Sony, Disney, Amazon Battle For $7.4B Indian Cricket Rights
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February 22, 2022
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Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani has put together a consortium to outbid major global players Amazon, Disney and Sony for the lucrative... Read More
Telstra TV Adds Disney+
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July 28, 2021
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Telstra has expanded its Telstra TV offering with the addition of the Disney+ app to the service. Starting today, customers across first,... Read More
Disney Boss Walks As Streaming Service Hits 100m Subscribers
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March 11, 2021
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Long-time Disney executive Bob Iger has announced he will be stepping away from the billion-dollar entertainment giant at the end of this... Read More
Disney Plus Already Hits 4-Year Target Of 94.9 Million Users
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February 12, 2021
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Streaming service Disney+ has reached its four-year target of 94.9 million subscribers in just 14 months, the company revealed in its Q1... Read More
Disney Plus Smashes Rivals With 73m Subscribers On One-Year Anniversary
Disney’s streaming service Disney Plus has grown to a staggering 73.7 million paying subscribers on the first anniversary of its launch. It... Read More
Disney+ Offers Free Two-Month Subscriptions To Fortnite Players
Epic Games has teamed up with Disney to offer free two-month Disney+ subscriptions to players who spend real money in Fortnite. From... Read More
Disney Goes For Broke On Streaming
Disney is undertaking a massive restructure to focus on its streaming services following the success of Disney+. With more than 100 million... Read More
Disney+ Comes To Google Smart Displays
Google has rolled out Disney+ support to all Google Assistant-enabled smart displays in select markets including Australia. Disney+ is now available via... Read More
Controversial Mulan Remake Fuels Disney+ Downloads, Revenue
The release of Disney’s new live-action Mulan film has driven a surge in app downloads and revenue for Disney+, despite controversy surrounding... Read More
Blockbuster Mulan Going Straight To Disney+
After pushing back the release date for Disney’s upcoming blockbuster ‘Mulan’, the studio has announced that the film will bypass cinemas and... Read More
Disney+ Gains Over 60M Paid Users
As of 27th June, Disney+ has surpassed 57.5 million paid subscriptions, despite only launching late last year, and Disney’s CEO confirmed that... Read More
COVID Forces Disney To Postpone Mulan, Star Wars & Avatar
Walt Disney Co has announced that its live-action film ‘Mulan’ has been postponed indefinitely. The movie’s release date had already been pushed... Read More
Disney The Latest To Pull Advertising From Facebook
Disney has reportedly “significantly reduced” advertising with Facebook, which includes Instagram, the latest company to take part in the Stop Hate for... Read More
Disney Research Finds A Way To Face Swap In High-Res Videos
Disney Research has proposed an algorithm that enables automatic neural face swapping in high-resolution images and videos. “To the best of our... Read More
Disney+ No Longer Offering Free Trials
The popular streaming service Disney+ appears to have pulled its free trials in Australia and all its other markets. Disney+ has not... Read More
Disney+ Gains 2 Million Oz Viewers In First Four Months
According to the latest data from Roy Morgan, Disney+ had attracted 2 million viewers in Australia by end-March, only four months after... Read More
Disney+ Hits 54.5M Subscribers In Under 6 Months
Disney+ has further accelerated its campaign against Netflix, notching 54.5 million subscribers as at May 4, despite a slight slowdown in the... Read More
Disney Braces For Horror Q2 Report
Disney, which is scheduled to release its earnings report 6.30am AEST, is bracing for the worst, given that its theme parks, hotels... Read More
Disney+ Attracts 1.8 Million Australian Subscribers In First Three Months
Since entering the Australian market in November 2019, Disney+ has gained ground quickly, amassing more than 1.8 million subscribers, according to Roy... Read More
Apple Told To Buy Disney After Stock Tanks?
