The Anime Network to Stream Programming on YouTube

Humberto Saabedra

Following up on The Anime Network’s acquisition and Summer content lineup, film industry trade publication Variety reports that The Anime Network has reached a deal with YouTube to stream its content library on the video sharing service as part of a broader content licensing deal including new partners Sony, Lionsgate, the BBC, Starz, Discovery and National Geographic to offer up full-length movies and TV shows for free on the portal.

Other new partners include TMS, Cinetic Rights Management, Current TV, Documentary Channel, First Look Studios and IndieFlix with YouTube looking to better position itself competitively against fast growing video portals such as Hulu, Joost. Veoh, and other branded portals as a way to offer premium content, which it was lacking compared to the aforementioned sites.

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Journalist since 2006, initially covering the retail wireless sector before pivoting to anime and manga trade reporting in 2008. Founder and publisher of AnimeNews.biz (2008–2017), followed by a 13-year tenure at Crunchyroll News (2011–2024) and launching K-Comics Beat with Comics Beat in 2024. Now stripping away consumer noise to build independent, data-backed intelligence desks focused on cross-border licensing telemetry, production committee balance sheets, and industrial supply-chain forensics.

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