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SwishFlix is a British media-services provider and production company headquartered in Leeds, West Yorkshire, founded in 2019 by James Klaassen White in Normanton, West Yorkshire. The company's primary business is its subscription-based streaming service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs.

As of March 2020, SwishFlix had over twenty thousand paid subscribers worldwide including ten thousand UK-based subscribers. It is available worldwide except in North Korea. The company utilises its own servers to make its content available with redudancy edge-based servers located with DigitalOcean.

As of March 2020, the company had over 495 titles available (excluding TV series).

Establishment
SwishFlix was founded on December 12, 2019 in Normanton, West Yorkshire by James Klaassen White. Klaassen White had previously resigned from the Faster Group board of directors which ran a similar company called FasterTV. Klaassen White claims he came up with the idea after reviewing the negative reviews of both Netflix and FasterTV.

Klaassen White signed up to Google Cloud Platform initially to host the website and content. However, in February 2020 Klaassen White confirmed that he was starting a web hosting business which would also host the SwishFlix website and content whilst utilising Digital Ocean as a PoP network to expand worldwide. In March 2020, SwishFlix reported a massive increase in sign ups, primarily due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic and large amounts of people being forced to isolate.

Ownership
Prior to March 2020, Klaassen White owned SwishFlix Ltd. However, after forming the Swish X Ltd business to act as a management company for all businesses that he owned and will start in the future. Swish X Ltd. now owns 100% of SwishFlix Ltd.