• billwashere@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    And there’s why they “unfired” him.

    Losing roughly a quarter of a billion per year in revenue makes them rethink things.

    —— 9.99 per month for Disney basic 15.99 for Disney plus.

    Just for easy math average those two so $12.99 per month.

    $12.99 x 1,700,000 x 12 months = $264,996,000

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      15 hours ago

      And how many of those resubscribed, since Disney obviously learned their lessen.

      Fuck Disney. If you didn’t know who they were, you do now. Publicly traded companies care about one thing:

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        I was kind of shocked how many people on here resubbed a day later and told others to do the same because they got the message.

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          That is sort of the point with those protests. If they don’t go back there is no treat whenethe puppy does a good job. until theyeare trained you need positive reinforcement.

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            Yeah, people forget there is also a cost for backtracking these decisions. So the point of boycotting/protesting is to discourage bad behavior, then good behavior can’t be equally harmful.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s less than 1% of their subscribers.

      It’s a drop in the bucket. Sadly.

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        10 hours ago

        From what data I can pull they have roughly 125M subscribers, so it’s about 1.4%. This still doesn’t sound a lot, but it’s effect is exaggerated because of their business model: the majority of their cost is for producing shows and movies, i.e. costs that don’t scale with the subscriber count. The cost of serving each subscriber is almost negligible. They need some number of subscribers to break even and every subscriber beyond that is their profit margin. Losing a bunch of subscribers directly cuts into their profit.

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          12 hours ago

          Just google how many subscribers they have. They’re public. It’s available info.

          It’s just shy of 1 percent.

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            11 hours ago

            How many of those are through add-on deals like they offer through Verizon? I’m curious how discounted it is through them (some plans offer Disney+ for “free” I believe) and how much that inflates the subscriber rate.

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              11 hours ago

              Great question. I used to be able to authenticate to dis ey plus but not vide material with my Hulu creds after the merger which I was exploring for vulns. Did t find much. Plausible though.