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Disney+

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  • Disney+ launched at midnight Pacific Time on the 12th of November 2019, in three countries simultaneously: the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands. Before the day was out, more than 10 million people had subscribed. Roughly one-third of those new subscribers spent hours locked out of the service entirely. Another two-thirds hit errors when trying to play specific content. Profile setup failed for others. Third-party devices contributed to some of the problems.

    Six days later, on the 18th of November, security researchers found that thousands of accounts had been hijacked using keystroke-logging malware. Email addresses and passwords had been changed without the account holders' knowledge. The stolen credentials were being sold on the dark web.

    In October 2019, Disney had released a preview video on YouTube that ran for three hours and eighteen minutes. The length of that preview was a signal. Years of deal-making, corporate restructuring, and technology development had been building toward this moment. What had brought Disney to this point, and how far could the service go?

  • In August 2016, Disney paid $1 billion for a minority stake in BAMTech. BAMTech had been spun off from Major League Baseball's digital media division the year before. It had built the streaming technology that made broadcasting sports events online possible. The deal came with an option to acquire a controlling stake later.

    Disney invoked that option on the 8th of August 2017, paying $1.58 billion to raise its share to 75 percent. At the same time, the company announced plans for a Disney-branded streaming service that would follow the end of its existing deal with Netflix in 2019.

    Agnes Chu, a story and franchise development executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, was the first person appointed to lead content for the new service. Her opening task was methodical: reviewing unrestored titles in Disney's vaults and working through binders of legal agreements to establish exactly which content was available for streaming. Chu left the company in August 2020.

    BAMTech first contributed to ESPN+, which launched in early 2018. The platform built for that sports service was then adapted for Disney+.

    Bob Iger confirmed the name Disney+ on the 8th of November 2018, setting a late-2019 target for launch. In December 2017, Disney had already announced plans to acquire entertainment assets from 21st Century Fox. That deal closed on the 20th of March 2019, and brought new studio labels and the Star brand into Disney's portfolio.

  • At launch, Disney+ offered approximately 7,000 television episodes and 500 films. The library drew from Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, and Lucasfilm. National Geographic, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Blue Sky Studios, and Hollywood Pictures also contributed. Bob Iger said the full Disney film library would eventually be made available. Two titles were explicitly excluded.

    Song of the South, the 1946 film, has never been released on home video in its entirety in the United States. It will never appear on the service, Iger confirmed. Make Mine Music, also from 1946, is absent from the platform, reportedly because of a gunfight scene. It is the only film in the Disney animated canon not represented on Disney+.

    The first 30 seasons of The Simpsons joined the service at launch as the show's new exclusive streaming home. Season 31 was added on the 2nd of October 2020. Season 32 followed on the 29th of September 2021. Season 33 arrived on the 5th of October 2022.

    TBS held streaming rights to the first six Star Wars films through 2024 as part of its cable deal. In April 2019, Disney announced that all those films would be available at launch, alongside The Force Awakens and Rogue One. The Last Jedi was added on the 26th of December 2019. The Rise of Skywalker followed on the 4th of May 2020. Solo: A Star Wars Story joined on the 10th of July 2020.

    Several Marvel Cinematic Universe films were missing at launch due to licensing deals with Netflix. Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, and Ant-Man and the Wasp were among those held back. The Incredible Hulk was separately absent because Universal Pictures held its distribution rights. Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home were unavailable through Sony Pictures. The Incredible Hulk finally joined the service on the 16th of June 2023, after its rights reverted to Marvel Studios and Disney. Captain Marvel, Dumbo from 2019, and Avengers: Endgame were among the first theatrically released Disney films to stream on Disney+. Each arrived within the pay-cable window.

    In April 2021, Disney and Sony signed a multi-year streaming deal. It brought films from the Spider-Man and Jumanji franchises to Disney+ and Hulu. Anime licensed by Funimation and Crunchyroll, including Attack on Titan and Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, was also included.

