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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You can now turn off Netflix autoplay previews
You can now turn off Netflix autoplay previews. Netflix now offers two different autoplay settings that you can turn on or off. Here’s how…
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…
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+ 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…
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…
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…
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…
Momentum investors are now buying shares of Apple, Amazon and Netflix
Earnings season has started. Wall Street is bullish on the first phase of President Trump’s trade deal with China. The stock market is near highs…
Analyst: Apple TV+ could be worth $15 a share
Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives wrote in a note to clients on Friday that a successful debut of Apple’s new streaming-video service Apple TV+ could be worth $15 a share…
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…
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…
Apple has more than enough money to buy a Hollywood studio, but should they?
Now that Apple is diving into the content business with Apple TV+, should Apple “go full Hollywood” and buy up a studio?
Apple TV+ is trying to be HBO, not Netflix
Apple’s new Apple TV+ service features new Apple Originals every month. Always ad-free and on demand. For up to six family members…
Apple’s strategy for beating Netflix is the streaming wars’ best so far
37 million subscribers would make Apple TV+ the second-largest streaming service, with almost 36 percent more subscribers than Hulu’s 28 million…
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…
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…
ViacomCBS revs up to join Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple, NBCUniversal in the streaming video war for consumer wallets
More than two months before CBS Corp and Viacom Inc succeeded at a third attempt to recombine…
Why Disney’s video bundle will force Apple to bundle Apple TV+
It’s amazing how one company can change how you view pricing in an entire market…
Disney to bundle Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ for same price as Netflix
Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday said it would offer a $13-per-month bundle of its three streaming services starting in November…
Apple now has $210 billion in cash on hand, enough to buy Netflix and Tesla with cash to spare
Cupertino-based Apple Inc. ended its most recent quarter with $210.6 billion in cash and marketable securities on hand…
NBCUniversal looks to challenge Apple TV+ and Netflix next April
Comcast units are double down on the content and streaming wars as NBCUniversal plans to launch its…
Netflix stock plummets after missing badly on global paid subscribers as Apple TV+ looms
Shares of Netflix were down 10% in extended trading Wednesday after the company released its earnings report…
Apple looks to make Apple TV+ the anti-Netflix
Apple is basically trying to build the anti-Netflix, putting a premium on a strongly curated library of content instead of…
Apple among those outbid by WarnerMedia for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company
The sweepstakes to land a massive overall deal with Bad Robot, the famed production company run by J.J. Abrams and his wife and co-CEO Katie McGrath…
In strategy shift, AT&T mulls $16-$17 per month streaming service that includes both HBO and Cinemax
AT&T Inc.’s WarnerMedia has abandoned its plan for a three-tiered streaming service and instead will likely package HBO, sister channel Cinemax and the vast library of Warner Bros. TV shows and movies…
Not even Apple can clean up the streaming TV mess
Here’s Apple Inc.’s idea: Next time you want to watch something, no matter what or where or why…
Why Apple built Apple TV+ instead of blowing billions acquiring Netflix
There’s lots of chatter about the potential of Apple buying Netflix…
