Streaming Services

Roku customers are threatening to stop using, or to even dispose of, their low-priced TVs and streaming gadgets after the company appears to be locking devices for people who don’t conform to the recently updated […]

It’s unsurprising that Adam Sandler’s “Spaceman” is an immediate #1 for Netflix, but you have to wonder if the Sandler audience knew what it was getting: It’s the story of a long-distance solo astronaut who […]

Streaming has overtaken linear TV in pretty much every conceivable way but one. And even that last one is dangling from the precipice. Total revenues from streaming — now advertising revenue! — will overtake the […]

Through Sunday, “Mean Girls” (Paramount, $72 million) was the highest-grossing domestic film two months into 2024. (“Bob Marley: One Love” will overtake shortly, and “Dune: Part Two” might do even more for its opening weekend.) […]

“Wonka” (Warner Bros.) achieved something that the much bigger “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” didn’t. With the #1 spot again this week on VOD top 10s of iTunes, Google Play, and Vudu, it becomes the first film […]

Hulu and Disney+ subscribers have until March 14 to stop sharing their login information with people outside of their household. Disney-owned streaming services are the next to adopt the password-crackdown strategy that has helped Netflix […]

A decade ago, cord-cutters prophesied a world free of exorbitant cable bills where everyone binged The Office without intrusions from advertisers. Now, you have to pay extra to not watch commercials on most streaming services. […]

Pea-Max? Para-flix? Regardless of what portmanteau they might end up with, odds are good that streaming services are going to spend a bit of time merging in 2024. Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount were already […]

The Netflix algorithm has met its match. The streamer is likely to drop those confusing percentages on a tile’s pop-up menu that tell you how well you “Match” with a given movie or show, a […]