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On The Rekord
"disney disney" Discussed on On The Rekord
"Because I know you keep the game. It's not only this year. You get his ass kicked. That's on there. 'cause there were very, look at the front door. Answer that'll be sold off. Really? And I think it's sold off. They're done as a corporation. They're done as a company. They need a Disney payroll. Thanks. For all the stuff they do. Yes. Here's the thing. The only thing I see, I don't think it's safe ESPN that happens is something like the WWE. And they get a contract deal with them. They brought them out. Which is definitely a problem about the Disney Disney money. What I will say. But I know that as well. Later on, about that whole story of WWE. I want you in the show pretty cool. In the capacity that the UFC is in right now. There's no excuses. No, take a break. And then we'll do WWE and then we'll go into the wise guy. Go ahead. There is no way in the hell I'd ever do the UFC with the money. Confused. It makes no sense. That's not what Friends could do. I don't blame you. He left. I can't blame you. He's like, dude, dude. One year ago, Ariel helwani said, if this happens, are you willing to back away from the game? Listen, if it meant to be, he meant to be. He has to because he has to someone has to set that president as much as much as the UFC has even backed John Jones and his indiscretions.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"disney disney" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of sports who we explore the big money issues in the world of sports I'm Michael Barr I'm scarlet fu And we have a good guest We have several guests this week in fact First of all we have Nina king and you know Nina king She is the vice president and director of athletics for duke university And also to help explain a few things I know old friend of the show Marty ital He's the co chair of gulston and stores sports law practice We're going to talk about the business of sports as you always know The focus of this is on the NIL article by Bloomberg laws Peter Hayes which is connected to the Nina king interview that we are going to present to you That is coming up straight ahead on the Bloomberg business of sports but we got some topics to talk about And let's start oh my Disney+ could lose 20 million subscribers by saying so long cricket in India and scar cricket is king in India Oh my gosh completely So Disney was competing against a couple of other bidders and it turns out reliance which is a Indian conglomerate have won the digital streaming rights to India's Premier League for cricket for $6.2 billion Well that's 6.2 billion overall is a four meteorites but we're talking specifically for the streaming rights which has been awarded to reliance rather than Disney Disney got the TV rights but it really wanted the streaming rights and at stake here is the number of subscribers for Disney+ That is the driver for the stock price for Disney Disney stock price has not been doing well in 2022 Down in almost 40% 39% so far this year And a big part of that is because investors are re rating global streaming and how much money you can make from a Netflix obviously was a catalyst for people re rating everything after Netflix said that it was seeing subscriber growth slow down and gave forecasts that showed that the slowdown would continue and now everyone's looking at Disney and saying wait a minute Disney+ can it get to the numbers that it had promised Bob chapek the CEO had promised or had forecast that it would get as many as 260 million subscribers by 2024 Without cricket I don't know if it gets there But let's be fair though The money that they would have to pay to get the rights for cricket we're talking multi-billion dollars That is a lot of money scar It is it is but they're willing to do it to get the numbers because the numbers drive the stock price And the stock price is a barometer It's reflection It's a referendum on the company and how it's being managed by bob chapek who of course took over from bob Iger and has still yet to convince investors that he's the steward for the company the way that eiger was for Disney And when I say billions we're talking about $6.2 billion Let's move on to the Baltimore Orioles Now yes of course we know the record is like but they are put in fan base though They do They're fun to watch if you're a fan of the Orioles The Orioles let's say the key players involved they made a statement the family we're not leaving anywhere We're not leaving Baltimore Where'd you get that knucklehead idea There's a lot of family drama here which I didn't realize and didn't fully appreciate but the CEO and chairman of the Oreos John angelos says that the club will never leave and this comes after his brother Louis brought a lawsuit against John alleging that John was trying to seize control of the team and the rest of his father's holdings Peter angelos is the father He's 92 years old and he's owned the Oreos for almost three decades So it's a lot of wrangling over a very valuable asset here So that's kind of drama you have when you got a lot of what you have drumming in any family but when you got a lot of money you get this drama I'm taking you to court 'cause no you're not gonna rule this baseball team that we own all of us will See this is I would like to experience that drama once This one time But you know what They are they'll get this sorted out sooner or later And a big plus for John angelos is that he made a point of saying that two months ago lawmakers in Maryland passed the bill that puts aside $1.2 billion to improve Camden yards or the Camden yard sports complex because we can't just limit it to the ballpark per se And that investment can only be accessed if the Oreos and the Baltimore Ravens sign long-term leases If they stay in town basically And very quickly Pittsburgh Steelers They make minka Fitzpatrick the highest paid safety in NFL history We're talking about more than $18.4 million $36 million guaranteed at signing as well You had to explain to me what a safety does Is this an undervalued position of a barn overvalued position in football No that's a very valuable position because if you're especially if you're on the defense because you've got this is how when you see those big wide pass outs or even a little screen the safety is all of a sudden going to see okay This is a screen or is this going to be a long pass whatever and I'm going to make sure that you don't get away with it So yeah they're very important Okay So on the offense side right Not necessarily defense or is it for defense Yes we're defense Okay But it's happening when the quarterback is getting ready to throw the pass Yeah Yeah so I'm impressed That's good Wish I played football Coming out we will talk with the athletic director with duke university Nina king that is straight ahead on the Bloomberg business of sports Scarlet foo will be there and we will also be joined by our good old buddy special guest host Damien sat sour straight ahead on the Bloomberg business of sports Don't forget we have the podcast for the show every Monday Wednesday and Thursday You can download that wherever you.
