Want to be able to watch your favorite shows on SVT Play in Australia? If you are here, we are guessing that you’ve already tried to do that and failed.
That’s why we made this blog post, as while SVT Play in Australia is not right away available, it is actually relatively simple to unblock it if you know the right steps.
But first...
When it comes to streaming services, it always comes down to rights to the content.
For example, DAZN, the sports streaming service, is only available in a few countries. The reason for that is that it only has the rights to show the content in those countries. The same goes for platforms such as Disney Plus.
When it comes to SVT Play, SVT Play does not own all the content that it is showing to its audience. It has to pay for the rights to show this content. Rights like these are usually sold by location, which means that for every other country, you need to pay.
And in this case, for SVT, SVT Play in Australia doesn’t make sense.
The reason is quite simple: The main audience is in Sweden.
Paying for the rights to show something in a country where the main audience isn’t around, simply does not make sense.
...And not everything is possible to acquire either.
There’s platforms in Australia that already have exclusive access to some content.
Which is where these steps come in!⬇️⬇️⬇️
“How do I make a streaming service believe I am somewhere else?”
Well, you need to change your location.
Perhaps you heard of this thing called a VPN in the past?
VPN services allow you to change your location, virtually.
Maybe you even tried to unblock SVT Play using one but found that it didn’t work.
And that’s because it’s not quite as simple as connecting to a Swedish server and watching SVT Play in Australia.
Why?
As SVT Play also has blocks on VPN services. It has to in order not to get in trouble.
...The issue is that most VPN services focus on quantity rather than quality, but in this case, even more so, that SVT isn’t a super popular platform around the world, and most VPN providers are not even aware of it.
This is where PrivateVPN comes in as a service that not only is aware of SVT Play, but that is able to unblock all major Swedish services. Why? As PrivateVPN is a Swedish service.
PrivateVPN is super simple to set up (just provide an email and create a password) and also comes with a 7-day free trial (no card details needed) so that you can try it out before you commit.
Set up your account, download the PrivateVPN app, and, most importantly, connect to the right SVT server, and you are ready to go.
Of course, you might want to watch SVT Play on a TV or a projector.
That is possible if you can be flexible.
Why?
As most smart TV platforms and platforms like Apple TV, Chromecast, and Roku don’t support VPN services.
...Making it hard to watch SVT Play on a TV.
The solutions?
The easiest one is to simply connect your laptop to a TV via HDMI.
But our favorite method is to get the Amazon Fire TV Stick as the Fire TV family supports VPN services.
If you have any questions about the steps, don't hesitate to reach out to us with your questions, but the steps are relatively simple.
And if you’d like to unblock more advanced services to unblock, make sure to check out our blog where we have plenty of guides.
Written by Michael Smolski.
Disclaimer: While PrivateVPN supports SVT Play in Australia, it cannot guarantee non-stop, 100% of the time support, at all given times. No service can guarantee that.