Disney Plus, Disney’s highly anticipated streaming service, has signed up more than 10 million subscribers since launching early Tuesday, Disney said Wednesday. By comparison, HBO Now took nearly three years to reach half that number. Hulu, another streaming service owned by Disney, has 28 million subscribers after its launch more than a decade ago. Netflix, which dominates the market …
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Disney Plus, the highly anticipated streaming service from Disney that launched early Tuesday, was downloaded 3.2 million times to mobile devices and sucked in new members for 1.3 million hours of viewing in the first 24 hours, app analytics company Apptopia said Wednesday. It’s also No. 1 app in the Apple iOS app store in both the US and Canada. …
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Disney Plus may be the biggest direct challenge Netflix has faced since the DVD-mailer company reinvented itself as the internet’s answer to TV. But Reed Hastings, Netflix’s CEO, says he isn’t sweating the competition — he can’t wait to get his hands on it. “I’m not saying we worry about them, we admire them,” he said at the Dealbook conference in New …
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You probably haven’t heard, but Disney Plus launched Tuesday. (Never mind that things didn’t exactly go smoothly. It’ll get there.) The much-ballyhooed new streaming service costs $6.99 a month, or $70 if you prepay for a year. Already feeling subscription fatigue? You may have heard that Verizon is offering a free year of Disney Plus with select Unlimited plans and Fios …
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Disney Plus launched early Tuesday, and users wasted no time complaining of service failures. In the initial going, Disney Plus complaints were clustered in big cities in the Eastern US and Canada, lining up with the areas likely to experience peak demand early Tuesday morning, according to outage tracker DownDetector. The tracker also showed complaints in the Netherlands, where Disney Plus launched as …
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Verizon customers are getting a holiday gift a little early. Those with the carrier’s Unlimited plans, or with new Fios Home or 5G Home internet service accounts, will receive 12 months of Disney Plus for free starting Tuesday, the launch date for the streaming service. After the promotional period, the subscription for the new streaming service will jump up to $6.99 per …
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Disney Plus is set to launch Tuesday, and die-hard Star Wars fans are counting down the minutes until they can start streaming The Mandalorian, the streaming service’s big-budget spinoff taking place in a galaxy far, far away. But when exactly is the time to count down to? Disney had at least two online countdown clocks ticking down to different hours recently, …
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Disney Plus will launch in major European markets — the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and “a number of other countries in the region” — on March 31, CEO Bob Iger said Thursday. Disney announced the news during its conference call to discuss quarterly results. That will come about 20 weeks after the service debuts in the US, Canada and the Netherlands Tuesday. …
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Apple’s normal resting state is to be superlative. It’s the planet’s most valuable company. It created history’s most successful product, some argue. CEO Tim Cook said Apple TV Plus would be “unlike anything that’s been done before.” And maybe he’s right — but not in the way he meant. As Apple takes the stage as a streaming-video company today, it’s inhabiting a …
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HBO Max, the new HBO-anchored streaming service coming from AT&T’s WarnerMedia, will cost $15 a month and launch in May in the US. It will have 10,000 hours of programming: everything on HBO, plus exclusive originals and a deeper catalog of licensed shows and movies. Existing members of HBO Now — also $15 a month — can switch over to HBO Max …
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