Hulu Content Will Be Added To Disney+ (cnbc.com) 44
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company will add Hulu content to its Disney+ streaming app, adding that it will also raise the price of its ad-free streaming service later this year. CNBC reports: CEO Bob Iger said the company would soon begin offering a "one app experience" in the U.S. that incorporates Hulu content into its flagship streaming service, Disney+. Standalone options for all of Disney's platforms, including ESPN+, will remain. "This is a logical progression of our DTC offerings that will provide greater opportunities for advertisers, while giving bundle subscribers access to more robust and streamlined content resulting in greater audience engagement and ultimately leading to a more unified streaming experience," Iger said during Wednesday's earnings call.
Iger attributed the move toward a one-app location for both Disney+ and Hulu content to the "advertising potential for the combined platform." While Hulu has long offered an ad-supported option for subscribers, Disney+ launched the cheaper tier last year. Disney will begin to roll out the one-app offering by the end of the calendar year, and Iger said the company would share further details at a later time. In the company's fiscal second quarter earnings, the company reported $21.82 billion in revenue, up 13% from the same period last year and beating estimates. It did, however, shed 4 million Disney+ subscribers.
Iger attributed the move toward a one-app location for both Disney+ and Hulu content to the "advertising potential for the combined platform." While Hulu has long offered an ad-supported option for subscribers, Disney+ launched the cheaper tier last year. Disney will begin to roll out the one-app offering by the end of the calendar year, and Iger said the company would share further details at a later time. In the company's fiscal second quarter earnings, the company reported $21.82 billion in revenue, up 13% from the same period last year and beating estimates. It did, however, shed 4 million Disney+ subscribers.
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Additionally, he said that the separate Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ apps would also continue.
What a mess it continues to be.
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I subscribe to both so it will be nice to be able to cancel one.
With Amazon also allowing their content to be licensed for other platforms, I can also cancel that too.
The consolidation begins...
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I subscribe to both [Disney+ and Hulu] so it will be nice to be able to cancel one.
The question remains whether Disney+ will be as expensive next year as Disney+ and Hulu combined are today. Iger said the price of Disney+ will be going up this year. I bet it will be close.
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consolidation and price increases.
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and wait till you can't split off the subscriptions. i think i have seen this movie before.
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I do not assume the other Disney junk is any better
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I haven't had any issues with the Hulu app on Roku. The Peacock app on the other hand... it's basically unusable...
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Don't worry. I'm sure at some point the beancounters will point out that, "If we just dropped all the piddly other services and forced them to subscribe to Disney+, revenues would increase by $projected_amount." They'll ignore the fact that most folks will just shrug and move on with their life outside of the sports nuts who will wholesale lose their shit over not being able to watch every concussion producing hit without paying the Disney tax directly and go through with it eventually. It's the way the wor
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"Woke". The new buzzword of the MAGA crowd.
So, what is the opposite of "woke"? Daydreaming? Incognizant?
Normal.
Re: My favorite pirate site already has everything (Score:2)
Or you could just be respectful to people in the way you demand others do for you. The people calling you to battle against "woke" are generating ad-revenue from your outrage, so it's not like you're heading towards anything resembling resolution on the matter.
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Which is? (Curious.)
Lot of info missing (Score:3)
In all markets? Or is this another US-only thing while other markets are left out yet again?
Is this another price rise? My subscription is already going up by $20NZD later this month, which means that since April 2021 my Disney+ subscription will have risen by 50% over the original rate.
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In all markets? Or is this another US-only thing while other markets are left out yet again?
Is this another price rise? My subscription is already going up by $20NZD later this month, which means that since April 2021 my Disney+ subscription will have risen by 50% over the original rate.
counter intuitively much of this was already on disney+ outside the US and the US market is the one playing catch-up.
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Is this another price rise?
The prices will continue to rise until the accountants identify the point where it becomes too expensive to keep increasing them. We are living in a world dominated by maximum profit.
Right now Disney is making a $1bn quarterly loss on it's "direct to consumer" business. Expect the price rises to continue.
