Disney is a struggling company. I don’t see an end in sight.

TP2000

TP2000

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Adventure Has A Name said:
Yeah, it didn't help that the division's head of marketing stated publicly that her customers were problematic and she wanted new ones. Or that the CIA dope running the conglomerate didn't immediately apologize when he learned about it.
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Did you see that interview the CIA creep running Anheuser-Busch did on CBS This Morning a month or so ago? It was even worse. He came off looking weak and inneffective and animatronic. Plus he wore white shoes with a blue suit on national TV, which annoyed me.

He's got to go. The rot at Anheuser-Busch clearly starts at the top, not just with idiotic Alissa Heinerscheid as a mere Vice President.
 
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GimpYancIent

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TP2000 said:
Did you see that interview the CIA creep running Anheuser-Busch did on CBS This Morning a month or so ago? It was even worse. He came off looking weak and inneffective and animatronic. Plus he wore white shoes with a blue suit on national TV, which annoyed me.

He's got to go. The rot at Anheuser-Busch clearly starts at the top, not just with idiotic Alissa Heinerscheid as a mere Vice President.
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From the Washington Examiner:
"Anheuser-Busch heir Billy Busch said he would be the first to buy back Bud Light should the beer’s parent company AB InBev want to sell it. “If they don’t want that brand any longer, sell it back to the Busch family,” Busch told Outkick host Tomi Lahren. “Sell it to me. I’ll be the first in line to buy that brand back from you, and we’ll make that brand great again.”

Such a reboot could revitalize the brand.

Such a reboot concept for Disney? is another thing to think about but is there any actual Disney family heir even interested?
 
Heppenheimer

Heppenheimer

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TP2000 said:
Did you see that interview the CIA creep running Anheuser-Busch did on CBS This Morning a month or so ago? It was even worse. He came off looking weak and inneffective and animatronic. Plus he wore white shoes with a blue suit on national TV, which annoyed me.

He's got to go. The rot at Anheuser-Busch clearly starts at the top, not just with idiotic Alissa Heinerscheid as a mere Vice President.
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I no longer drink alcohol, and when I did, it was never any of the flavorless offerings from Anheuser-Busch (although I liked some of Inbev's Belgian and German brands), so this whole Bud Light thing kind of passed by my notice. So, I looked up Alissa Heinerschneid and this interesting article came up on LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com

Byl Cameron on LinkedIn: Meet Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Lightâs VP of Marketing. (She/Her) | 210 comments

I have been fascinated by watching all of the fallout with the ill-fated Bud Light marketing campaign, in a way that is unlike anything since the Theranos… | 210 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com

I think there's two useful lessons for Disney from this.

1) Know your audience.

2) Maybe try to inject some fresh thinkers from outside the NYC-southern California media ecosystem, since these groups clearly are not the people who traditionally formed your audience?
 
TP2000

TP2000

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Heppenheimer said:
I no longer drink alcohol, and when I did, it was never any of the flavorless offerings from Anheuser-Busch (although I liked some of Inbev's Belgian and German brands), so this whole Bud Light thing kind of passed by my notice. So, I looked up Alissa Heinerschneid and this interesting article came up on LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com

Byl Cameron on LinkedIn: Meet Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Lightâs VP of Marketing. (She/Her) | 210 comments

I have been fascinated by watching all of the fallout with the ill-fated Bud Light marketing campaign, in a way that is unlike anything since the Theranos… | 210 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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Isn't she great??? Just pure comedy gold there in that interview.

She's like if you asked Central Casting to send you a condescending and clueless yet oddly smug executive to be the film's villain, and so they booked Alissa Heinerscheid for the gig.

And on top of all that, she occasionally name drops that she was "Harvard educated", not realizing she just damaged the Harvard Business School brand nearly as badly as she damaged Bud Light. Apparently when you are studying Marketing 101 at Harvard Business School, they don't have a short class lecture entitled "Do Not Openly Mock Your Core Customers".

She is just... elitist perfection. 🤣 😍🤣

Heppenheimer said:
I think there's two useful lessons for Disney from this.

1) Know your audience.

2) Maybe try to inject some fresh thinkers from outside the NYC-southern California media ecosystem, since these groups clearly are not the people who traditionally formed your audience?
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Bingo. Sadly, I think it's 1) that is going to be the hardest for them. Until they fix 2).

