Watch quality movies and shows now for free with HOOQ

HOOQ, Southeast Asia’s leading video-on-demand service, today announced that it is expanding its freemium offering with the launch of HOOQ FREE, enabling direct access to high-quality content without having the need to register. As well as continuing to deliver the best in regional and Hollywood content, HOOQ is committed to bringing the very best in local content, via HOOQ FREE, celebrating the essence of Pinoy pride during the month of Independence and accepting local diversities.

As part of the launch, HOOQ is also introducing the HOOQ FREEPLAY Festival, an innovative streaming festival that will bring a variety of local content from HOOQ’s vast library onto the freemium layer every quarter.  

HOOQ Is Better than Ever with Globe At Home

Get free 6 months access to HOOQ with a Globe At Home Plan

Globe At Home has committed itself to elevating home entertainment by providing world-class content through their partnerships with top streaming services and their high-speed internet. Starting this November, new Globe At Home subscribers will get FREE 6 months subscription to HOOQ.

The streaming app returns with a wider collection of local titles ranging from romantic-comedy blockbusters such as Sid & Aya, Walwal, The Breakup List, Never Not Love You, My Ex and Whys, and Forevermore. The list goes on—from classics to contemporary, from heavy drama to heavy comedy, from TV shows to movies, from indie to mainstream—if it’s a Pinoy favorite, we’re bringing it to you on HOOQ. It’s now so easy to #PlayItRight and stream your fave Pinoy hits from safe and legitimate sources, anytime and anywhere you want.

HOOQ and Globe LIVE debuts HOOQ Hangouts

HOOQ, Asia’s first and largest video-on-demand service, partners with Globe LIVE to bring to Filipinos HOOQ Hangouts, the biggest outdoor cinema event in the Phiippines. Powered by Globe LIVE, the telco’s new original productions arm, the premiere of HOOQ Hangouts featured the Hollywood TV hit, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow which will also be available exclusively on HOOQ.

HOOQ Hangouts, also brought to you in cooperation with Samsung, turns the BGC Amphitheater into a free outdoor cinema venue with massive LED screens, beanbags, blankets and cushions to fully enjoy the show.

HOOQ named best mobile app in GLOMO Awards in Barcelona

HOOQ, Asia’s largest video-on-demand service has just been named Best Mobile App in the Media, Film, TV or Video category at the Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards 2016 in Barcelona.

HOOQ customers have been indulging in a diverse and expansive selection of over 35,000 hours of movies and TV series with hot favorites and award-winning series such as Gotham, The Flash, Mad Men, Ash vs Evil Dead, Nashville and awesome blockbusters, Spider-Man, Kill Bill and Harry Potter.

The GLOMO Awards highlights the greatest achievements and innovations across the mobile industry and include more than 40 awards over eight categories. The awards showcase the very best and most compelling apps in the field of multimedia; those that are primarily innovative but also driving eyeballs and audiences from the fixed screen to the mobile screen. The other nominees for the category included; Fjord & Vocento S.A. for ABC mobile web; Magisto for Magisto Video Editor & Mak; Netgem for EETV; and PTCL for PTCL Smart TV App.

Netflix Is (Almost) Everywhere, Also Here In The Philippines!

It has been announced and rolled out today that Netflix, America's largest video streaming service is now available in more than 130 countries as announced at CES 2016. The availability of Netflix has been long awaited and new video streaming companies like iFlix and HOOQ came into play. 

“Today you are witnessing the birth of a new global Internet TV network,” said Co-founder and Chief Executive Reed Hastings at CES 2016. “With this launch, consumers around the world -- from Singapore to St. Petersburg, from San Francisco to Sao Paulo -- will be able to enjoy TV shows and movies simultaneously -- no more waiting. With the help of the Internet, we are putting power in consumers’ hands to watch whenever, wherever and on whatever device.”

HOOQ up with Asia’s exclusive premiere of Ash vs. Evil Dead

HOOQ, Asia’s biggest video-on-demand service, partners with Starz Entertainment this Halloween to bring you the extreme gore of the highly anticipated Ash vs. Evil Dead exclusively on HOOQ, ahead of the US, for the first time in Asia.

Ash vs. Evil Dead premieres worldwide on 31 Oct and HOOQ will be the first and only platform in Asia to offer the series on the same day as the US.  Get ready to indulge in more new and exciting TV series to be available on HOOQ’s diverse and expansive selection of over 30,000 hours of movies and TV series such as hot favorites and award-winning series Gotham, The Flash, Mad Men, Scandal, Rosemary’s Baby, Nashville and awesome action backed superhero blockbusters Thor and Captain America – The First Avenger.

HOOQ List: Take your favorite shows anywhere with you this long weekend

Whether you are waiting for your flight, lying by the beach or enjoying a staycation, HOOQ is here to help you make the most out of the two long weekends this August. 

Here are five hacks to make the most of HOOQ’s 30,000 hours of Hollywood and Pinoy entertainment.

1.   Share movies with your family. Why don’t you bond with the entire family through a superhero marathon?

HOOQ Debuts in the Philippines via Globe Telecom

Filipinos first in Asia to get access to extensive Hollywood and local content with Globe Telecom and HOOQ: Asia's first video-on-demand service HOOQ has arrived in the Philippines, making Filipinos the first in the region to gain access to a library of over 10,000 international and local movies and TV shows with its partnership with leading telecommunications company Globe Telecom. 

A start-up joint venture between Singtel, Sony Pictures Television, and Warner Bros. Entertainment, HOOQ is set to change the way people in emerging markets consume and enjoy entertainment by allowing customers to enjoy online streaming access and an offline viewing option of movies and TV shows across smartphones, computers, and tablets. Speaking at a panel discussion during the Philippine launch of HOOQ held at The Green Sun in Makati are [L-R] Warner Bros. Digital Distribution Vice President for Business Strategy Anuraj Shavantha Goonetilleke, HOOQ CEO Peter Bithos, Globe Telecom President and CEO Ernest Cu, Globe Telecom Senior Advisor for Consumer Business Dan Horan and Sony Pictures Executive Vice President for Networks George Chung-Chi Chien.