AP News Radio
‘Doctor Strange 2’ conjures up biggest opening of 2022
"The the the the summer summer summer summer movie movie movie movie season season season season got got got got off off off off to to to to a a a a blockbuster blockbuster blockbuster blockbuster start start start start this this this this weekend weekend weekend weekend I'm I'm I'm I'm Ben Ben Ben Ben Thomas Thomas Thomas Thomas with with with with a a a a look look look look at at at at the the the the box box box box office office office office which which which has has has to to to travel travel travel strong strong strong you'll you'll you'll have have have less less less that that that way way way doctor doctor doctor strange strange strange in in in the the the multi multi multi verse verse verse of of of madness madness madness gross gross gross domestic domestic domestic rated rated rated one one one hundred hundred hundred and and and eighty eighty eighty five five five million million million dollars dollars dollars in in in its its its debut debut debut weekend weekend weekend in in in north north north American American American theaters theaters theaters that that that according according according to to to Walt Walt Walt Disney Disney Disney company company company that that that was was was more more more than than than double double double the the the first first first doctor doctor doctor strange strange strange and and and the the the biggest biggest biggest opening opening opening of of of the the the year year year on on on the the the outside outside outside the the the five five five if if if you you you are are are villains villains villains bad bad bad guys guys guys from from from universal universal universal and and and DreamWorks DreamWorks DreamWorks animation animation animation fell fell fell to to to second second second followed followed followed by by by sonic sonic sonic the the the hedgehog hedgehog hedgehog two two two fantastic fantastic fantastic beasts beasts beasts the the the secrets secrets secrets of of of Dumbledore Dumbledore Dumbledore and and and everything everything everything everywhere everywhere everywhere all all all at at at once once once I'm I'm I'm Ben Ben Ben Thomas Thomas Thomas
AP News Radio
Netflix increases prices in the U.S. and Canada
"Streaming streaming service service in in the the U. U. S. S. is is raising raising its its prices prices again again fans fans of of cobra cobra kai kai or or the the witcher witcher should should get get ready ready for for higher higher prices prices effective effective Friday Friday Netflix Netflix is is raising raising its its rates rates by by one one to to two two dollars dollars a a month month in in the the US US and and Canada Canada depending depending on on the the plan plan less less than than a a year year and and a a half half since since this this last last price price increase increase the the standard standard package package that that most most people people take take one one crease crease by by dollar dollar fifty fifty to to fifteen fifteen fifty fifty per per month month or or sixteen sixteen fifty fifty in in Canada Canada the the company company got got a a lot lot of of new new customers customers during during the the early early part part of of the the pandemic pandemic with with more more than than two two hundred hundred and and thirteen thirteen million million subscribers subscribers around around the the globe globe but but it's it's facing facing saturation saturation in in the the U. U. S. S. and and Canada Canada and and competition competition from from other other streaming streaming services services like like Disney Disney plus plus an an H. H. B. B. O. O. Max Max Netflix Netflix is is investing investing in in video video games games as as it it looks looks for for growth growth beyond beyond movies movies and and TV TV I'm I'm Jennifer Jennifer king king the the dominant dominant streaming streaming service service in in the the U. U. S. S. is is raising raising its its prices prices again again fans fans
AP News Radio
After almost 2 years, water park reopens at Disney World
"The the big big waves waves are are returning returning to to a a major major Florida Florida theme theme park park after after being being shut shut down down for for nearly nearly two two years years visitors visitors to to Walt Walt Disney Disney World World in in Orlando Orlando can can once once again again go go into into the the typhoon typhoon lagoon lagoon the the water water park park closed closed in in March March twenty twenty twenty twenty as as the the corona corona virus virus started started to to spread spread throughout throughout the the U. U. S. S. and and while while Disney Disney world world other other theme theme parks parks we we opened opened in in the the summer summer of of twenty twenty twenty twenty with with virus virus safety safety protocols protocols in in place place the the water water park park stay stay close close when when it it re re opens opens on on Sunday Sunday visitors visitors will will be be able able to to swim swim in in its its massive massive wave wave pulled pulled slide slide down down its its roller roller coaster coaster and and meander meander along along gets gets lazy lazy river river I'm I'm Oscar Oscar wells wells Gabriel Gabriel
Daily Tech News Show
"disney disney" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"Fitbit plus apple health or apple apple fitness. it's amazon's version. yeah i i think. If you're i'd these are the two products that i think probably will get the least excitement. The thermostats great but it's not above and beyond and the halo service i. I haven't heard a lot of buzz around it. I don't know if your halo fan out there let us know But maybe this gets more people into into the system by by offering a a nicer a nicer wearable with the screen and and a few more services feels like amazon's got some work before they catch up with the fitbit's in the apple watches of the world and amazon also announced a few new features for its voice assistant across its platforms. You'll be able to train it to detect custom sounds. This is similar to its ability to detect glass breaking. But you can train it so it. It's not just glass breaking. You can say detect dogs barking or something. You provide the device or app with six to ten samples can learn what that noise is. Training happens in the cloud but detection will happen on device so if you were to train it on something bad happening you'd have to make the bad thing happen. Which i think is a little odd. So i'm not sure exactly what this is going to be used for custom sound event detection coming next year by the end of this year. Amazon's voice assistant. We'll be able to learn your preferences better. You can specifically train it by saying learn my preferences and it'll do some stuff for you but it will also try to remember what skills you associate with a particular request and then keep using that skill. I would love it if i didn't have to say. Tell our groceries to add something to the shopping list. Because if i don't do that it adds it to the amazon shopping list. And i never look at that. However they're going to start that preference learning with weather apps then move it to other skills. Also amazon will include a disney voice. Assistant that you can activate by saying. Hey disney disney will offer interactive stories games and other services featuring characters from disney pixar marvel star wars and more and devices that come with the older one neural edge processor but that is a more recent processor. It's not in their older devices. Will let users choose to have their voice commands processed on device and then be automatically deleted. If you're like. I don't want them. Never be on an amazon server. You can choose that the fourth gen echo echo show. Ten are the first devices that will get that feature with more devices to get it in the future. Who's excited about the new voice assistant. Richer's so the disney voice assistant is it's only for disney related interactively. You can't just be like. I want mickey mouse to be my choice for. Yeah skill that you can. Then the when it reacts to the skill it might have to beeping at you or something but yeah sure i mean. I don't know that old certainly can do. He'll tell me though. Hey disney tell me the weather and then chewbacca tells you the weather in your life. I don't speak tobacco and then you're really confused. I guess that might happen. Just i would do that daily. Just go again. Yeah yup what are you thinking. What do you think the weather is could be anything. These air In the only thing. I was gonna say as far as like the kind of customer. It's could have some potential for accessibility. You know if for example there's like a yosemite rings the doorbell Maybe a custom alert might of you know. Tell someone who perhaps has a hearing issues that. There's somebody at the door by turning on us this later notification or something like that so Yeah maybe there could be some good uses there and going along with that thought Amazon announced it will replace..
