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  • Apple allows free streaming of Apple TV+ original content for first weekend of 2025

    Apple allows free streaming of Apple TV+ original content for first weekend of 2025

    Following several days of teasers, Apple confirmed on Monday that its Apple TV+ streaming service will be free for the weekend of January 4 and January 5. During this time, customers can stream all Apple Originals with no subscription required.

    This free weekend promotion will help garner awareness for the service as we embark on the new year, with major launches like Severance season two starting later this month.

    To access the content, simply open the Apple TV app on a supported platform during that time frame.

    Apple TV+ offers hit shows such as Bad Sisters, Blitz, Fly Me to the Moon, For All Mankind, Severance, Foundation, and Ted Lasso, and enters 2025 with more than 250 original shows and movies in total, but continues to struggle to garner meaningful viewership. Although Apple doesn’t release numbers itself, Apple originals only appeared on the U.S. Nielsen streaming charts a handful of times in 2024.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via 9to5Mac

  • Nielsen ratings show more than 54.5 monthly Apple Music app users in 2015

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    While specific Apple Music user numbers have yet to be released, the early estimates are looking good.

    A year end report from consumer research firm Nielsen states that Apple Music was one of the most popular smartphone apps of 2015, and with more than 54.5 million monthly users ranked among offerings from Facebook and Google.

    Apple’s streaming music service came in at No. 9 on Nielsen’s Top Smartphone Apps of 2015 chart, notching over 54.5 million average monthly users in the U.S. from January to October. That number is up 26 percent compared to the same time last year, a growth rate second only to Facebook Messenger.

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