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To dramatically overreact.
• Netflix
Profit: $10.4 billion
Revenue: $33.7 billion

• Disney
Profit: $574 million
Revenue: $23.3 billion

• Warner Discovery
Profit: $677 million
Rev: $10.3 billion

• Paramount+
Profit: -$497 million
Rev: $7.6 billion

• Peacock
Profit: -$1.8 billion
Rev: $4.9 billion
May 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🎬🍿 Streaming Services Report Card 2024

🟢 Subscribers
🔸Netflix: 301.6 Million
🔸Disney+: 124.6 Million
🔸Hulu: 53.6 Million
🔸Max/Discovery+: 116.9 Million
🔸Peacock: 36 Million
🔸Paramount+: 77.5 Million
May 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨 Netflix adds nearly 19 million subscribers to end 2024 with more than 300 million globally

🔸UCAN: 4.82M added
🔸EMEA: 5M added
🔸LATAM: 4.15M added
🔸APAC: 4.94M added

Netflix’s sports bet pays off with holiday subscriber surge
🔸Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
🔸NFL Games

$NFLX
February 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🚨 Pay DTH vs. Wired Broadband Subscribers in India

🔸Pay DTH - 59.91 Million
🔸Wired Broadband - 43.64 Million

Internet adoption and growth have outpaced the decline of Cable TV & DTH over the years consistently.

#Vodafone #Idea #Jio #Airtel #Internet #DTH
January 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#EmmyNominations

Netflix dominates, FX narrowly beat HBO in the 2024 Emmy Nominations

🔸Netflix — 107
🔸FX — 93
🔸HBO — 91
🔸Apple — 72
🔸ABC — 38
🔸CBS — 38
🔸Amazon Prime Video — 37
🔸NBC — 33
🔸Hulu — 26
🔸Disney+ — 19

#Emmys #EmmyNoms #Emmys2024 #EmmyAwards
July 18, 2024 at 3:47 PM
🚨 Pay DTH vs. Wired Broadband Subscribers in India

🔸Pay DTH - 61.97 Million
🔸Wired Broadband - 40.27 Million

OTT platforms and DD Free Dish are weaning away the upper and lower end of the pay DTH customers.
July 9, 2024 at 2:10 PM
🎟️ Domestic Box-Office Collection [1995-2024*]

Top-Grossing Distributors 📽️🍿

#WaltDisney - $43.4B
#WarnerBros - $39.3B
#Universal - $31.97B
#Sony - $31.93B
#Paramount - $26.7B
#20CF - $25.9B
#Lionsgate - $10.4B
#NewLine - $6.2B

#Hollywood #Netflix #WB #Disney
May 15, 2024 at 4:44 PM
🔸Disney's streaming business inches close to profitability, lost only $18 million.

🔸The company expects the streaming division to be fully in the black in fiscal Q4.

#Disney #Hulu #DisneyPlus #ESPN
May 8, 2024 at 5:47 PM
🚨 Disney+ and #Charter deal pushed the subscriber numbers in the US but average revenue per user fell slightly.

🔸Disney+ lost 2.5 million subscribers internationally in the last two quarters as the company pulled back Original Productions in certain regions.

#DisneyPlus
May 8, 2024 at 5:41 PM
🚨 Pay DTH vs. Wired Broadband Subscribers in India

🔸Pay DTH subscribers declines 10.5% to 63.52 million since December 2020.

🔸Wired Broadband subscribers jump 51% to 38.57 million since December 2020.

#Vodafone #Idea #Jio #Airtel #Internet #DTH
April 26, 2024 at 1:43 PM
2024 #Oscars Wins By Studio

🔸 NBCUniversal - 8 (Universal & Focus Features)
🔸 Searchlight Pictures - 5
🔸 A24 - 2
🔸 Toho - 2
🔸 Warner Bros., Netflix, Neon, Amazon MGM, PBS, ElectroLeague - 1 Each

#Godzilla #Oppenheimer #PoorThings #Oscars2024
March 15, 2024 at 2:38 PM
🎥 Hollywood's The 'Big Five'

Hollywood has lost its sense of direction. Executives should aim for good stories instead of fudging earnings reports.

"Earnings don't repay loans, cash flow does"

Hollywood does need to rethink their biz model & rebuild for a sustainable future.
March 5, 2024 at 3:30 PM
🚨 Pay DTH vs. Wired Broadband Subscribers in India

Indian DTH market shrinks amid changing viewer habits while consumers are open to ads and free service.

DD Free Dish Subscribers
2017 - 22 Million
2022 - 43 Million

#Airtel #Jio #Vodafone #TataPlay #DTH
January 19, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Bob Iger's plan to remove and write-down content resulted in narrowing the losses.

30+ film and TV titles were removed from Disney+ and Hulu.

Disney plans to reduce budgets and release fewer films, aiming to boost profits & scale back investment in few markets.
August 10, 2023 at 6:56 AM
🚨 Disney+ subscribers drop to 146.1 Million in its biggest-ever quarterly drop.

The streaming service continues to lose subscribers in the US and Canada.

Hotstar sheds 12.5M subs in the absence of IPL.
August 10, 2023 at 6:55 AM
Disney+ Hotstar is struggling to retain subs without HBO & IPL.

Disney Star is in a turmoil due to a decline in linear TV viewership.

Disney is exploring strategic options for its Star India business, including a joint venture or a sale.
July 12, 2023 at 2:20 PM
The company pulled off more than 50 titles from Disney+ and Hulu to scale back content costs but subscriber growth stalls.

Iger plans to combine Disney+ and Hulu app by the end of the year.

Disney would've to spend $8 billion+ to buy out Comcast's Hulu share.
July 12, 2023 at 2:09 PM
🚨 Disney+ lost subscribers in US and Canada as well as Asia ending the second quarter with 157.8 million subscribers.

Hotstar is expected to lose 8 million to 10 million subscribers in its fiscal third quarter.
July 12, 2023 at 1:03 PM
🚨 Pay DTH vs. Wired Broadband Subscribers in India

Broadband, cheap mobile data and streaming services are killing cable and satellite television.

DD Free Dish Subscribers
2017 - 22 Million
2022 - 43 Million

An all-out assault on cable and satellite television in India.
June 6, 2023 at 1:36 PM
🏏 JioCinema sets world record with 32 million viewers during IPL Final.

The most-viewed live-streamed event!
June 5, 2023 at 6:06 PM
📺 Subscription video-on-demand subs in India

Netflix - 6.1M
Hotstar - 57.5M
Prime Video - 22.3M
Voot - 6M
Sony LIV - 24M

Other regional players will either shutdown/merged unless backed by a legacy media company.

#Netflix #Hotstar #Voot #SonyLIV #PrimeVideo #JioCinema
April 7, 2023 at 8:27 PM