streaming services

With more than 500 hours of video uploaded every minute and over one billion hours watched daily, Google’s YouTube is the world’s second-largest search engine

Netflix is raising most of its U.S. prices by 8% to 13% as its video streaming service rides a wave of rising popularity spurred by government-imposed lockdowns that corralled people at home during the fight against the pandemic.

Everyone’s going to streaming, including Judge Judy.

Disney is restructuring its media and entertainment divisions, as streaming becomes the most important facet of the company’s media business. On Monday, the company revealed that in order to further accelerate its direct-to-consumer strategy, it would be centralizing its media businesses into a single organization that will be responsible for content distribution, ad sales and Disney+. Shares of the company...

NBCUniversal and Roku have reached a video distribution deal, breaking a months-long impasse that had NBCUniversal threatening to black out its apps on Roku in the 11th hour.

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s entry into the streaming wars, launched on July 15th. It joins streaming giants like Netflix, Hulu, HBO and Amazon Prime in the bid to replace television.

Is a pandemic the perfect time to launch a new and relatively expensive streaming service

Weeks of quarantine with kids have a way of burning through a movie collection

NBCUniversal says its video-streaming service Peacock will launch nationally in July, as planned, even though just a handful of its original series will be ready

If social distancing is getting old, consider how it would feel to do it for hundreds of years — and stay out of the sun

Sports are on hold, movie theaters are closed and so are amusement parks

The Walt Disney Co. will release “Frozen 2” on Disney-Plus several months early to give families cooped up by the coronavirus a welcome distraction — and give its streaming service a boost.

The service launches in April and will be free for customers of Comcast, NBCUniversal’s parent company, though the company could announce additional cable partners whose customers would also get Peacock free.

New streaming service launching later this year will include hundreds of movies and shows, along with news, sports and other exclusive content.

New technology. Same furry faces. When Apple was thinking about what kind of children’s TV programming it wanted on its new streaming service, it doubled down on two multi-generational crowd-pleasers — Snoopy and “Sesame Street.” Apple TV Plus has carved out prominent roles for Charlie Brown’s floppy-eared beagle and for puppets from the famed Sesame Workshop in its slate...

Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Starz announced a new deal Monday to license streaming content from one another. The two companies have entered a long-term agreement that will give NBC’s Peacock streaming service a fresh batch of content. The deal means that when Peacock launches in April 2020, users will have access to hundreds of films and shows produced by Starz, which is owned by...

As the decade draws to a close, it’s clear that we’re looking at TV differently. We binge it, take it with us and find new stories to watch. Streaming is behind the biggest media revolution in 30 years, since cable TV’s rapid growth in the 1980s, and it is looking to expand. New services include Disney Plus and Apple TV...

Hulu is again raising prices for its online TV bundle, as other streaming-TV providers do the same. Hulu’s service, like AT&T TV Now, Dish’s Sling and YouTube TV, are a replica of traditional TV but on the internet. They were once vaunted as a successor to traditional cable. But the market has lost steam as prices rise. One early entrant,...

“Pose” and “Batwoman” are among the shows contributing to a surge in LGBTQ and gender inclusiveness on television, according to a new study by the advocacy group GLAAD.

If you make it free, will they come? Apple, Disney and AT&T’s WarnerMedia want to jump-start their challenges to Netflix by offering freebies and deep discounts on emerging streaming plans. That includes a free year of Apple TV Plus for customers of new Apple devices and a free year of Disney Plus to higher-tier Verizon customers. Some existing HBO subscribers...