This new platform SVOD service (subscription video on demand) is available for $6.99 a month or $69.99 per year. It redirects users to designated areas for the company\u2019s various franchises like Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic. This digital push of Disney is also set to rattle the market as it announced an ad free approach, breaking with Hulu and ESPN+’s ad-supported models.\u00a0Disney+ will be available to stream through smart TVs, web browsers, and on tablets, mobile devices, and game consoles as it secured deals with Roku and Sony for availability on their respective platforms.<\/p>\n
As for new projects, the mouse-house has already confirmed\u00a0series based on Avengers characters like Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan).\u00a0Two other live-action projects focused on\u00a0Loki\u00a0and\u00a0Hawkeye have also been secured by Marvel Studios.\u00a0Monsters, Inc. and\u00a0High School Musical will also see new productions, as well as Star Wars with the creation of The Mandalorian. A\u00a0remake of Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp,\u00a0The Sword in the Stone,\u00a0<\/em>which is slated for a Disney+ release, is also in the works.<\/p>\n The Hollywood Reporter\u00a0previously reported<\/a>\u00a0that Disney would launch its streaming service with \u201c500 films from the Disney library … in addition to around 7,000 episodes of Disney TV.\u201d According to The Verge<\/a>, Netflix had over 4,000 movies and 1,197 TV series\u00a0in 2016. Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, told investors in November 2017 that they were planning to \u201cwalk, not run\u201d into streaming, but they would ramp up production on original series and films over time. If you want to see\u00a0The Mandalorian<\/em>, for example, you\u2019ll have to sign up for Disney+.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the most important product launch in Iger\u2019s 15 years as CEO, and it\u2019s also the riskiest, according to BusinessWeek<\/a>. Disney has promised the family-focused streaming service will feature at least 25 new TV shows and 10 new movies in its first year, along with a huge archive encompassing everything from Mickey Mouse\u2019s first appearance, in 1928\u2019s\u00a0Steamboat Willie<\/em>, to the contemporary adventures of\u00a0The Avengers<\/em>\u00a0to the interstellar\u00a0Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0canon.<\/p>\n Bob Iger built his reputation with 10-figure purchases that turned Disney into Hollywood\u2019s most successful movie company: Pixar in 2006, Marvel in 2009,\u00a0Lucasfilm in 2012<\/a>. This year, he cemented Disney\u2019s hegemony by spending $71 billion to\u00a0buy much of 21st Century Fox<\/a>. But for all its production might, Disney doesn\u2019t have a deep technology background like its primary streaming competitors Amazon, Netflix, and Apple, which introduced its\u00a0own service on Nov. 1<\/a>. And unlike these companies, it has little experience selling productions directly to consumers.<\/p>\n Disney+ could define Iger\u2019s legacy. Now 68, he\u2019d been scheduled to retire this year. Instead, as part of the Fox deal, he agreed to stay on until 2021. He professes certainty that Disney+ is the right step. \u201cIt feels absolutely vital for us to do this,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is, no question about it, the future of media.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Business Insider<\/a>, these are some of the key insights surrounding the importante investment the mouse company has made for Disney+:<\/p>\n Disney\u00a0expects<\/a>\u00a060-90 million subscribers for Disney+ alone by the end of the 2024 fiscal year, and UBS analysts estimated that in the first year alone it could garner\u00a05 million<\/a>\u00a0subscribers. That bodes well for Disney, as it’ll need about 6 million subs to recoup its foregone revenue from Netflix licensing deals alone.\u00a0In pulling licensing deals from Netflix, Disney is projected to walk into an estimated\u00a0$500<\/a>\u00a0million loss per year overall.<\/p>\n The digital push is Disney\u2019s response to cord-cutting, the dropping of cable service that has hit its ESPN sports network and other channels,\u00a0the rise of Netflix Inc<\/a>., and the need to not feel left out of a market\u00a0at a time when audiences are facing a host of choices, and monthly bills, for digital entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n Disney touts 95% brand awareness and a fan base of over 1 billion, even debuting as America\u2019s most intimate brand in\u00a0the 2019 Brand Intimacy Study by MBLM.<\/a><\/p>\n Let’s see what the future holds for\u00a0the Mouse House as it pushes competition into streaming to take on competition from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple. We can at least expect to reach many of its targets sooner than later\u00a0as original and exclusive content have been seen to be the differentiators in this market.<\/p>\n WarnerMedia\u00a0recently unveiled<\/a> its much-talked-about direct-to-consumer streaming service, confirming it will be called HBO Max under a new deal with Warner Bros. Television. It is\u00a0set to launch in the spring of 2020 with some 10,000 hours of content, including all episodes of \u201990s hit \u201cFriends.”<\/p>\n In March, Apple announced<\/a> its own streaming service:\u00a0Apple TV+.<\/p>\n Amazon, the world\u2019s largest Internet retailer, has\u00a0Prime Instant Video, which, similar to Netflix, offers commercial-free shows and movies at the viewer\u2019s whim, and already presumes over\u00a010 million users.\u00a0According to new estimates<\/a>,\u00a0Amazon\u2019s\u00a0Prime Video Channels\u00a0will pulled in $1.7 billion in revenue during 2018, more than double from last year\u2019s $700 million. That number is poised to grow to $3.6 billion in 2020 worldwide.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-04-16-a-las-12.39.39.png\")
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