Warner Bros. David Zaslav, Discovery CEO announced that the company was looking at a variety of options. Start your own, free, ad supported service. To be clear, this won’t happen any time soon. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Fusion of Discovery Plus and HBO Max. The company hopes that FAST services will be available after this service is delivered. “entry point”For consumers.
Warner Bros. Discovery could launch a free streaming service that competes with Tubi, Pluto
The content offered on the company’s free, ad-supported TV (FAST) service “would be totally different than the content that will be in our premium SVOD offering,” explained JB Perrette, Warner Bros. Discovery’s president and CEO of streaming and games.
Perrette noted that Warner Bros. Discovery has more than 100,000 episodes across all its networks. Perrette explained to analysts that some of this content may be more valuable on a streaming service than on a premium one.
Warner Bros. will launch its own streaming service no matter what time it launches. Discovery will launch its own streaming service for free, but it will be late in the game. Other media companies have also staked claim to the FAST market. Fox has Tubi. Paramount TV has Pluto TV. Amazon has Freevee. Comcast has Xumo. Roku has The Roku Channel.
Ace in the hole
Warner Bros. Discovery has something its competitors don’t: HBO. We obviously don’t expect to see any of HBO’s newest shows on a FAST service, but imagine how attractive that service would be if it featured even one season of Game of Thrones.
To this day Game of ThronesIt is still The most pirated TV show on the planet. Three years after the end of the series, pirates continue to illegally download it in record numbers. It’s clear that millions of people are willing to go above and beyond to steal the show, so why not give it to them for free with ads?
WBD isn’t making a dime off of pirated copies, but countless viewers would watch the show with ads if they didn’t have to sign up for a premium service to do so. Game of Thrones is also one of the company’s most important properties outside of DC, so we won’t hold our breath. It would, however, catapult FAST to the top of charts.