Disney+ Hits 10 Million Signups Since Launch

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Walt Disney, led by chairman and CEO Bob Iger, has been projecting between 60 million and 90 million global streaming subscribers by 2024.
Disney backed up its claims that Disney+'s first-day glitches were the result of high consumer demand, revealing Tuesday that the streaming service had hit 10 million signups since its Nov. 12 launch.

CEO Bob Iger expects the $7-per-month offering, which launched with original Star Wars series The Mandalorian as well as a library of movies and TV shows, to reach between 60 million and 90 million global subscribers within its first five years, though one analyst recently forecast that it would hit more than 100 million subscribers by 2025.

Disney, which launched a full-on marketing assault ahead of the Disney+ launch, has been using a number of tactics to boost signups, including offering discounts to fan club members, inking a deal with Verizon to give it away for free to the cellphone giant's customers and bundling it with Hulu and ESPN+. The company did not disclose how many of those signups included people on promotional offers, including a seven-day free trial offered to new users.

This is sort-of-new. It will be interesting to compare this number to other streaming-service launch figures in the coming months.

In other news, D+ has extras and deleted scenes for most of the Marvel movies. That's really cool.

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Nov 13, 2019 13:08:57 GMT -6 @lorddeathman said:

Walt Disney, led by chairman and CEO Bob Iger, has been projecting between 60 million and 90 million global streaming subscribers by 2024.
Disney backed up its claims that Disney+'s first-day glitches were the result of high consumer demand, revealing Tuesday that the streaming service had hit 10 million signups since its Nov. 12 launch.

CEO Bob Iger expects the $7-per-month offering, which launched with original Star Wars series The Mandalorian as well as a library of movies and TV shows, to reach between 60 million and 90 million global subscribers within its first five years, though one analyst recently forecast that it would hit more than 100 million subscribers by 2025.

Disney, which launched a full-on marketing assault ahead of the Disney+ launch, has been using a number of tactics to boost signups, including offering discounts to fan club members, inking a deal with Verizon to give it away for free to the cellphone giant's customers and bundling it with Hulu and ESPN+. The company did not disclose how many of those signups included people on promotional offers, including a seven-day free trial offered to new users.

This is sort-of-new. It will be interesting to compare this number to other streaming-service launch figures in the coming months.

In other news, D+ has extras and deleted scenes for most of the Marvel movies. That's really cool.

This is what I mean about the 10,000 people who had some problems. That's barely 0.01%, but it seems to have been made out like it was an epidemic.

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Nov 13, 2019 13:25:39 GMT -6 ArArArchStanton said:

Nov 13, 2019 13:08:57 GMT -6 @lorddeathman said:

This is sort-of-new. It will be interesting to compare this number to other streaming-service launch figures in the coming months.

In other news, D+ has extras and deleted scenes for most of the Marvel movies. That's really cool.

This is what I mean about the 10,000 people who had some problems. That's barely 0.01%, but it seems to have been made out like it was an epidemic.

Yep, if there is no news, you have to invent some. And Disney has been saying all along that it was increased demand that caused the fall down.

I was expecting a lot more anti-Disney sentiment and propaganda to hit the boards and social over the launch but, it was surprisingly mild.

[ArArArchStanton]

Nov 13, 2019 13:28:54 GMT -6 @lorddeathman said:

Nov 13, 2019 13:25:39 GMT -6 ArArArchStanton said:

This is what I mean about the 10,000 people who had some problems. That's barely 0.01%, but it seems to have been made out like it was an epidemic.

Yep, if there is no news, you have to invent some. And Disney has been saying all along that it was increased demand that caused the fall down.

I was expecting a lot more anti-Disney sentiment and propaganda to hit the boards and social over the launch but, it was surprisingly mild.

I want one of you guys to come to Orlando and go to Disney so bad. I don't want to meet or anything, I just want you to go to the parks and tell me all about it :-)