Apple TV+ forecast to have 26 million paying subscribers by 2025, according to a new report. Disney+ will be the biggest winner over the next five years…
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Roku gains as Apple TV+ and Disney+ launches drive Q4 revenue surge
Roku posted pre-market gains as the company added 4.6M new customers over the fourth quarter, thanks in part to the launches of Apple TV+ and Disney+ …
Disney+ already has 26.5 million total subscribers
Subscribers of Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, more than doubled from November to 26.5 million, the company said Tuesday…
Apple and MGM have held acquisition talks
MGM has held preliminary talks with Apple, Netflix, and other larger media companies about an acquisition as the biggest streaming companies consider…
Apple TV+ U.S. subscribers: 33.6 million already
Apple TV+ U.S. subscribers are said to total 33.6 million already, less than three months after launch. Apple TV+ is obviously doing exceedingly well…
Netflix growth slows in U.S. after launches of Apple TV+ and Disney+
Netflix growth slows in U.S. after the service faced new competition from lower-cost services from Apple and Disney for the first time…
Disney+ launch moved up in UK, Western Europe to March 24
The Disney+ launch has been moved up a week. Those in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Austria…
Are you starting to feel streaming fatigue?
As yet another streaming service, NBCUniversal’s Peacock, launchese, one Wall Street analyst says consumers might be starting to feel streaming fatigue…
NBCUniversal’s Peacock marks end of ‘phase one’ of the streaming era
Peacock is the last of the known major media streaming services to officially “launch,” joining Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO Max and Quibi…
France to force Apple, Netflix, Disney, others to spend 25% of local revenue on content
France is finalizing a bill to force video-on-demand services from Apple, Netflix, Disney, Amazon and others to invest at least 25% of their revenue…
Disney+ grosses nearly $100 million on mobile in its first two months
The Disney+ app has now been downloaded nearly 41 million times across the App Store and Google Play and has generated an estimated $97.2 million in user spending…
Disney+ tops Netflix, Apple TV+, Hulu, and Amazon in user satisfaction
Disney+ is getting higher usr satisfaction scores than Apple TV+ and other established streaming services, including Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Netflix…
Netflix edges Disney to lead all Hollywood studios with 24 Oscar noms
Streaming made Hollywood history again Monday as Netflix picked up a leading 24 Oscar nominations…
Disney+ blasts off with 22 million mobile downloads, lands top spot on Apple’s App Store
Disney+, which features an all-star roster of content that includes Star Wars, has taken off like the Millennium Falcon…
Streaming TV’s Battle of the Binge: Drop all episodes at once or dole them out weekly?
When Disney+ users logged in to the service for the first time Nov. 12, they found thousands of classic movies and television shows….
Apple and Disney look to disrupt Netflix’s binge-watching model
Apple and Disney prefer to release series’ episodes the old-fashioned way: once a week…
The streaming era has finally arrived – and everything is about to change
Every three decades, or roughly once a generation, Hollywood experiences a seismic shift….
Why Apple TV+ is Cupertino’s biggest gamble yet
There’s a place for high-quality, weekly-format content…
Disney+ launches
Walt Disney Co.’s much-anticipated debut of its new streaming video service was marred by early technical glitches and crashes for some users…
90 million or bust? Streaming TV’s great subscriber race begins with Apple TV+, Disney+, and many more
As Apple, Disney, Comcast, and others bet big on direct-to-consumer services with lofty membership goals, some analysts are concerning about a marketplace that’s quickly getting crowded…
Why J.J. Abrams reportedly turned down $500 million from Apple
Abrams elected to go with WarnerMedia despite its lower offer. The five-year deal puts all of Bad Robot’s divisions…
HBO Max will debut in May 2020 and cost $15 per month
During a Tuesday afternoon presentation at Stage 21 on Warner Bros. Studios’ historic Burbank lot, the company that owns…
Disney+ and Apple TV+ are pushing us into the era of the $25 million TV episode
The age of the $15-million-per-episode TV series has already come and gone. We’re now entering the era of the $25 million show…
Behind AT&T’s plan to take on Apple TV+, Disney+, and Netflix with HBO Max
HBO Max, which will be HBO plus movies, original shows, and TV classics such “Friends,” will be available starting this spring…
Disney CEO Bob Iger ‘not fixated’ on lower price of Apple TV+
Disney remains unconcerned about the lower price of competing streaming services, such as Apple’s forthcoming Apple TV+, says Disney CEO Bob Iger…
Verizon will offer new and ‘unlimited’ customers a year of Disney+ for free
Verizon will offer all new and existing Verizon Wireless unlimited customers, new Fios home internet customers and new 5G home internet customers a year of Disney+ for free…
Netflix to sell another $2 billion of junk bonds as it braces for onslaught from Apple TV+, Disney+, and more
As the battle for streaming customers heats up, Netflix plans to raise another $2 billion in debt in order to finance new original content…
75% of Netflix subscribers surveyed do not intend to subscribe to either Disney+ or Apple TV+
According to an analysts’ survey conducted in September, 75% of Netflix subscribers surveyed do not..
Apple TV+ may struggle to meet European quotas for locally-produced content at launch
Apple may initially struggle to meet local programming and investment obligations in Europe that include the requirement…
Apple TV+ is the only streaming service where consumers’ search interest in price exceeds content
Apple is offering a bargain price and a free yearly subscription when buying an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac…
Disney CEO Bob Iger remembers Steve Jobs: ‘We felt we could say anything to each other’
In January 2006, I joined Steve Jobs in Emeryville, California, to announce Disney’s acquisition of Pixar…
Netfix acquires Seinfeld rights for around $500 million, streaming begins in 2021
Netflix just paid somewhere near $500 million (the exact terms have not been disclosed) to acquire Seinfeld streaming rights beginning in 2021…
Disney CEO Bob Iger resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors
The Disney CEO left Apple’s Board on September 10th, the same day Apple unveiled details on its forthcoming Apple TV+ streaming service…
Apple offered J.J. Abrams far more than WarnerMedia, but he said no
Sources say Apple was willing to pay more than $500 million for Abrams’ Bad Robot production company…
Roku shares plummet more than 12% after low price for Apple TV+ is revealed
Shares of Roku took a deep dive of more than 12% Tuesday, the steepest drop since March, after Apple said its original TV service Apple TV+ will cost just $4.99 a month…
Netflix, Roku, Disney stocks drop after Apple TV+ insanely low price is revealed
Shares of Netflix and Disney fell sharply on Tuesday, after streaming rival Apple announced its long-awaited Apple TV+ subscription would cost just $4.99 per month…
Apple TV+ and Disney+ won’t let you binge watch
Apple and Disney aren’t on board with Netflix-style binge-watching…
Disney+ discount offer ratchets up pressure on Apple TV+
Disney+ discount demand crashed its preorder website. Disney said the outage occurred because of an unexpected surge in traffic for a discounted presale offer…
Disney+ offers four simultaneous streams in 4K quality for $6.99 per month
Disney has shared additional details about its forthcoming streaming service, Disney+, which is set to launch on November 12th for $6.99 per month…
Disney ratchets up streaming wars with ‘Star Wars,’ other programming announcements
At the D23 Expo, Disney has shed more light on what consumers will see when the company’s streaming service launches on November 12th…
Ahead of Apple TV+ and Disney+, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video gain on Netflix
Netflix is still the No. 1 subscription streaming service in the U.S., according to a new report, but rivals, including Amazon Prime Video and Hulu, are starting to…
Apple’s new TV strategy might just work
The new Apple TV app is already on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV 4K, and Apple TV HD. And this fall, Apple is bringing the Apple TV experience to the Mac…
