Disney Plus is raising its price by $1 to an $8-a-month subscription in the US starting Friday, with its annual subscription going up $10, to $80 a year. And Disney’s discounted bundle that packages Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN Plus together will also go up by $1 in the US: People with the bundle that includes …

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was Disney Plus‘ most watched series premiere yet, Disney’s Marvel said Monday. The ranking, based on viewing from the show’s premiere Friday through Sunday, didn’t include any hard numbers for the amount of watch-time spent on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s first episode. After The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Disney Plus’ most watched opening weekends for …

Peacock, the partly free streaming service that kicked off this year as the new home to stream The Office, has 35 million signups, Comcast’s NBCUniversal — its parent company — said Monday in a presentation for advertisers. That’s up from the 33 million signups the company reported at the end of last year.  Signups, as a metric, includes both free …

YouTube is rolling out Shorts, its response to the TikTok phenomenon, in the US starting Thursday and continuing over the next “several weeks.” This suite of creator tools for making short, vertical, looping videos is expected to be available to all creators on YouTube in the US, whether they have millions of channel subscribers or none at all.  You may have already …

Amazon Prime Video has locked up the national rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football games, the biggest sports deal with a streaming service so far. Amazon‘s deal is part of a complex matrix of licensing arrangements the NFL unveiled Thursday. As a whole, the deals meaningfully broaden the online availability of many of the NFL’s games while still largely keeping …

YouTube viewing on internet-connected TVs is growing, with more than 120 million US people streaming either YouTube itself or its live-channel service YouTube TV on their TV screens in December, up from 100 million in March 2020, YouTube’s chief product officer, Neal Mohan, said Wednesday in a blog post.  Viewers are “increasingly streaming content on their connected TV screens as they …

Disney Plus has crossed 100 million subscribers, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said Tuesday. By comparison, that’s about half the number of subscribers to Netflix, the biggest subscription video service in the world, which had more than 200 million global subscribers at the end of the year.  Seen another way, Netflix entered the streaming business 13 years ago and took about a decade to …

Paramount Plus, a new streaming service replacing CBS All Access next week, will cost $10 a month to stream ad free on a premium tier when it launches March 4, and it will add a cheaper, $5-a-month “base” tier in June that is supported by advertising.  That cheaper tier marks a $1 discount to CBS All Access’ entry-level price, but this base …

Paramount Plus, a new streaming service replacing CBS All Access next week, will stream some new movies from Paramount Pictures 35 to 45 days after they premiere in theaters, while other Paramount flicks will hit the online service much later. Paramount Plus’ release plans for these new theatrical films, though a big change from pre-pandemic norms, aren’t as aggressive as some …

YouTube plans to test a new kind of parental control called supervised accounts, which will let parents of teens and tweens have more flexibility in gating off content and turning off features on Google’s massive video site. The new test seeks to address a huge gap in oversight tools for parents of kids aged 9 and up, minors who have outgrown …