Disney+ and Hulu to Be Combined Into One App

[MacRumors]

Disney plans to combine the Hulu and Disney+ streaming services into a single app by the end of this year, Disney CEO Bob Iger said yesterday during Disney's Q2 earnings call (via TechCrunch).

A single streaming app will include programming from both Hulu and Disney+, but Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ will also still be available as standalone services. The combined app will be provided first to subscribers who have the Disney+ and Hulu bundle, so rather than swapping back and forth, users can access all of their content in a single app.

"The integrated app experience that we announced today is for consumers that have subscribed to both services for now," said Iger. He explained that Disney is taking the two-app bundle and combining it into one experience that will have "basically more content than it offered before."

With the merging of the services, Disney plans to increase pricing. "We plan to set a higher price for our ad-free tier later this year," Iger said.

Disney's announcement came as the Disney+ service lost four million subscribers during the quarter.

Article Link: Disney+ and Hulu to Be Combined Into One App

 

[GizmoDVD]

By doing this, Disney is now forced to buyout Comcasts remaining share (30%) of Hulu at a cost of about $9 BILLION.

Don't worry - you'll be paying for this with price increases on both services.

 

[vegetassj4]

Dislu? Huley? Disnu? Snudi? Dishu?

 

[FrizzleFryBen]

Dislu? Huley?

New phone, HuDis?

 

[AppleTO]

Makes sense to me. In Canada and other countries, Hulu is essentially Star, which is part of the Disney+ app.

 

[xxray]

With the merging of the services, Disney plans to increase pricing. "We plan to set a higher price for our ad-free tier later this year," Iger said.

Of course. Nevermind the fact that I have zero interest in anything on Disney+ as a Hulu user, but now I’ll be forced to pay for it. Great.

 

[macsplusmacs]

Makes sense to me.

 

[macsplusmacs]

Disney++ ? for combined hulu content.
Disney+ current disney plus

That would be a good marketing level brand.

 

[TheOldChevy]

Disney's announcement came as the Disney+ service lost four million subscribers during the quarter

With the merging of the services, Disney plans to increase pricing.

Yeah, we'll see how it succeeds...

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Disney++​

 

[dandyryan]

combine every other streaming service next and call it cable

 

[TheOldChevy]

Disney++ ?

That would be a good marketing level brand.

D++ ?

 

[sw1tcher]

With the merging of the services, Disney plans to increase pricing. "We plan to set a higher price for our ad-free tier later this year," Iger said.

Another price increase so soon when they just raised prices on Dec. 8, 2022? Prices when from $7.99/mo to $10.99/mo and $79.99/yr to $109.99/yr

I wonder how much they'll go up this time around, $2.00/mo?

 

[vegetassj4]

D++ ?

I would rather have BASIC cable.

 

[eicarr]

Hulu? These combinations with inferior quality content is damaging brands. ie, HBO Max now becoming Max, diluting the brand with cheap Discovery cable TV trash makover/reality shows.

 

[verniesgarden]

Of course. Nevermind the fact that I have zero interest in anything on Disney+ as a Hulu user, but now I’ll be forced to pay for it. Great.

Ideally, it'll be 1 app but you pay per content tier

 

[klasma]

Dislu? Huley? Disnu? Snudi? Dishu?

Huey, of course:

 

[MysticCow]

"We are totally combining everything into one service, but we're also keeping every single service we used to have so when you want to watch Show X, you go here, but when you want to watch Show Y (which is from the exact same conglomerate), you have to subscribe to a completely different service!"

Yeah, totally helpful. 100% helpful. MASSIVELY helpful. The greatest amount of helpful ever in the history of helpful.

 

[JosephAW]

That way they can charge us more money for less content.

 

[sw1tcher]

Yeah, we'll see how it succeeds...

Misleading summary. A large majority of that total 4 million subscriber loss came from India's Disney+ Hotstar.

Disney+ Hotstar subs went from 57.7 million to 52.9 million.

If you look at their Disney+ core subscriber numbers (which excludes Disney+ Hotstar), Disney actually increased subscribers by 600,000.

 

[oMean]

Ideally, it'll be 1 app but you pay per content tier

Sound like.. what was it.. oh, Netflix.

 

[klasma]

Disney's announcement came as the Disney+ service lost four million subscribers during the quarter.​

How about producing less shіtty shows instead?

 

[kelemor88]

If Disney has the money…..pretty sure they are going to have a billion dollars of bonds to pay out down in Florida.

 

[CapitalIdea]

Of course. Nevermind the fact that I have zero interest in anything on Disney+ as a Hulu user, but now I’ll be forced to pay for it. Great.

Then don’t subscribe to the Disney part of it.

 

[contacos]

Surprised they are not charging extra for „Star“ yet tbh. It’s basically Hulu for international markets and already integrated into Disney+ for free.

I only use Disney+ cuz it is included in my parents internet package. Wouldn’t pay for it myself.

It’s funny, they release so many shows without any promo whatsoever so the first time I truly hear about any of them is „cancelled headlines“ 😅