A little more than five years after its debut, YouTube TV has reached 5 million subscribers and free trial users.

Even if the real number of paid subscribers is somewhat fewer than 5 million when trials are taken into account, YouTube TV is still probably the largest internet pay-TV provider and the fifth-largest TV distributor overall in the United States based on this figure.

Only Comcast, Charter, DirecTV, and Dish Network are ahead of it.

Disney reported in its most recent quarterly report that 4.1 million people had signed up for its streaming subscription package Hulu + Live TV.

In reference to their initial value proposition of providing a slimmer assortment of channels at a cheaper price point and the ability to let clients connect and disconnect with a touch of a mobile phone, internet TV packagers that first appeared in the 2010s were known as “thin bundles.”

As their programming expenses eventually escalated over time, so did their client prices, and they ran into conflict during carriage negotiations.

Due to a disagreement over carriage fees, regional sports networks, for instance, have only seldom been included in streaming bundles.

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