. Filmocracy, the leading film and festival streaming platform, will provide participating hoopla libraries and their patrons with access to its Industry Premium level free for seven days through BingePass. Library patrons with hoopla accounts through their library cards will be able to discover and view independent films from some of the best known and acclaimed film festivals from around the world, many of which will be available live. The addition of Filmocracy highlights hoopla's continued investment in strengthening its BingePass offering by expanding the types of content available in the format.

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October 10, 2023. hoopla Digital inks deal with celebrated manga publisher Kodansha USA Publishing. hoopla Digital, the only all in one media app for public libraries, today announced its new partnership with Kodansha USA Publishing, English-language publisher of some of the world's most recognizable manga properties like Attack on Titan, FAIRY TAIL, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex & more. Library patrons will now have access to a Kodansha manga catalog of more than 1,200 titles on hoopla. The agreement encompasses a deep array of English-translated content from one of the largest manga publishers in Japan and marks an advanced investment in expanding hoopla's manga collection which had a celebrated launch earlier this summer.

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June 21, 2023. hoopla Digital Launches New Manga Experience. hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one app for public libraries, is strengthening its leadership of the comics category among library digital platforms with the launch of its new manga offering.

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June 15, 2023. hoopla Digital announces new partnership with Hallmark Movies Now, expands popular BingePass. hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one app for public libraries, announced the launch of a new BingePass in partnership with Hallmark Movies Now, Hallmark Media's subscription video on demand streaming service. Library patrons with access to hoopla will be able to access a seven-day BingePass to Hallmark Movies Now's entire online content lineup. The new agreement marks an expansion of the BingePass offering, where each pass gives access to entire streaming collections with only one borrow.

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November 16, 2022. hoopla digital expands BingePass offering with new children's collections. hoopla digital, the category-creating digital service for public libraries, announced the addition of four new hoopla BingePasses, featuring access to four new collections of children's video, books, and multimedia

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2023 hoopla adds manga to the platform

2021 hoopla expands internationally in Australia and New Zealand

2021 hoopla creates BingePass, an innovative way to stream collection of premium content with just one click

2015 hoopla adds eBooks and comics to the platform, becoming the only all-in-one media platform available

2013 hoopla Digital launches with audiobooks, movies, TV and music, was the first content provider to offer the ability to stream content or download for offline use

2010 Midwest Tape launches hoopla streaming platform

1989 John Eldred Jr. founds Midwest Tape, distributing physical media to libraries