Disney's new bet on the streaming video business seems to be going from strength to strength at the moment, or at least that is what the latest official figures that Disney has announced suggest. According to the company, the number of subscribers to Disney's streaming video service reaches 50 million.
A couple of months ago, Disney claimed it had nearly 30 million subscribers, an increase of 20 million in just two months. This growth is due to the arrival of Disney + United Kingdom, Italy, India, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. The confinement that we are suffering in many countriesSurely it has also contributed to the growth of this new VOD platform.
Although Apple has not disclosed its subscriber figures, in this sense it is doing much better than Disney, since practically every month, premieres one or more new series accompanied by several films and / or documentaries. The catalog of series that Disney plans to release, at the moment seems very small and is practically oriented to the Marvel universe.
The numbers of subscribers that Disney offers us today, we have to take them with a grain of salt. Until the first year after its launch (November 2020 in the United States and March in Europe), at which time the annual promotions launched by Disney + will end, we will not be able to verify if it really Disney's bet for all audiences is successful.
Disney adult content, like Deadpool, will not be available on Disney +(confirmed by the company), but it will come from the hand of Hulu (which also belongs to Disney) when this streaming video service arrives in Europe probably in 2021. This will force us to have to pay for another video service in streaming if we want to have access to the entire Disney catalog.
