Listen up, everyone, because your Disney Plus account just got a shiny new upgrade – well, if you meet two specific criteria, anyway.
Yesterday (September 30), Disney officially revealed that Streams, a brand-new feature that adds seasonal live channel functionality to one of the world’s best streaming services, had been rolled out to its userbase. According to a Disney press release, Streams will enhance the platform’s live feed offering with four extra live feeds of “carefully curated, continuous programming” that’ll appeal to every type of House of Mouse fan.
Three of the newly unveiled Streams – Hits & Heroes, Throwbacks, and Real Life – are expected to be mainstays in the service. Meanwhile, the fourth and final Streams option will periodically deliver seasonal content to users. The first of these seasonally-themed curated live feeds is called Hallowstream, and it features a plethora of spooky and horror-fuelled offerings from Disney’s extensive back catalog in time for – surprise surprise – Halloween.
As for the others: Hit & Heroes is a compilation of action-packed narratives that span the breadth of Disney-owned franchises, including Marvel, Star Wars, and Walt Disney Pictures. Throwbacks, meanwhile, is a Streams live channel that’ll scratch your nostalgia itch for content of yesteryear. Finally, Real Life will deliver an engrossing lineup of biopics, true story projects, and documentaries produced by the entertainment titan.
This quartet join the first two Streams – ABC News and Disney Plus Playtime – that launched on the platform in early September. According to Disney, this Streams pair has already resulted in a viewership upturn on its primary streaming service, with over 10 million hours streamed across ABC News and Disney Plus Playtime. Evidently, then, Disney is banking on its new Streams additions to perform just as well, if not better, by bringing some of the best Disney Plus movies and best Disney Plus shows to subscribers on a 24/7 basis.
New ways to stream – but only for specific subscribers