Less than a year and a half after the launch of Walt Disney’s video streaming service Disney Plus, the number of subscribers exceeded 100 million.
The management announced the news at Disney’s annual shareholders’ meeting, according to The Verge on the 9th (local time). Disney Plus subscribers exceeded 94 million in February.
Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, predicted that Disney Plus would be difficult to acquire 60 million subscribers in its first year of launch, but Disney Plus surpassed 100 million subscribers in 16 months since its launch in November 2019. I put it out.
Disney executives also initially predicted that Disney Plus would have between 60 and 90 million subscribers by 2024, but the company surpassed that goal in a short period of time.
The management did not reveal the reason for the number of Disney Plus subscribers exceeding 100 million, but the media analyzed that the success of the Marvel original series “Wanda Vision” and the animation “Raya and the Last Dragon” might have driven this.
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Disney Plus will also unveil the Marvel Avengers series’Falcon & Winter Soldier’ on March 19th.
Bob Chapek, CEO of Walt Disney said, “The tremendous success of DisneyPlus increases investment in the development of very high quality content. We aim to release more than 100 new content every year, which includes “It includes Disney Animation, Disney Live Action, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and more.”