More than 10MN sign-up for Disney+ on launch day

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More than 10MN sign-up for Disney+ on launch day
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Joseph O'Halloran
| 14 November 2019

It was always predicted to be popular but achieving as many as 10 million sign-ups in the first day of launch was not on the agenda for Disney+, made even more notable given the reported issues that may reported in attempting to register.

Available in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico and the Netherlands, Disney+ offers access to nearly 500 films and 7,500 episodes of television from across the worlds of Disney, including an collection of classic library titles, as well as a slate of Disney+ originals, and most significantly it brings together for the first time content from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic. The first seven Star Wars movies will be available for the first time in 4K Ultra HD format along with Hocus Pocus, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Toy Story 1–3.

Original series and films debuting include The Mandalorian, the first-ever live-action Star Wars series; Lady and the Tramp, a live-action re-telling of the 1955 animated classic; Noelle, an original holiday comedy film starring Anna Kendrick; High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, the all-new scripted series set at the real-life East High featured in the blockbuster film franchise; The World According to Jeff Goldblum docu-series from National Geographic; Marvel’s Hero Project; The Imagineering Story, a six-part documentary from director Leslie Iwerks; short-form series Pixar IRL and Disney Family Sundays; and animated short film collections SparkShorts and Forky Asks A Question from Pixar Animation Studios.

Priced at $6.99 per month, Disney+ is available to consumers at DisneyPlus.com or via in-app purchase from Amazon Fire TV devices, Fire TV Edition smart TVs and Fire Tablets; Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV, and fully integrated with the Apple TV app; Android phones, Android TV devices, Google Chromecast and Chromecast built-in devices customers can subscribe to Disney+ via in-app purchase; LG Smart TVs with webOS; Microsoft Xbox One platforms; Samsung Smart TVs; Sony/Sony Interactive Entertainment devices including Android based Sony TVs and PlayStation4; andRoku streaming players and Roku TV models.

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Disney+ hits 10m sign-ups
November 14, 2019 08.05 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul
The streaming service Disney+ has already reached a major milestone, securing over 10m sign-ups since launching on November 12.
In a note, its operator The Walt Disney Company adds that moving forward there are no plans to release Disney+ subscriber data outside of the company’s quarterly earnings calls.
According to Yahoo Finance, this “extraordinary demand”, as described by The Walt Disney Company, sent its shares up by 3.5%.
However, although the day one numbers were three times the size of some previous forecasts, it was unclear how many of these new customers were from free promotions.
Disney+ numbers have been boosted by a promotion from Verizon Communications offering a free one-year subscription to Disney+.
Last April Disney said it expected the new service to reach between 60-90 million subscribers by 2024. Given its strong start, this total might now be reached two years earlier.