Re: [News] Disney's Steaming Content with Ads

On 10/01/2025 21:20, Blueshirt wrote:

The Doctor wrote:
 

In article <xn0p0n60l8il4cx008@post.eweka.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The True Doctor wrote:
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How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

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In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...
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My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so
not necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per
quarter. So if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then
un-subscribed, I would be classed as a paying subscriber for
that "quarter"  - and included in that quarter's figures -
even though I was only a subscriber for a part of it.
(That's where the special offers play their part! We had one
here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a month, for three months.
Boom! You're now part of the quarterly subscriber figures!)

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More reason why to avoid streming services.

 It gets harder and harder to avoid them... and for the younger
generation they won't know any better.
 

The adds were only amenable to kids when they sold them toys and fast food. Then the British government banned them from doing that as kids stopped watching Children’s ITV, so the ITV shut it down completely. The adds were usually better than the actual programmes. Most of the stuff on ITV is complete and utter garbage.

I don't see the streaming services going away anytime soon... I
do think there will be less of them in time though, as nobody
can pay monthly fees for all of them. So the strong will survive
and the weak will perish... or as is most likely, the ones that
don't make much money will be taken over by the ones that do!
 

There's only room for two streaming services. Netflix and Amazon. The Studios can make more money selling their content to one or the other or both than setting up rival streaming services.
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