Do you want to watch Swedish TV outside of Sweden? Would you like to watch your favorite Swedish shows on streaming platforms such as TV4 Play or SVT Play?
Let us guess. You tried to watch Swedish TV outside of Sweden, and it just didn’t work. Right? That’s why you are here?
In this blog post, we will show you how easy it is to watch Swedish TV outside of Sweden.
Firstly, let's start with why you can’t watch Swedish TV outside Sweden in the first place.
If you ever tried to watch Swedish TV outside Sweden with, for example, SVT Play, you found yourself seeing a screen with technical issues.
Why does that happen?
It comes down to the rights to content. The same applies for platforms such as Hulu or Disney + that are not available everywhere in the world.
Platforms such as SVT Play and TV4 Play often don’t own the content that they are showing, but instead are paying for the rights to show it
Such rights are usually sold by location, which means that SVT Play and TV4 Play have rights to show the content in Sweden, but not outside of Sweden.
The reason for why Swedish platforms don’t pay for rights to show worldwide? As most of the Swedish audience is in Sweden.
It would be a waste of money.
It's important to mention that TV4 play makes it easier for you to stream if you are registered in Sweden. If you can prove so, you’ll be able to watch SVT Play outside of Sweden.
For most reading this guide, this is, however, not an option.
This is where this method comes in.
If you want to watch your favorite Swedish streaming platforms, you will need to fool TV4 Play or SVT play into thinking that you are actually located in Sweden.
How do you do that? By changing your location virtually.
To be able to change your location virtually, you’ll need a VPN.
VPN services? They are used for many reasons, but one of the most common one is that people use them to unblock geo-blocked content.
Is that it then?
Connect to a Swedish VPN server, and you are good to go?
Not quite.
See, platforms like SVT and TV4 have blocks in place to prevent VPN services from working.
It’s not because they want to, but because they have to.
Otherwise, they would be breaking their agreements and could get in trouble.
That’s why you will need the right VPN when trying to watch Swedish TV outside Sweden.
Unfortunately, while most VPN providers support American Netflix, they don’t provide great support as far as entertainment.
That’s because most services try to sell you with quantity instead of quality.
And this is where PrivateVPN comes in as a service that focuses on quality.
That means fewer servers, but servers of quality that can unblock services you want to access. Whether that’s super well-known services like Hulu or services that you know of, that the entire world doesn’t know of, such as SVT.
PrivateVPN? It’s a Swedish provider. That means we know what kind of platforms you want to access, and we are able to unblock them.
But why don’t you try it out for yourself, with a 7-day trial?
It’s super simple to sign up. Just provide your email and create a password followed by downloading the app.
When you have downloaded PrivateVPN, you’ll need to connect to the right server.
That being our Swedish servers if trying to access any of the Swedish platforms.
If you want to unblock other blocked platforms in your country, in that case, connect to the server that matches the service you want to sign up on.
Not sure about something? Of course, reach out to our customer support, whether in Swedish or English.
Looking to unblock other services outside Sweden? With PrivateVPN, you can unblock every major service out there. Simply check out our guides, or in most cases, simply connect to the right server.
Written by Michael Smolski.
Disclaimer: While PrivateVPN currently unblocks all streaming services in Sweden, due to the nature of VPN services making efforts against VPN services, it’s not able to guarantee non-stop support, at 100% of the time. No VPN can guarantee you that.