Keeping most Fox titles in the Disney vault (in America) while keeping adult silos like Touchstone dormant really wasn’t the way to keep their portfolio diverse and robust. It reframed them back to the mid-seventies when the company almost went under because the material was stagnant/lame. Even older kids want more than Star Wars or Marvel, as you said.
Good column. Disney is pushing its Hulu/ESPN/D+ bundle for these reasons. Combined, they make a much more robust product. Jury is still out on whether it’ll work with consumers.
I gotta wonder about the recent news that D+ shows are going going to 4K/Blu-ray. That seems like a pretty clear indication that they’ll soon start licensing these shows to other services, especially overseas. Clearly they need the cash flow.
I’m in Saudi Arabia, and I use Disney+ to rewatch Buffy, Alias, The X-Files, one day I’ll watch The Simpsons again.
In the States, is that stuff just on Hulu and not Disney+? I think the real draw of Disney’s streaming platform is their impressive TV catalog from other studios. With that, yeah, not so vital.
Keeping most Fox titles in the Disney vault (in America) while keeping adult silos like Touchstone dormant really wasn’t the way to keep their portfolio diverse and robust. It reframed them back to the mid-seventies when the company almost went under because the material was stagnant/lame. Even older kids want more than Star Wars or Marvel, as you said.
Good column. Disney is pushing its Hulu/ESPN/D+ bundle for these reasons. Combined, they make a much more robust product. Jury is still out on whether it’ll work with consumers.
I gotta wonder about the recent news that D+ shows are going going to 4K/Blu-ray. That seems like a pretty clear indication that they’ll soon start licensing these shows to other services, especially overseas. Clearly they need the cash flow.
I’m in Saudi Arabia, and I use Disney+ to rewatch Buffy, Alias, The X-Files, one day I’ll watch The Simpsons again.
In the States, is that stuff just on Hulu and not Disney+? I think the real draw of Disney’s streaming platform is their impressive TV catalog from other studios. With that, yeah, not so vital.
Yeah, Disney+ in the states they’ve tried to split it so that Disney+ is all the family-friendly stuff and everything else goes on Hulu.