mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoDisney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmelwww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1851arrow-down117
arrow-up1834arrow-down1external-linkDisney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmelwww.engadget.commesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square95fedilink
minus-squarecalliope@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoA previously-posted Gizmodo article said Kabas reports that 1.7 million was 436% above a subscriber loss that’s typical for the same period Which I thought was very useful.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoKabas is the reporter and I still haven’t seen where they got that number.
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months 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/
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI don’t think those numbers are additive like that - you’d be double-counting people.
minus-squaremeliante@lemmy.ptlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoThey pay more than once as well?
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoTrue - I guess it depends on whether we’re defining “subscribers” as people or total paid accounts.
minus-squaremeliante@lemmy.ptlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoCorporate says the biggest number.
minus-squareHolytimes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoTotal paid account is the number that gets counted. That’s what a subscriber is after all.
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoShould cable subscribers be counted 200 times, once for each channel?
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoI suspect they’d have lost a lot more if this dragged on longer, he was back in a few days.
minus-squareEq0@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoConsider that the full number is world wide. How many of them are US based or US involved?
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A previously-posted Gizmodo article said
Which I thought was very useful.
Kabas is the reporter and I still haven’t seen where they got that number.
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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I don’t think those numbers are additive like that - you’d be double-counting people.
They pay more than once as well?
True - I guess it depends on whether we’re defining “subscribers” as people or total paid accounts.
Corporate says the biggest number.
Total paid account is the number that gets counted. That’s what a subscriber is after all.
Should cable subscribers be counted 200 times, once for each channel?
I suspect they’d have lost a lot more if this dragged on longer, he was back in a few days.
Consider that the full number is world wide. How many of them are US based or US involved?
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