Daily Tech News Show
"disney disney" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"Health or apple fitness fitness. it's amazon's version. yeah i i think. If you're i'd these are the two products that i think probably will get the least excitement. The thermostats great but it's not above and beyond and the halo service i. I haven't heard a lot of buzz around it. I don't know if your halo fan out there let us know But maybe this gets more people into into the system by by offering a a nicer nicer wearable with the screen and and a few more services feels like amazon's got some work before they catch up with the fitbit's in the apple watches of the world and amazon also announced a few new features for its voice assistant across its platforms. You'll be able to train it to detect custom sounds. This is similar to its ability to detect glass breaking. But you can train it so it. It's not just glass breaking. You can say detect dogs barking or something. You provide the device or app with six to ten samples can learn what that noise is. Training happens in the cloud but detection will happen on device so if you were to train it on something bad happening you'd have to make the bad thing happen. Which i think is a little odd. So i'm not sure exactly what this is going to be used for custom sound event detection coming next year by the end of this year. Amazon's voice assistant. We'll be able to learn your preferences better. You can specifically train it by saying learn my preferences and it'll do some stuff for you but it will also try to remember what skills you associate with a particular request and then keep using that skill. I would love it if i didn't have to say. Tell our groceries to add something to the shopping list. Because if i don't do that it adds it to the amazon shopping list. And i never look at that. However they're going to start that preference learning with weather apps then move it to other skills. Also amazon will include a disney voice. Assistant that you can activate by saying. Hey disney disney will offer interactive stories games and other services featuring characters from disney pixar marvel star wars and more and devices that come with the older one neural edge processor but that is a more recent processor..
Daily Tech News Show
"disney disney" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"You know. Fitbit plus apple health or apple fitness fitness amazon's version. Yeah i i think. If you're i'd these are the two products that i think probably will get the least excitement. The thermostats great but it's not above and beyond and the halo service i. I haven't heard a lot of buzz around it. I don't know if your halo fan out there let us know But maybe this gets more people into into the system by by offering a a nicer a nicer wearable with the screen and and a few more services feels like amazon's got some work before they catch up with the fitbit's in the apple watches of the world and amazon also announced a few new features for its voice assistant across its platforms. You'll be able to train it to detect custom sounds. This is similar to its ability to detect glass breaking. But you can train it so it. It's not just glass breaking. You can say detect dogs barking or something. You provide the device or app with six to ten samples can learn what that noise is. Training happens in the cloud but detection will happen on device so if you were to train it on something bad happening you'd have to make the bad thing happen. Which i think is a little odd. So i'm not sure exactly what this is going to be used for custom sound event detection coming next year by the end of this year. Amazon's voice assistant. We'll be able to learn your preferences better. You can specifically train it by saying learn my preferences and it'll do some stuff for you but it will also try to remember what skills you associate with a particular request and then keep using that skill. I would love it if i didn't have to say. Tell our groceries to add something to the shopping list. Because if i don't do that it adds it to the amazon shopping list. And i never look at that. However they're going to start that preference learning with weather apps then move it to other skills. Also amazon will include a disney voice. Assistant that you can activate by saying. Hey disney disney will offer interactive stories games and other services featuring characters from disney pixar marvel star wars and more and devices that come with the older one neural edge processor but that is a more recent processor..
Walking the Shadowlands
"disney disney" Discussed on Walking the Shadowlands
"So we've got some stuff lined up for today. Eight on fairy tales and k. And this is going to be a programs. Nothing but fears and the exit going to be on. I'll touch on the wide view of ferries. They're not gonna on sightings and things could in new zealand which will also be of interest to people ever see. Because i'll mention this or you can bring the supper fanatic. I do belong. Have the seven or eight years belong to it. Organisation co the fairy investigation society which is found was founded the number of years ago by an academic from Ultra university professor medieval literature. And so he he commenced a will wide siri census to get equal to ride in from around the world of the theory expenses in their lifetime and so initially he received seven hundred replies around the world including more than a handful from new zealand. And i thought this was rather interesting actually and I'm gotta be writing an article. The society evans sued to do with Sightings that i have recorded was in new zealand which i'll share with a knife as so i've got a lot of things to sort of read from. Yeah i'm doing a lot of reading because some is a lot of names share a lot of moldy names jack to mytalk around and so. I hope that we'll find this of interest of it's brilliant. Most of my topics oppostion mauritius have been on music of the plants. Little also now. I could see the pien Was a fairy. Realms and also the elemental realms and the plot elements and things like that absolutely. So it's all interconnected as nov and these days particularly of the past couple of years the go between our dimensions has been absolutely thinning and but anne interior places so people are having more and more experiences than it if a head before. Because of of the suddenness of the dimensional valve you're so right and a lot of people are Crocodiles used by this Others across Overjoyed because i having disconnection. But i'll do get a lot of contacts with people. Sharing little story is so I'd like to open the coach ocean here from my and this is from rudolf steiner. And i'll take a lot of people. Now who real donna. Laws and what. He is still alive today. Schools in his methods of teaching and sergey had on carton. Yeah growing up without sherry titles leads letter to boredom too will weariness sh indeed it can even cause physical symptoms fairytales can help to prevent illnesses and the qualities that seep interrupt souls and fairy tales later emerge as exists for life enthusiasm for being alive and an ability to cope was lies all of which can be seeing even in old age and that's incredible because when he talks about him very tiles this is looking at the broad spectrum stories that Whether it some peter pan tinker bell of course toward some highlights disney disney made the film of course but all these stories and on the brothers grimm and all the little stories..
