Tag: streaming aggregation

Roku is turning Premium Subscriptions into a broader wholesale distribution business, using its home screen, discovery surfaces, and billing infrastructure to sell more than 30 discounted streaming bundles. The strategy gives Roku more ways to monetize viewer intent while giving…

JustWatch is launching JustWatch TV in October, adding AVOD, rentals and an ad-free subscription directly into its discovery funnel. The move gives JustWatch more ways to monetize search intent, but owning inventory also creates a new tension around how its…

VodafoneThree’s using Vodafone TV to make its broadband and mobile plans stickier by bundling Netflix with Ads, HBO Max with Ads, Freely and Android TV into one connectivity package. The strategy is built around customer acquisition, lower churn, upsells and…

Peacock, Disney, Roku, YouTube, and potentially Netflix are turning their audiences into storefronts for third-party streaming subscriptions. Amazon’s already proven the model, and as subscriber growth gets harder, platforms can increase customer value by taking a cut of transactions for…

Antenna estimates that 31% of traditional pay-TV cancelers add a streaming service within 30 days, five times the normal signup rate. That makes cable cancellation a high-intent window for streamers, broadband providers and TV platforms to capture redirected TV spending.

NBCUniversal is launching Universal+ in Japan exclusively through U-Next, giving it immediate access to more than five million paid subscribers without building a standalone local streaming service. The partnership trades some customer control for local scale while expanding NBCU’s monetization…

Netflix is considering distributing services like Peacock and Fox One inside its app, potentially turning its roughly 330 million subscription households into a storefront for the broader streaming market. The model could let Netflix monetize discovery, billing, and customer acquisition…

Amazon's $2 billion Latin America investment will use local originals and live sports to drive audiences into Prime Video while expanding third-party subscriptions, rentals and purchases. By controlling discovery, billing and checkout, Amazon can monetize that traffic through advertising, Prime…

Charter's $34.5 billion Cox deal is becoming an operating contract in California, where regulators are tying approval to broadband pricing, network investment, outage credits and other customer protections that could constrain margins for years. Cox gives Charter more broadband scale…

From the Archives revisits Charter’s 2023 carriage fight with Disney, which forced Disney+, ESPN+, and the future flagship ESPN service into Spectrum’s cable packages while removing eight lower-value linear networks. The agreement turned streaming access into a core part of…