Netflix has announced its latest quarterly financial results for April to June and added 2.7 million subscribers around the globe. However, following a price hike, it lost 126,000 subscribers in the US. This was considered a bad result from Wall Street, who had been expecting a similar number to this time last year, when Netflix […]
The battle between Disney+ and Netflix continues, with Disney signing Netflix’s Director Of Original Film, Matt Brodlie. He will be taking on the role of Senior Vice President, International Content Development. This roll will see Matt being responsible for developing a films and TV strategy for non-US markets, which will be important to the international […]
The third and final season of Jessica Jones, is now available on Netflix and is the final Marvel series on Netflix, with other series being cancelled including Daredevil, Iron Fist, The Punisher, Luke Cage and the Defenders. This has led to many speculating on when these characters will return, either on Disney+ or on Hulu. […]
Netflix is starting to feel the pressure from increased competition as Warner, Apple, Comcast and Disney get ready to launch their streaming services. Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos recently spoke at SeriesFest in Denver, Colorado, “The thing that’s interesting about all these upcoming services, as well as the services that are in the market today, […]
With Disney set to enter into the streaming space later this year with the launch of Disney+, Barron’s recently spoke with CEO Robert Iger about going into competition with Netflix. On competing with Netflix in content streaming: We’re not launching Disney+ to catch up to Netflix or even compete with them. The marketplace is hungry […]
Recently it came to light that Netflix still holds the rights to the “Pay 2” window for Disney movies released between between 2016 and 2018 including Infinity War, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Coco, but these wouldn’t become available to Netflix until after 2025. During Disney’s quarterly results investors call, CEO Bob Iger was […]
During the Disney Quarterly Results Investors Call, CEO Bob Iger was asked if Disney had been able to negotiate with third-part distributors to get back rights to content for Disney+, CEO Bob Iger replied: We did some deals, Marci, to get some of the content back that had been licensed to third parties. We continue […]
In this What’s On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger and James discuss all of this weeks Disney+ news including: DisneyNature’s Dolphin Reef Coming To Disney+ Kevin Mayer Discusses Disney+ At APOS Comcast In Talks With Disney To Sell It’s Hulu Stake Disney+ Will Include Just 20% Of Netflix’s Library Survey Finds 23% Of Netflix Subscribers […]
Ever since Netflix started cancelling Marvel shows including Daredevil, Iron Fist, The Punisher, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, there has been questions about when these characters could be seen on our screens again, such as in a new series on Disney+ or Hulu. Last year, it was reported that Netflix had a clause in their […]
While the Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has recently been talking about how all the new streaming services, such as WarnerMedia and Disney+, won’t effect his company, a recent survey by Geek.com, has shown that Disney+ could have a big impact on their subscribers. In the past couple of weeks since Disney unveiled more details on […]
During the recent Netflix financial results, some interesting facts about the relationship between Disney and Netflix have been revealed. While it’s been very well publicized that Disney is pulling as much content off Netflix as possible for its new streaming platform, Disney+. However things are as simple as we probably would all like it to […]
Disney+ is set to launch in November, featuring over 400 movies and 7500 episodes from the Disney, National Geographic, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar. But when it launches, it will only have just 16% of Netflix’s 47,000 TV episodes and 12.5% of the Netflix 4,000 movies, according to Ampere Analysis estimates. It will also have less […]
This week, Netflix announced its latest quarters financial results, which revealed that they have added 9.6 million subscribers, which was 600,000 more than analysts were expecting, however new subscribers are starting to slow down as Netflix is forecasting that it would add just 5 million in the current quarter. Netflix’s stock took a dive last […]
Disney is betting big on its Direct To Consumer streaming platforms and after all the news coming out of the Investor Day, the market has reacted very positively to the strategy, as Disney’s stock went up 10% to an all-time high of $128 in Friday morning trading. However this move has already hit Netflix in the […]
If your planning on catching up on the animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Netflix, you will need to start soon as the shows will be removed from Netflix in the US on April 7th. All six seasons of the hit Star Wars show will be removed and while they have left Netflix […]