Stan adds Disney and Marvel to streaming service
Streaming service Stan has inked a deal with the Walt Disney Company that will see shows including the Marvel and Star Wars movies appearing on the Nine-owned platform.
The programs will start appearing on the service from December 14 as part of the existing subscriber package.
Stan’s latest deal follows the service signing MGM and Starz in June as the service passed the million subscriber mark.
The competitive video on demand market is dominated by Netflix and includes Fetch, 7Plus and the ABC’s iView. Last week, Ten launched its CBS All-Access streaming service into the space while Foxtel launched its movies on demand service, Foxflicks in August.
Foxtel also has a content deal with Disney which sees the same programming across the subscription TV provider’s Disney Movies and Disney Kids channels and streamed via FoxFlicks our On Demand service along with Disney’s new release movies available in the Foxtel Store.
Included in Stan’s Disney deal is content from Disney’s biggest brands including Walt Disney
Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm and Disney Channels.
Feature movies will include the Toy Story series, Finding Nemo, Frozen and The Lion King along with Marvel action productions including Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War and the Iron Man series.
Mike Sneesby, Stan’s CEO, said about the deal: “Disney is one of the most iconic entertainment brands globally and we are very proud to be partnering with them to bring a huge collection of their biggest live-action and animated films and TV programmes to our customers.
“With hits from across all their biggest franchises including Disney Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm as well as Disney Channels’ TV series and movies, the deal further illustrates Stan’s ongoing commitment to provide our customers with the world’s very best premium entertainment.”
This is huge. Christmas holidays sorted!
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Interesting – I guess Disney won’t be launching their streaming service in Australia any time soon then. That’s why Netflix lost the international distribution rights after all.
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In many ways, this is a backhanded compliment. Disney has plans to become a serious rival to Netflix and Amazon with its new streaming service – and with Star Wars, Disney, Pixar, Marvel and soon Fox etc they should hurt them – but the company clearly considers Stan a bit of a joke. (The normal logic would be to pull Disney content for a bit so people can miss it, but they’d rather take the cash safe in the knowledge Stan are a nobody on the global stage.)
Nobody knows what the terms of the contract are, it may not be exclusive, allowing Disney+ to launch here with some or all of the same content plus their own upcoming exclusive content.
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Considering that Disney’s content has been steadily pulled from Netflix’s ANZ service, over the last year since the announcement of their streaming service, there already is a thirst for their content.
It’s a massive win for Stan because the groundswell of new consumers and returning viewers will be massive.
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This wouldn’t make sense for Disney. They have been systematically removing their content from other streaming services globally.
The most likely reason for this is that they aren’t launching their streaming service in AUS for a year or more, at which point Stan will lose all of it.
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Disney’s streaming service won’t be launching anywhere globally until late 2019 with the United States being the first, so I wouldn’t expect Disney+ in Australia until 2020.
There’s a bigger chance of Hulu launching locally mid-late 2019 as they have global intentions for that service as well.
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It is non-exclusive.
Disney’s content is all over Foxtel NOW.
I think David is correct – DISNEY is selling for the next year and then will remove for their own service. They’ve been removing from NETFLIX as their the global leader – smaller fry like STAN etc help with short term cash but aren’t seen as long term competitors.
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The content is everywhere on Foxtel NOW – so STAN is in now way an exclusive home.
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Hi The Truth, you are correct and we’ve added a line clarifying the deal is not exclusive to Stan with Foxtel already having a number of Disney offerings.
Regards,
Paul Wallbank