Disney plans to mix the Hulu and Disney+ streaming providers right into a single app by the tip of this yr, Disney CEO Bob Iger stated yesterday throughout Disney’s Q2 earnings name (by way of TechCrunch).
A single streaming app will embrace programming from each Hulu and Disney+, however Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ can even nonetheless be obtainable as standalone providers. The mixed app will probably be offered first to subscribers who’ve the Disney+ and Hulu bundle, so relatively than swapping forwards and backwards, customers can entry all of their content material in a single app.
“The built-in app expertise that we introduced in the present day is for customers which have subscribed to each providers for now,” stated Iger. He defined that Disney is taking the two-app bundle and mixing it into one expertise that can have “principally extra content material than it provided earlier than.”
With the merging of the providers, Disney plans to extend pricing. “We plan to set a better value for our ad-free tier later this yr,” Iger stated.
Disney’s announcement got here because the Disney+ service misplaced 4 million subscribers through the quarter.
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