It’s a relative newcomer, however Freely seems to be taking the UK by storm. This free streaming service solely launched again in 2024, nevertheless it’s simply hit a serious milestone that would give Freeview, Sky and Virgin one thing to fret about. Freely has confirmed that it surpassed a million weekly customers throughout the Christmas interval – that’s double the determine it introduced final September.
This replace makes Freely the fastest-growing TV platform within the UK in 2025.
“Surpassing a million weekly customers is an thrilling milestone for Freely, signalling that there’s viewers demand for a easy strategy to stream dwell British TV and uncover nice on demand reveals – multi functional place,” stated Jonathan Thompson, CEO, Everybody TV.
“Freely was the quickest rising TV platform in 2025, displaying the ability of the UK’s public service broadcasters working collectively to make sensible British TV straightforward to find and stream. It’s an incredible begin to 2026 as we proceed to construct momentum, placing the nation’s favorite channels and tales entrance and centre within the streaming age.”
In fact, it is nonetheless received some strategy to go earlier than it could actually match the would possibly of Sky and Freeview, however with extra individuals switching to streaming and reducing down on subscription charges, Freely might catch up fairly shortly.
Not heard of Freely earlier than?
This platform is definitely owned by the identical workforce behind Freeview, nevertheless it has one main distinction because it’s powered by a broadband connection fairly than an aerial. That makes it very easy to put in.
Freely additionally comes full of options, together with with the ability to pause dwell content material and getting suggestions for brand spanking new issues to look at. There’s a full TV information included together with a mini information and the flexibility to reverse time utilizing the intelligent backwards information.
At launch, Freely was solely obtainable on a choose variety of TVs, however there are actually an enormous variety of screens that characteristic this platform together with fashions made by Hisense, Panasonic, Bush and Sharp.
A brand new puck, known as Pleio, was additionally just lately launched, bringing Freely to any TV.
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