Peacock, the upcoming streaming service from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, won’t offer downloads of its shows and movies to watch offline on your mobile device when it launches Wednesday in the US, the service said. When downloads as a feature arrive “soon,” Peacock added, they’ll be for people paying for the priciest tier. At launch, the service also …
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Quibi, a star-studded mobile streaming service, has held onto about 8% of customers whose 90-day free trials ran out this week, mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower said Wednesday. Quibi launched April 6 with a 90-day free trial for anyone who preordered the service or signed up before May 1. The first wave of those free trials started to expire this week. A Quibi …
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Peacock, a new streaming service from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, launches in the US next week, but if you’re hoping it will bring you some surprise new movies to stream during your coronavirus lockdown, don’t hold your breath. Peacock won’t likely deliver any Hamilton-style launches along the lines of Disney Plus — at least, not soon. “Certainly nothing near term,” Matt Strauss, the …
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Disney Plus mobile-app downloads jumped 72% in the US last weekend as the streaming service dropped Hamilton, the highly anticipated film version of the award-winning musical that Disney originally planned to release in theaters more than a year from now. Mobile app downloads surged 72.4% in the US on Friday through Sunday, compared with the average number of downloads during the four preceding …
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Peacock, NBCUniversal‘s streaming service launching nationwide in two weeks, will stream shows that originally ran on CBS, Showtime and the CW, as well as certain classic Paramount movies through a licensing deal with ViacomCBS, the companies said Thursday. ViacomCBS runs a constellation of TV networks and the Paramount movie studio — as well as its own CBS All Access streaming service …
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Facebook is expanding the ways that people can make money from their audience on the social network, the company said Monday in a blog post. As the coronavirus pandemic scuttles in-person events, the company has started inviting some people running Facebook pages to use tools designed to create, promote, host and monetize virtual live events. The paid online events product will expand in the …
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YouTube‘s average daily views of videos related to sourdough leaped more than 400% between March 15 and the end of May compared with the two-and-a-half month period that preceded it, the Google-owned video company said Thursday. Average daily views of videos with “workout at home” in the title increased more than 200% after March 15 compared with their average for …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple TV Plus reaches a billion devices, a figure the company was touting even before the service launched, but Apple nonetheless called it out Monday during the keynote of the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple also said the its TV app, which is where Apple …
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Disney Plus is no longer offering free trials to new subscribers, ending a promotion that let people test out the streaming video service for a week before paying up. A Disney spokeswoman characterized the elimination of the free trial as part of continuing tests of different offers, promotions and other marketing to widen Disney Plus. “The service was set at an attractive …
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HBO Max, when it arrived two weeks ago as an amped-up app to stream HBO with a lot of extra programming, also brought confusion about how the new streaming service fits in with the company’s two existing apps. To simplify matters, HBO’s parent company — AT&T’s WarnerMedia — said Friday that it will retire its HBO Go app as of July 31 …
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