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Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel Axe (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I'm all for Disney getting the cancellations they deserve, but articles like this one are entirely sensationalist. No one can know the real numbers of cancellations unless Disney announces them, which will never happen.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The fact the cancellation page has been seen crashing multiple times, and that so many people are actively posting screenshots of their cancellation does lend credibility to the fact that it's still happening on a large scale, though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The fact the cancellation page has been seen crashing multiple times

    That's standard business practice for every subscription service. "Oh, hey, sorry. Your attempt to stop paying us money isn't working right now. Try again later."

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No one can know the real numbers of cancellations unless Disney announces them, which will never happen.

    Quarterly earnings...

    183 million Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions, an increase of 2.6 million versus Q2 fiscal 2025

    128 million Disney+ subscribers, an increase of 1.8 million versus Q2 fiscal 2025

    https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-reports-third-quarter-and-nine-months-earnings-for-fiscal-2025/

    But internally they monitor this metric on a day-to-day metric, people are absolutely losing their shit over the cancellation at Disney.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh shit, and the current fiscal quarter ends in like a week, so we should hear about the numbers near the first week of November.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably not. Disney has previously announced that they're gonna stop reporting subscriber numbers in 10Ks and annual reports.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It looks like they did announce that a month or two ago, but they also said that the new policy wouldn't apply to Disney+ & hulu until 2026. Espn+ numbers though won't be reported for Q4 this year.

    Then again, it looks like the cancellations aren't immediate; they are still subscribers until the end of the billing period/month, so it may not affect the total subscriber count too much.

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