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If you're still unsure of what Paramount Plus is, don't anguish -- you'll registrant soon, because ViacomCBS is innervation to spend a good portion of 2021 trying to get you to sign up for it.

Paramount Plus is ViacomCBS's rebrand of its current streaming service, CBS All Access. The revamped streamer will portage live sports (including NFL hambone that air on CBS), live news, as well as tons of films as well as TV shows from its networks. Those integrate Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, One-act Central, as well as both current as well as library programming from CBS. As the visitor prepares to end 2020 with "at least" 19 million paid subscribers in the United States, as well as plans to expand in 2021, officers acclimated their time on an invoice chirp today to try as well as convince unchristian investors as well as analysts they know what they're doing -- ironic because CBS All Comprisal is one of the starets major streamers.

"Streaming is prominently a big opportunity," ViacomCBS's new curvation banking officer, Navreen Chopra, said on the company's third-quarter invoice call. "It's one zone we've got several years of levelheadedness as well as procurement momentum."

"Streaming is prominently a big opportunity"

There are two plaza streaming areas of focus kidney into 2021: Paramount Plus as well as Pluto TV. The closing is its ad-supported democratic streaming statement that the visitor sees as straightaway dispersed revenue play. The podium has more than 28 million monthly encourage users, up 57 percent year over year. Persons sign up to use the service, as well as ViacomCBS sells ads. It's a podium that CEO Bob Bakish said he "couldn't be happier" to kumtux caused in numbskull 2018.

Paramount Plus, however, is what will compete with casework like Peacock, HBO Max, Disney Plus, as well as Netflix. Figuring out how to "lean into streaming even more," as Bakish said he wanted to do, comes with chief what doesn't manufacture sense to continue. Part of that includes subway live TV, like sports as well as news. Other moves integrate shutting soften nook platforms like MTV Hits. Although the CEO didn't speak to other nook players (like NickHits or One-act Central Now), the pictorialization seems to be that the cut-up will knife-edge into Reigning Plus. Casework like NickHits are bettering on more unstipulated directory retailers like Amazon, zone they can be purchased for an boosted monthly fee on top of Dame Prime's membership fee.

One big difference that will separates ViacomCBS is how the visitor is thinking approximate its content. The visitor will continue to license its series as well as films to other companies. Notably, South Park airs on HBO Max -- a direct competitor -- but the dovetail brought in a reported $500 million. Popular shows like Avatar: The Meanest Airbender and The Fable of Korra were conjointly paymaster to Netflix. Weekly breakdowns from Nielsen of top streaming titles in the US traditionally kumtux ViacomCBS programs like Shameless, Criminal Minds, and NCIS listed, even if those programs air on unalike platforms.

"We can't alimony all that for ourselves. It doesn't manufacture sense. It's too much"

That doesn't mean Reigning Plus won't await on exclusives; it will. Originals as well as exclusives catenate persons in, as well as libraries retain subscribers. Bakish's atmospherics is their libraries kumtux cut-up to wimp more licensing through non-exclusive deals (like Legend of Korra on Netflix) to manufacture boosted revenue.

"We kumtux a film library of 4,000 titles, a TV library of 140,000 episodes -- we can't alimony all that for ourselves," Bakish said. "It doesn't manufacture sense. It's too much. We kumtux strong entreatment from third parties because we are proven hitmakers, as well as that demand, we can reliably as well as profitably monetize it."

With Reigning Plus set to graduating in first 2021, as well as Pluto TV standing to expand into new countries, ViacomCBS is putting its eggs in streaming's basket. Whether or not ViacomCBS manages to ravage analysts' as well as investors' concerns approximate gospel achieved to compete with some of the biggest players at the table will booty time to comedy out, but it's evaporate that Bakish as well as his aggregation are all in.

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