Double Toasted
"disney disney" Discussed on Double Toasted
"Know. Even finish doing about fucking. Don't even shirley car play. They do people loved turn based people love strategy game. So you can't say anything. Yeah there's not for those things. And i i will say this. You know it's interesting. How i think disney disney owns these licenses and think they've learned a lesson because when you look at ea solely ea the stars license and there was there's such a lack of star wars games. We have the battlefronts we had phone order and then we had that their squadron s. game there were so many canceled projects i think what they realize like. We just can't give it to one person and disney. The marvel licensed given it to multiple developers. They've given a to for access. They've given it to insomniac. They'd given it to whoever else are there are several others crystal dynamics. You know it was square inex- so they're like okay. We're gonna make sure we cover all base with different types of genres of games. And i think okay. That's that's a smart choice. He'll different audiences schools. I'll get in that case. They no no. No no if you've played this before then you say good and then then there are other i this. We'll see we'll find a quick break here. Real quick quick break real quick quick quick quick bring quick break break real quick and we will be right back after this his. Let's see we got here doing that. I can. I can give you quick review. Okay and download something here. Let me see because a lot of people talking about what if what if episode fo- wounds praising it yeah let me see what if what if episode four different trailer for that. They have trailer for episode. I don't know. I don't think so there's maybe on this. There's a there's clips of it in the main trailer. There's some sites they make. They say that we have the trailer for this job. And it's shit. They made up get clicks. Exactly but this this my work let me see okay Maybe like thirty second. Piece of footage from yeah. That was on. Can't do that i can. I mean i'm not gonna play the think i got something. We're not showing you everything that can get away with spoilers. Yeah get away without spoiling thank you own me see him. I think i got there. We go all right sir. Got something for you. I guess you just wait. Pull up some males over here. Why don't you watch. What if i usually do watch parties for on wednesdays and did not stream wednesday. This needs to change. I gotta you should watch anyone. Yeah yeah this is gonna be surprised audience. We should ask me. You should've said you watch. Would you just assume dirty ass. Ozzy watched.
Debate This!
"disney disney" Discussed on Debate This!
"That's all i'm seeing. If there have been co- comic books released as promotional material for the show. So it right ahead of the start of the show was promoted counts accounts. It certainly counts. It's an adaptation counts and technically duck and duck tales and all that disney disney disney owns marvel so technically duck burgers marvel world. It'll fit. It'll all fit into the big overarching movie. Conglomerate that patent oswald pitches in that filibuster scene of parks and rec yes. Disneyworld's marvel worlds are disney. But it doesn't work away. Yeah there are all part of the great mao shaped universe in the sky. Yeah yeah like like duck. Berg could be in kingdom hearts. The avengers tower can be in kingdom hearts duck. Bird can't be in in the event marvel boy in the adventure sour man. Yeah and to answer the the end of your question andrew it's It's a big bustling city. Like you would go to new york or la for vacation. Do the same thing in in duck berg but with with wackier hijinks going on and less organized crime. Little see. we'll see but not not no or not. No not no organized crime. The richest fictional person in fiction lives in duck berg. So he's always fending off stuff all right. Well that's that. Sounds pretty lovely honestly. Todd what do you got for us. You know andrew. It's great that the other two decided to bring our fan base just really bad options today. Because i've done the unthinkable. did you hear you. he said yeah. No it's i. I wrote this opener before. I knew what they were doing and matt has even given us his yet anyway. Let's keep going. I'm here to present you. The thinkable andrew. It's a good option. So yeah i know. I know what i've said. Okay so andrew. When you are selecting dislike next travel destination for people to look at and constantly. Say you know when things open up again. We're going there. Let me tell you all about what that's going to be in. It is a wonderful place called greenland specifically greenland that was introduced battle world that came as a result of the twenty fifteen marvel. Secret wars now andrew. What do you know about greenland specifically the greenland..
GSMC Movie Podcast
"disney disney" Discussed on GSMC Movie Podcast
"Disney plus is a is a huge tool now that disney is utilizing in full effect in order to to make these operations in these plans work as of now we know that there are currently four untitled live action disney films plan for twenty twenty two considering that peter pan and wendy yet. Another live action. Remake is already confirmed for that year. It it wouldn't be a shock to me. If we were to get at least one more. I have a very big suspicion that it would be pinocchio. I feel like that's one of the only like old classic disney movies. That hasn't gotten a remake yet. you know. They already made dumbo. They made in the making peter pan Was that the money was dumbo. And there was another one that came like really recently Oh i think i was. I was thinking of aladdin. Ya there is aladdin and crew and mulan. You know although all those films they've already done a lot of them a lot of the older ones but i think they're going to go back and look at pinocchio and say are we can do this now and if and if we don't think it's going to do well we can send it straight to trimming so that that's the that's the benefit of doing that. Now look the script is right there for recycling. Okay why spend money on writers for original content when you have years of pass content ready to be called upon on a yearly basis for renewing or at least. That's the logic that i imagined disney's going by is this lazy. Kinda is a cash. Grab cycle pretty much but it is it the safest way for disney to meet their yearly release schedule while also making a profit absolutely. I don't necessarily have a problem with these films. coming out. But i do think as movie goers. It's our responsibility to acknowledge this business. Strategy from disney disney studios. I dunno although sorry for me to say. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually disney only released about one two three original films a year. Moving forward with you know a bulk of the content transitioning to live action remakes sequels past films or better yet. Sequels of live action remakes. They've already done it a couple times. They did a sequel to allison wonderland. They did a sequel to. What was the other one that they did Did a sequel to malefic. Then i would imagine that if aladdin does well then they could do in aladdin to they could if they really wanted to. You know They they could do live extra remakes of past sequels so the already did the lion king. I'm pretty sure I don't have it listed here for some reason But the lion king has sequels of as well so they could just do that. The you know they could do lying to they could. They could live action lying in one and a half. They wanted to if if they thought it was going to bring money. You know movies like fox and the hound bl- the black dron. The rescuers sword in the stone. These are all movies that very pinocchio. These are all movies that there's no reason why disney. She can't be like all right mike movie. Then let's make it and it'll be easy because the script is right there. There's no reason for them for them not to not to think that way. Now if this grinds your gears. I totally understand because it grinds my gears a little bit. I personally love original content. Now i'm gonna. I'm gonna loop this back to what we said at the beginning of this episode with Cult classics. What is so great about those films..
