mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agoDisney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmelwww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square109linkfedilinkarrow-up1906arrow-down116
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minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·18 days ago If my googling is right, in total there are ~207 million subscribers. This says 128M, which seems far more plausible. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-stop-reporting-subscriber-numbers-disney-plus-hulu-espn-1236480413/
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 days agoI don’t think those numbers are additive like that - you’d be double-counting people.
minus-squaremeliante@lemmy.ptlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·18 days agoThey pay more than once as well?
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 days agoTrue - I guess it depends on whether we’re defining “subscribers” as people or total paid accounts.
minus-squaremeliante@lemmy.ptlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoCorporate says the biggest number.
minus-squareHolytimes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoTotal paid account is the number that gets counted. That’s what a subscriber is after all.
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoShould cable subscribers be counted 200 times, once for each channel?
This says 128M, which seems far more plausible. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-stop-reporting-subscriber-numbers-disney-plus-hulu-espn-1236480413/
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I don’t think those numbers are additive like that - you’d be double-counting people.
They pay more than once as well?
True - I guess it depends on whether we’re defining “subscribers” as people or total paid accounts.
Corporate says the biggest number.
Total paid account is the number that gets counted. That’s what a subscriber is after all.
Should cable subscribers be counted 200 times, once for each channel?