


Please refer to our Credit Guide for more information. We also provide general advice on credit products under our own Credit Licence ACL 385509. Please refer to our FSG - Financial Products. Of course, here in Australia, it would be Foxtel predominantly under threat of losing rights to broadcast Discovery content.ĭisclaimer - Hive Empire Pty Ltd (trading as, ABN: 18 118 785 121) provides factual information, general advice and services on a range of financial products as a Corporate Authorised Representative (432664) of Centra Wealth Pty Ltd AFSL 422704. This is viewed by pundits across the ditch as a precursor to the arrival of Discovery+. This would gel with news out of New Zealand where Sky has lost the rights to Discovery content. Joining the dots on the press release and these 2 comments, there is at least some reason to hope for the arrival of Discovery+ in Australia before the end of 2021. His answer: "We expect to onboard most or all of those by the summer." Later I pushed Clive on his expectation on when the services revealed as "coming soon" would actually arrive. Hardly a denial, but certainly not an official acknowledgement.
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His answer wasn't awfully eye-opening: "No, we don't have any update on that." I pointed out to him that Discovery+ was revealed as an app coming to the SubHub service and queried if he knew when it would arrive. Shortly after the official announcement, I interviewed Optus vice president of TV, content and product development, Clive Dickens, about SubHub. When will Discovery+ launch in Australia? Included in the list of streaming video on-demand services coming to Optus SubHub were Netlfix, Fetch, Paramount Plus and, wait for it, Discovery+ (amongst others). The official press release sent to Finder alongside the announcement listed several partner services that would be available at launch, and more that would be coming in the near future. However, on 18 August 2021, Australian telecommunications giant Optus announced SubHub, a new subscription management tool. Fans have been calling for it, but so far there has been no official announcement. It's a documentary and lifestyle dominated service, which I'll run through in more detail below. One of the services already available overseas but not yet here in Australia is Discovery+. And it looks like there is more on the way. Just last week we were reviewing Paramount Plus, which joins approximately 30 other streaming video on-demand app options in Australia. During the SubHub reveal, Optus let slip that streaming video on-demand app Discovery+ was readying for a 2021 Australian release.Īustralians have 40 to 45 million subscriptions between them as of mid-2021, which is between 5 and 6 per household.
