Most of the defections came from the Disney+ Hotstar offering in India after it lost streaming rights to Indian Premier League cricket matches. Disney also shed 300,000 customers in the United States and Canada, where it raised prices last December.
The decline is almost entirely due to Disney Hotshot, its Indian streaming service, which lost the rights to stream the Indian Premier League in 2022. While it may look bad for Disney Plus to be in decline, outside of Hotstar it has continued to grow its subscriber count, albeit it at a slower rate.
However, the narrower loss wasn't due to a surge in new sign-ups — as noted above, Disney+ said adios to millions of subscribers. It was due to price hikes that boosted revenue, which means Disney is now squeezing more cash out of fewer people.
Walt Disney Co. will record a $1.5 billion expense related to programming it's removing from the Disney+ streaming platform. The expense is part of a previously announced plan to write down some programming, the company said in a filing Friday, and will be recorded in the current fiscal third quarter.
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Is Disney Plus losing subscribers 2023?
Disney+ shed another 4 million subscribers in the first three months of 2023, marking the streamer's second consecutive quarterly drop after closing 2022 with its first-ever decline.
In the second quarter of 2023, the number of global Disney+ subscribers dropped for the second time since it launched in November 2019 to 157.8 million. This marked a decline of four million compared with the previous quarter as the Indian brand Disney+ Hotstar, in particular, reported subscribers losses.
This drop is largely due to an increase in pricing, making it more difficult for middle-class families to afford a trip. To combat their dropping numbers, Disney is making changes, such as bringing back the Disney Dining plan – which makes food at the park more affordable, and replacing Genie+.
Disney is facing massive losses, even after a summer full of big releases. According to box office analyst Valliant Renegade, Walt Disney Co. has lost nearly $900 million following its last eight studio releases, including box office flops like LIGHTYEAR and STRANGE WORLD.
–The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) today reported earnings for its second quarter ended April 1, 2023. Revenues for the quarter and six months grew 13% and 10%, respectively. Diluted earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations for the quarter increased to $0.69 from $0.26 in the prior-year quarter.
Disney long term debt for the quarter ending March 31, 2023 was $45.066B, a 3.34% decline year-over-year. Disney long term debt for 2022 was $45.299B, a 6.68% decline from 2021. Disney long term debt for 2021 was $48.54B, a 8.27% decline from 2020.
Ahead of the Walt Disney Company's quarterly earnings call today, the Bob Iger–run company revealed that Disney+ saw a loss of 4 million subscribers. The numbers mark a continued decline for the streamer, having lost 2.4 million in its last quarter of 2022.
The titles, which are being removed from Disney's streaming services globally, include Disney+'s Willow, Big Shot, Turner & Hooch, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Just Beyond, Diary of a Future President, The Mysterious Benedict Society and The World According to Jeff Goldblum and Hulu's Y: The Last Man, Dollface, The ...
Disney has announced revenues for the fiscal second quarter of 2023 were up 13 per cent year-over-year (YoY) to US$21.82 billion, with its direct-to-consumer (DTC) segment narrowing its operating losses by 26 per cent YoY to US$659 million.
Disney officials said Monday that they don't take the departure of so many colleagues lightly. Eliminating 7,000 jobs from its workforce equates to about 3% of the roughly 220,000 people Disney employed as of Oct.
During the three-year tenure of Iger's replacement Bob Chapek, Disney posted its smallest annual profits in over a decade thanks largely to mounting losses in streaming, which has lost at least $290 million in each quarter since the company first reported unit-specific financials in December 2020.
Disney's stock has been down 50% in the last two years while the market is flat. Iger replaced Bob Chapek in November 2022, but the two-year-old slide covers the period during which Iger restructured Disney. In the most recently reported quarter, Disney segment operating revenue rose 8% to $21.8 billion.
The trade explains that, even with a total of $267 million in revenue from its theatrical and home entertainment releases, Lightyear lost a whopping $106 million. Its expenses totalled $373 million, and a performance like this means the movie is a rare misfire for Pixar.
Disney's stock was downgraded this week by investment advisory company KeyBanc Capital Markets over fears of stalled growth at its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services and lower attendance at its theme parks, according to reports.
Disney is owned by many shareholders, as it's a publicly traded company. According to CNN Business News, the Vanguard Group, Inc. is the largest shareholder of Walt Disney Co.
Disney+ will become more mature beginning Wednesday, bringing in a slew of mature Marvel shows that will reshape how the app operates. On Wednesday, Disney will add new Marvel shows rated TV-MA that were originally released on Netflix.