Disney+ works normally in Canada, and the October 2025 rename landed here just as it did in Britain and Australia — the Star tile is now the Hulu tile, included, at no extra charge.
What does not match anything you will read is the commercial map around it. American writing assumes Disney+ bundles with Hulu, ESPN and HBO Max. Canadian Disney+ bundles with Crave and TSN, in seven combinations, and none of them contains Hulu or ESPN. This page sets out both, then says which differences a residential US IP address can move.
Almost every article about Disney+ bundles is written from the United States, where the partners are Hulu, ESPN and HBO Max. None of those three is a Canadian Disney+ bundle. Here Disney+ is sold alongside Crave and TSN, both Bell Media services, in seven different combinations.
This is not a smaller version of the American offer. It is a different offer, negotiated with different companies, and it changes which questions are even worth asking.
| Canadian bundle | Per month |
|---|---|
| Disney+ and Crave With Ads | $15.75 |
| Disney+ and Crave Premium | $29.25 |
| Disney+ Standard With Ads, TSN Premium | $32.99 |
| Disney+ Standard, TSN Premium | $35.99 |
| Disney+ Premium, TSN Premium | $36.99 |
| Disney+ and Crave With Ads, TSN Premium | $31.99 |
| Disney+ and Crave Premium, TSN Premium | $41.75 |
None of these bundles include Hulu or ESPN as purchasable add-ons, and that is not an oversight or a rollout delay. Disney’s agreement places both services in the United States and certain of its territories, which is a different kind of limit from a bundle that has not launched yet.
Disney+ Canada states the change more directly than Disney’s pages anywhere else, which is why this page quotes the Canadian wording even for readers elsewhere. The tile was not added in October 2025. It was renamed.
That matters because of what follows from it. A renamed hub is included in what you already pay for, needs no upgrade, and appears on every tier. A new service would do none of those things — and US Hulu, which is a service, does none of them here.
| The Hulu tile in your Disney+ | Crave | US Hulu (hulu.com) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Disney’s general-entertainment hub, renamed from Star | Bell Media’s streaming service | A separate American service with its own app |
| Can you buy it in Canada? | Already included | Yes — on its own or bundled with Disney+ | No — the agreement confines it to the US and certain territories |
| Live television | No | No | Yes — Hulu + Live TV, from $89.99/month, 50 states and DC |
| Where HBO lives | Not here | Here | Not here — the US route is the HBO Max bundle |
| Catalogue published? | No comparison exists. Disney has published none, so this page offers no figure. | Disney’s Canadian page describes it, and that description is quoted above. | No comparison exists. See left. |
The same word across the five markets this site covers for Disney+. Your row is the third, and the reason to look at the others is that most of the advice you will read was written for the first one.
Disney announced the rename in October 2025 and it took effect on the eighth. The release describes it as replacing Star “in international markets” and lists none of them, which is why the Japanese row is worth a glance.
| Market | What “Hulu” is there | Included in Disney+? |
|---|---|---|
| United States | A separate service with its own app and a larger library | Only on a bundle — $12.99/month, one dollar more than Disney+ alone |
| United Kingdom | A tile inside Disney+, renamed from Star on 8 October 2025 | Yes — included in the Disney+ subscription |
| Canada | A tile inside Disney+, renamed from Star on 8 October 2025 | Yes — included, and the bundles here are Crave and TSN instead |
| Japan | Nippon TV’s unrelated service. Disney+ Japan still shows スター. | No — and the Disney tile there is not called Hulu at all |
| India | Not applicable — Disney+ is not sold in India | — |
None of the differences above are caused by anyone’s connection and none are fixed by changing one. They are brand, licensing and commercial decisions made market by market. What a connection changes gets its own section below.
Three Disney+ tiers, with annual prices below twelve times the monthly on the two paid-without-ads tiers. Note how close Standard and Premium sit — a dollar a month apart — which is unusual and worth checking before you choose.
All three tiers include the Hulu tile. There is no tier at which it appears or disappears, which is itself a clue that it is the renamed Star hub rather than a separate product.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Standard With Ads | $8.99 | — |
| Standard | $15.99 | $159.99 |
| Premium | $16.99 | $169.99 |
Six brands sit behind those prices: Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and Hulu. What the money does not buy is an American catalogue, and no Canadian tier offers one, because the titles inside each brand are licensed country by country and a Canadian subscription licenses Canada.
Canadians read an unusual amount of American coverage, which is mostly harmless and occasionally expensive. Here is a live example of it being wrong, offered as a calibration exercise.
