mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoDisney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmelwww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1787arrow-down115
arrow-up1772arrow-down1external-linkDisney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmelwww.engadget.commesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·3 months agoIt’s noticeable when you look at the price of the subscription. That’s almost $300 million.
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minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·3 months 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.
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minus-squaresexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·3 months 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
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minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 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-up3·3 months agoI don’t think those numbers are additive like that - you’d be double-counting people.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoI suspect they’d have lost a lot more if this dragged on longer, he was back in a few days.
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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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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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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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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.
I suspect they’d have lost a lot more if this dragged on longer, he was back in a few days.