Comment on Disney+ Drops 1.3 Million Subscribers Amid Price Hike, Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million

• porksoda@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The wording is confusing but they are making more money from the price hike. They were losing money, they are now losing less money.

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  • ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a non-native English speaker, I thought the same exact thing. That they lost revenue of 300M.

    So unfortunately they are gaining revenue? I wish more people would get into Piracy honestly.

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thing is, if more people go pirate stuff, there are less people financing the movie production, and thus, they have pay more In theory, of course, we don’t know what pile of coins goes to manager, CEO, similar for no reason high paid jobs.

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      • kattenluik@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        people pirate enough -> they fix their platform -> people stop pirating because platform good again -> platform becomes awful again -> repeat

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      • asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So only pay for stuff you feel comfortable supporting, and pirate the rest, easy

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  • Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good point. Thanks for that. 👍

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• andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, no. They were already losing lots of money. They are now losing less money than they were before even after people left. Which is generally what happens if you’re losing money for every subscriber and then subscribers leave.

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  • andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “see this chart here? We lose money for every subscriber! We’ll never make any money until we get rid of all of theml”

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    • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Found the Management Consultant

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      • VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha so true

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    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Might lose even less money if we started paying them to watch! Yay, math!

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      • Fester@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Now we’re losing negative money

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  • Cringe2793@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you lose money per subscriber? Surely the subscription fee each subscriber pays is enough to offset the server, labor, etc costs, right?

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    • Silentiea@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      By making up more costs.

      More seriously, by evaluating what you could be making by letting someone else run the streaming service and pay you for the rights, instead. It’s still a pretty imaginary number, but it does come from something real.

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      • Silentiea@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also, for a business other than Disney, licensing fees for the content they show can be a pretty large cost that needs a lot of subscribers to offset.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The yachts don’t buy themselves.

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  • Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me no read good.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not your fault, it’s a shitty headline

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