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Freeplay has been the live channel grid built into Google TV for a while now, and Google has just bolted video on demand onto it for the first time. More than 10,000 movies and shows you can start whenever you want, ad supported, no separate app to install and no subscription. Studios named...

Tubi has launched Terror on Tubi, a permanent hub for horror rather than the usual October pop-up. Their numbers: over 13,000 hours of horror in the catalogue and more than 53 million hours of horror streamed on the platform every month. They're also feeding it originals this autumn, including...

Reminder that keeps getting buried under the price hike news: if you hold a US library card you probably already have two streaming services you are not using. Kanopy carries over 30,000 movies and shows including a chunk of the Criterion Collection, older Oscar winners and a run of A24 titles...

Paramount+ started testing something they are calling a free tier, and the fine print deflates it fast. It is Android phones and tablets only right now, you can open the app and browse the catalog, and you get up to two episodes from selected shows. That is a trailer with extra steps. A tier...

Freeplay quietly turned into something else this week. It launched as a channel grid, the free live stuff baked into Google TV sets and the Walmart Onn boxes, and Google has now dropped a library of more than 10,000 free movies and shows into it, along with another 300 or so live channels. The...

The Nielsen figures make this deal read very differently than the headline did. The Roku Channel is currently pulling 3.1 percent of all TV viewing time in the US - that is all viewing, cable and broadcast included, not streaming share. Tubi sits at 2.3 percent. Pluto TV and Paramount+ together...