Social Pros Podcast
"disney disney" Discussed on Social Pros Podcast
"It's a really good insight and if you look at the industry as a whole timeshare vacation ownership it's been historically a very sales driven right Industry so the the concept a brand and marketing just really starting to take hold in this industry as we think about telling our stories and marketing differently so attribution. It's the age old challenge when it comes to social. You know i had the Fortunate opportunity at disney disney parks back in the day to help launch social when it was a bit of the wild west. No one arrogance much about what it's doing. They just knew we had to be there. And we had to tell rela- cool stories sprite within those platforms so the pendulum has certainly swung too especially in that area. Sales driven organization or industry like great. Yes i i know. I need to be on social but isn't driving sale. So you know that that model is not perfect by any means. And i don't have like the exact answer to how like we're solving that but i can tell you We are educating the industry. More on what social can do obviously. There's these softer engagement metrics the more people that we see engage with our products where social platforms the more that we believe there are going to go. Further down funnel and the ability to to at least within social engaged with them at a brand level and then re target right with more transactional messages further down within social is starting to show that the platforms themselves are driving positive engagement that we can start to sita loosely connected to sales right but that connection is not a hundred percent today nor for many other brands. Don't feel bad someone out there including you if you have the has the answer to that if you crack that then. You're the details of everybody else has a little trickier well. If you're if we're going to re target to potential members in social and i love that approach that must mean that you're doing at least some paid social. have you changed your ganic versus paid. Mix over time. Yeah we've we've been increasingly leveraging. Paid right to target so Again back in the day it was one hundred percent organic right. It was just a nice clean place to live in oslo. That has that has certainly swapped moore paid so we are finding the balance so we know with some of our i would say we're heading content we amplify and we've certainly amplify with paid our or transactional offer type of messages through social.
Star Wars Sessions
"disney disney" Discussed on Star Wars Sessions
"I thought whoa. Yeah it's almost like a no brainer. I get it. And i think it just sounds amazing. And as like little bits of information of dropped into star wars fandom stall was used on stein sent general may boy. I thought man i come to experience this one night and i always up top. I always thought well. It's going to be expensive. Disney is a cheap places. It you've been to florida. You think even said that. The other white w florida in comparison. Yup it's not cheap. it's not cheap. Never has been shape It's always kind of been seen as premium brand theme park. So expensive is always going to be i would always looking forward to this. My boy north marches galaxy's edge. But pardon me feel well you never know one dial might be dubai from i would tell on a trip to galaxy's edge the star cruiser for a little bit then then move on move along move on but deny you've i don't know what do you think how how excited we for this live before before. We heard anything else. Kind of kind of excited because The timeline galaxies age and that just seemed like it seemed like a long way away. because it's expensive and you know we've pandemics currently kind of footlocker pipedreams. I only get excited in case it. In case i'm fifty four mind going more not a more reality to be happening sooner rather than later which is good news so i was always kind of this is cool. This is only allowed the idea of it. I'm happy for everyone who bet a gober asleep before we knew anything about it. You know he could in my in my head. I think we'll know how could it go. What would it be like if it's good what it'd be like if it's not if it was good. I always thought this could be pretty sweet. Could be really really cool and immersive starwood hotel where everyone's inspired today say besides what we know but i also though what. I'm just not very good. What i'm going to get there and it's still particularly great or nobody's really getting involved. No one's joining in house. I go to work. He's going to ruin your emotions us calling if looking at it from the outside trying to be practical as possible. We're lock you think is going to be cheap. Because disney disney is a premium and walt disney world and paris and california's will they that big deals. You get what you pay for. What many people who've been to any fox come out disappointed because disney just know how to disney customer experience but lock that whenever thought it'd be cheap cheap no more. We've been hearing about it peaked. My in tracing seeing some of the pictures. I've come up with austere up in into the idea but I it never caught me as much as the idea of going to galaxies agent. That might seem a bit odd. Because galaxies is in itself an entire line towards. This is in our hotel but galaxies feels food. If i had to spend the money on one of the other definitely be galaxy's edge rogue than an immersive but if either charles too i would've liked it but now we've got the news that's star wars disney over. Those people have dropped the price so we wanted to know how much they gonna cost to stay here. You know they're going to four bucks a night..
Good For You
"disney disney" Discussed on Good For You
"There's going and worrying about people thinking you're a bitch because they already think that whether it's justified or not. Yeah either data. You fucking crazy and i told him i say this is my project and i'm passionate about and you have to walk down the street every day answering for it and your name is ms pat and your faces. Miss pat and you have to walk through the grocery store and have people they. Here's the other thing when your name is on the show and you start to show. No one is like how those writers must have not gotten her. they think it's all on u. Everything's on you the camera angles. So wardrobe everything yeah now. She do wardrobe but it went through rough times but it ended up being great into so many elements as many pieces to a project. And you know. I had my. We had head hand in every fucking thing because we wanted it to be good because you hire people that really don't care just paycheck. I seen what happened when you just make your job fucking paycheck. That's right. I care about this she. This is me and out the constantly. tell everybody. Hey this motherfucker say my name at the end of the day. I'm the only one got to walk away from his project and be remembered the most and the only thing that ultimately that i've learned has mattered about viewers and awards. None of that shit if you can go to bed at night without a pit in your stomach of like uh should it on this i should. I shouldn't have bet joke was. Why did i do that. Show just to make that writer not feel bad if you can have pride. Not as the ultimate paycheck well. I must've did okay job. Because i go to sleep. Okay good. I mean the project. I think we put together ten really good episodes and you know like we didn't just take the first joke that fill out an air. We really work for every storyline. We really pushed. We really push the envelope to fucking pilot is about school shootings. So you know. I wanted people go like what the fuck and i think when they see this show. That's what they will see. And i say it's a sitcom could we use we use language I mean ninety percent of these these ten episodes. I live this year and that's why i hope it feels so real to the view who's at home on the couch watching it. Do you feel like network was scared like did you feel. Fear of like reassure me. It'll was skier. Who scare me. They say they didn't fit their platform. Well they were re. I had something there as well. There were like we want edgy. We want super edgy. And they did rami. That show that communion he's jerking off a paraplegic person. Like and i was like. Oh hulu is the place for creators to be able to be creators. And like be edgy and push the envelope. And then they got bought by disney may not be on the disney disney cruise with your kids your money. But they won't pay in rent out the disney pop d. And they put me right out of here. So i mean you know. Here's i took my kids on a cruise for thousands of dollars just knew i had to hook up to disney forever. And it's like no bit. You still got about tickets and they put me right on up out of here..