    In October 2022, Disney+ acquired streaming rights to the BBC series Doctor Who. The deal began with the 60th Anniversary Specials, starring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.

  • From the first days, The Simpsons presented a visible problem. Non-HD episodes of the early seasons were cropped to fit 16:9 widescreen televisions rather than being shown in their original 4:3 ratio. Disney committed to fixing this in early 2020. The corrected version, allowing viewers to switch between both aspect ratios, became available on the 28th of May 2020. Separate from the cropping issue, multiple series arrived with episodes missing or out of sequence. These included Darkwing Duck, The Little Mermaid, The Proud Family, Phineas and Ferb, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and The Muppet Show. On the 26th of June 2020, the 2017 DuckTales series had its episodes arranged in the correct order. Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, co-creator of Phineas and Ferb, stated publicly that his series was also being fixed.

    In November 2022, Disney restored the original theatrical cut of Splash in 4K. At launch, the film's nudity had been digitally obscured with added hair, blurring, and cropped frames. Other alterations were made at the outset and remained in place. A post-credits scene from Toy Story 2 was cut. Profanities were removed from Adventures in Babysitting, Free Solo, and Hamilton. The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin from 1967 was edited to remove racial slurs. The 1932 short film Santa's Workshop was altered to remove a stereotypical caricature.

    Starting in October 2020, a 12-second content disclaimer ran before certain classic titles. These included Peter Pan, Dumbo, Swiss Family Robinson, Lady and the Tramp, The Jungle Book, Aladdin, and The Aristocats. By January 2021, those titles were removed from children's profiles, though they remained accessible on standard accounts.

    X-Men: Days of Future Past, which 20th Century Fox had released on the 23rd of May 2014, contained both nudity and profanity. Disney chose not to edit it. The film began streaming uncensored on Disney+ in mid-2020.

    All episodes of Andi Mack featuring actor Stoney Westmoreland were removed from the service. Westmoreland had been convicted of attempting to arrange a sexual encounter with a minor in 2018.

    On the 26th of May 2023, Disney+ and Hulu removed nearly 60 original films and series to cut costs. Howard, a documentary on the life of songwriter Howard Ashman, had been scheduled for removal on the eve of Pride Month. Public backlash prompted Disney to reverse that decision the following day. Crater had been released just seven weeks before its removal on the 1st of July 2023. Six of the removed titles were later made available for purchase on platforms including Amazon Prime Video and Vudu.

    On the 12th of November 2021, Disney+ began offering IMAX Enhanced versions of 13 Marvel Cinematic Universe films. These versions use the 1.90:1 aspect ratio for scenes filmed in or expanded to the IMAX format.

  • In late 2015, Disney launched DisneyLife in the United Kingdom as an early test of the streaming market. The service reached the Philippines on the 25th of May 2018. The UK version was replaced by Disney+ on the 24th of March 2020. The Philippines service was discontinued on the 1st of April of the same year.

    Disney+ arrived in India on the 3rd of April 2020, four days later than originally planned. The delay was caused by the rescheduling of the Indian Premier League cricket season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Disney reached Indian audiences through Hotstar, a streaming service it had inherited through the Fox acquisition. Hotstar had already established itself as the dominant streaming platform in the country, and its paid tiers were rebranded as Disney+ Hotstar. Disney+ launched in Indonesia through Hotstar on the 5th of September 2020.

    In France, the planned launch on the 24th of March 2020 was pushed back to the 7th of April at the French government's request. The government cited the need to conserve network capacity during the early phase of the pandemic. Canal+ served as the exclusive French distributor. Disney+ launched in Japan on the 11th of June 2020 through a partnership with NTT Docomo, succeeding the existing Disney Deluxe service.

    Star, Disney's brand for entertainment aimed at adult audiences, launched on Disney+ on the 23rd of February 2021. Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore were the first markets to receive it. It marked the first time content above PG-13 or TV-14 ratings was available on the service in those regions. Star was added in Japan on the 27th of October 2021. It launched in South Korea and Taiwan on the 12th of November 2021, and in Hong Kong on the 16th of November 2021.

