At the group's annual meeting of shareholders on Tuesday, Disney CEO Bob Chapek announced that the streaming platform had reached 100 million subscribers, just sixteen months after its launch.
And Disney + now wants to reach 230 to 260 million subscribers by 2024.
The figure is impressive and reflects the rise of Disney +.
The streaming platform has reached 100 million subscribers, Group CEO Bob Chapek said at Disney's annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday, just sixteen months after its launch.
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Driven by its attractive catalog, as well as those of Marvel and Pixar studios, Disney + has also been able to count on successful releases such as the second season of
The Mandalorian
or the new
WandaVision
series
.
In December, the group said they had already exceeded "the wildest expectations" with 86.8 million subscribers on December 2.
Objective: to double the number of subscribers in three years
And the world number 1 in entertainment does not want to stop there, and hopes to see its number of subscribers double in the next three years, with a target of 230 to 260 million subscribers by 2024.
Competition is therefore always stronger than ever between the various streaming services, foremost among which is Apple TV +, Amazon Prime Video, and the leader Netflix.
The latter, a pioneer of SVOD, recently exceeded 200 million users worldwide.