Who owns Hulu?
Hulu is owned by Disney (the United States, NYSE: DIS), which has owned the brand since 14 May 2019.[1]
Evidence: The Walt Disney Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-13, SEC EDGAR, 13 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Walt Disney Company verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Burbank, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 2007
- Category
- Internet & digital › Streaming & media › Streaming video
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: DIS
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Hulu
Hulu was created in 2007 as a joint venture between rival networks, an unusual arrangement that made ownership genuinely confusing for years. Disney took full control in 2023 after buying out Comcast's remaining stake, so the answer is now simple.
What Disney's annual report says about Hulu
Sentences about Hulu from Disney's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Hulu: a U.S. DTC service that offers general entertainment programming and a virtual multi-channel video programming distributor (vMVPD) service that includes live linear streams of various cable and broadcast networks (Hulu Live TV service).
Subscribers to both Hulu and one of the ESPN DTC plans have access to certain sports content through Hulu.
Outside the U.S., Disney+ includes a Star branded tile, which was rebranded as Hulu in October 2025, that features general entertainment programming.
How often Disney names Hulu in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Hulu
Where Hulu sits in Disney
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Disney
Disney controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Disney+ (2019)
Other brands in streaming video, and who owns them
The 37 brands in streaming video on Brandtree belong to 25 owners. The largest is AMC Networks, with 5; Disney has 2.
About the owner: Disney
Disney is a publicly listed company headquartered in Burbank, California, United States, founded in 1923. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: DIS.
Disney was founded in 1923 by two brothers making short cartoons and is now the largest entertainment company in the world. Its purchases of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and most of 21st Century Fox mean a substantial share of the highest-grossing films ever made belong to one owner.
🇺🇸 Hulu and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Hulu is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Hulu?
The parent company of Hulu is Disney, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Hulu American?
Yes. Hulu originated in the United States in 2007 and its owner, Disney, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Disney owned Hulu?
Disney has owned Hulu since 14 May 2019.
Is Hulu still owned by Disney?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Hulu is still owned by Disney. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The Walt Disney Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-13 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 13 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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