Stan (stylized as Stan.) is an Australian over-the-top streaming service. It was launched on 26 January 2015. Stan originally was founded as StreamCo Media, a 50/50

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acce ...

between

Nine Entertainment Co. Nine Entertainment (registered as Nine Entertainment Co. Pty Ltd) is an Australian publicly listed media company with holdings in radio and television broadcasting, newspaper publications and digital media. It uses Nine as its corporate brand ...

and

Fairfax Media Fairfax Media was a media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons, who purchased '' The Sydney Morning Hera ...

. 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, as of August 2020 Stan is the third largest streaming service in Australia, behind

Disney+ The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 1 ...

and

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a ...

. Stan's original comedy '' No Activity'' became the first SVOD program ever nominated for a

Logie Award The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine '' TV Week''. The first ceremony was held in 1959 as th ...

at the 2016 ceremony.

Content

At launch, the first major programming announcement was the exclusive rights to the premiere season of ''

Better Call Saul ''Better Call Saul'' is an American crime and legal drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. Part of the ''Breaking Bad'' franchise, it is a spin-off of Gilligan's previous series, '' Breaking Bad'', and serves as a ...

'' as well as the rights to ''

Breaking Bad ''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White ( Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited ...

'', 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,

Paramount Global Paramount Global (Trade name, doing business as Paramount) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational mass media and entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate owned and operated by National Amusements (79.4%) and headquar ...

, MGM,

BBC Worldwide BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in January 1995. The company monetises BBC brands, selling BBC and other British programming for broadca ...

Showtime Showtime or Show Time may refer to: Film * ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film * ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur Television Networks and channels * Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global ...

, 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 Comedy Central is an American basic cable channel owned by Paramount Global through its network division's MTV Entertainment Group unit, based in Manhattan. The channel is geared towards young adults aged 18–34 and carries comedy program ...

, MTV, and

Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television television channel, channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its List of assets owned by Param ...

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 The second incarnation of CBS Corporation (the first being a short-lived rename of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) was an American multinational media conglomerate with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, an ...

, which included exclusive rights to

original programs (before the launch of

Paramount+ Paramount+ is an American subscription video on-demand service owned by Paramount Global. The service's content is drawn primarily from the libraries of CBS Media Ventures (including CBS Studios), Paramount Media Networks (formerly Viacom Med ...

in August 2021). On 13 December 2018, Stan reached a content agreement with

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

to carry films and television series. The agreement ended in late-2019 due to the launch of

. On 20 August 2019, Stan reached an agreement with

Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...

, 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 NBCUniversal Media, LLC is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate corporation owned by Comcast and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. NBCUniversal is primaril ...

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 The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television ne ...

, 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 Wolf Creek may refer to: Bodies of water Missouri * Wolf Creek (Beaver Creek tributary) * Wolf Creek (Cane Creek tributary) * Wolf Creek (Cave Creek tributary) * Wolf Creek (Elkhorn Creek tributary) * Wolf Creek (South Grand River tributary) * W ...

'' series and a political drama based on the life of High Court judge

Lionel Murphy Lionel Keith Murphy QC (30 August 1922 – 21 October 1986) was an Australian politician, barrister, and judge. He was a Senator for New South Wales from 1962 to 1975, serving as Attorney-General in the Whitlam Government, and then sat on th ...

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 programs 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. These events are carried in a new add-on subscription known as Stan Sport, while the Nine Network holds free-to-air rights to portions of these packages. In 2021, Stan and Nine began a three-year contract with

Rugby Australia Rugby Australia Ltd, previously named the Australian Rugby Union Limited and Australian Rugby Football Union Limited, is an Australian company operating the premier rugby union competition in Australia and teams. It has its origins in 1949. It ...

to air

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of ru ...

on the Nine Network and Stan. Ending a long-standing agreement with Fox Sports and

Network 10 Network 10 (commonly known as Ten Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network owned by Ten Network Holdings, a division of the Paramount Networks UK & Australia subsidiary of Paramount Global. One of fi ...

, Stan holds the pay television rights, streaming all Super Rugby and Super W matches live and ad-free, as well as coverage of inbound tests involving Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, and South Africa, club matches, The Rugby Championship, the Bledisloe Cup, and the Shute Shield, among others. Stan and Nine also acquired rights to the

French Open The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and v ...

and Wimbledon tennis tournaments. In June 2021, Stan announced the acquisition of the rights to UEFA club competitions, including the

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...

beginning in August of 2021. In the same announcement it was also revealed that the

Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. ...

would be broadcast on the platform.