The widely-syndicated claim is that the Hulu app is closing and moving into Disney+. Nine months of headlines, and it has not happened — which you can verify in about thirty seconds from Disney’s own storefront.
The calibration point for a Canadian reader is this: the same outlets writing confidently about Hulu’s closure are the ones writing confidently about Disney+ bundles — bundles that, as the section above shows, are not sold in this country at all. Check the country the writer is standing in before acting on anything.
One sentence in Disney’s agreement does more work than anything else on this subject, and almost nobody quotes it.
Most streaming terms are silent on travel or discourage it in general language. This one names the case directly: a subscription bought in the United States, used somewhere else Disney+ operates. Canada is somewhere else Disney+ operates. The entitlement is portable; the catalogue is not, because what any app shows you is decided by the rights in force where the request comes from.
Having spent two sections on Bell, billing and bundles, it is worth being blunt about how little of that a connection touches. Here is the boundary, drawn honestly.
| Layer | What it controls | Does a residential US IP move it? |
|---|---|---|
| Network location | Where your connection appears to originate. | Yes. This is the one layer it moves, and the only one. |
| The Territory your account belongs to | Where the account was opened, which sets what it may ever be sold. | No. It belongs to the account and the purchase. A connection never reaches it. |
| Catalogue and brand rights in your country | Which titles are licensed in Canada, and which partners Disney bundles with here. | No. Rights and commercial partnerships are negotiated market by market. |
| The app store on your device | Which storefront offers you the app, and which payment methods it accepts. | No. The store decides by account country, not by network. |
The American price list, set beside the Canadian one above. The row worth staring at is the third: adding Hulu to Disney+ costs an American one dollar. There is no Canadian equivalent of that line at any price.
| US plan | Price | Offer or annual | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disney+ (With Ads) | $11.99/month | — | Disney+ only. Hulu is not included. |
| Disney+ Premium (No Ads) | $18.99/month | $189.99/year | Disney+ only. Hulu is not included. |
| Disney+, Hulu Bundle | $12.99/month | $11.99/month for the first 6 months | One dollar more than Disney+ alone. |
| Disney+, Hulu Bundle Premium | $19.99/month | $17.99/month for the first 6 months | Ad-free on Disney+ and Hulu. |
| Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Select Bundle | $21.99/month | — | Adds ESPN Select. |
| Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Unlimited Bundle | $35.99/month | — | Adds ESPN Unlimited. |
| Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max Bundle (With Ads) | $19.99/month | — | Adds HBO Max. |
| Disney+ & Hulu Student | $6.49/month | — | Eligibility verified by Disney. |
This sequence is deliberately front-loaded with questions about money and ownership rather than about networks, because in Canada that is where the answer usually lives.
Between Disney+, the Hulu tile, Crave and possibly TSN, Canadian households routinely own the thing they are about to go looking for. Write down the four and check each before anything else.
Result: a real chance the exercise ends here.
Disney directly, Bell, an app store, or a cable provider. This decides who can change your plan, what a bundle change costs, and whether you can cancel in an afternoon — and it has nothing to do with connections.
Result: you know who you would have to phone.
This is the one step a connection is for. A browser also removes the app store layer. Reload the page rather than navigating inside the app.
Result: you see what an American visitor is offered.
Whatever the American page shows you, the bundle line says plans are available to residents of the United States or certain US territories. Seeing a price and being able to buy it are different things, and this step is where people conflate them.
Result: you can tell a display from an entitlement.
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In a country where Disney+ is sold directly, through app stores, through Bell and through television providers, the useful question on each device is not “does it work” but “who owns this subscription”. That decides what you can change and how long it takes.
The only device that shows you Disney’s own storefront with nothing in between. Whatever price and whatever plans you see here are Disney’s, which makes this the reference against which every other device is compared.
The USip Windows guide covers the connection step. Come back here for the billing question, which on this page is usually the one that actually matters.
Functionally the same as Windows for billing purposes. Its value is as a playback second opinion: Safari enforces content protection differently from Chrome, so it can distinguish a rights refusal from a browser one.
The USip Mac guide covers the connection step. Come back here for the billing question, which on this page is usually the one that actually matters.
If the subscription was started here, Apple owns the billing relationship and Disney does not. That changes the price, the cancellation route and who you contact — before any question about connections arises.
The USip iOS guide covers the connection step. Come back here for the billing question, which on this page is usually the one that actually matters.
The same as iOS with Google in Apple’s place, plus the Canadian complication: Disney+ and Crave are both commonly sold through mobile and television providers, and a provider-billed subscription is the slowest of all to change.
