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Disney+ Now Has 103.6 Million Subscribers
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Maybe the content just isn’t for you.
Their NatGeo stuff is pretty entertaining if you like that genre. I actually enjoy the Gordon Ramsay and Ice Road Truckers 😅 . For Star Wars, the Clone Wars / Rebels / Bad Batch is arguably better than the movies. There is a lot of story there with adult themes that some discard because it’s animation. There is also other content on there such as the Mighty Ducks / Pixar / making-of / etc that are entertaining on a weekly basis. And if you are outside US, you get Star content with it.
I don’t think Disney+ is really a binging service like others on newer content, but there is a lot of variety if you are open to it. I haven’t had difficulties finding things to watch on a weekly basis.
True, if they owned DC as well as Marvel, they would be classed monopolistic, having a large portion of the market share. They own all the important IP's, the ones that make the most money and have the greatest amount of merchandise, especially toys.
There are other film studios, but they don't generate anywhere the $ that Disney does.
A lot of Marvel IP they don't control. For instance, one of the big Marvel cash cows, Spider-Man, is controlled by Sony.
And DC can blame themselves for making crappy movies and TV shows.
Jeeze, that argument is so old and flawed. At last estimate, only about 20% (Google it if you must).
And, please remember that Disney+ still gets paid for those users by Verizon, albeit at a substantially reduced rate.
Who pays Apple for its free Apple TV+ subscribers?!? NO ONE.
Keep up with the times. Disney just signed a deal with Sony to get their back catalog titles like the Spider-man films onto Disney+.
It’s not though… The TV App is one of the few things they provide on other platforms.
Also, I guess this news means no Disney+ Apple TV Channel? 😂
If Apple want TV+ to be successful they should spin it out as a separate production company and remove Tim Cook’s ability to decide or veto what content is made. Hi brow documentaries about mental health are laudable projects but they are never going to appeal to the mass market.
MR needs to create a list of “Things Apple did that are worse than whatever you think the recent thing is.” And not just a top 10 list, all of ‘em!
I've been really enjoying Disney+. When it was first announced, my dad signed up the whole family for it, largely because he was interested in the Marvel stuff at first, but he's been checking out other material (I wasn't surprised on the night after it launched to see him watching the old "Davy Crockett" show. I was especially impressed by the inclusion of many of Disney's older animated TV shows of the 1980s and early 1990s like "Gummi Bears," "DuckTales," "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh," "Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers," "TaleSpin," "Darkwing Duck," "Goof Troop" and "Bonkers!" and I'd watch episodes of those on my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone when working out at my college's weight-and-exercise room!
I also usually use Disney+ for watching "The Simpsons," unless I want to watch a 1989-2002 episode with audio commentary or deleted scenes, to which I pull out one of my DVD sets. I initially didn't watch "The Simpsons" on Disney+ much due to them using the cropped FXX prints at first, and when people were blaming Disney for the cropping, I did another one of my Big Bad Wolf vlogs where I debunk such a rumor, pointing out that Disney DID crop a few of their older animated shows, but "The Simpsons" cropping was not their doing...
Yeah, Disney+ is still great and all, but I'm still going to keep my physical copies of much of those Disney movies on such, on Blu-Ray and DVD and even VHS! (There's just something so nostalgic seeing the Sorcerer Mickey "Walt Disney Home Video" or "Walt Disney Classics" logos before one of those programs/movies starts up!)
I also usually use Disney+ for watching "The Simpsons," unless I want to watch a 1989-2002 episode with audio commentary or deleted scenes, to which I pull out one of my DVD sets. I initially didn't watch "The Simpsons" on Disney+ much due to them using the cropped FXX prints at first, and when people were blaming Disney for the cropping, I did another one of my Big Bad Wolf vlogs where I debunk such a rumor, pointing out that Disney DID crop a few of their older animated shows, but "The Simpsons" cropping was not their doing...
Might go down as one of their most expensive blunders. They must be spending a fortune on content production with very little revenue coming in so far. All depends on how many free trials they can turn into paid subscriptions.
Despite your snarky retort, you seem to have missed the point.
The point is that Disney doesn't own Spider-Man IP. You even wrote it yourself. Disney "signed a deal". Sony still controls the IP, and will continue to control that IP, but Disney paid Sony big bux to get access. This is pretty much the opposite of a monopoly.
