Disney Plus has been the breakaway success among a wave of new streaming services in the last two-plus years, thanks in part to its large library of shows, movies and exclusive originals. The service already raised its price once since launch, and T…
YouTube is putting its Shorts — its vertical, looping, short-form videos — onto the biggest and most horizontal screen in your life: the TV. Google-owned YouTube, which has 2 billion monthly users, is the world’s largest source of o…
Spotify hit 456 million total listeners and 195 million paid subscribers at the end of September, the music streaming service said Tuesday in its third-quarter report, as it predicted its paying membership will surpass the 200 million milestone…
Netflix is ratcheting up its efforts to get freeloading viewers to pay up: Starting early next year, it will start charging accounts for password sharing, instituting a system that adds fees to your plan for “extra member” subaccounts when peop…
Netflix has a cheaper tier with advertising coming. Netflix, the world’s biggest subscription video service, grew into a behemoth partly thanks to its strategy of making its shows and movies available in ad-free binges. At a time when comm…
Electric-car maker Tesla’s worldwide vehicle deliveries jumped 35% in July through September versus the previous three-month period, reaching another record high — but still falling short of analysts’ expectations. The company said Sunday that…
Thor: Love and Thunder hit theaters July 8. But with middling reviews (“disappointingly shallow” was the CNET reviewer’s reaction), you may be holding out until the film leaves cinemas and moves onto Disney Plus. Disney’s streaming st…
Streaming service HBO Max will combine with Discovery Plus for US subscribers during the summer of 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery said Thursday, detailing the plans for a move that it has telegraphed ever since the company was formed by a megamerger e…
Stranger Things 4 has been wildly popular — just not the most wildly popular: Watch-time stats that Netflix released Tuesday solidified its status as the second most popular title the streaming service has ever released, behind Squid…
Lightyear, the first Pixar film since the COVID-19 pandemic began to hit theaters, is finally coming to Disney Plus more than six weeks after it landed in theaters. It was Disney’s first foray into giving Pixar an exclusive run on the big scree…
Spotify expects that its active listener base will hit 450 million by October, the music streaming service said in its second-quarter earnings report Wednesday, after finishing June with 188 million subscribers and 433 million active list…
Nope, director Jordan Peele’s latest movie, hits US theaters Friday. But any fans who want to watch it at home should prepare to wait awhile before it’s available to stream. Last year, an unprecedented number of new theatrical movies streamed o…
Netflix lost fewer subscribers than feared in its latest quarter, reporting a significant decrease in members overall — but only after warning it would suffer a more dramatic drop. Earlier this year, Netflix reported its first decline in …
Jurassic World: Dominion hit theaters — and only theaters — on Friday. Last year, an unprecedented number of new theatrical movies streamed online the same day they hit cinemas. But this year, as COVID-19 restrictions have eased and audiences retu…