The Green Knight, the medieval fantasy film that’s been available only in theaters since its US release at the end of July, will have a special virtual screening for one night only Wednesday, its distributor A24 said. The $20 stream, which makes the movie available to watch within a four-hour window Wednesday starting at 6 …

YouTube is improving its search capabilities, the video streaming service said Tuesday, including making search results more visual and surfacing videos in more languages.  “YouTube’s enormous library of content has always set us apart,” Neal Mohan, chief product officer of Google-owned YouTube, said in a blog post about the changes. “But we know viewers need to easily find the videos they’re …

Disney Plus grew to 116 million subscribers as of July 3, Disney said Thursday. That’s more than double a year earlier, but it also means Disney Plus added 12.4 million new members since earlier this year while the service was releasing new episodes of popular shows like Marvel series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki and streamed its latest Pixar movie …

Disney’s cryptic hype around an event and an account identified as “The Streamer” predictably stoked the company’s rabid fanbases into fits of speculation — but this mystery is all marketing, literally.  Disney Plus’ Twitter account posted an inscrutable eyes-emoji-only tweet Monday afternoon directing followers to a new account called TheStreamer, which was virtually empty except for a little blue verified …

HBO Max had 12.1 million direct accounts in the US at the halfway point of this year, HBO’s parent company, AT&T, said Thursday in its latest quarterly report — an increase of 2.4 million in the last three months and more than quadruple the number a year earlier, which was soon after HBO Max launched.  In addition, another 31.5 million US subscribers can …

Netflix added 1.5 million subscribers in its latest quarter, another period of much slower growth than the leaps in popularity it enjoyed a year earlier when people around the world were stuck at home and desperate for distraction in lockdown. Though Netflix added subscribers in most regions of the world, it lost members in the US and Canada — its biggest …

YouTube is launching paid “Super Thanks” in 68 countries starting Tuesday as a new way for fans to get money into the hands of creators they want to support. It’s the latest in a lineup of features broadening the ways creators can make money on YouTube.  These Super Thanks — which can be worth $2, $5, $10 or $50 in the US, …

Cable news service CNN said Monday it will launch a standalone digital-video subscription called CNN Plus sometime in the first three months of 2022, a streaming service that will have its own selection of programming but won’t unlock access to any of CNN’s traditional channels. Parent company WarnerMedia didn’t confirm an expected price nor plans for a discounted bundle with …

Netflix unveiled another daily top 10 ranking on its streaming service Wednesday, this time calling out the 10 most popular titles being binged by slack-jawed children across your country. And yes, CoComelon is No. 1 in the US already because of course it is. Netflix is also rolling out a biweekly email to accounts that have at least one kids profile, designed …

Netflix has made its most public display of interest in expanding into virtual reality and gaming, after years of batting away questions about pursuing VR and even more years of baby steps toward video games. On Thursday, Netflix announced a new deal with Shonda Rhimes, a powerhouse television producer whose Bridgerton exploded on Netflix to become what the company says is its most-watched …