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An over-the-top media service (OTT) is a streaming media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses cable , broadcast , and satellite television platforms, the companies that traditionally act as controllers or distributors of such content.
OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms—the media through which companies have traditionally acted as controllers or distributors of such content. This content may include shows and movies for which the OTT acquired licensed rights from the content owner.
Tubi (stylized as tubi) is an American over-the-top content platform and free ad-supported streaming television owned by Fox Corporation since 2020. [2] [3] The service was launched on April 1, 2014, and is based in Los Angeles, California. [4] [5] As of May 2024, it had 80 million monthly active users. [6]
Platforms following this model include Pluto TV, Rakuten TV, The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus, Tubi, and Xumo. These services stand apart from platforms predominantly featuring user-generated content (like YouTube and Twitch), as well as from subscription-based services (like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix). The term was coined by Alan Wolk to ...
Pluto TV first launched its beta website on March 31, 2014, and was co-founded by chairman and CEO Nick Grouf, Tom Ryan, and Ilya Pozin. [10] [11] Pluto TV was originally developed to provide curated channels of existing online content, offering a slate of nearly 100 categorized channels featuring content aggregated from various video-sharing platforms (including YouTube, Vimeo, and ...
The Roku Channel was launched in September 2017 as a free, ad-supported streaming television service ("FAST"), [1] [12] available to viewers in the U.S. [13] Roku's CEO Anthony Wood stated in the same month that the channel was a "way for content owners to publish their content on Roku without writing an app". [14]
Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as television series and films, streamed over the Internet. [1] Standing in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air aerial systems, cable television, and/or satellite television systems, [2] streaming television is provided as over-the-top media (OTT), [3] or as Internet Protocol ...
On January 14, 2019, NBCUniversal announced plans to launch an over-the-top streaming service in 2020, which would feature original and library content, and be available in free advertising-supported and paid ad-free versions. [9]