YouTube TV, Google’s live streaming TV service, now has about 4 million subscribers, pushing it ahead of Hulu + Live TV as the biggest virtual MVPD in the U.S.

Hulu + Live TV lost another 100,000 subscribers during the second quarter and brought its total down to 3.7 million. According to an estimate from MoffettNathanson, YouTube TV added another 200,000 subscribers during the same quarter.

The newest YouTube TV subscriber total comes from Lightshed analyst Rich Greenfield, who broke down the implications for YouTube TV’s standoff with NBCUniversal that could result in the programmer’s broadcast channels, regional sports networks and cable channels being dropped from the service at midnight on Thursday if no new agreement is reached.

Greenfield suspects that the impasse comes down to Peacock, NBC’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, and most-favored nations clauses, which requires a supplier to treat customers no worse than all other customers. He said NBCU is trying to get YouTube TV to bundle and pay for Peacock Premium as part of a new affiliation agreement for the NBCU channels.

Youtube TV Customer Support : +1 (800) 679-5861
Youtube TV  Phone Number : +1(800) 679-5861

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How to Contact YouTube TV Customer Support via Help Center?

There is one more way to bring a YouTube TV complaint to the company in the help center. You may not have the option to call YouTube TV, but you do have the opportunity to chat. In the YouTube TV help center, you’ll be taken through four steps to finding contact options. Once you’ve provided details of your issue and looked through resources, one of the options showing how to contact YouTube TV will be through chat. You can start your YouTube TV customer support chat by simply clicking on the chat button at the help center. If the YouTube TV customer support chat is not immediately available, you will be told how long you are supposed to wait for a customer service representative.

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“So, the question becomes why is NBCU trying to do this? We sense the leading reason is that Peacock has been underwhelming to-date beyond usage on Comcast/Cox set-top boxes, where it effectively functions as an updated version of on-demand programming for cable subscribers…With NBCU struggling with marketing Peacock direct-to-consumer (evidenced by their talking about ‘registrations’ vs. ‘paying subscribers,’ they are falling back on their legacy business model of wholesale bundling to drive distribution. If they can force YouTube TV to carry Peacock, we suspect they will try to force other vMVPDs and MVPDs to do the same…,” wrote Greenfield in a research note.

In July, Comcast said Peacock now has 54 million sign-ups and more than 20 million monthly active accounts.

Youtube TV customer service : +1 (800) 679-5861
Youtube TV customer service phone number : +1 (800) 679-5861