Streaming services, which do you have or are you getting rid of?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Well, Disney is a publicly-traded company, so we know that Disney's stocks fell by 1.9% since they made the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. And we also know that 1.9% of Disney stock is worth $3.87 billion. We don't know if the Disney boycott was the reason their stocks fell...but evidently Disney does believe it, because they reversed their decision after just one week.

Yeah, my guess is that someone was doing back of the envelope math with stock prices, D+ subscriptions and maybe ad buys, to the extent that data could be sort of known this quickly. (Stock prices are the easiest to get, of course, because they're out there in the public.)

 

[SkidAce]

Yeah it not proof, but its an indicator among others.

 

[chuckdee]

Well, Disney is a publicly-traded company, so we know that Disney's stocks fell by 1.9% since they made the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. And we also know that 1.9% of Disney stock is worth $3.87 billion. We don't know if the Disney boycott was the reason their stocks fell...but evidently Disney does believe it, because they reversed their decision after just one week.

If their change of direction is indeed because of the boycott, it would make this the first ever successful boycott against The Mouse.

However, they were already talking about reversals before the drop. I think it more likely that they suspended Kimmel to take a look at their legal exposure, found that there was none, and then reversed course.

 

[TiQuinn]

Disney Plus is getting another price hike

Crazy to think this was once $7 a month. Another $3 bump on the no ads version is bringing it up to $19 a month. Given how seldom I watch it (let alone ESPN) versus Hulu, I’m glad to be getting away from this.

 

[GrimCo]

Currently:
Netflix - best of the bad. And so long as Brigderton is there, it's on. Plus, it's discounted trough my ISP
Disney+ - cartoons for kids
YT Premium - i tend to watch yt on tv and adds are getting ridicoulous latley (16-20 second unskippable adds, sometimes 2 in a row), plus YT Music premium is included, so no need for spotify/deezer

That's pretty much it.

 

[James Gasik]

I just got an email saying that my Hulu + package is increasing in price. I thought Disney was ending Hulu as a separate service, so why would I have to pay more? I might cancel after all.

 

[Umbran]

Some outlets are touting that they lost over $3B, virtually overnight.

In stock value, not revenue. Stock value can come back.

 

[Umbran]

Agreed on all counts. I'm not an expert on this stuff. It's evident that something made them change their mind, and change it in a hurry,

I am not so sure.

It looks to me more like the original decision to preempt Kimmel was a snap judgement. This shift to put him back on then took days.

 

[CleverNickName]

I am not so sure.

It looks to me more like the original decision to preempt Kimmel was a snap judgement. This shift to put him back on then took days.

Yeah, I think you're right...the 2% stock drop looks more coincidental than anything.

 

[chuckdee]

I am not so sure.

It looks to me more like the original decision to preempt Kimmel was a snap judgement. This shift to put him back on then took days.

And I think that snap judgement was made in response to the affiliates' actions rather than anything else.