    South Africa joined Disney+ on the 18th of May 2022. Middle East and North Africa markets, excluding Syria, gained access on the 8th of June 2022. Israel launched on the 16th of June 2022. Disney+ reached the Philippines on the 17th of November 2022, giving the service a presence in more than 50 countries that year.

    On the 26th of June 2024, content from the separate Star+ service in Latin America began moving to Disney+. Star+ was discontinued on the 24th of July 2024. On the 8th of October 2025, Disney replaced the Star brand internationally with Hulu, accompanied by a redesign of the Disney+ interface.

    On the 10th of July 2025, Disney and ITV announced a programming-sharing arrangement between Disney+ and ITVX. ITV series including Endeavour were to appear on Disney+, while Disney programs including Andor would go to ITVX.

  • Disney reported 26.5 million subscribers at the end of 2019, with that number rising to 28.6 million by the 3rd of February 2020. By April 2020, paid subscribers had reached 50 million. Roughly 8 million of those came from India. The count climbed through the rest of 2020: 73.7 million by the 30th of September and 86.8 million by the 2nd of December.

    On the 2nd of January 2021, the total stood at 94.9 million. Disney announced in March 2021 that the service had surpassed 100 million paid subscribers but declined to specify when. The company said it would publish subscriber counts only when milestones were reached, not every quarter.

    In August 2022, the combined subscriber total across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ surpassed Netflix. The three platforms counted roughly 221 million subscribers together. By the end of 2022, Disney+ alone had 161.8 million. That reflected a net worldwide loss of 2.4 million subscribers, largely driven by Disney losing Indian Premier League cricket streaming rights in India. The United States and Canada recorded a gain of 200,000 over the same period.

    On the 4th of March 2022, Disney announced plans for an ad-supported version of Disney+ in the United States. It launched on the 8th of December 2022, priced at $7.99 per month, with more than 100 advertisers signed on. The ad-free version of Disney+ received a corresponding price increase of $3. By the third quarter of 2024, global subscribers stood at 153.8 million. That represented a gain of roughly 7 million compared with the same quarter a year earlier. Paid memberships currently stand at 131.6 million.

    From the day Disney+ opened, Disney offered a bundle combining it with ESPN+ and the ad-supported version of Hulu. Bob Iger announced this arrangement on the 6th of August 2019, at a price of $12.99 per month. On the 25th of July 2024, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a bundle combining Disney+, Hulu, and Max for U.S. subscribers.

    In January 2023, Disney+ received its first Academy Award nomination, for the Italian film Le pupille in the Best Live Action Short Film category.

  • On the 26th of February 2023, Disney+ broadcast Gift, a solo ice show performed by two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu. It was the first figure skating event held at Tokyo Dome. The broadcast was initially exclusive to Japan. A worldwide release followed on the 14th of July 2023.

    On the 13th of March 2023, Disney+ aired a Big City Greens-themed NHL broadcast alongside ESPN+, Disney Channel, and Disney XD. Players were represented by animated characters from the cartoon in real time. A second Big City Greens-themed NHL broadcast followed on the 9th of March 2024. In October 2023, a Toy Story-themed presentation covered an NFL game played in London, England. A 2024 NBA Christmas Day game featured Disney characters in a similar format.

    In November 2024, Disney announced that an ESPN hub would be added to Disney+ in the United States on the 4th of December. The hub brought live sports broadcasts and original series to Disney+ subscribers. It integrated content from ESPN+ for those subscribed to that service as well, and linked to ESPN's over-the-top service when it launched in August 2025.

    On the 16th of April 2024, Disney+ in Denmark and Sweden announced plans to air live UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League matches. Coverage was set to run from the 2024-25 through the 2026-27 seasons. In May 2025, Disney+ secured rights to broadcast UEFA Women's Champions League matches across Europe starting with the 2025-26 season. An agreement to broadcast La Liga matches in the United Kingdom and Ireland was announced in August 2025.

