When Stan launched on 26 January 2015, it looked like a scrappy union between a faltering Nine Network and a crippled Fairfax. It was hoping to push Foxtel aside and take on the streaming market just as Netflix arrived. It could have been a forlorn hope.
Five years later, CEO Mike Sneesby faced the kind but enquiring gaze of industry journalist Sandy George at Screen Forever 2019, armed with 1.7 million members and another 2.4 million experimenters through the free month.
