The company said more than 50% of its new sign-ups are for ad-supported plans in countries that offer the option. Netflix launched the option in November 2022 as one of its responses to a slowdown in subscriber growth.
This long-term collaboration between M6+ and Pluto TV includes M6 content channels on Pluto TV, a new Pluto TV-branded area on M6+, and an advertising agreement to scale the free ad-supported streaming business in France.
New research from Mediaocean showed that a growing number of consumers are cutting the cord and turning to streaming platforms for entertainment, increasingly choosing more affordable ad-supported tiers.
The agreement is to offer popular UK and US content in the UK. Today, Plex combines free ad-supported TV with ad-supported video on demand to, on its own, reach more than 22 million monthly active users globally.