Tag: Disney Plus
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Disney Reportedly Paid Taylor Swift More Than $75 Million For the ‘Eras Tour’ Rights
Walt Disney made waves when it announced that Disney+ would be the exclusive home of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. The company appears to have paid a rich sum for the privilege. Disney will pay pop singer sensation and entrepreneur more than $75 billion to the rights of the concert film, according to Puck News,…
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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Concert Film Will Be an Exclusive on Disney+
Disney+ will be the exclusive home of pop sensation Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert film, CEO Bob Iger said on the company’s fiscal first-quarter earnings call. The streaming service will be getting a special “Taylor’s Version” of the film, which includes a performance of Cardigan and four acoustic songs not seen in the theatrical or…
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Disney+ Joins Hulu in Password Sharing Crackdown
It appears the era of sharing passwords to access Walt Disney services is coming to an end. Disney+ began emailing customers this morning alerting them of new policies related to sharing. The language is identical to what users of sister service Hulu received last week, noting that the service is adding limitations on sharing outside…
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Spectrum Cable TV Subscribers Now Get Ad-Based Disney+ For Free
Spectrum on Thursday said that all subscribers of its TV Select packages will get the ad-based version of Disney+ for free at no additional cost. Subscribers who can go here to sign up for a Disney+ Basic subscription. Customers with an existing Disney+ subscription can go to the service’s app or site to change their…
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Why Disney, Paramount, and Peacock’s Money Troubles Are Good For You
It’s been a brutal year if you run a streaming business. After years of pouring billions of dollars into creating exclusive content, companies like Disney, Paramount, and Comcast, which owns Peacock, are deep in the red. But their losses may end up being your gain as the need to rein in expenses may mean you’ll…
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Cable TV Is Increasingly Dominated By Re-Runs as Original Shows Flee to Streaming
What’s the one thing that The Mandalorian on Disney+, Squid Game on Netflix, and The Boys on Amazon Prime have in common? They’re not found on cable television. Increasingly, the buzziest and most-talked about scripted shows are found on streaming services, as media companies have spent billions of dollars on the kind of programming that…
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The Recap: Comcast Price Hikes, DIRECTV-Tegna Fight Gets Uglier, and More
It’s been about a week or so since the last price hike from a cable or streaming service, so we’re overdue. The latest to warn customers that its prices were going up is cable giant Comcast, which said the increases would take effect later this week. It follows price hikes from DIRECTV, DISH, and pretty…
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Disney+ is Looking at Adding Gaming and Shopping Experiences To its Ads
It appears Disney has even bigger plans for Disney+ beyond just more movies and shows. An executive told Variety that the media giant is considering launching shopping and gaming elements in the advertisements found on the streaming service. “The world of advertising experiences on AVOD (ad-based video on demand) is an important place to be…
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Disney CEO Bob Iger Denies ABC, Cable Networks, and ESPN Are For Sale
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger backtracked on his prior suggestion that some assets, whether it’s ESPN or its ABC network, might be for sale, saying that was “not the case.” “I did not think everyone would run with a story that everything is being sold, which is not the case,” Iger told Disney employees at…
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Here is Everything Coming to Disney+ in December 2023
Here is everything coming to Disney+ in December 2023, Friday, December 1 Saturday, December 2 Tuesday, December 5 Wednesday, December 6 Friday, December 8 Saturday, December 9 Monday, December 11 Tuesday, December 12 Wednesday, December 13 Friday, December 15 Wednesday, December 20 Friday, December 22 Saturday, December 23 Sunday, December 24 Monday, December 25 Tuesday,…