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It's not that I object to paying a fair price, it's that I'm too lazy to juggle all these subscriptions and figure out what I need to see the shows I want.
Sorry Disney but ThePirateBay.org has everything a click or two away, to watch on the device of my choice, without ads and other BS. Consistent user interface too. Maybe you could get together with other streaming platforms and make something that doesn't suck and has everything, a la carte. Like Steam, although preferably without the DRM bullshit. So mor
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It's not that I object to paying a fair price, it's that I'm too lazy to juggle all these subscriptions and figure out what I need to see the shows I want.
Sorry Disney but ThePirateBay.org has everything a click or two away, to watch on the device of my choice, without ads and other BS.
Like, the middle ground between the two *used to be* the DVD rack. House of Cards, Game of Thrones, and other well known series were available without a subscription, so one could buy just the one show if they wanted. Since DVDs are passé, there's always the iTunes store that still sells individual episodes and seasons of TV shows. In a depressing irony, Apple won't sell "For All Mankind" by-the-episode, either, even for past seasons, in their own store.
Paramount still releases their streaming shows on
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DVDs were only good because the encryption was cracked.
The other issue today is that because everyone is talking about shows on social media it's less viable to wait 6 months or even a few days to watch shows. To their credit they do try to release shows worldwide at the same time now, although Paramount managed to screw that up with Star Trek more than once.
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They've lost 4 million Disney+ subscribers
You have the knowledge of a single number in a large multi-variate equation. Any conclusion you draw is overwhelmingly likely to be wrong, and if it were right it would be by pure luck, not from any insight you think you have that the actual company doesn't.
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In Canada, where there is no Hulu, this content was added to Disney+ a couple years ago, as well as the price rises.
Just a UI Change? (Score:2)
Reading between the lines here, it sounds like what they're doing is keeping the subscriptions the same. If you subscribe to Disney+ only, you still get exactly the same content. However, if you subscribe to both Disney+ and Hulu, you will get the content of both using a single app. So users won't need to care which service is providing the content.
If this is done right, it will be nice for those who subscribe to both, while not causing problems for everyone else. But it could be done poorly where it ge
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I am going disagree a little bit. I actually really like what Amazon does with Prime - 'generally' its nice to be able to add channels for other services like Paramount or Starz and not have to run around install new apps/tiles on devices or put in different passwords etc. They also make it pretty painless to start / stop those subs. So you can subscribe, watch the new season of Strange New Worlds over the course of month, and than turn it off.
What I don't like about what prime does is sometimes the same c
HULU & Disney Shitshow (Score:2)
Re: HULU & Disney Shitshow (Score:2)
Long, long, long ago I subscribed to Hulu. Then they started showing ads in their paid service around the same time they started requiring a cable subscription to watch some shows (wtf? I use Hulu because I don't have cable you dumb cunts). I immediately cancelled and have been boycotting the entire brand ever since.
It's a shame. I really want to see Reservation Dogs and a few other shows. C'est la vie. That's the way the capitalism cookie crumbles.
wow! (Score:1)
you guys actually pay for streaming??
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How will costs affect different users (Score:1)
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Disney tech sucks (Score:4, Insightful)
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As someone who had Disney+, Hulu Live TV, and an on-again-off-again subscription to ESPN+, I can say the account integrations and package billing have been a total experiential shit show. I'm still unsure if all my subs are integrated and billing correctly.
I dumped my cable subscription as soon as I could get fiber in my neighborhood, and one of the things that we did was upgrade our annual Disney+ plan to the bundle. It gave me prorated credit each month for remainder of my old, annual Disney+ subscription, and everything integrated together. It was pretty seamless.
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I confirm that I have similar experiences. It says it uses a single password and that when I change one it changes the other, but it doesn't.
Great, 2 services I do not use could be less money (Score:1)
always good to know (Score:2)
It's always good to know about the growing selection of things for me to not watch. I can save more and more time the more of these things they create and add!
Already canceled Hulu once (Score:2)
As soon as Disney and Roku get their **** straight, I plan on dropping Disney to the ad tier. Although, the ROI for buying a non-Roku device for Disney is suddenly looking better, too.