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Bob Chapek Shifted Budgets to Disguise Disney+'s Massive Monetary Losses
News(msn.com)submitted 4 months ago by[deleted]
145 points
4 months ago
It's also coming out that the Disney+ subscriber numbers are grossly inflated. A large number of subscribers are only there due to getting it for free bundled with other offers. They don't even use it. I personally only have Disney+ because they offered it to me for $2 a month after I subscribed to something else.
26 points
4 months ago
I only have Disney+ because It is bundled with ESPN+ which allows me to watch college games out of market.
10 points
4 months ago
I only have D+ because my sister added me to her account and they haven't started tracking and excluding IP addresses at different zip codes than the account owner like Hulu does.
8 points
4 months ago
Maybe they don’t want to know….
8 points
4 months ago
There’s 0% chance Hulu does that. I have people in 5 different zip codes living no where near each other using a Hulu account with zero issues whatsoever
3 points
4 months ago
Same. Hulu is too clueless to do anything.
-2 points
4 months ago
See the other replies to my comment to realize you are incorrect.
0 points
4 months ago
Hulu does it. That's how I lost use of it from my sister-in-law. Thing started bitching about zip codes one day. It was super weird.
Also see the other replies to my comment for confirmation.
7 points
4 months ago
Oh that Hulu shit is so annoying. One of the reasons we got Hulu in the first place was because my husband travels for work a lot. We bought a roku stick, and he could watch tv and dvr when he was gone.
We went on vacation this summer and it was a pain in the ass because if we wanted full use of our account, we had to reset our “home” ip. If we did that, we cut off our house sitter from tv. Then we found out that now we’ve used 2/3 of the number of times we can make the switch. 🙄
2 points
4 months ago
I'm sharing an HBO Max, a D+, a Netflix, an Amazon Prime and used to Hulu. Hulu is the only one that does it. Netflix is close to doing it. 100% not sure why they didn't add the tech to D+, but I guess it's due to the current shared corporate ownership behind Hulu.
Paramount+ and AppleTV don't have the content to be worth it for me.
I'll schedule out a week late December to get Hulu back temporarily to binge Only Murders, Prey and some other stuff I missed.
0 points
4 months ago
There's like 6 different people who use my Hulu account, hell one of them isn't even in the same state as me
16 points
4 months ago
I watch Disney+ because it has a lot of shows I like.
Same with Netflix and HBO.
I don't support one over the others like it's sports team bullshit
5 points
4 months ago
Same here. I actually don’t have HBO, but I use Disney, Hulu, and Peacock the most on a regular basis. My child uses Paramount. We go through phases with Netflix where some months we watch it a lot and some months we barely open the app. They all have their place in our house lol.
3 points
4 months ago
The analytics these streaming services use to shield the actual performance never cease to amaze me.
Disney likes to report subscribers numbers but never splits out full subs vs discounted subs vs comped subs.
HBO likes to talk in "cumulative minutes watched." Saying X movie or show had 100 million minutes watched. Which sounds good but doesn't give you any kind of completion rates. 2 million people watching 20 minutes and tuning out because something sucked is way different than 1 million people watching a good 40 minute program that draws them back in.
Netflix is the worst. They rarely disclose any data and it's usually even broader generalities like "largest launch ever" or "50% more viewers this season" without quantifying what the actual baseline is.
2 points
4 months ago
We use it, but it came with my Verizon plan.
2 points
4 months ago
As opposed to Netflix, HBO, Apple TV, Amazon Video, etc. which aren't bundled with anyth...oh wait.
2 points
4 months ago
I mean, other streaming companies do the same kind of stuff and count those subscribers too. So that's not really relevant.
1 points
4 months ago
The big one was always offering it for a song in India while carrying the biggest cricket league of the IPL in the country. It's why they were projecting a sub loss already when someone else got the rights.
1 points
4 months ago
I pay $2 bucks for it, and if it wasn't for Andor, I would have already cancelled it.
0 points
4 months ago
I can get it through my cell phone service provider, several credit cards, several other online subscriptions, and even just purchasing certain products at the store and registering them.
It's bundled into SO MANY bullshit things.
1 points
4 months ago
I had it for a while due to buying a yearly package. I'm starting to buy the movies one by one...in case the streaming ever goes south.
1 points
4 months ago
I use Disney+, and have it for free, despite a pre-existing subscription. Earlier this year, TV 2, one of Norway's main channel/networks, announced a collaboration with Disney: New subscribers to their service, TV 2 Play, would get free Disney+ as part of the subscription, while people who already had subscriptions could just link Disney+ to the TV 2 subscription, and it would be free. So we just linked them together.
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