That is obviously a massive surge of customers for a service whose popularity is largely based on Disney’s entertainment backlog, without a whole lot of new marquee projects having been released, with Star Wars’ The Mandalorian being the lone exception on the TV side.
(Don’t get me wrong, Imagineering Story and HSM:TM:TS are great, but not the biggest audience-grabbers.)
It was announced this week in something of a surprise report that the Disney+ streaming service has, to date, brought in over 50 million paid subscribers since it launched in November.