    The 2025 KeSPA Cup League of Legends tournament was exclusive to Disney+ in select Asia-Pacific markets before its playoffs, when it became available in the United States as well.

    On the 8th of April 2022, Disney announced that Dancing with the Stars would move from ABC to Disney+, a change that applied only to North American audiences.

    Disney+ has offered a dedicated visionOS app since the Apple Vision Pro's launch. It includes 3D versions of selected films. Viewers can watch from themed environments: the El Capitan Theatre, a Landspeeder on Tatooine, or the interior of Stark Tower.

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When did Disney+ launch and how many subscribers did it get on the first day?

Disney+ launched at midnight Pacific Time on the 12th of November 2019, initially in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands. More than 10 million people had subscribed by the end of that first day. The launch was marked by widespread technical problems, with roughly one-third of users locked out and two-thirds encountering errors when trying to play specific content.

What technology does Disney+ use and where did it come from?

Disney+ runs on technology developed by BAMTech, a company spun off from Major League Baseball's digital media division in 2015. Disney acquired a minority stake in BAMTech in August 2016 for $1 billion, then raised its ownership to 75 percent on the 8th of August 2017 for an additional $1.58 billion. BAMTech first used this technology to help launch ESPN+, which debuted in early 2018.

Why is Song of the South not available on Disney+?

Song of the South, a 1946 film from Walt Disney Studios, will never be made available on Disney+, a position confirmed by CEO Bob Iger. The film has never been released on home video in its entirety in the United States. Make Mine Music, also from 1946, is the only other Disney animated canon film absent from the service, reportedly due to a gunfight scene.

How many subscribers does Disney+ have worldwide?

Disney+ has 131.6 million paid memberships, making it the third most-subscribed video on demand streaming service after Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. In the third quarter of 2024, global subscribers reached 153.8 million, a gain of roughly 7 million compared with the same quarter a year earlier. The service surpassed 100 million paid subscribers in early 2021.

What is the Star content hub on Disney+ and what happened to it?

The Star content hub carried entertainment aimed at adult audiences and launched on Disney+ on the 23rd of February 2021 in Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, marking the first time content rated above PG-13 or TV-14 was available on the service in those markets. On the 8th of October 2025, Disney replaced the Star brand internationally with Hulu as part of a broader consolidation of its streaming services.

What changes did Disney make to classic films on Disney+?

Disney altered several films for Disney+, including digitally obscuring nudity in Splash and removing a post-credits scene from Toy Story 2; the original theatrical cut of Splash was later restored in 4K in November 2022. Profanities were removed from films including Adventures in Babysitting, Free Solo, and Hamilton. Starting in October 2020, a 12-second content disclaimer was added before classic titles including Peter Pan, Dumbo, The Jungle Book, and The Aristocats.

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  28. 95The 15 Movies We Most Want Added to Disney PlusJosh Spiegel — January 7, 2020
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  36. 109'Incredible Hulk' Is Finally Coming to Disney+McKinley Franklin — June 15, 2023
  37. 112On Disney+, Not All Butts Are Created EqualDrew Taylor — April 14, 2020
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  39. 129Disney+: 10 Episodes That Are Missing Or AlteredAllison McClain Merrill — March 25, 2020
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  57. 230Move over Amazon Prime, here comes Wesfarmers-DisneyCarrie LaFrenz — December 8, 2022
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  63. 242NewsDisney+ lands in LATAM with Izzi, FlowJoseph O'Halloran — November 19, 2020
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  66. 263Cignal x Disney+2025-02-18
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  70. 275News"Shang-Chi" hingga "Jungle Cruise" akan hadir di Disney+ Hotstar DayArnidhya Nur Zhafira — October 21, 2021
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  98. 367Disney Plus Tops 100 m Subscribers WorldwideCynthia Littleton — March 9, 2021
  99. 368Apple Names Disney Plus the Apple TV App of the YearTodd Spangler — December 1, 2020
  100. 369Disney Plus Revenue and Usage Statistics (2021)Mansoor Iqbal — May 5, 2020