Curated playlist
TvOS software
- Photos (Apple)Apple's Photos app can find a picture from a phrase like "cat in a box." It needs no tags or folders to do it.
- SpotifySpotify got its name from a word Daniel Ek misheard across the room. Its founders later built a meaning around it.
- Apple MusicTaylor Swift threatened to keep 1989 off Apple Music. Apple reversed its free-trial pay policy a day later.
- Amazon Prime VideoAmazon Prime Video began in 2006 as a download shop called Amazon Unbox.
- NetflixNetflix began as a company that mailed DVDs in red envelopes. Streaming was reportedly the real goal all along.
- Peacock (streaming service)Peacock's first exclusive NFL playoff game drew an average of 23 million viewers in January 2024.
- Disney+Disney+ signed up more than 10 million people on its first day. Many then hit lockouts and errors.
- HuluHulu began in 2007 as a team-up between rival networks News Corporation and NBC Universal.
- YouTubeYouTube began as a video dating site that offered women $100 to upload clips.
- Twitch (service)Google reportedly had a deal to buy Twitch, then Amazon bought it. Amazon paid just under one billion dollars in 2014.
- CrunchyrollCrunchyroll began in 2006 as a pirate site for fan-subtitled shows. Sony later bought it for $1.175 billion.
- Paramount+Paramount+ began in 2014 as CBS All Access, little more than CBS's website and app repackaged.
- TED (conference)The first TED conference in 1984 lost money. Six years passed before anyone tried again.
- SiriSusan Bennett recorded Siri's American voice in July 2005 without knowing what it was for.
- Yahoo FinanceIn 2008, Yahoo Finance removed the paywall on real-time stock quotes.
- DAZNDAZN signed boxer Canelo Alvarez in 2018 to a deal worth at least $365 million.