Streaming platforms in Australia

Free, ad-supported streaming service from Australia’s Nine Network. It live-streams Channel 9, 9Gem, 9Go!, 9Life and 9Rush, and leans on big sport: the Olympics (2026 Winter Games), the NRL, State of Origin and the Australian Open. Plus reality like The Block and Married at First Sight, drama and news. A free account is required; available in Australia only.

Brollie is a free, ad-supported Australian streaming service devoted to local film and television, run by independent distributor Umbrella Entertainment. Since its launch in November 2023 it has gathered remastered classics, cult and genre films, documentaries, series and an Indigenous Australia section, plus the twice-monthly picks of the Brollie Film Club. Signing up takes an email, no card required, and it streams in {availableCount} countries: Australia and New Zealand.

C31 Melbourne is a nonprofit, open-access community television station that has been on air since October 1994 and is run by volunteers from the Melbourne Community Television Consortium. It broadcasts free to air on digital channel 44 across Melbourne, Geelong and the surrounding region, and streams online through CTV+ with no sign-up required. Independent makers fill the schedule with multicultural shows in dozens of languages, indie music, sport and local news.

DocPlay is an Australian subscription service built around a single genre: documentary. Melbourne independent distributor Madman Entertainment launched it in 2016 with 125 titles; the library now holds close to two thousand films and series and grows twice a week. Expect festival hits, Oscar winners, environmental and social storytelling, music and true crime, all ad-free. It streams in {availableCount} countries: Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

Australia’s round-the-clock news channel, on air since 1996 and known as Sky News Australia until July 2026. It is run by Australian News Channel, part of News Corp Australia. Live news, politics, business and weather sit alongside opinion programmes such as The Bolt Report, Credlin and Paul Murray Live. A subscription runs directly on news24.com.au, with Foxtel and Binge as further routes. Outside Australia it is watched through the sister service Australia Channel.

Free streaming service from Network 10 (Paramount Australia & New Zealand) — live channels 10, 10 Comedy, 10 Drama, Nickelodeon, plus Pluto TV FAST channels integrated into the app, and on-demand reality (MasterChef AU, Survivor AU, The Bachelor), drama, news, and sport. Rebranded from “10 Play” to “10” in 2025.

The streaming service of Nine Entertainment and the largest Australian owned platform in the country. It carries the Stan Originals slate, a deep run of licensed American drama and studio films, including every episode of Yellowstone. Subscriptions are sold to Australian households only, signing up needs an Australian address and payment method, and live sport comes as the separate Stan Sport add-on.

Free, ad-supported streaming service from Australia’s Seven Network. It live-streams Channel 7, 7two, 7mate, 7flix and the reality channel 7Bravo plus 50+ FAST channels, with the AFL, cricket (the Ashes, Big Bash) and a deep archive of drama and reality. A free account is required, and it is available in Australia only.

Kayo Sports is an Australian sports streaming service launched in 2018. It’s run by Foxtel Group, which was acquired by Britain’s DAZN Group in April 2025. The platform carries 50+ sports — AFL, NRL, Formula 1 and cricket — both live and on demand. Its standout SplitView feature lets you follow up to four streams at once. Kayo is available in Australia only and is billed in Australian dollars.

The paid sport tier bolted onto a Stan subscription, sold with no free trial and never on its own. It is the exclusive Australian home of the Premier League and the FA Cup, adds the UEFA Champions, Europa and Conference League, and carries Super Rugby Pacific, the Wallabies, the Six Nations, all four tennis Grand Slams and motorsport from Formula E to the World Rally Championship, with no ad breaks during play.

Australian paid IPTV from the Foxtel Group (owned by DAZN). Live channels in themed bundles, sport via Fox Sports and ESPN, movie channels and 1000+ on-demand films. Subscription required.

Australian IPTV provider owned by Telstra (51%) and Astro Malaysia (49%). Since December 2025 the base is the monthly Fetch Access subscription covering free-to-air channels, a rotating film library and games; the Kids, Knowledge, Variety and Vibe packs, or the complete Ultimate bundle, are bought on top. Also video-on-demand, pay-per-view and integrated streaming apps (Netflix, Disney+, Stan). Available via Mighty (4K, 1TB DVR) or Mini (1080p HD) set-top boxes plus mobile/web apps.

Australian pay-per-view channel for live boxing, wrestling (WWE), MMA, concerts and special events. Not a subscription, each event is billed on its own. Since January 2024 it has been the only place to legally buy live UFC pay-per-view tournaments in Australia. Streamed via Foxtel iQ, Foxtel Now, Hubbl or the Kayo Sports app, where an active subscription is not required. The channel sits inside Foxtel Group, taken over by the British DAZN group in April 2025.

Australian specialist racing network owned by Tabcorp, on air since 1986. The Sky Racing 1, Sky Racing 2 and Sky Thoroughbred Central channels cover thoroughbred, harness and greyhound meetings from New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania, plus international cards. Access comes through a TAB betting account or a Media Centre media subscription. Race replays and a historical archive are included.

Australian public broadcaster ABC’s free, ad-free streaming service: on-demand catch-up, live channels and originals like the kids hit Bluey. A free ABC account is required to watch from 2026.

Australia’s paid entertainment streaming service from the Foxtel Group (owned by DAZN). Drama, reality, films and, since the 2026 revamp, lifestyle and live news. Subscription required.

Australian multicultural public broadcaster SBS’s free streaming service. International films, world drama, news, documentaries, and live channels — supported by light advertising.

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.

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.

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.

Paramount+ gathers the Paramount Pictures film vault, CBS prime-time drama, Nickelodeon kids programming and MTV reality into one subscription. The backbone is Taylor Sheridan’s growing slate of originals (the Yellowstone spin-offs 1923 and Lawman: Bass Reeves, plus Tulsa King), 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.

Disney+ is the one place where Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic sit alongside the general-entertainment hub Star. It launched globally in November 2019 and reached the Czech Republic in June 2022. Most markets now offer three tiers: an ad-supported entry plan plus the ad-free Standard (Full HD) and Premium (4K HDR with Dolby Atmos), while a few countries such as the Czech Republic keep only the two ad-free plans. Annual billing trims roughly two months off the yearly cost.