Apple‘s film CODA won the Academy Award for best picture Sunday, beating powerhouse Netflix to become first streaming service to conquer Hollywood’s most coveted film prize. Netflix was nominated in the category, too, for its film The Power of the Dog, and the two streaming services were considered to be the frontrunners in the category going into …

This article, originally published in August, has been updated to reflect CODA’s Oscar wins Sunday. Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur, one of the stars of Apple‘s movie CODA, is known as a great signer. Your first glimpse may be when he sets his nuts on fire. CODA’s Oscar wins Sunday — for Kotsur’s performance, best picture and adapted screenplay — top a stack of …

Apple TV Plus, Apple’s subscription video service, spends a fortune on prestige, original TV shows and movies, including Ted Lasso, the comedy that won a stack of Emmys, and CODA, the first streaming film to win the Oscar for best picture. But originals are pretty much all Apple TV Plus has.  Apple TV Plus lacks a deep library of licensed shows …

YouTube is adding thousands of episodes of TV shows available stream free with advertising, as it continues to court you to spend more time glued to YouTube on connected televisions.  The shows are licensed “catalog” programming that are usually available to stream free with advertising on a bunch of other services too, the kinds of series most people would associate with …

What’s happening Apple is dipping its toe into live programming, a totally new format for Apple TV Plus, which has stuck to on-demand original shows and movies since it launched in 2019. Why it matters With two MLB games now exclusive to yet another distributor, Friday Night Baseball is the latest example of how finding what you want to watch …

Disney Plus will introduce a cheaper, ad-supported subscription in the US late this year to complement the ad-free subscription it already offers, Disney said Friday. The company said the ad-supported option would widen to Disney Plus internationally next year.   Disney didn’t specify the new tier’s price or launch date, nor did it indicate whether the price of its current, …

Hulu is poised to lose next-day streams of NBCUniversal programming like Saturday Night Live, a change expected in the fall as NBCU shifts to streaming exclusivity over to its own service Peacock instead.  An NBCU spokeswoman said Friday that Comcast-owned NBCUniversal has terminated the deal with Hulu, which gave Hulu the rights to stream its programming the day after it aired. This specific licensing change …

Peacock is NBCUniversal’s streaming app, and it has tens of thousands of hours of free shows, movies, sports and originals. But a lot of the most popular programming sits behind a paywall for Premium Peacock members. Same-day streaming movies, Yellowstone, Bel-Air, Dr. Death, Premier League matches, WWE and The Office are some of the things you can’t stream unless you …

Paramount Plus will reunite with some of the biggest shows and movies from its parent company, including South Park and Showtime programming. But owner Paramount Global wouldn’t specify when — or even if — Yellowstone, the hit cowboy drama on the Paramount Network, would stream on Paramount Plus, where it is conspicuously absent in the US.  Paramount Global, which changed …

Paramount Plus had 32.8 million subscribers at the end of last year, parent company ViacomCBS said Tuesday, the first time it has ever broken out its subscriber base. Combined with other streaming services at the company, ViacomCBS has 56 million global streaming subscribers total.  For context, Paramount Plus’ membership is underneath that of market leader Netflix, at 221.8 million, and …