Analysts are suggesting that Apple who was last night slapped with a $2 billion EU fine should step in now and buy... Read More
Disney + Wobbles, Lack Of Adult Content A Problem
It hit the market with a bang and mums loved it, now Disney + is waning due to a lock of adult... Read More
Netflix Not Sweating Over Disney Plus, Analysts See Low Risk
Walt Disney Co. reported impressive subscriber numbers for its new Disney+ streaming service launched November last year – but Netflix isn’t sweating.... Read More
Disney Plus: What’s To Come
As the streaming service war heats up, Disney Plus is making sure consumers knows their service is the go-to place for everything... Read More
Disney+ Subscribers & Profit Boom Ahead Of Expectations
In New York, Walt Disney’s new streaming service Disney+ has reached 26.5 million paid subscribers by the end of 2019, surpassing expectations... Read More
Quibi Bolsters Public Awareness Campaign With Super Bowl Ad
Quibi, the lovechild of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, is still widely unheard of. Despite the powerful and experienced forces behind the upcoming... Read More
Netflix Shares Spike Despite Streaming Wars
Netflix shares have jumped 3.4% despite international heavyweights joining the streaming wars. It comes after Netflix’s own data revealed strong competition following... Read More
Disney+ Downloads Hit 22 Million
Mobile app research outfit Apptopia says Disney+ has been downloaded to mobile devices 22 million times since its launch in November. Google’s... Read More
Netflix Told To Sell Advertising As Subscriber Numbers Face Pressure
As demand for Disney+ soars Netflix shares have tanked after analysts worked out that Netflix face losing millions of subscribers and popular... Read More
Disney+ Failing To Hurt Netflix As Streamers Buy Both
As analysts watch closely for defections from Netflix following the launch of Disney + internal analysis of Netflix subscribers reveal very few... Read More
Disney+ Receives D- For Security
Disney+ accounts have already been hacked within a week of its launch, adding a brand new commodity to the streaming accounts black... Read More
Quality or Quantity In Streaming Wars
Disney+ and Apple TV+ have joined Netflix and Amazon Prime in the streaming war that has seen millions of people subscribe to... Read More
Disney+ For Free? Telstra & Optus In Talks
Optus and Telstra customers may be able to receive Disney+ for free, as sources reveal the US entertainment giant seeks to use... Read More
As Tipped Walt Disney Dumps Stan
As exclusively tipped by ChannelNews The Walt Disney Company has finally pulled the plug on Nine Entertainment streaming service Stan ahead of... Read More
Disney+ Talking To Telco’s Claims AFR In Old News Story
Disney+ management is talking to carriers Optus and Telstra about a tie up for their new streaming service launching this week claims... Read More
Most People Don’t Who Disney+ Is Days Out From The Launch
Disney’s new “Netflix killer” will launch in Australia next week, but a recent survey shows that most in the country don’t even... Read More
Disney+ Cracks 10M Subscribers After Early Glitches
After a disastrous launch the new Disney + streaming service is now breaking records attracting more than 10 million subscribers and their... Read More
Disney+ Is Okay With Account Sharing.. For Now
Disney+ subscribers will be allowed to share their accounts with other users – for now – although the media giant has said... Read More
Disney + Literally Crashes Into Existence
Disney + Walt Disney’s new streaming service literally crashed into existence last night marred by technical problems. Within hours thousands took to... Read More
Extensive Marvel Movies Added To Disney + OZ Launch Nov 19th
Retailers selling content such as Blu ray movies are set to be hit by the release of Disney+ claim researchers after the... Read More
Foxtel Sign NBCUniversal Deal – Discovery, Viacom and Turner Next
Foxtel has reportedly signed a massive content deal for access to US studio NBCUniversal’s back catalogue of movie and TV series as the... Read More
Full List Of New Disney+ Shows Revealed Ahead Of Nov 19 Launch
We are weeks out from Disney+ launching in Australia and as competition heats up consumers have been given an insight into the... Read More
OZ Content Market Set To Get ‘Complicated’ Claims Deloitte
Consumers are starting to get confused as they face making choices as to which streaming service they will invest in as the... Read More
Disney Flex Muscle Stan, Foxtel Dumped Netflix Restricted
Walt Disney Co who are set to roll out their new Disney+ service in Australia in November has stripped content from Foxtel... Read More
Cinema First For Apple Content
Apple is reportedly making its move into Hollywood by bringing feature-length films to the big screen before being made available for streaming,... Read More
Disney CEO Claims Apple Merger Possible If Jobs Were Alive
In his new memoir, Disney CEO Bob Iger claims that the idea of his company and Apple merging would have been a... Read More
Netflix $500m British TV, Movie Investment Threatens BBC
Netflix has announced a $500 million (USD) investment into British-made television and movies, increasing its $15 billion global licensing and production bill to... Read More
Free To Air TV Networks Face Real Threat From Streaming
Free to air TV networks are facing a real threat with the arrival of Disney+ and new Apple streaming according experts at... Read More
OZ Set To Be Battle Ground In Disney+ Apple Content Fight
Australia has become a key battle ground for both Apple and Disney as they both get set to lure consumers with new... Read More
Apple Reveal ‘Unremarkable’ iPad & New Gaming & Movie Service
A new 10.2″ entry level iPad ($529) has been revealed by Apple this is up in size from the previous 9.7″ model,... Read More
Now Apple Moves To Take On Disney+ And Netflix
The battle for control of content and entertainment streamed into Australian homes has got intense with Apple now flagging that they believe... Read More