Magazine programs

Commentators

Rugby Union * Nick McArdle (Host- Internationals), 2021-present * Roz Kelly (Host- Internationals), 2021-present *

Sean Maloney Sean or Shaun Maloney may refer to: * Seán Maloney (Irish politician) (born 1945), Irish politician * Sean Patrick Maloney (born 1966), American Democratic Party politician in New York state * Sean Maloney (baseball) (born 1971), former American M ...

(Main Caller- Internationals), 2021-present *

Andrew Swain Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derive ...

(Secondary Caller- Internationals), 2021-present * Michael Chennel (Caller- Super W), 2021 * Martin Lippiatt (Caller- Super W), 2021 * Greg Clark (Caller- Super W), 2021 * Tim Horan (Expert Analysis), 2021-present * Drew Mitchell (Expert Analysis), 2021-present * Andrew Mehrtens (Expert Analysis), 2021-present * Allana Ferguson (Expert Analysis), 2021-present * Morgan Turinui (Expert Analysis), 2021-present * Justin Harrison (Expert Analysis), 2021-present * David Campese (Expert Analysis), 2021-present *

Michael Cheika Michael Cheika (born 4 March 1967) is an Australian rugby union and rugby league coach, and former rugby union player. He is currently head coach of Argentina in rugby union and Lebanon in rugby league. Cheika was the coach of the Australi ...

(Expert Analysis), 2021-present * Will Genia (Expert Analysis), 2021-present *

Sonny Bill Williams Sonny Bill Williams (born 3 August 1985) is a New Zealand heavyweight boxer, and a former professional rugby league and rugby union player and as of recently is working for Stan Sports. He is only the second person to represent New Zealand in ...

(Expert Analysis), 2021-present *

James Horwill James Horwill (born 29 May 1985) is an Australian former rugby union player, who has played for the Australian national side, with 61 caps to his name. He captained the Wallabies a number of times, including during the 2011 Rugby World Cup. H ...

(Expert Analysis), 2021-present *

Heath Tessmann Heath Tessmann (born 3 March 1984 in Ayr, Australia) is a rugby union footballer. His regular playing position is hooker. He represented the Rebels in Super Rugby, making his franchise debut in Week 1 of the 2011 Super Rugby season and continuing ...

(Expert Analysis), 2021-present * Sera Naiqama (Expert Analysis), 2021-present * Dane Haylett-Petty (Expert Analysis), 2021-present *

Gemma Etheridge Gemma Etheridge (born 1 December 1986) is a semi-professional Australian Rugby Union player. She represents Australia in Sevens Rugby. Born in Tamworth, New South Wales and playing for The Tribe at a club level, she debuted for Australia i ...

(Expert Analysis, Sideline), 2021 *

Alicia Lucas Alicia Jane Lucas (née Quirk; born 28 March 1992) is a former professional Australian rugby union player. She represented in international rugby sevens and won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Biography Lucas was born in ...

(Expert Analysis, Sideline), 2021 *

Nick Stiles Nick Stiles (born 17 October 1973) is an Australian professional rugby union coach and a former player for the Queensland Reds. He also played in twelve Tests for Australia as a loosehead prop. Family and early life Stiles was born in Melbourne ...

(Expert Analysis), 2021 * Pat McCabe (Expert Analysis), 2021 * Mollie Gray (Sideline), 2021 * Mick Colliss (WA Sideline), 2021-present * Clint Stanaway (VIC Sideline), 2021-present *

Paddy Sweeney Paddy may refer to: People *Paddy (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname *An ethnic slur for an Irishman Birds *Paddy (pigeon), a Second World War carrier pigeon *Snowy sheathbill or paddy, a bird species *Black-faced sh ...

