I think Disney Plus is in a lot of trouble. It’s costing Disney a lot of money and hurting their cable channels and box office returns. I wouldn’t call it a failure yet but it’s far from a success.
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TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think that the fox purchase was a long-term play as part of its streaming strategy. It gave them access to a bigger catalogue of movies and shows and kept another competitor from releasing another streaming platform. It also gave them a majority stake in Hulu that they didn’t have before.
They specifically let the live tv content such as Fox News, the fox affiliates, and fox sports and the regional sports networks out of the deal because they were interested
We won’t truly know if the fox purchase was a waste of money until we see if the Disney streaming experiment was a failure or not. If it survives the price hikes without losing to many subscribers then it probably won’t be
chickenwing@lemmy.film 1 year ago
Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not to mention that, despite a strong start with Mandalorian, Loki, Wandavision, etc., so many of the Disney+ originals lately have been not great. It’s really no different from Netflix.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Having the ability to do merchandising with Family Guy and The Simpsons in addition to the catalog offerings is the obvious win. There’s so much stupid branded shit. Fox was always the best about merchandising because they got their lunch stolen by George Lucas on Star Wars.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you need access to a bigger catalog if all the streamers are just putting content in the vault to save on residual payments?
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even if it’s in the vault, it’s content that fox isn’t licensing out to competitors that they may have if they were an independent entity