AdSupported

To even use the thing, you’ll need to commit to having your viewing data sucked up and used by advertisers. If you’re okay with that, you can also use the secondary display to show widgets that surface sports scores, a news sticker, the…

Crave is making room for commercial breaks on its streaming service.After years as an exclusively advertisement-free subscription platform, Bell Media says it plans to launch new Crave tiers sometime this summer that include commercials…

Amazon is in talks to launch an ad-supported tier of Prime Video, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Sources close to the situation tell the outlet that the discussions are still in the “early stages” but have been…

Amazon Prime Video subscribers will reportedly start seeing Amazon miniTV content on the platform as well. As per afaqs!, the streamer will integrate an ‘ad-supported' content carousel in the coming weeks, which will broaden its reach…

The co-founder of Pluto TV, Ilya Pozin, wants to give away free ad-supported TVs — yes, you read that right. That’s according to a report from Janko Roettgers in his Lowpass newsletter, who says the free television set will come with a…

When Netflix launched its new ad-supported subscription in November 2022, it marked a major about-face for a company that's always stood by its commercial-free policy. Basic with Ads rolled out a month before Disney Plus dropped its own…

Netflix Inc is expected to report that it added some 2 million subscribers in the first quarter and investors will scrutinize whether recent price cuts and the launch of an ad-supported plan are tempting people to subscribe and stay on.The…

Bloomberg cautions that the internal data it saw is “at least” a month old, and that it doesn’t account for multiple users watching via the same account. But the figures suggest that Netflix is finding its footing with the new revenue…

Only nine percent of new Netflix subscribers in the US opted for the streaming service’s new ad-supported streaming tier last month, according to data from analytics firm Antenna. That’s compared to the 15 percent of new signups that…

Ted Sarandos attends the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 27, 2022.Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesNetflix is likely to offer multiple subscription plans with ads in the future, the company's co-Chief…