Disney+ is making yet another change to try to get its head above water but at the expense, once again, of subscribers who are already suffering the price increase.
Disney+ suffered in 2023 with the loss of around 14 million subscribers, a large part of which came from India. A leak which finds its origins in the non-renewal of the Indian Premier League, the cricket league. And yet, the platform counterbalanced this underperformance by increasing the average revenue per subscriber thanks in particular to ads. Clearly, society is on the lookout, and not in absolute evil. But that doesn’t stop him from looking for different ways to save here and there.
Hundreds of content deleted on the sly on Disney+
After the very heavy loss of almost 4 million Indian subscribers, Disney+ announced the outright deletion of dozens of films and series, but also documentaries and shows. The World According to Jeff Goldblum, Stargirl, Thirteen by the Dozen or the TV show Willow as well as its making-of are unavailable. And they will never come back, which will undoubtedly reignite the debate on the obsolescence of programs on this type of service. But according to Deadline, Mickey’s firm passed second.
The website learned that Disney+ had cleaned up again, and this time, the platform was not holding back. More than 120 contents have been removed in Europe and Africa. So of course, these are not Marvel films, great Disney or Fox classics, but how can we know that more popular things will not be inaccessible overnight? We can not. According to information from Deadline, Disney+ made this choice after evaluation, which means that the video streaming service had to draw up a list of (clearly) less watched films and series. A withdrawal which, like the previous one, is certainly aimed at making savings.
Among the Disney+ deletions, we find documentaries from ESPN and National Geographic, Genius which focused for example on Einstein, Picasso and Aretha Franklin, Hysterical, Davy Crokett and the River Pirates, Visitors from Another World , as well as a whole bunch of feature films from the 70s or Disney Channel productions. Less content therefore, but an increase in prices, the introduction of a subscription with advertisements, and soon, the end of account sharing.