The Walt Disney Company is to acquire the 33 per cent stake in SVoD service Hulu held by Comcast’s NBC Universal, following Comcast’s November 1st exercise of its right under the put/call arrangement between the two companies. Disney says the acquisition of Comcast’s stake in Hulu at fair market value will further its streaming objectives. […]

Disney and Comcast have failed to reach a price that both will be happy with for US streaming service Hulu. In an SEC filing Disney disclosed that the companies will both hire outside investment banking firms to come up with a sale price if the two companies couldn’t agree on a price. Those two firms’ […]

Disney+ has announced that original documentary Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story will premiere on October 18th. The three-part Disney+ Original series looks at the libel case that gripped the nation in 2022. The incredible story will be told through exclusive access to the woman at the heart of it all; Coleen Rooney finally speaks […]

Comcast and The Walt Disney Company are to bring forward the start date to decide the valuation of Hulu from January 2024 to the end of September 2023. Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said Comcast will base the sale of its 33 per cent stake in the joint venture on a valuation of over $30 […]

Parks Associates, the technology research firm, has released the consumer study Video Services: Shifting Demand, presenting a focused analysis of the video services landscape, including insight into why consumers are switching and canceling streaming services. The research shows the average annualised subscriber churn rate for streaming video services in the US stands at 47 per […]

Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that 83 per cent of all US households have a subscription video on-Demand (SVoD) service from Netflix, Prime Video and/or Hulu – compared to 83 per cent in 2022, 78 per cent in 2020, 69 per cent in 2018, and 52 per cent in 2015. Twelve additional streaming video […]

On the heels of the Season 3 premiere of Only Murders in the Building (starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd), Hulu is luanching a themed escape room for fans in Los Angeles to play in-store at The Escape Game located within the Century City Mall from August 11th – […]

Research from Ampere Analysis shows that ad-supported tiers are growing in the US. Currently, Hulu, Peacock and Paramount+ represent the bulk of subscriptions. However, uptake is growing for players such as Netflix, driven in no small part by its account-sharing crackdown, and for Disney+, which increased its price alongside launching the ad tier. Here’s the […]

Sinclair, the US broadcaster, has announced a distribution agreement with Hulu to add carriage of Tennis Channel, T2, Comet and CHARGE! to Hulu + Live TV. Tennis Channel, the television-based multiplatform destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle and T2, Tennis Channel’s first free ad-supported TV (FAST) channel, are scheduled to debut […]

Research from Aluma Insights finds 35 per cent of US SVoD customers are spending too much on services such as Netflix and are looking to cut back. This represents a 40 per cent increase over 2022 and threefold that of 2019. Only 5 per cent are interested in spending more on SVoD services, down 38 […]