YouTube's live TV streaming service reportedly has more than 1 million paying subscribers
The cable alternative costs $40 per month and comes with access to both broadcast channels such as ABC and CBS and popular cable networks, including TNT, TBS, CNN, and ESPN.
Bloomberg also reported that Hulu's live streaming service has amassed more than 2 million subscribers., Bloomberg reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The streaming media giant has never officially reported its subscriber numbers. The new figure from Bloomberg is the first update on the service's subscribers since last July, whenNews of the service reaching the 1-million-subscriber milepost comes just a few weeks after the Super Bowl, which likely boosted its numbers.
"Sports helps bring people in and then programming [such as 'The Big Bang Theory,' 'The Voice,' and other shows] is stuff that people still care about and love to watch every day," said Oestlien, a director of product management at YouTube.in January, YouTube TV is now available to 98% of people living in the US.
Even if YouTube TV trails Hulu, it stands out from YouTube's other paid offerings for doing as well as it has. The Google-owned company, which has long dominated the ad-supported streaming video market, has repeatedly flailed at trying to create successful paid services., its short-lived attempt to create a kind of subscription-based competitor to Netflix and Amazon Prime.
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