These people truly do not get it. And no matter how many Silver Lake brunches they attend, they still won't get it.
 
Figments Friend

Figments Friend

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Has this been shared here yet?
Just came across this ….and felt it worth bringing to attention.

‘Hollywood Accounting’, yeah…

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Disney Sued by Film Financier TSG Over “Chilling Example” of Hollywood Accounting

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, TSG says 20th Century Studios and Disney "have tried to use nearly every trick in the Hollywood Accounting playbook" to short them hundreds of millions of dollars in connection with its investments in films including 'Avatar: The Way of Water.'
www.hollywoodreporter.com www.hollywoodreporter.com

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MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
Figments Friend said:
Has this been shared here yet?
Just came across this ….and felt it worth bringing to attention.

‘Hollywood Accounting’, yeah…

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Disney Sued by Film Financier TSG Over “Chilling Example” of Hollywood Accounting

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, TSG says 20th Century Studios and Disney "have tried to use nearly every trick in the Hollywood Accounting playbook" to short them hundreds of millions of dollars in connection with its investments in films including 'Avatar: The Way of Water.'
www.hollywoodreporter.com www.hollywoodreporter.com

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When reading the plaintiff's own financial math and reckoning, it may not be only 20th Century doing some creative math.

Then again, "Hollywood Accounting," is truly a thing.

en.wikipedia.org

Hollywood accounting - Wikipedia

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FettFan

FettFan

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Another problem for Disney is that a lot of streaming shows are essentially real-life versions of ‘The Producers’…. There’s more money to be made for the folks behind the scenes in producing a flop than a hit.

I know a person who worked accounting on the Hulu Mike Tyson show when it was filming in New Orleans…and it was a free-for-all. They kept going over budget multiple times (originally $100m, ballooned to over $200m), and because Disney was so gung-ho about new streaming content that they were approving every increase, figuring it would be a hit because it was produced by the same team who made ‘I, Tonya’ and even had Margot Robbie credited as an executive producer (cha-ching)

I was allowed to view a couple of the shooting scripts…and my god they were sooo bad.
 
Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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CinematicFusion

CinematicFusion

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CinematicFusion said:
Disney hasn't been that low since 2014. Almost 10 years ago. Disney is in trouble. With the stock price down, Disney will stop the massive creative ideas in the parks. As you have seen, massive layoffs. Rumors of selling off divisions that don't make sense anymore in the age of streaming.
Linear television is dead, it will never come back.
Streaming has yet to prove itself.
People don't trust the product Disney is putting out on the big screen since 2019... and critics have turned their backs to Disney. There was a time Disney would always get glowing reviews. Not anymore.

Easily see Disney at 75.00 a share in 6 months.
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Disney on Track for Its Lowest Close Since 2014. Boeing Also Drags on Dow.​

finance.yahoo.com

Disney on Track for Its Lowest Close Since 2014. Boeing Also Drags on Dow.

Walt Disney stock was falling Thursday in a head-scratching move as shares dropped for three of the past four days. Disney (ticker: DIS) shares were tumbling 3.1% to $83.14 and were on pace for their lowest close since October 2014, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
finance.yahoo.com finance.yahoo.com
 
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TsWade2

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CinematicFusion said:

Disney on Track for Its Lowest Close Since 2014. Boeing Also Drags on Dow.​

finance.yahoo.com

Disney on Track for Its Lowest Close Since 2014. Boeing Also Drags on Dow.

Walt Disney stock was falling Thursday in a head-scratching move as shares dropped for three of the past four days. Disney (ticker: DIS) shares were tumbling 3.1% to $83.14 and were on pace for their lowest close since October 2014, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
finance.yahoo.com finance.yahoo.com
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It’s the end of Disney as we know it! I hate saying that!😢😢😢
 
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TsWade2

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GimpYancIent said:
The end of Disney as we know it, sure. But definitely not the end of Disney as change, adjustment, reorganization and new personnel continue to evolve it. Hey! change happens.
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I know. I just got myself a Stress Ball app, and the Stressbot told me it’s not the end of Disney. I need to stop saying it’s the end of Disney. I either blame the pandemic or the AMPTP not ending the Hollywood strike. :rolleyes:
 

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