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7plus to replace PLUS7
Seven's new catch-up & streaming service is launching in November.
- Published by David Knox
- on September 20, 2017
Seven’s catch-up site PLUS7 will be replaced by 7plus in November.
The new platform is promising “anywhere, anytime” entertainment with premium, binge and personalised delivery.
“7plus combines the country’s best entertainment programming and simulcasts of Seven’s premium live sporting events, with superior targeting and accountability to drive results.
“Over the top viewing of premium, long form content with a lean-in viewing experience and targeted user base… that’s 7plus.”
7plus will be fully owned by Seven West Media, contrasting with the joint venture PLUS7, shared with Yahoo.
In June Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo Inc., to be rebranded as Oath.
Seven registered the 7plus name back in 2009 along with PLUS7 and 7TWO.
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36 Responses
Hopefully they’ll finally bite the bullet and do HD.
Any7show, anywhere, anytime, would be a game changer.
With our NBN the TV Tower maintenance crew still have a job for life!
Hopefully it’ll stream on LG TVs like the sensible stations the ABC and SBS and unlike the stoopid stations Nine and Ten.
It is sad that LG’s WebOS doesn’t have as much support as it could.
So David, does this mean soon there will be no link between yahoo and seven? so Yahoo may lose the seven logo on their search engine?
I don’t have any info on that.
Sorry. I use an Android phone, and the Chrome cast support works fine. Would be good if they could offer it for iPhones too.
They have ended their Streaming partnership, which was the main part of their partnership. 7 could still take money to link to Yahoo on their website. As Plus7 was jointed owned, 7 needs a new name. They registered 7Plus to stop anybody else using it so its available.
Hope it has chromecast
It should do. The current plus7 app has chromecast support, and works well.
I can’t seem to get PLUS7 to work with chromecast. 9Now and iview are the only catch up services that work…
Doesn’t work on iphone
Sorry, but reading that headline just reminded me of that episode of The Simpsons where they release the new Malibu Stacy doll “Now with a new hat!”
I’m kind of with you, my first thought was the Sci-Fi Channel becoming Sci Fi becoming Syfy becoming SYFY.
Wonder if it will be in HD? Now if only Tenplay got fixed up and ABC fixed up their image quality….
They are still running pre-rolls for Blue Murder, wasn’t that back in July?
7Plus just doesn’t roll of the tounge as Plus7 did. I feel like they didn’t even try to change the name.
Are they moving everything away from Yahoo/Oath? So the 7News, Sunrise and Seven’s digital presence won’t be associated with Yahoo?
We have seen a few changes to catch-up & streaming platforms 9jumpin became 9Now in early 2016 and +7 changing into 7+ In November 2017. I feel that Seven made a good idea to swap 7 with Plus.
It’s funny how they’re calling it 7plus,because that’s what I always(mistakenly) called it anyway.So there’s no real change for me,as far as the name goes.
I hope that 7plus can show live AFL games starting on the 2018 home and away season (particularly non SA tv shown games) but I have a feeling Telstra will have something to say about that.
Also “This is just the beginning” could mean many things. Could it mean that eventually all of 7’s shows that have ever been made be put into this platform or even something deeper, 7 eventually becomes online only. (I would imagine 2030 so a long way away)
Telstra have mobile rights and Foxtel have online rights until 2022, so won’t be a change there.
I know that AFL + Brownlow Medal cannot be streamed on +7 app and was replaced by BSI. Do +7 play BSI in specific order on whilst 7 televises the AFL match on TV?
It will be an interesting TV rights war come the next time to bid for it. I sense brand new players and returning players reimagined in a whole new way.
The name change is a bit of a no-brainer. All their other services (7mate, 7TWO, 7flix, 7NEWS, 7Sport, 7TENNIS) are all prefixed with 7. Plus7 was the exception.
They should have abandoned Yahoo a long time ago. Everyone else did.
Where ‘anywhere’ actually means ‘anywhere in Australia’. Thank goodness VPNs get around that small problem 🙂
There was a long hard think on that name change that’s for sure
You can’t polish a ….
strangely they have already made some changes to the layout of plus7 even though they are relaunching in a few weeks.
Hope the location settings remain the same whereas you can enter another postcode.
I’m in QLD and always watch Sydney or Melbourne during Daylight saving. Gives me an extra hour later in the night to watch something else or get some extra sleep before the sun rises before 4am lol
It says anywhere anytime but I doubt they mean before broadcast in your own market…..
I’ve managed to get around 9now and tenplay’s location settings by using The Aussie tv ftw app on Xbox one and windows 10. Plus I’m pretty sure you can look up the URL for those streams and watch it full screen on a browser without going to the main page.
Apparently, the “7Live” site (recently retooled), has removed the postcode input facility: locking it into the user’s location. A silly move, as many people used that capability to watch events unavailable in their state (Perth Telethon, Melb’s Good Friday Appeal, etc.), and in the case of 7 in regional QLD and on the Gold Coast, the ability to live stream their local news services: due to most IP servers usually being based in capital cities.
As for “this is just the beginning”: I would expect some of the 7 back catalogue (e.g. Home and Away from ep. 1) will be monetized.
7 have apparently run out of “runs” of Home And Away from episode 1881 and stopped airing these episodes on 7TWO back in May so I doubt all 6735 episodes will be on 7plus. Would be great if they were though.
I’m in perth and have no way to change my location settings, so forced to watch sydneys feed. their faq says it relies on the device location. My pc has no location awareness, and it doesn’t ask me anything. just another mess up with 7live…
Thank goodness. Plus7 has functioned terribly for ages.