The Zest
"disney disney" Discussed on The Zest
"Everybody loves mickey waffle so those things together and of being a really really yummy kind of brunch option. And that's what i'm personally obsessing about. Because i had it two weeks ago. I wanted again. And that's always something that i am. I really pay attention to is when i want something again when i want to go back and pay money for that twice. Then that means that we need to talk about that. It was going to ask you because you just said you go there and you eat nonstop. Which like okay. We're going to throw you a pity. Party going to disney with no bleeding all day long. So that's something that you come back to. What's what's one of the more crazy items that you've tried it. Disney disney doesn't get that crazy honestly because they have to serve such a wide variety of people and they have to make things that are palatable and culturally acceptable to a lot of different people. They don't really go too far out of bounds and that's one problem that disney has is that they don't jump on trends very quickly because they you know. They can't really make sure it's worth their dollar to do that. So there's a food trend going on disney might get into it like six months later or seven months later you know. It's like all of a sudden disney doing hot cheeto everything when hot cheetos that that has three months ago or now they got crow nuts everywhere in crow nuts. They're passing now. It's really kind of funny to see kind of that happened. But there some some chefs in restaurants anyway. This is the question you asked weird stuff. I've added disney or little while they had a pop tart breakfast sandwich which sounds incredible which is like bacon and eggs and cheese between two pop charts..
DSC On Demand
"disney disney" Discussed on DSC On Demand
"Pot news. What headlines have been breaking overnight. Find that for you. I was just sending on the paris. Tokyo olympics logo to post. So we're already talking about paris now. Twenty twenty four is that. That's the summer olympics. Going to be in paris. We're already talking about that. Why that the logo They choose a bad logo. You have a very Unique design to the olympic flame. How can they not see it. I guess it's meant to deploy a depict. The olympic flame a gold medal because of the coloring and the hair lips of marianne which was the personification of france. But it just basically looks like a cairn. Infirm fran erin olympic. It looks exactly like a karen. Just bake your manager. Wow that was not well. Thought out so bad. Someone had to be sitting there dead french conference table and saying that looks like a woman's face. It looks like the karen hairdo. I mean they wanted it to look like a woman. Space impart all but gotcha. The flame with the makes the haircut just looked like very welcome graduations. Yeah all right also on our website you can see a curious cat. Throw a huge spider at its owner. You sarah a video that has ana in stitches this morning. Police officer saves a trash panda. Who's got its head stuck in. Can she hates those. Raccoons eat that so much Did you see that walmart is offering one hundred percent free college tuition and books for every single one of their employees. Wow pretty impressed center. They got one and a half million employees there trying to get people to come back to work as as you know a lot of people. Don't wanna come back to work. Following this pandemic and walmart wants you to work for them and so they're going to invest a billion dollars in their college education program. I don't know how they're gonna get college for one and a half million people with only a billion dollars. I thought a billion would put my two people through school these days but they are offering college and books for every one of their employees one hundred percent. Free college tuition a great offer. Think that's so solid that makes me wanna shop at walmart. And i like that Yeah in elect wants to go to college but hadn't figured out a way that they could afford it here. You go you got to work. An college like win win. It's it's It reminds me of a scholarship here. Usually with a scholarship. You have to work for something if to provide your skills in some way and in return they'll give you a college education so walmart is pretty much offering all their employees a full scholarship. That's terrific where to go walmart that's awesome. You think they're going to check your grades like your dad did. When he was paying for your. How do you make into college. Excuse me sir. I was on a full scholarship as well without going to walmart. You know. Some parents paid for their kids college and they want to see the report card. Of course see how they're doing. Yeah can you imagine community your walmart. Manager's office it. Oh dave You've got a un citizenship in world history. I did get a you. How'd you know. I don't know i did. I did you guys ever get you know. That was the thing he's there. It's a bad grade. It's a bad grade Satisfactory okay or you suck you down con satisfactory. Yes i got some use in my day. I think it's fair for walmart to want to see the grades absolutely. Yeah anybody who's footing. The bill has a right to look at the report card. And give you the business. If you're not towing the line hell yeah. Yeah i'm sure you have to maintain a certain greg. I'm sure there's a lot to it. I'm sure there's a lot to it but just on the surface there. I like the idea of it. So anything else Sorry listener dave. We are going to have more food stories in the news this morning. Scar gel is suing disney. Yeah what do you think of that. She's not no. I just hearing this. She's suing disney disney. Whether yeah they broke the deal. It seems to me though that someone didn't read the large print. This isn't a fine print thing this is large print thing. Someone didn't read their contract. You think you don't think it was a breach-of-contract well that's how does the people who didn't read the print who broke the contractor screwed it up. Someone made a mistake here. So of course was intentional. And just like tough deal with breaking the contract and that's how you get sued right. Br someone broke the contract here. There's no question right. But i think it was intentional. Not didn't read all the word well scarlet would be the one who didn't read it or disney would be the one who just broke it right. Disney just broken you think so Oh my gosh. i can't wait for your news. This is one of those teases me right.
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Netflix Wants to Play in the Gaming Industry
"Week net flicks released. Its second quarter earnings. The company said it added one point five million new subscribers that's slower growth in the streaming giant has seen over the last several quarters but netflix also announced plans to expand into something new gaming in a letter to investors. The company said it views gaming as another new content category for it similar to how it expanded into original films animation and unscripted tv. So how hard will it be for netflix. To enter this new category joining us to discuss is tech reporter sara nadelmann. Hey sarah thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. So tell me why does net flicks wanna get into gaming. Netflix wants to get in gaming. Because it's a very lucrative business and games unlike. Tv shows and movies can provide entertainment for months or even years or longer Gained followers can update their games very easily over the internet with new maps new characters new modes of play so the really sticky and long lasting and so for netflix which is seen slice subscriber growth. It's really important that the company retain its users and of course add nuance. The other thing for netflix is that is facing a lot of stiff within the video streaming realm so You know user growth has been slowing and at the same time. It's facing its first serious challenges to his business. You have while disney's disney plus one or media's hbo max you have companies like apple amazon. They're spending aggressively on streaming content in the numbers. Go on hulu peacock. There's so many of them so a lot of these just didn't exist a few years ago. Netflix is looking for ways to expand. Business netflix is earnings. Were released the other day. What did that tell us about their gaming interests and how far they're going to take it on will. They confirmed that they're going ahead to focus on mobile games As opposed to consular. Pc games at least at the start and they will be free for subscribers so they won't be an additional
This Week in Apps
"disney disney" Discussed on This Week in Apps
"Earning more than one hundred and fifty million dollars in revenue between the app store and google play across all three according to our estimates. And that's in the us alone Again all this is going to be in the report that is linked in the show in case you wanna see all the details. There's a lot of interesting stuff there. next up is disney disney has a new princess probably not really a princess but black widow. The latest episode opened last weekend and unlike f nine which i was actually looking forward to but didn't end up going to see it didn't go with a very old fashioned model theaters only f nine model disney plus released the black widow with its hybrid premium model. Which i talked about before. Guess who won. I'm not going to be shy. Not if nine app revenue climb to the highest. It's ever been across the app store. And google play last weekend for disney plus between friday and sunday disney plus earned seven point nine million dollars in net revenue meaning after apple and google take fee in the us alone and the trend hasn't sloped down yet between monday and wednesday of this week. Disney plus holding another seven and a half million dollars again. This is a net revenue in the us from both stores so they have a total of more than fifteen million since they launched this. I criticize disney pluses premium pricing in the past. And even though the numbers look pretty good. I can't lie. i'm i think this is still experimental for disney and for the industry in general i suspect other streamers are waiting and trying to understand if this is going to work because not everyone has a mega-brand like the mci another movie is as big as the which is why we're seeing disney's revenue really peak here and now forever release that they had so i'm looking forward to seeing how this continues i still. I'm on the fence. Leaning us is not going to work in the hbo. Max model of just going both is the right way to do it. We'll see hopefully. I am right because i don't want to pay more money per movie when i want to watch it but it does make sense for them. i imagine we'll see more and more streamers peacock and others. Hbo max maybe even maybe even doing the same thing as they release these Movies that they put a lot of effort and a lot of money and a lot of time into and also those movies that really have a big brand and people just lining up.
