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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 04:03:48 +0000
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On 11/01/2025 03:46, The Doctor wrote:
> In article <vlsldp$a8vm$6@dont-email.me>,
> The True Doctor  <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I refer to Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Tbakers
> are the only 4 Doctors seen in Brain of Mrbius.
> 
> The rest are Morbius's faces!
> 

Correct.

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