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From: The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM>
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Subject: Re: [News] Disney's Steaming Content with Ads
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 02:35:37 +0000
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On 11/01/2025 01:17, The Doctor wrote:
> In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
> The True Doctor  <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>> On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
>>> The True Doctor wrote:
>>>    
>>>> 157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
>>>> It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
>>>> watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
>>>> it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
>>>> something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
>>>> more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
>>>> each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
>>>> 20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
>>>> than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
>>> journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business
>>
>> Thes so called journalists and specialists are not different and no more
>> well informed that Doomcock. Most of the stuff they report is completely
>> made up by unnamed sources.
>>
>>> news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there
>>
>> CNBC are FAKE NEWS.
>>
>>> will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
>>> whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
>>> they'd tell outright lies.
>>>
>>
>> Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald Trump every day.
>>
>>> I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
>>> the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
>>> only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
>>> they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
>>> nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.
>>>
>>
>> Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in terms. There
>> shouldn't be a single advert on streaming services and I'm sick and
>> tired of being advertised women’s sanitary products.
>>
>>> I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
>>> on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
>>> adverts!
>>>
>>>> How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
>>>> who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
>>>> held on their records? Probably only 15 million.
>>>
>>> In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...
>>>
>>
>> Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of people who
>> watched each episode all the way through which only amounts to about 200.
>>
>>> My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so not
>>> necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per quarter. So
>>> if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then un-subscribed, I
>>> would be classed as a paying subscriber for that "quarter"  -
>>
>> You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your account
>> not just cancelled your subscription.
>>
>>> and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was only
>>> a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the special offers
>>> play their part! We had one here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a
>>> month, for three months. Boom! You're now part of the quarterly
>>> subscriber figures!)
>>
>> Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If
>> they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized
>> properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD
>> graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is
>> claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
>> INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!
>>
> 
> The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.
> 

There's only one Doctor and that is Tom Baker the 4th Doctor.


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