Game Scoop!
"disney disney" Discussed on Game Scoop!
"Dancer was no featuring popular mascot sex. No i wouldn't say that let's seven. Am i keeping track while it's like it's so sad like inspector man considered popular. I guess that's nintendo platform but we don't know if it's on any ass super nintendo sixty four virtual boy no but we know it was a game same advance the ninety s game intendo platform. It came out here first or it came out. It did not come out in japan. I so that's like really interesting on two d graphics. Yes yes we lost your audio. But i saw you now. I want to get it out of the way it did it. Come out this game originally come out on the super nintendo okay so have removed super nintendo from the equation but it is a two-day game. Was this a handheld game. No okay okay so any Or it's ud game on sixty four. Yeah i mean we gotta pick one. Is this based on a license. It's based on a license. Is it any s. And i ask him okay. So in any s game based on a license probably platformer okay question. What were the three genres platformer puzzle or we don't know we don't remember i remember okay. That's the hardest part of that question though remembering what you ask yet. That's the hardest. Part of his game scoop is remembering what you said. Let's just right after. It was not released in north america. I that my first thought was to mcdonald's platformer. That's what i was saying the kids. Yeah my kids right. that's great. It could totally be my kids. I don't know if it came out in the nineties. That game was annoyed. Yeah you know it was he. Yeah he'll be annoyed but it's funny because you asked if there is a popular mascot in it and there was no does not take that noise. What about the california raisins. yeah they were incredibly popular though. That's true Let's let's let's go. Okay is this based on a franchise or a movie a movie yet. Okay space on a movie okay. S. it's like a platform or something. I mean they may not need home alone games. They made a million of us is based on a movie. That's live action. Not cartoon is it based on a live action. Now not live action. Oh okay interesting. Clean cartoon simpson's oh yeah like versus a spaceman. But that's not movie movie point. Sh we asked about disney or disney disney disney afternoon. How many any s ones are there though in the nineties. Quite a few duck tales duck tales too. Yeah yeah chindia. Rescue ranger would have been nineteen ninety one of those movies. It's based on animated movie that has to be from like nine hundred hundred ninety one. Well there's there's lying cattleman miladin little mermaid all of you to be not an nintendo so there on yesterday from virgin. They were just really late. Nobody played them really like little mermaid. Little mermaid it'd be a good one that space. This was disney. No he didn't even ask someone. Is this disney up. Property not destroy all speculation for nothing more than a guest firm. Go you counting right. Yeah that was a fifteenth. I'm trying to think about early nineties. Like what did just go see in the movie theater when i was a little kid. What if it's not animation but like stop animation or puppetry like muppets or something. Now that'd be. I guess not all be live action. Well sir nickelodeon game on the bunch of renan. Snippy games begins. Yeah but they're not based on movies walker ruse one of them wants to skull branston three. Okay look i. I just can't think of another nickelodeon like seriously like movie. Animated animated movies. Who has made these back then. Besides disney and okay so yeah and it's like western animation as viable goes west and all dogs go to heaven type movies but those yeah make any s games out of those now. Is it western animation. I was just.
This is Only a Test
"disney disney" Discussed on This is Only a Test
"Even though a lot of the same creators go back and forth in are given have money thrown at them to develop things on apple a five bucks a month. also it's that's monica put toward a plus subscription so i can watch cards to and lower deck's like paramount plus has a higher on the mark things. I'm going to watch on regular basis than apple apple tv. Plus and wow. It's true and i think either. The brand of apple doesn't do anything for me in the in the tv world the fact that like they actually have more a bigger stranglehold on the editorial of the shows. Right like villains. Can't use iphones. They need to be no they they have to the. It's like oh disney disney some extent as well i think in terms of type of shows they're producing but yeah the look and feel what apple show. It's definitely doesn't feel like In hbo is that true. No bad guys on on apple. Tv plus use iphones. That's that's true. Got to protect. The brands got up brands. And now they they could if i think if steve jobs are so around and they are still in the running business they could not allow any network to have apple logos. Right you the the the permission of allowing apple devices and everyone on the max would have to have like some freaked out fake company logo. That could be. That would be an aggressive thing. They would take for the believability of those that world Your your character is not as cool as our character. Our heroes are. Heroes have have beats headphones so petty. If they did that he can't. That's why i'm saying jobs around. That's the thing he would do. Because feel very steve. Jobs thing that you okay peyrat tv. Plus the card season to a full extended trail is about a week and a half ago. We haven't chat with you about it as big star trek fans here. What'd you think. I mean honestly this is kind of over my head. Because i i never watched deep space nine. So we're of nine isn't she. She's from which okay. I didn't want it to either. Voyager phase nine as established by the past ten seconds and so. I don't really know what's going on with her. Why she touching her forehead is this is sort of beyond me. It looks interesting. I love q. i'm curious to find out what's going on i. I was not blown away by the first season And i thought it was. I thought it was worth watching. But i was. I wanted more from it. And i'd i'm curious but i'm not i'm not i'm not i can't wait for some show for me is it. Are you guys super excited by this trailer. I mean i'm excited because it's more content right. I mean a picard. Probably shoulda save that iron weaver money in baltimore. Rescuing flights and i realized oh. My god thought about that. Okay but i mean i. I always like the interplay between q and picard and i'd be curious to see how they are addressing sort of the passage of time especially after what happened in august things so you know it's two characters that i love note to see what happens with them The seventy nine thing always felt like a a weird insertion but a we get to learn more about what it was like for her as a child in that period that wasn't fully addressed in in voyager. So yeah i mean it's more star trek and i'd watch it if it was just like a triple rolling around on the screen so notes howard but the triple pretty much. So seven of nine for the first season was a really out of left field casting that made so much sense because it was about because relations with the bore and having huge..
