Streaming platforms in Mexico

In Latin America ESPN no longer has an app of its own. Since Star+ folded into Disney+ in 2024, its live channels, among them ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and ESPN Premium for Argentina’s top-flight football, stream only inside the Disney+ Premium plan. That single tier carries the CONMEBOL Libertadores and Sudamericana through 2030, 30 World Cup 2026 matches across South America, LaLiga, the Premier League, the NBA and Formula 1. ESPN reaches 17 Spanish-speaking countries, so from outside the region you need a local IP address and a Disney+ account from one of those markets.

Filmity is a curated film service powered by people, not an algorithm. Every day its team hand picks one premiere to spotlight, sitting alongside a thoughtful mix of independent, international and Latin American cinema plus recent Hollywood titles from the major studios soon after their cinema run. Everything streams in Spanish, ad free and in Full HD. Watch on three screens at once across the Latin American territories where Filmity is licensed.

ViX Premium is the paid upper tier of ViX, the largest Spanish-language streaming service, run by Miami-based TelevisaUnivision. It comes in with-ads and ad-free flavours, sitting above the free ViX Gratis layer that bundles more than a hundred live linear channels. The draw is the catalogue: telenovelas, Mexican and Latin American films, exclusive originals, news, kids’ programming, and live sport, most prominently Liga MX football for US viewers. With over ten million subscribers and turning a profit since 2024, the service targets Mexico, the US Hispanic audience, and most of Latin America. It runs in Spain only through the atresplayer tie-up, is geo-blocked elsewhere, and actively shuts out VPNs. Streams top out at 1080p.

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.

Red Bull TV is the streaming service from Red Bull Media House, and it is completely free. No subscription, no paywall, no ads inside the app. It leans into action and extreme sports, with Red Bull Cliff Diving, Red Bull Rampage and the UCI Mountain Bike World Series, alongside music from live festivals, documentaries and original series like Sky Trippers, URBEX and Sheckler Sessions. You also get live event broadcasts and a 24/7 linear channel. Watch on web, mobile, smart TV and game consoles, most of it in 1080p with select titles in 4K.

BBC News is the BBC’s free 24-hour international news channel, the rolling live service from Britain’s public broadcaster. Don’t confuse it with iPlayer: there are no films or box sets here, just breaking news, live coverage and analysis from trusted journalists. Outside the UK you can watch it free, with ads, on bbc.com/news, the BBC News YouTube channel and FAST apps such as Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus and Xumo Play. The unified BBC News brand launched in April 2023, streaming in up to 1080p.

Bloomberg streams live business and financial news for free. You get Bloomberg Television, whose Bloomberg TV+ feed runs in 4K, plus Bloomberg Originals, the documentary and series brand that replaced Quicktake in 2023. Expect live markets, finance, tech and talk shows. It streams free and unlimited on FAST apps like Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, The Roku Channel, Tubi and Amazon Freevee, and on YouTube. On bloomberg.com and the app the free preview caps around 15 minutes daily; full access is $34.99 a month. This is not the Bloomberg Terminal.

Euronews is a pan-European news channel that broadcasts around the clock in 13 language editions. Watching costs nothing: it runs on ads and streams live on euronews.com/live, across the official YouTube channels and on FAST services such as Plex, Tubi and Samsung TV Plus. Expect rolling coverage of European affairs, business, technology and culture, plus documentaries and factual programming. There is no premium tier and no film or series catalogue here, just public-interest journalism. Picture quality reaches 1080p, without HDR.

MyOutdoorTV is the streaming home of three channels: Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel, and World Fishing Network. You get more than 20,000 episodes covering hunting, fishing, shooting, and outdoor life, plus MOTV originals, how-to videos, live events such as Major League Fishing, and wild game recipes. There are no Hollywood movies or scripted series here, only non-fiction. The paid service streams in HD worldwide, with offline viewing through Take with Me. Content runs in English and German, with English subtitles.