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Kayo Sports is the Australian sports streaming service that belongs to the Foxtel group (Hubbl) and launched in November 2018. It carries more than 50 sports live and on-demand, with a strong core built around the AFL, NRL, Formula 1, MotoGP, cricket, netball and Supercars. Signature features include SplitView (up to four camera feeds at once), Key Moments jump-through and No Spoilers mode for catch-up viewing. The One tier is priced at 25 AUD a month, Basic at 35 AUD, and the service is available in Australia only.

Stan is the leading Australian streaming service, run since 2015 by media group Nine Entertainment. Its catalogue of roughly 2,500 titles spans Hollywood library content, a steady flow of Stan Originals (Bump, Scrublands, The Tourist) and long-standing exclusivity on Starz and large parts of the Lionsgate slate for the Australian market. Three tiers (Basic, Standard, Premium) differ in resolution up to 4K and the number of simultaneous streams. Stan is available in Australia only.

DAZN is a sports-first streaming service built to compete with traditional pay-TV sports channels. The schedule shifts dramatically from country to country: in Germany it carries the Bundesliga and Champions League matches, in Italy it owns the majority of Serie A, in Japan it runs baseball and boxing. The global side of DAZN remains its combat sports division, where it has become one of the biggest buyers of marquee boxing pay-per-view events.

Netflix didn’t invent streaming but it set the rules everyone else now plays by. With 325 million paying subscribers across 190 countries and a stable of shows like Squid Game, Stranger Things and Wednesday, it still defines what mainstream streaming looks like. Recent pushes into live sports and ad-supported plans show the company is willing to bend its own playbook when the market demands it.

Amazon Prime Video lives inside the wider Prime bundle, so streaming is only part of what you’re paying for. The content mix is unusual: splashy originals (The Boys, The Rings of Power, Reacher) sit next to a huge catalogue of movies available to rent or buy and a growing set of optional add-on Channels. Prime has also turned into a heavyweight in live sports, from Thursday Night Football to Champions League in select markets.

Disney+ is the one place where Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic live under the same roof, plus the general-entertainment arm Star. Launched globally in November 2019 and in the Czech Republic in June 2022, it keeps things simple with two ad-free tiers: Standard (Full HD, two streams) and Premium (4K HDR, Dolby Atmos, four streams). Annual billing knocks roughly two months off the price.

Max is Warner Bros. Discovery’s attempt to keep everything important in one app: HBO’s prestige catalogue, the DC Universe, Warner Bros. theatrical slate and the reality-heavy Discovery library. The product still leans on HBO’s reputation for Sunday-night event TV (Succession, The Last of Us, House of the Dragon) but the expanded library means there is something for almost every household.

Apple TV+ takes the opposite approach to almost everyone else: no licensed back catalogue, only original productions. The result is a comparatively small library where misses are rare and hits like Ted Lasso, Severance, Slow Horses and For All Mankind have picked up Emmys. A single tier covers 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos, and the service is bundled into Apple One for households already invested in the Apple ecosystem.

Paramount+ gathers the Paramount Pictures film vault, CBS prime-time drama, Nickelodeon kids programming and MTV reality into one subscription. The backbone is the Taylor Sheridan universe (Yellowstone, 1923, Lawman: Bass Reeves), with Star Trek carrying the sci-fi side and South Park providing the decades-old evergreen. In select regions the service also carries NFL games and UEFA Champions League, blurring the line with traditional sports packages.