How Much Money is Disney making from Disney+?
Moreover, Disney (NYSE: DIS) is making less money from Disney Plus. Disney made $4.12 per Disney Plus subscriber in September 2021, down from $4.52 in September 2020.
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Moreover, Disney (NYSE: DIS) is making less money from Disney Plus. Disney made $4.12 per Disney Plus subscriber in September 2021, down from $4.52 in September 2020.
Read MoreThe Walt Disney Company (DIS) shrank in 2020. Stockrow estimates Disney’s revenue growth fell by 41.87% in the quarter ending on 30 June 2020.
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Read MoreCan Disney+ generate enough revenue to sustain Disney for two years without the movie box office and park ticket sales? Nobody knows, not even Disney Chairman Bob Iger and CEO Bob Chapek know.
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Read MoreOne of the few ways, Target can fight Amazon is to recruit allies. Predictably, Target is partnering with Disney (NYSE: DIS) for an anti-Amazon offensive.
Read MoreThat makes WWE a pretty good metric for other traditional entertainment companies that are trying to transition to digital-content providers. We might be seeing the future of companies as diverse as TV networks like CBS (NYSE: CBS) and movie studios like Lionsgate Entertainment Group (NYSE: LGF.A) at WWE.
The advantages of this business model are that the WWE can generate cash flow without having to pander to advertisers.
Read MoreThis is bad; Time Warner cannot monetize one of the biggest superhero franchises in the universe, while Disney can make money off of junk-pop culture properties. To add the nightmare, owning Fox would give Disney many more properties to exploit; including X-Men, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Deadpool, The Simpsons, and Planet of the Apes.
Read MoreThe cash from financing raises some serious questions about some of the other numbers in Netflix’s second quarter earnings report which don’t add up. First there’s the income of $362.09 million; if Netflix lost $1.9 billion from its operations – where did that come from?
The cynic in me will say from borrowing, which means it is not income. Funds that you borrow have to be paid back or written off at some point. That goes doubly so for the kind of money Netflix is probably borrowing; namely corporate paper or private equity.
Read MoreHistory shows us that new technology is often used as a scapegoat for political failures. It also gives Zuckerberg reason to worry and act; and act he is by launching an effort to purge Facebook of fake news stories. Those stories give Facebook’s critics some circumstantial evidence to justify their attacks on free speech.
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