Apple TV: $33 Billion
A new report claims that Apple is planning to greatly increase its Apple TV+ program library with at least one new show per week in 2022, plus it is currently spending half a billion on advertising.
As of May 2021, Apple TV+ was believed to have around 40 million subscribers, which beats Hulu and Paramount+, but leaves it far behind Netflix’s 208 million. Apple TV+ is also considered to have one of the smallest streaming libraries, but is reportedly now planning to greatly increase its quantity of original programs.
Disney: $24.5 Billion
Disney+ (103 million subscribers), Hulu (41.6 million), and ESPN+ (13.8 million) as well as ABC, Freeform, and Disney Channel.
WarnerMedia + Discovery: $20 Billion
Discovery (15 million subscribers) and WarnerMedia (64 million global HBO and HBO Max subscribers) . WarnerMedia’s properties also include Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Broadcasting (TBS, TNT), Adult Swim, and more.
NBCUniversal: $17.8 Billion
Peacock, NBCU NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, and others.
Netflix: $17 Billion
37 million new subscribers signed up to the service in 2020 alone.
ViacomCBS: $15 Billion
ViacomCBS has over 36 million streaming subscribers across Paramount+, Pluto TV, BET+, Showtime OTT and others. It also includes film studio Paramount Pictures and Comedy Central, MTV, BET, Nickelodeon, as well as the vast CBS empire.
Amazon Prime Video: $9 Billion
Amazon spent $8.5 billion on film and television content last year and a billion of that was for it’s 5 season Lord of the Rings series.
Content spending among the nine leading media and technology companies will reach $140.5 billion in 2022, up about 10% year-over-year, according to new data from Wells Fargo.