Stan (company)

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Stan
Industry Streaming media
Founded 2013
Headquarters Sydney, NSW, AUS
Area served
 Australia
Products Internet streaming
Parent StreamCo
Website Stan website

Stan is an Australian streaming company which offers subscription to unlimited viewing of selected movies and TV shows. Originally due to launch in February 2015,[1] it, instead, launched on Australia Day (the 26th of January) 2015.[2]

Stan is owned by StreamCo, which is a joint venture of Nine Entertainment Co. and Fairfax Media. Both these companies injected AU$50 million each into StreamCo in August 2014. The service could be bundled with subscriptions to Fairfax Media's newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.[3]

It competes against Australian streaming companies Quickflix and the Foxtel/Seven West Media joint venture Presto Entertainment, as well as American based Netflix which launches in early 2015. Australian actress Rebel Wilson is promoting the service.[1]

Content[edit]

At launch, the first major programming announcement was the exclusive rights to the premiere season of Better Call Saul as well as the rights to Breaking Bad, which previously aired on Foxtel.[4] Australia recorded the highest rates of piracy of Breaking Bad in the world.[5] Stan will also hold rights to Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle.[6]

The company has a content partnership deal with Sony Pictures,[4] ABC,[7] SBS and its World Movies subsidiary,[8] Viacom,[9] MGM,[10] BBC Worldwide,[11] Showtime,[12] CBS,[12] and Village Roadshow.[13]

On 15 December 2014, Stan signed a non-exclusive agreement with ABC Commercial, which will include hundreds of hours from the mostly Australian ABC Television back catalogue including popular series Summer Heights High, Ja'mie: Private School Girl, Upper Middle Bogan, It’s a Date, The Moodys, Angelina Ballerina, Bob the Builder, Thomas and Friends, The Wiggles, Redfern Now, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Jack Irish and Janet King.[7]

On 17 December 2014, Stan signed another non-exclusive agreement with Viacom Global Networks, giving it streaming rights to MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon television shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, iCarly, VICTORiOUS, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, Teen Mom, My Super Sweet Sixteen, Geordie Shore, South Park, Tosh.0 and Reno 911.[9]

Stan is also commissioning its joint owner, the Nine Network, to produce original Australian drama series exclusive to the service and has approached ABC and SBS on the possibility of co-producing shows and films.[14] On 16 February 2015, Stan announced its first two original productions are to be a Wolf Creek spin-off and a political drama based on the life of High Court judge Lionel Murphy titled Enemies of the State, with additional productions to be announced in the coming months.[15]

Popularity[edit]

Parent company Fairfax Media claims they were approaching 100,000 customers by March 2015, however many of these customers are on a 30 day trial period.[16]

Supported Devices[edit]

Hardware Supported[edit]

The devices on this list are supported by Stan:[17]

Stan does not support jailbroken iOS devices.[18] The position on rooted Android devices has not been stated.

Software Supported[edit]

Supported web browsers by platform:[19]

Other software:

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Chris Pash (5 November 2014). "Here's How Australia's New Streaming Service 'Stan' Is Squaring Up To Netflix". Business Insider Australia. Retrieved 8 December 2014. 
  2. ^ "Video streaming service Stan to launch on Australia Day". Mumbrella. January 22, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2015. 
  3. ^ Dominic White (5 November 2014). "Fairfax, Nine announce joint venture streaming service". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 December 2014. 
  4. ^ a b Christensen, Nic (5 November 2014). "Streaming service Stan to have ‘truly Australian character’, secures exclusive rights to Breaking Bad spin off". Mumbrella. Retrieved 8 December 2014. 
  5. ^ Hopewell, Luke (1 October 2013). "Breaking Bad Finale Sees Australians Beat The World At Piracy... Again". Gizmodo. Retrieved 8 December 2014. 
  6. ^ Ward, Miranda (6 January 2015). "Stan signs Amazon Prime shows, announces pricing and kicks off pre-launch campaign". Mumbrella. Retrieved 6 January 2015. 
  7. ^ a b Hayes, Alex (15 December 2014). "Presto picks up HBO content but Game of Thrones ‘won’t not be available on SVOD services worldwide’". Mumbrella. Retrieved 15 December 2014. 
  8. ^ Ward, Miranda (26 November 2014). "SBS and World Movies to be available on streaming service Stan". Mumbrella. Retrieved 8 December 2014. 
  9. ^ a b "Stan signs deal with Viacom". Mumbrella. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2015. 
  10. ^ Idato, Michael (14 November 2014). "Australian streaming service Stan signs deal with MGM and secures Fargo". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 January 2015. 
  11. ^ Ward, Miranda (2 December 2014). "Nine and Fairfax’s streaming service Stan signs content deal with BBC Worldwide". Mumbrella. Retrieved 8 December 2014. 
  12. ^ a b Herbison, Michelle (8 December 2014). "Media Monday". Marking Mag. Retrieved 8 December 2014. 
  13. ^ Groves, Don (28 January 2015). "Stan snags Roadshow". C21 Media. Retrieved 1 February 2015. 
  14. ^ "StreamCo to Show Class With Content". Australian Financial Review. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014. 
  15. ^ Knox, David (16 February 2015). "Stan developing local Aussie dramas Wolf Creek, Enemies of the State.". TV Tonight. Retrieved 25 February 2015. 
  16. ^ "Stan on track to hit 100,000 subscribers, says Fairfax". Mumbrella. Retrieved March 3, 2015. 
  17. ^ "Stan Support - What devices can I use to watch Stan". Stan. Retrieved 5 January 2015. 
  18. ^ http://help.stan.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/203323630-Can-I-use-Stan-on-a-jailbroken-phone-
  19. ^ "Stan Support - Supported Browsers". Retrieved 5 January 2015. 

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