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Here’s How to Avoid the Disney+ Price Increase Coming March 26
If you haven’t heard, Disney+ is raising its monthly subscription price this week. Starting March 26, a subscription will cost $7.99 a month, up from the $6.99 introduced at launch. Annual plans are also increasing by $10 to $79.99. However, there is one thing you can do if you want to avoid paying more for…
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Bloomberg Quicktake Reaches 7.4 Million Monthly Viewers
Bloomberg’s live streaming news channel Quicktake has seen a successful run since its November rebrand, reaching 7.4 average monthly viewers from December 2020 to February 2021. Additionally, the network saw 56 million average monthly viewers of its on-demand videos across social platforms. The network features global news in a variety of formats, including documentary-style original…
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Amazon Will Stream 21 Yankees Games on Prime Video for the 2021 Season
Amazon Prime Video has announced that it will stream 21 New York Yankees games during the 2021 season, as part of its partnership with YES Network. The games will be simulcast on broadcast affiliates and Prime Video with no extra charge for Prime members. The 21 games will only be available for those Prime members…
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‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Sets Record as Disney+’s Most-Watched Series Premiere
‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ arrived on Disney+ last weekend and has cemented its rank as the streamer’s most-watched series premiere ever. The MCU series dropped its first episode on March 19 with more viewers tuning in that weekend than for the premieres of WandaVision or The Mandalorian. While Disney+ hasn’t released specific numbers,…
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Discovery+ to Add Over 250 Hours of Content in Deal With All3Media International
Discovery+ has entered into a high-volume SVOD deal with All3Media International that will bring more than 250 hours of non-scripted content to the platform. The deal will bring full seasons of multiple series with licensing to multiple territories. Highlights included in the acquisition: Race Across the World – both seasons now streaming on Discovery+ in…
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‘Black Widow’ and ‘Cruella’ Will Premiere on Disney+ Same Day as Theaters
Disney announced updates to its summer film release schedule today, including Disney+ premieres of Disney’s live-action “Cruella,” Marvel Studios’ “Black Widow,” and Disney and Pixar’s “Luca.” “Cruella” and “Black Widow” will launch simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access in most markets. Look for “Cruella” on Friday, May 28 and “Black Widow” on…
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HBO Max is Getting a Black and White Version of ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’
DC fans were delighted to get Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of ‘Justice League’ on HBO Max last week with the original editing. The 4-hour version garnered the attention of 1.8M US households over its release weekend March 18. Now, a ‘gray’ version of the film is coming to the streamer. Zack Snyder’s Justice League tweeted…
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MLB.TV Launches on Xfinity Flex
MLB.TV is now available for Xfinity customers with a Flex streaming device. With MLB.TV, Flex customers can watch all out of market MLB games live or on-demand, along with a content library of baseball programming including highlights, documentaries, classic games, and more. Xfinity Flex customers who already have an MLB.TV subscription can access MLB.TV by…
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Roku Brings in Funny or Die Team for New Advertising Studio
Roku announced today the launch of a new advertising brand studio to create branded content experiences. Roku has partnered with Funny or Die and will bring several of the company’s branded content team members over for the launch. Those joining Roku from Funny or Die include executives Chris Buss and Brian Toombs, along with former…
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Here’s Everything Coming to Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video the Week of March 22, 2021
Whether you’re looking for anime, comedy series, Spanish period dramas, and more, you’ll find it on these tentpole streaming services this month. Netflix‘s offering may be small but mighty this week with season 1 of DOTA: Dragon’s Blood and the laugh-out-loud Bad Trip, starring Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, and Tiffany Haddish. Hulu‘s coming in…
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Frndly TV Surpasses 440,000 Subscribers
Frndly TV, the family friendly streaming service, ended 2020 with 440,000 subscribers. 200,000 of those customers were added in Q4 2020 alone. The streaming service announced earlier today that it will be adding the Dove Channel to its lineup, bringing the channel count to 16. In addition to Dove Channel, Frndly offers Hallmark Channels, Inspiration,…
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ATSC 3.0 is Live in Buffalo, NY
ATSC 3.0 is now live in Buffalo, NY, with five local stations now broadcasting with the NextGen TV transmission standard. The stations in Buffalo are WKBW (ABC), WUTV (Fox), WIVB-TV (CBS), WGRZ (NBC), and WNYO-TV (MyNet). The participating stations have cooperated to ensure that current programming remains available to all viewers, regardless of whether their…
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Movies Anywhere Launches ‘Deal of the Day’ Widget for iOS
The Movies Anywhere app has launched its first-ever widget for iOS. The new Deal of the Day widget will take the guesswork out of figuring out what to watch by displaying personalized deal recommendations based on users’ watch history and saved movies. Deal of the Day will scour through all the current eligible discounts to…
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Rakuten Viki Launches New TVOD Movie Rental Service
Asian content platform Rakuten Viki has announced the launch of a new transactional video-on-demand service that will bring Asian box office releases to the U.S. much sooner than before. The launch is marked with two brand new Korean films: Josée which launched in December and is a platform exclusive, and New Year Blues which was…
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HBO Max Now Allows Users to Make Customized Profile Images
HBO Max has just launched a new feature to help users personalize their profiles. Subscribers can now upload their own photo or choose from an avatar collection with over 120 character images to use as their profile image. “With the launch of customizable profile images and character avatars, we’re delivering on our promise of a…
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