Stan (service)

Stan (stylised as Stan.) is an Australian subscription video streaming service. It was launched on 26 January 2015. Stan originally was founded as StreamCo Media, a joint venture between Nine Entertainment Co. and Fairfax Media. In August 2014, each company invested A$50 million in StreamCo. StreamCo was renamed Stan Entertainment in December 2014, prior to the January 2015 launch of the streaming service. Nine Entertainment would ultimately acquire Fairfax Media in 2018, making Stan a wholly owned subsidiary of Nine Digital.
The service offers a broad-range of film and television content from both local and foreign productions, particularly from the United States and United Kingdom. Stan also includes a growing library of their own original film and television content.
With over 2.3 million subscribers, Stan is the second largest streaming service in Australia, behind Netflix.
Stan's original comedy "No Activity" became the first SVOD program ever nominated for a Logie Award at the 2016 ceremony.
Content.
At launch, the first major programming announcement was the exclusive rights to the premiere season of "Better Call Saul" as well as the rights to "Breaking Bad", which previously aired on Foxtel. It also held the rights to "Transparent" and "Mozart in the Jungle".
The company has a content partnership deal with Sony Pictures, ABC, SBS and its World Movies subsidiary, ViacomCBS, MGM, BBC Worldwide, Showtime, CBS, Village Roadshow, and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution. In December 2014, Stan signed non-exclusive agreements with ABC Commercial and Viacom, with the latter covering Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon programming.
In August 2015, Stan signed a multi-year deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, bringing several new U.S. series to the platform, including Australian premiere series "A to Z" and "Selfie", as well as the third season of "The Following" (the first two seasons aired on the Nine Network). In 2016, Stan reached an exclusive multi-year deal with CBS Corporation, which included exclusive rights to Showtime original programmes.
On 13 December 2018, Stan reached a content agreement with Disney to carry films and television series. The agreement ended in late-2019 due to the launch of Disney+. On 20 August 2019, Stan reached an agreement with Paramount Pictures, carrying some of its films, and series such as "The Great" and "Looking for Alaska". In August 2020, Stan reached a multi-year agreement with NBCUniversal for rights to content from Sky Studios and its U.S. streaming service Peacock.
Original content.
Stan has commissioned its parent company, the Nine Network, to produce original Australian drama series exclusive to the service and has approached ABC and SBS on the possibility of co-producing shows and films. On 16 February 2015, Stan announced it was developing two original series—a "Wolf Creek series" and a political drama based on the life of High Court judge Lionel Murphy titled "Enemies of the State", with additional productions to be announced in the coming months. On 10 March 2015, it was announced Stan had acquired "Plonk", a comedic wine program which had formerly aired on Eleven, premiering season two on 18 June 2015. On 1 May 2015, Stan announced its first commissioned series, a comedy titled "No Activity"; which premiered on 22 October 2015. Stan renewed "No Activity" on 15 December 2015 for a second season.
Acquired exclusives.
The following is a list of acquired programmes which have had their Australian premiere on Stan.
Stan Sport.
In November 2020, Stan began to acquire sports rights in association with Nine's Wide World of Sports, acquiring pay television rights to rugby union matches under a three-year deal negotiated with Rugby Australia that commenced in 2021. Ending a long-standing agreement with Fox Sports and Network 10, Stan stream all Super Rugby AU, Super Rugby Aotearoa, and Super W matches live and ad-free, as well as coverage of events including inbound tests involving Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, and South Africa, club matches, The Rugby Championship, the Bledisloe Cup, and the Shute Shield. among others. These are carried in a new add-on subscription known as Stan Sport, portions of air free-to-air on the Nine Network. The service also acquired rights to the French Open and The Championships, Wimbledon.
Current events streamed.
Stan Sport holds streaming rights to the following events:
Marketing and subscription numbers.
At launch, Australian actress Rebel Wilson promoted the service.
Parent company Fairfax Media claimed they were approaching 100,000 customers by March 2015, however, many of these customers were on a 30-day trial period. In May 2015, Fairfax announced the service was nearing 200,000 subscribers and had a target of 300,000 to 400,000 by the year's end.
In May 2015, Roy Morgan Research found that Netflix had 1.039 million Australian users, compared to 97,000 for former competitor Presto and 91,000 for Stan. In October 2015, Nine Entertainment claimed that Stan had between 150,000 and 200,000 paying subscribers, which they said was ahead of Presto's estimated 100,000 customers.
One year after its launch, CEO Mike Sneesby announced that 1.5 million users had used the service across almost 700,000 subscriptions. In December 2016 Stan claimed to have 600,000 active subscribers. In November 2017 it was reported that the service had over 800,000 active subscribers and revenue topping $100 million a year.
Stan reached 1 million active subscribers in June 2018. By December 2019, the service had over 1.8 million subscribers. 
As of August 2020, Stan passed the 2 million subscriber mark reaching 2.1 million subscribers in total. 
As of May 2021, Stan passed 2.3 million active subscribers and more than 4 million people that had entered their credit card details on the platform. Stan gained nearly 150,000 sport subscribers since it began broadcasting rugby union matches earlier this year.
Supported devices.
Hardware supported.
The devices on this list are supported by Stan:
Stan does not support jailbroken iOS devices.
Software supported.
Supported web browsers by platform: