Disney’s bumper launch of Disney Plus in the last year has helped all three of the company’s streaming services — Hulu, Disney Plus and ESPN Plus — to rank in the top-five most popular US streaming-video subscriptions, according to estimates from researcher Parks Associates Wednesday.  Netflix and Amazon Prime Video continue to hold court as No. 1 …

Roku still doesn’t have HBO Max’s streaming app. Peacock streams free shows and movies but not on Amazon Fire TV. And T-Mobile just rolled out its own live-channel streaming service, TVision — but Roku users, again, are out of luck.  These gaps in app support used to be rare on streaming devices. This year, they’ve cropped up with nearly every …

YouTube is adding a second link, ushering users to authoritative info on COVID-19 vaccines, to its fact-check “panels,” boxes that show up below some videos about COVID or the novel coronavirus and pop up above search results for some queries about the same matters on Google’s massive video site. Both links in the panel direct users to information from local …

HBO Max will launch its dedicated app on Amazon’s Fire TV devices, including its popular dongle often referred to as the “Firestick,” and Fire tablets on Tuesday. The change gives HBO Max’s customers an easier way to stream the service on Amazon products, and it’s the latest development that fills in some gaps in app support on the most popular streaming devices.  The …

YouTube has canceled its annual YouTube Rewind video this year, the company said Thursday, taking “a break” from a widely anticipated and heavily watched clip that recaps the year’s trends with a flood of cameos by online stars and influencers. A 2020 YouTube Rewind would’ve marked the 10th anniversary of the yearly video.  YouTube Rewind routinely draws in hundreds of millions …

Disney Plus grew to 73.7 million subscribers as of Oct. 3, Disney said Tuesday, an announcement that came on the first anniversary of the streaming service’s launch.  By comparison, Netflix, the biggest subscription video service in the world, has more than 195 million global subscribers. But among the raft of newer services that’ve launched in the last year — such as Apple …

Nielsen, the television ratings giant, is making a change to its rules that may mean the commercials you watch on TV start to feel like the ones in your Facebook feed: better targeted to you and your interests. But advancements in ad targeting bring questions about the privacy of your data, and TV’s data practices are still developing.  “Typically, when …

T-Mobile pitched TVision as “TV done right” when the mobile carrier unveiled its revamped live-TV streaming service in late October. To CEO Mike Sievert, that meant offering bundles of channels that weren’t carbon copies of what competitors like YouTube TV, Sling TV or Philo offer. It also meant being an “ally” to the programmers supplying TVision with those all-important channels, he said. “Of course, obviously, everything we’re announcing today …

Netflix is raising prices again in the US. As of Thursday, the standard plan, Netflix’s most popular one, began costing $1 more, or $14 a month. A premium package — which unlocks perks like 4K resolution, HDR image quality and the ability to stream on four devices at the same time, up from two — costs $2 more at $18 a month. …

Peacock, the streaming service that Comcast’s NBCUniversal launched nationwide in the US in mid-July, has signed up nearly 22 million accounts, Comcast said Thursday. That includes people who registered with Peacock when it rolled out just to Comcast pay TV customers in April as well as new members who’ve signed up since its national launch July 15.  By comparison, HBO Max — the premium cable …