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Disney+ passes 100m subs

Disney+, Disney’s SVoD platform, has surpassed 100 million global paid subscribers since launching 16 months ago. Bob Chapek, The Walt Disney Company CEO, made the announcement during the Company’s virtual Annual Meeting of Shareholders on March 9th. “The enormous success of Disney+, which has now surpassed 100 million subscribers, has inspired us to be even […]

March 10, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Disney+ hits 95m subs

Disney+ has signed up nearly 95 million subscribers in just over a year. Disney’s latest quarterly results showed continued meteoric growth for the SVoD platform, which first launched in November 2019. Disney+ had 94.9 million paid subscribers as of January 2nd 2021, compared to 86.8 million in early December 2020. Disney+ far exceeded the company’s […]

February 12, 2021

Mulan live on Disney+; free in December

The live-action remake of Mulan is now available on Disney+ after forgoing a cinema release in the UK and US, and other countries where the SVoD service in available. The movie was originally scheduled to be released in theatres in March before the pandemic kept pushing that date back. Despite cinemas reopening in many countries, […]

September 4, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Disney+ 60.5m subs as parks crater

Disney CEO Bob Chapek has revealed that the company’s SVoD platform, Disney+, now has 60.5 million global subscribers. It is now in the 60 million – 90 million range that it originally told investors it would get to by 2024. Disney+ debuted in November of last year. The company previously announced in April that the […]

August 5, 2020