{"id":57120,"date":"2025-08-07T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=57120"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:03:14","slug":"hulu-is-shutting-down-its-streaming-platform-and-its-all-because-of-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/08\/07\/hulu-is-shutting-down-its-streaming-platform-and-its-all-because-of-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Is Shutting Down Its Streaming Platform and It\u2019s All Because of Disney+"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hulu<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>will change forever next year, and it’s all due to Disney’s more popular streaming platform, Disney+. After acquiring full ownership of Hulu earlier this year, the company has decided to\u00a0combine its streaming efforts<\/a>\u00a0into one new app. Now, Hulu and Disney+ will live under one home, but it’s the latter that will show up on your home entertainment devices.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Disney has announced that Hulu’s standalone streaming platform will be shut down in favor of a unified experience on a new version of Disney+. Users will still be able to purchase a Hulu subscription, but it will be through the Disney+ app. Of course, a combo deal for both streamers will likely be available as it is now. The Hulu platform will slowly be phased out until it is fully integrated into Disney+ sometime in 2026. Disney CEO Bob Iger and CFO Hugh Johnston stated the following about the major streaming announcement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday we are announcing a major step forward in strengthening our streaming offering by fully integrating Hulu into Disney+. This will create an impressive package of entertainment, pairing the highest-caliber brands and franchises, great general entertainment, family programming, news and industry-leading live sports content in a single app.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hulu’s integration into Disney+ is not a shocking development, as subscribers have been bracing for a potential shutdown ever since Disney+ rose to prominence. However, it appears that Disney+’s waning numbers<\/a> last year could have sparked the latest announcement. Hulu is a strong streaming platform with a breadth of varied titles, most of which are not available on Disney+. The lack of diverse content on the latter, especially after a string of disappointing Marvel and Star Wars originals, may have prompted subscribers to opt for another, more varied platform, like Netflix or Prime Video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hulu\u00a0will change forever next year, and it’s all due to Disney’s more popular streaming platform, Disney+. After acquiring full ownership of Hulu earlier this year, the company has decided to\u00a0combine… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyM1wvMTFcL0Rpc25leS10by1CdXktRnVsbC1Db250cm9sLW9mLUh1bHUtSW4tRGVhbC1XaXRoLUNvbWNhc3QucG5nP2ZpdD0zMDAlMkMxNjgmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJIdWx1IElzIFNodXR0aW5nIERvd24gSXRzIFN0cmVhbWluZyBQbGF0Zm9ybSBhbmQgSXRcdTIwMTlzIEFsbCBCZWNhdXNlIG9mIERpc25leSsiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.GtfNIf8cvfUd7VXzB1umvtV0LNkDFUUl0YC8rl_M2B4MQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":38178,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Disney-to-Buy-Full-Control-of-Hulu-In-Deal-With-Comcast.png","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[11940],"class_list":["post-57120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hulu-is-shutting-down-its-streaming-platform-and-its-all-because-of-disney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57121,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57120\/revisions\/57121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}