HBO Max Overtakes Disney+ To Become The Third Largest Streaming Platform In The US.
Competition between the streaming services continues to get more fierce, with studios spending billions on creating new content for their streaming platforms, in addition to many spending billions on acquisitions.
Some new data has been released by JustWatch, showcasing the market shares of streaming services for the first quarter of 2022!
HBO Max saw the most growth in Q1, adding +2% market share and overtaking Disney+ and Hulu to become the third-largest streaming platform in the US. Netflix remains the market leader, but has continued to feel the effects of the increasingly competitive market and fell -2% in Q1.
Though, if you take both Disney’s streaming services, Hulu and Disney+. They have a 24% stake (almost a quarter) of the market share, just ahead of Netflix. It shows how merging them would make the combined streaming service much more powerful, which is how Disney+ operates internationally in many countries.
Though the numbers of Amazon Prime Video subscribers should always be viewed slightly differently, since there are lots of Amazon Prime members who are using it for the free shipping, rather than using it to watch films and shows, Amazon has never stated how many Prime members actually use the video option.
Since January, HBO Max has continued to gain momentum and added +1% market share, passing a standstill Disney+. The growth of midfield players Apple TV+ and Paramount+ affected market leaders Netflix and Hulu, which each lost -1% since the beginning of 2022.
Disney+ has been pretty flat with its market share in the past few months, while many of the other streaming services grow.
HBO Max is also likely to increase its market share when it eventually merges with Discovery+, following the merger of Warner Brothers Discovery.
With more competition within the streaming business, Netflix has continued to lose its share of the market, which is also impacting Hulu, as each year, it loses more content from existing contracts ending.
What do you think of HBO Max pushing past Disney+and Hulu?
Roger Palmer
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Disney does not need to buy anything else to compete.Just let Disney have competition.I didn't even think they were gonna approve the Fox purchase
I wonder what proportion of the market share Disney will have when it combines Hulu/Disney+ content in some way to one app (which I assume will be Disney+)? I assume that there is already some overlap (between Hulu and Disney+ subscribers) but I suspect that Disney+ will have a much bigger share of the market than HBO
They obviously need to merge Disney+ and Hulu.. I'm not paying for both and I doubt I'm alone in that.