The USip Android guide covers the connection step. Come back here for the billing question, which on this page is usually the one that actually matters.
In Canada the television is also where provider bundles land, which makes it the device most likely to be running a subscription somebody else administers. It is also the device where undoing a store account can mean a factory reset and re-pairing everything.
Every other device in this list can be undone in minutes. A television carrying a provider bundle can involve a phone call, a minimum term and a reset — which is a good reason to make it the last thing you touch rather than the first thing you experiment on.
One error code, two published messages, two entirely different diagnoses. Most guides treat error 73 as a single thing and hand you a single fix, which is why so many people apply the wrong one.
| What the message says | What it is telling you | What to check first |
|---|---|---|
| “This content isn’t available to watch in your current location…” | A title-level block. The service is working where you are; this particular title is not licensed to be shown there. | Try a different title. If others play, this is licensing, and the service is fine. In Canada this is the one you should expect. |
| “Disney+ is only available in certain regions…” | A service-level block. Disney+ is not offered where it thinks you are. | Check where your connection appears to be. In Canada you should not normally see this message at all. |
Likely layer: Rights, negotiated market by market
Next check: The ordinary case, and the only one on this list where a connection is even part of the conversation.
Likely layer: A different commercial map, not a fault
Next check: Canadian Disney+ bundles are Crave and TSN. Hulu and ESPN are not sold as Canadian add-ons, and the American bundle page limits those plans to US residents.
Likely layer: Bundled billing, which is Bell’s
Next check: Expected if the bundle is administered together. Find out who bills you before changing anything — the answer decides who can undo it.
Likely layer: Store or provider margin
Next check: Compare Disney’s own Canadian price against what the store shows. Subscriptions bought through a store cost what the store charges.
A consumer line on a United States internet provider rather than a datacentre range. It is row one of the four-layer table above, and nothing else — which is worth saying plainly on a page that has spent this long explaining what the other three rows do.
€9.99 each month after the 3-day trial ends.
€39 per six months after the trial ends.
€69 per year after the trial ends.
Answers with their sources attached, and a plain statement where a source does not exist.
The Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu Subscriber Agreement is the document that answers this, and it is linked in full in the Sources section of this page. Read the agreement rather than a summary of it — this page quotes the clauses relevant to the questions it asks, not the whole document, and what governs your subscription is the document.
No. Canadian Disney+ bundles are with Crave and TSN, in seven combinations listed on this page. Disney’s agreement states that the ESPN and Hulu Services are only available in the United States and certain of its territories, and the American bundle page states that bundle plans are available to residents of the United States or certain US territories.
You have Disney’s international general-entertainment hub. Disney’s own Canadian page describes the change as the Star tile having “now been renamed the ‘Hulu’ tile”. The American Hulu is a service you subscribe to separately, with its own app and its own live television product.
Through Crave, which Disney+ bundles with here, and which Disney’s Canadian page describes as giving access to exclusive HBO Originals among other things. The American Disney+ bundle with HBO Max is a different product from a different company and is not sold in Canada.
Disney has published no catalogue comparison, so this page will not give you a figure in either direction. What is documented is that the tile is the renamed Star hub included in your subscription, and that US Hulu is a separate service. Anyone quoting a precise percentage is estimating.
It has been reported repeatedly since December 2025 and it has not happened. On 16 September 2026 hulu.com sells Hulu plans including Live TV, and Disney’s own US signup page still says additional content is only available via the Hulu app. No Disney source has published a shutdown date.
It moves one of the four layers — where the request appears to come from. Your account’s Territory, Canadian rights, your Bell arrangement and your app store are untouched by it. The four steps above are designed to tell you, cheaply, whether that one layer is the one in your way.
Where to go from here, depending on whether the answer turned out to be about rights, about billing, or about a border.
Every address behind every quotation above, with the date it was read. The Canadian bundle figures in particular came from one page on one day, and pages like that change without announcement.
Three limits, stated rather than glossed. Disney publishes no comparison between the international Hulu tile’s catalogue and the US Hulu library, so no figure is given here in either direction. Nothing is claimed about the Crave or TSN catalogues beyond the two sentences Disney’s own Canadian page publishes about them. The bodies of Disney’s error-73 help articles could not be retrieved, so only the two message strings Disney publishes as those articles’ titles are quoted. Prices were read on 16 September 2026 and move without notice.
A connection is one layer of four. Disney’s agreement and its market-by-market rights own two more, Bell owns your Crave and TSN arrangement, and your app store or provider owns the billing.