Disney+ Day Kicks Off Global Celebration With Week-Long, Company-Wide Promotions

castlecake2.0

castlecake2.0

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Disney+ Day gets underway at Disney's Hollywood Studios​

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Disney+ Day gets underway at Disney's Hollywood Studios

Walt Disney World is joining in the global promotion of Disney+.
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That’s some universal garbage right there
 
Casper Gutman

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castlecake2.0 said:
That’s some universal garbage right there
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No, that’s pretty clearly Disney garbage. It says so right there.

Moon Knight or (more likely) She-Hulk could move into the first half of 2022, but that’s the sort of thing you’d REALLY have expected Disney to have announced at the same time as the delays. And everything we’ve seen indicates MM is significantly farther along in production.

I’ve liked a lot of the D+ content but they don’t have nearly enough. They need much more original non-IP stuff to fill the cracks, and the entire Fox Studios catalog prior to 1980 or so should be available right now.
 
HauntedPirate

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Casper Gutman said:
No, that’s pretty clearly Disney garbage. It says so right there.

Moon Knight or (more likely) She-Hulk could move into the first half of 2022, but that’s the sort of thing you’d REALLY have expected Disney to have announced at the same time as the delays. And everything we’ve seen indicates MM is significantly farther along in production.

I’ve liked a lot of the D+ content but they don’t have nearly enough. They need much more original non-IP stuff to fill the cracks, and the entire Fox Studios catalog prior to 1980 or so should be available right now.
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They are stringing consumers along with one show at a time, one after the other. The inevitable binge-and-purge is going to happen sooner than later unless they really up their content game. Which will cost money, but it’s about time and resources as well. They made the initial 1-2 year splash but now that strategy by the Bob’s is being shown to have to have been too weak. Right now you could likely cut D+ for 6 months and then come back to catch up. Lather, rinse, repeat.
 
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HauntedPirate said:
They are stringing consumers along with one show at a time, one after the other. The inevitable binge-and-purge is going to happen sooner than later unless they really up their content game. Which will cost money, but it’s about time and resources as well. They made the initial 1-2 year splash but now that strategy by the Bob’s is being shown to have to have been too weak. Right now you could likely cut D+ for 6 months and then come back to catch up. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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I think one big show at a time is probably fine as long as there is good shoulder programming. One big thing about Disney stuff (especially Star Wars and Marvel) is there tends to be a big active engagement where people watch regularly so they can be involved in conversations and not get "spoilers". This will also be true as the Marvel shows directly impact films, so you need to be "caught up" to get the most out of the movies.

That being said, they do have a problem with not having a constant stream of the more premier programming - like the lull going on right now since Ms. Marvel was pushed way back - and they absolutely need to up their game in that regard. They should always have at least one "big" thing with new episodes on each week.

And more complimentary items or at least adding stuff regularly from back catalogs is also needed. The "What's new on Disney+" line can be pretty sparse some weeks. No reason they couldn't do more there by dipping into the the boatloads of old content that they haven't put on the service yet.
 
Kamikaze

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HauntedPirate said:
They are stringing consumers along with one show at a time, one after the other. The inevitable binge-and-purge is going to happen sooner than later unless they really up their content game. Which will cost money, but it’s about time and resources as well. They made the initial 1-2 year splash but now that strategy by the Bob’s is being shown to have to have been too weak. Right now you could likely cut D+ for 6 months and then come back to catch up. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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The problem isn't the one-show-at-time - thats smart. The problem is the long gaps between shows. Which at the beginning was them not trusting the platform to catch on, and is now (the early 2022 schedule being very sparse) partially COVID related.
 
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doctornick

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Kamikaze said:
The problem isn't the one-show-at-time - thats smart. The problem is the long gaps between shows. Which at the beginning was them not trusting the platform to catch on, and is now (the early 2022 schedule being very sparse) partially COVID related.
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Exactly. One shows ends, there needs to be a new show the following week (or even overlapping by a week or two) so there's a constant stream of "can't miss" content.

You'll always have the cut and then sign up/binge folks. I don't know if there is much to do there, but there's a large squishy middle of folks that will let inertia keep them on what they are using as long as there is constant content being released. It doesn't take that much to keep people satisfied and retained because many view cancelling and rejoining a hassle (and D+ isn't really that expensive).
 
CaptainAmerica

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HauntedPirate said:
They are stringing consumers along with one show at a time, one after the other. The inevitable binge-and-purge is going to happen sooner than later unless they really up their content game. Which will cost money, but it’s about time and resources as well. They made the initial 1-2 year splash but now that strategy by the Bob’s is being shown to have to have been too weak. Right now you could likely cut D+ for 6 months and then come back to catch up. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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What you're describing was literally the plan until COVID nuked their timeline.
 
MrPromey

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Ayla said:
It is shameful they are doing more for D+ day than they did for the actual 50th anniversary.
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There was no marketing synergy with the anniversary. Sure, they could have done something on Disney+ to promote it but that woudln't have done anything to put attention on Disney+ which is of course, their goal.

Guests may have cared but management didn't and this particular iteration of leadership has made it abundantly clear that they don't really care what you as the customer wants if they can keep hitting their financial targets.

I don't think complaining (even to them) really matters. At this point, unless they are impacted financially, I'm not sure they care if their customers are happy. Based on that earnings call and the unusually blunt language, it sure doesn't sound like it.

... and even then, they seem tone-death enough at this point that a negative response is likely to make them double-down on the "cost-savings" and price increases to make up for losses.

I feel like a change in leadership is the only thing that will right this ship, at this point.
 
MrPromey

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999th Happy Haunt said:
How hard would it have been to make a Mandalorian costume with a Grogu puppet, ala Dreamfinder and Figment?

Disney+ day without the biggest Disney+ show. Yikes. Not that I should have expected much in the first place.
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I'm sure someone in the 501st would have been thrilled to help them out there for the cost of a comped hopper pass or two.

That at least used to be how they paid a lot of their Star Wars folks in past events and it seemed to work out pretty well for them.
 
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