Want to watch YLE Areena in the US? Just like with the Swedish SVT Play, if you are in the EU, and can prove that you normally live in Finland, you can watch YLE Areena without any issues.
The US, of course, is not in the EU, and this is where this guide comes in.
But first...
You might be wondering over how come you can watch YLE Areena without any issues in the EU if you can provide your identity number, yet can’t do so in the US.
And the answer?
It goes down to rights to the content.
And that’s the case with all entertainment platforms on this planet.
Whether it’s SVT Play, DAZN, Hulu, Hotstar, Disney Plus, or any other platform you can think of. This even applies to Netflix, although, on Netflix, different regions just have different content.
See, YLE doesn’t have the rights to all the content it shows.
Going back to the first reason, typically when you pay for rights to show something, you don’t pay for the rights to show it everywhere.
Why?
As that just wouldn’t make financial sense. YLE’s main focus is in Finland. For them to get rights to show content in the US, especially when companies in the US are willing to pay the premium for exclusive rights, it just doesn’t make sense.
Instead, YLE Areena is not available in the US and is restricted to only Finnish residents in the EU.
...At least until you try this method.
To watch YLE Areena in the US you are going to have to look like you are in Finland.
If you can do that, not only will YLE Areena work for you, but you won’t also have to provide any weird identification information.
What do you need for that? A VPN service.
VPN services allow you to change your location virtually.
You can switch from being in the US to being in Finland, in just a matter of seconds.
...And then, when you are finished with YLE Areena, you can switch a server and connect to a different blocked or restricted service.
If you ever tried a VPN service, though, then you know that it’s not enough to just connect to a VPN server in the right country.
That server also needs to be optimized for the service you are trying to watch.
Why? As platforms like YLE Areena need to make an effort against VPN services.
This is where PrivateVPN comes in as a service with focus on entertainment.
What does that mean?
That instead of selling you “thousands of servers” that we focus on unblocking the services that you want to use because while quantity is easy to sell, it does not mean quality nor that you will be able to unblock whatever service you want.
But why don’t you try it out for yourself?
PrivateVPN comes with a 7-day free trial with no need for a card.
Just provide an email address and a password, download the app, and connect to a YLE Areena server.
Are you worried about the impact a VPN server could have on your streaming?
If you are currently able to watch 1080p or 4K content without issues, you won’t have any issues doing that when connected to the right VPN server of quality.
With that said, if your internet is currently slow unless your internet provider is applying internet throttling, your internet is going to remain as it is.
In most cases, a VPN won’t make your internet faster, but it also shouldn’t make it slower. At least if you are using a quality service that focuses on each server rather than focusing on quantity.
The main issue when it comes to VPN services mostly comes down to where the servers come from. Almost all servers are hosted on hosting websites. The issue with that? That even if a hosting service states that you are getting 10 GBPS speeds, you cannot ever be sure of that.
It could be 10 GBPS, shared with other companies.
This is an issue that has frustrated us at PrivateVPN for quite some time.
That’s why we now work with a Tier 1 network provider, Telia, meaning that’s where we get our internet capacity from. We then install it on our own hardware around the world.
That means that we have full control over making the speeds as fast as you can get them without a VPN.
It’s not often you have to search for how to unblock content in the US.
The US already has most of the content the world has to offer.
...But it doesn’t have it all.
American Netflix doesn’t have Power that the UK Netflix has. It also doesn’t have the content that Canadian DAZN has. Nor the likes of BBC iPlayer, RTE Player, ITV Hub, SVT Play, and much more.
PrivateVPN unblocks all these, and much more.
But hey, try it out for yourself, with a 7-day trial with no need for a card.
Written by Michael Smolski.
Disclaimer: While PrivateVPN has been supporting Swedish services for years, due to the nature of services having to make efforts to prevent VPN services from working, we cannot guarantee non-stop working time at 100% of the time. No VPN can guarantee that.