mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoDisney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmelwww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down11
arrow-up1-1arrow-down1external-linkDisney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmelwww.engadget.commesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squareEq0@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoConsider that the full number is world wide. How many of them are US based or US involved?
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIt’s noticeable when you look at the price of the subscription. That’s almost $300 million.
minus-squaresexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoMy wage doesn’t have a cost of goods sold line item. If I take in $5b and make $5.5b in revenue, $300m is > 1/2 of my net profit
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoThat loss affects their stock price, their future outlook, what things they choose to fund, and how much they spend on advertising and trying to recover from this PR disaster.
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month ago If my googling is right, in total there are ~207 million subscribers. This says 128M, which seems far more plausible. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-stop-reporting-subscriber-numbers-disney-plus-hulu-espn-1236480413/
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Consider that the full number is world wide. How many of them are US based or US involved?
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It’s noticeable when you look at the price of the subscription. That’s almost $300 million.
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My wage doesn’t have a cost of goods sold line item. If I take in $5b and make $5.5b in revenue, $300m is > 1/2 of my net profit
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That loss affects their stock price, their future outlook, what things they choose to fund, and how much they spend on advertising and trying to recover from this PR disaster.
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This says 128M, which seems far more plausible. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-stop-reporting-subscriber-numbers-disney-plus-hulu-espn-1236480413/
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