Wallet-friendly streaming service Philo has inked a distribution deal with Kevin Hart’s media company Hartbeat to distribute two of the company’s free streaming channels on its platform.
Starting this week, users of Philo’s free TV service and those who subscribe to its pay TV packages will be able to stream the flagship LOL Network (stylized as LOL! Network) and LOL Stand-Up, which are among a group of seven new channels launching on the platform.
The seven channels launching this week on Philo’s free streaming TV service are:
- Declassified (Blue Ant Media)
- So Real
- Land of the Lost
- I (Almost) Got Away With It
- Nosey
- LOL Network
- LOL Stand-Up
The addition of the channels brings Philo’s free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) platform collection to more than 100 linear content streams, which includes content channels and marathon streams from Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), A+E Global Media, Blue Ant Media and others.
The FAST content channels are available to watch without a subscription. Philo also offers as base programming package of cable networks from WBD (Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, OWN), A+E Global Media (A&E Network, History Channel, Lifetime, Vice TV), AMC Networks (AMC, IFC, BBC America, BBC World News, Sundance, We TV), Paramount Global (Comedy Central, BET, MTV, VH1, TV Land, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network) and others for $28 per month — a price that also includes access to the ad-supported tier of AMC Plus.
Last month, The Desk reported Philo has 3.4 million active users across its free and premium tiers of service, with a collective 79 million monthly hours streamed. The majority of Philo’s active users are streamers between the ages of 18 and 55 years old, and the average Philo users streams around 3 hours of content each day, according to marketing materials produced by the company.
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Editor’s note: This story was updated to amend the name of Kevin Hart’s media company. It is Hartbeat.