LOL @ D+‘s lack of fresh content making you actually check out Apple TV+. And yeah, MQ is pretty fun. Actually, for starting from scratch, their content is pretty decent. Just need a lot more - which is their plan, obviously. Content. Takes. Time.
Btw: my 10 yo son and 7 yo daughter are huge Futurama fans. From birth, my boy has always loved Simpsons. Kind of the magic of those shows: the work on many (all?) levels.
Interestingly Sony had the chance to buy the rights for all of Marvel for just $25 million back in the day (well maybe more than that but you get the gist), but Sony didn't think it was worth it and just stuck with Spider-Man, which cost them $10 million.
Ten years later, Disney bought the rights for most (but not all) of the rest of Marvel for $4 billion.
How much did that Disney content cost? Thats the issue. I imagine on paper Disneys' catalog is worth billions and they are potentially giving it all away for $8 or whatever. I think subscription numbers is one thing but ultimately I'd love to see the content cost factored into this.
Just like Amazon did with books, its easy to gain market share if you lower the cost of high value products. The long term issue is whether Disney are going to lose money in the long run. Once you've sold the family silver there's nothing left right?
Just like Amazon did with books, its easy to gain market share if you lower the cost of high value products. The long term issue is whether Disney are going to lose money in the long run. Once you've sold the family silver there's nothing left right?
This isn't some giant feat. This literally is a giant with feet.
Post cites "The Mandalorian," "WandaVision," and "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" as the pulling elements to this streaming service. I'd actually think the major pull is the brand loyalty more than anything, just like when you see the same family romping around Disneyland for the 35th time in a year, with all family members paying over a thousand dollars for an annual pass.
Netflix has hundreds of original content busting out the gates constantly, whereas Disney seems to lack anything new aside from ... well... those 3 shows and a few films that couldn't show in theaters due to covid.
Disney will get well beyond 200m subscribers. And it's because of the brand.
Post cites "The Mandalorian," "WandaVision," and "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" as the pulling elements to this streaming service. I'd actually think the major pull is the brand loyalty more than anything, just like when you see the same family romping around Disneyland for the 35th time in a year, with all family members paying over a thousand dollars for an annual pass.
Netflix has hundreds of original content busting out the gates constantly, whereas Disney seems to lack anything new aside from ... well... those 3 shows and a few films that couldn't show in theaters due to covid.
Disney will get well beyond 200m subscribers. And it's because of the brand.
Most of Netflix's original content is crap.
Disney can draw upon generations' worth of original content, plus they are churning out stuff with huge popularity, including the Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars stuff.
If Star Wars and Marvel were only on Netflix, you could damn well be sure that Disney's subscriber numbers would be way lower.
Sinking fast or re-launching. Bought a lot of Apple stock in 90s, still have most of it and it has done very well over the years.
They still have the free trial in the US, but you only have 7 days until it turns into a billed subscription.
I subscribed to a year of Disney+ right off the bat, and I find I am not really watching it as much as I thought I would.
I tune in weekly for their original content (wandavision, then falcon and winter soldier, and now bad batch). The shows boast clearly good production values, but the pacing feels pretty slow. I devour each episode since it’s just 1 episode a week, but none of them have exactly blown me away.
I watched a few episodes of Simpson’s (seems the latest season leans in pretty heavy on contemporary US issues), rewatched a few marvel movies that I never really caught in the cinemas, but otherwise, nothing much inside that really entices me. I didn’t pay for early access to Mulan or Raya either.
I remember this forum raving over Disney+ when it was first announced. It’s probably still great value for a Star Wars or marvel fan, but otherwise, I guess I am just not seeing the hype.
I tune in weekly for their original content (wandavision, then falcon and winter soldier, and now bad batch). The shows boast clearly good production values, but the pacing feels pretty slow. I devour each episode since it’s just 1 episode a week, but none of them have exactly blown me away.
I watched a few episodes of Simpson’s (seems the latest season leans in pretty heavy on contemporary US issues), rewatched a few marvel movies that I never really caught in the cinemas, but otherwise, nothing much inside that really entices me. I didn’t pay for early access to Mulan or Raya either.
I remember this forum raving over Disney+ when it was first announced. It’s probably still great value for a Star Wars or marvel fan, but otherwise, I guess I am just not seeing the hype.