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The company is already in talks with entertainment companies about participating in the YouTube marketplace.

The pitch is that the new YouTube channel store would offer great marketing for streaming services because consumers could watch trailers of shows or movies free on YouTube and then easily pay to subscribe to the service.

There is an obnoxious amount of streaming content these days. Ninety-three percent of Americans plan on either increasing their paid streaming services or making no change to their existing plans, according to Nielsen’s newly released State of Play report. Despite this, nearly half of survey respondents complain that there are too many options.    The […]

Verizon’s new streaming subscription hub resembles cable bundles of old: Streaming services are fighting tooth and nail to get ahead in a congested field.

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the […]

Verizon said during its Thursday Investor Day event that it plans to launch a streaming hub for customers to explore and manage streaming subscriptions and will partner with Meta on building the metaverse.