(WA Sideline), 2021-present * Michael Atkinson (QLD Sideline), 2021-present * Jeff McTainsh (NZ Sideline), 2021-present Tennis (French Open, Wimbledon) * Nick McArdle (Host), 2021-present * Roz Kelly (Host), 2021-present * Darren Parkinhost (Host), 2021-present * Clint Stanaway (Host), 2021-present * Todd Woodbridge (Host/Commentator), 2021-present * Brett Philips (Host/Commentator), 2021-present * Sam Groth (Commentator), 2021-present * Jelena Dokic (Commentator), 2021-present * Wally Masur, 2022-present * Chris Stubbs, 2022-present Football (Champions League) * Roz Kelly (Host), 2021-present * Max Rushden (Host), 2021-present * Ed Kavalee (Host), 2021-present * Tom Steinfort (Fill-in host) 2022-present * Craig Foster (Commentator), 2021-present * Mark Bosnich (Commentator), 2021-present *

Grace Gill Grace Gill-McGrath (born 27 June 1989) is a retired Australian soccer player, who played for Canberra United in the Australian W-League and for Slovácko in the Czech Women's First League. Gill now works as a pundit & expert commentator in b ...

(Commentator), 2021-present * Mark Pougatch (Sideline Commentator), 2021-present * Alicia Ferguson (Sideline Commentator), 2021-present *

Jordan Jarrett-Bryan Jordan Jarrett-Bryan (born 1983) from Dulwich in South London, is a Channel 4 News sports reporter, DJ, and journalist. Jarrett-Bryan started in journalism as editor of the youth publication, ''Live Magazine'' and then ''ATM Magazine''. During ...

(Sideline Commentator). 2022-present

Stan Event

Stan Event is a add-on pay-per-view proposition for boxing events.

Marketing and subscription numbers

At launch, Australian actress Rebel Wilson promoted the service. Parent company

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

had 1.039 million Australian users, compared to 97,000 for former competitor

Presto Presto may refer to: Computing * Presto (browser engine), an engine previously used in the Opera web browser * Presto (operating system), a Linux-based OS by Xandros * Presto (SQL query engine), a distributed query engine * Presto (animation s ...

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.

Subscribers

Supported devices

Hardware supported

The devices on this list are supported by Stan: *

Apple TV An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus '' Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, ...

(since 13 May 2015) *

Apple An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus '' Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ances ...

iPad Pro The iPad Pro is a premium model of Apple's iPad tablet computer. It runs iPadOS, a tablet-optimized version of the iOS operating system. The original iPad Pro was introduced in September 2015, and ran iOS 9. The second-generation iPad ...

12.9" and 9.7" *

iPad 2 and all later generations *

iPad Air The iPad is a brand of iOS and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple Inc. The iPad was conceived before the related iPhone but the iPhone was developed and released first. Speculation about the development, operating ...

and all later generations *

iPad Mini and all later generations *

Android Android may refer to: Science and technology * Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human * Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system ** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...

tablets and phones running Jelly Bean 4.2 or higher * Google Chromecast *

Sony , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...

PlayStation 3 The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on Novemb ...

(since 8 October 2015) *

PlayStation 4 The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, November 29, 2013 in ...

(since 8 October 2015) *

PlayStation 5 The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 4 in April 2019, it was launched on November 12, 2020, in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North A ...

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation, multinational technology company, technology corporation producing Software, computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at th ...

Xbox One The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to Xbox 360 and the third base console in the Xbox series of video game consoles. It was first released in North America, parts of ...

(since 13 January 2016) *

Xbox Series X and Series S The Xbox Series X/S are home video game consoles developed by Microsoft. They were both released on November 10, 2020, as the fourth generation Xbox, succeeding the Xbox One. Along with Sony's PlayStation 5, also released in November 2020 ...

* Telstra TV (Since December 2015) Stan does not support jailbroken iOS devices.

Software supported

Supported

web browser A web browser is application software for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used on ...

s by platform: *

macOS macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of ...

: Safari, Google Chrome,

WebKit WebKit is a browser engine developed by Apple and primarily used in its Safari web browser, as well as on the iOS and iPadOS version of any web browser. WebKit is also used by the BlackBerry Browser, PlayStation consoles beginning from the ...

or Firefox *

Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...

: Safari, Google Chrome,

Internet Explorer Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical user interface, graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Microsoft Wind ...

, Microsoft Edge, Opera or Firefox *

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which i ...

: Google Chrome or Firefox *

iOS *

tvOS *

References

External links

* {{Subscription television channels in Australia Subscription video on demand services Australian streaming companies Australian companies established in 2015 Internet properties established in 2015 Internet television streaming services Companies based in Sydney Nine Entertainment PlayStation 3 software PlayStation 4 software Xbox One software