Customers slightly more satisfied with ad-free options, survey reveals
A new survey revealed customers are happier with ad-free streaming services compared to ad-supported options — but only slightly.
Paramount Plus (stylized as Paramount+) is a streaming television service owned and operated by Paramount Global. The service replaced CBS All Access, which originally launched in 2014.
Paramount Plus offers television shows from the libraries of BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Smithsonian Channel and VH1 along with movies from Paramount Pictures. It also carries licensed content from third party distributors.
Paramount Plus costs $6 a month with advertisements or $10 a month without advertisements, and offers a free trial for new and returning customers.
A new survey revealed customers are happier with ad-free streaming services compared to ad-supported options — but only slightly.
Retail giant Walmart will offer Paramount Plus for free to members of its $13-a-month Walmart Plus subscription service.
Walmart has held discussions with several media companies on a partnership that could allow Walmart Plus membership to access a streaming TV service.
Paramount Global said it added 5.2 million global subscribers to end its recent quarter with 64 million global subscribers.
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CBS is sticking with the basics and will air reality shows, sitcoms and hour-long dramas throughout the week.
Paramount Plus will launch in two more countries next month, followed by a broader international expansion to take place later this year.
The international media company once known as ViacomCBS will be called Paramount Global going forward.
Executives at ViacomCBS have put on hold a planned re-brand of its flagship cable channel, Paramount Network.
Comcast and ViacomCBS are partnering on a new streaming service called Sky Showtime that will launch in Europe later this year.