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

On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:

The True Doctor wrote:
 

157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

 I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business

Thes so called journalists and specialists are not different and no more well informed that Doomcock. Most of the stuff they report is completely made up by unnamed sources.

news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there

CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
they'd tell outright lies.
 

Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald Trump every day.

I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.
 

Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in terms. There shouldn't be a single advert on streaming services and I'm sick and tired of being advertised women’s sanitary products.

I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
adverts!
 

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.

 In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...
 

Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of people who watched each episode all the way through which only amounts to about 200.

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"  -

You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your account not just cancelled your subscription.

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!)

Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!
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