Glenn Beck
Florida's Walt Disney World May See Mask-Free Theme Park In 2022
"World World could could return return to to some some sense sense of of normal normal next next year. year. Disney Disney CEO CEO Bob Bob Che Che Pak Pak says says masks masks will will likely likely be be required required at at the the parks parks the the rest rest of of this this year. year. But But he he said said he he absolutely absolutely does does not not believe believe masks masks or or social social distancing distancing will will be be required required in in 2022. 2022. Shape Shape back. back. Also Also announced announced Disney Disney World World will will remain remain at at 35% 35% capacity capacity until until the the vaccination vaccination rates rates significantly significantly increases. increases. I'm I'm AL AL inspector, inspector, former former
News, Traffic and Weather
Disney Closing Blue Sky Studios, Fox’s Once-Dominant Animation House Behind ‘Ice Age’ Franchise
"Studios. The animation has the games, the ice Age movies, Rio and more being shut down by Disney, Disney acquired Blue Sky and the Fox deal in 2019, but between its own animation. In studio and Pixar Disney, the parent company of ABC News, apparently felt Blue sky was superfluous. Jason Evans and ABC News Hollywood
News, Traffic and Weather
Dodger Stadium Becomes Site For Mass Coronavirus Vaccinations
"Was serving is the nation's largest covert 19 testing site, but ceased testing for the virus this week because by week's end, it was converted to a vaccination site. Vaccine sites are are now now popping popping up up in in areas areas all all across across the the country. country. Let's Let's go go to to Los Los Angeles Angeles to to talk talk more more about about it it with with a a B B C's C's Alex Alex Stone. Stone. It's It's pretty pretty incredible. incredible. If If you you think think about about it, it, Sherry. Sherry. All All of of the the times times we've we've been been to to Disneyland or to Dodger Stadium. We never would have expected that one day. Not only would they be closed and for almost a year now, but also converted into mass vaccination sites during a global pandemic. I mean, I think that going to Disneyland, you and I have been there together, Sherry and I think about Being there with my kids. My mom thinks made me go back through old videos on my cell phone of what Life was like at Disneyland before. All of this started even just a year ago and went to a Christmas party at Disneyland on and if you don't live in Southern California, California, you you may may not not get get it. it. But But when when you you live live here here if if you've you've got got Children Children and and you you work work for for Disney, Disney, as as we we do, do, since since it's it's a a parent parent company company of of ABC ABC News News That's That's where where families families go go on on the the weekends weekends or or days off. And for almost a year now that part of childhood for so many kids has been wiped out. The gates have been locked. It's been shut down or Dodger Stadium. All of the games that I've covered there over the years, the very first pitch by the Astros here and Dodger Chris Taylor slammed it out. Ah, home run, this crowd went understandably wild. How many times All of us were in situations like that in a stadium? Not thinking about a deadly virus. These Dodgers fans are celebrating. Right now They're waving blue towels in the air. And now many people here in L. A. I know I have numerous times have been testing at Dodger Stadium for cold, but it's been the country's biggest testing site cars sneaking around thousands of people getting tested every day that has ended. Now. This weekend, it's morphed into a 12,000 person, a day vaccination site like all over the country, iconic places that can handle big crowds are being turned into sites to get a shot. Disneyland's parking lot now has giant tent set up and now instead of it's a small world families will be going there to get the vaccine Sama Dodger Stadium, California Governor Gavin Newsom saying This is how we're going to get out of the pandemic, speeding up the administration, not just priority groups but also now opening Up large sites to do so, meaning Dodger Stadium, Padre Stadium, Cal Expo and beginning this weekend on radio and TV, New public service announcements raring trying to convince Californians of win their chance comes to get the vaccine when their number is pulled not to bypass the chance to go and get it. Good. 19 vaccines have arrived. You've been recommended by California's top medical experts because they've been proven to be highly effective now. Luckily, California is beginning to see hospitalization numbers leveling a bit. Sacramento's region in Northern California that stay at home order has even been eased in the last few days, but 300 miles south here in southern California, each leveling off a bit, but hospitals remain overwhelmed, and public health officials are pleading with people here. Just stay home. The damaging impact to our families and our local hospitals from this surge is the worst disaster our county has experienced for decades. That's L. A county health director, Dr Barbara for rare putting out her daily message. So now we turn to these iconic sites where it still feels like a movie that now they're mass vaccination sites. Not that long ago. It's where we gathered for fun. I have every hope is soon will be able to return his family's going out and having a good time, But right now here, at least, it is a battle reporting for perspective. I'm Alex Stone, ABC News in Los Angeles.
The 3:59
How streaming services and COVID-19 upended Hollywood
"Coronavirus is up ended. A lot of things about our lives but few industries has seen as drastic a change as the entertainment business with the ride streaming services and social begging the question. What happens the movie theaters a broader. Chang this is your daily charge joining us way to this. Transformation is our media expert johnson. Welcome john so let's start with a recap of the year. We saw the launch the number of streaming services peacock. Hbo max and then of course stalwarts like netflix. Continue to dominate. Pop culture with shows like tiger king in queen's gambit. How did the so-called street war shakeout in twenty twenty. We saw breakaway successes and truly epic failures over the course of the last year among all the new services that launched in the last fourteen months or so nothing compares to disney plus the subscribers that a service brings in that's the currency of success for streaming services. And no matter how you look at it. Disney plus blew away all other new competitors completely out of the water disney hoped to have between sixty million and ninety million subscribers within five years and it nearly hit the top of that. Its most obstacle optimistic expectation at nearly beat that within one year not five. It's at eighty six point eight million subscribers at the end of its first year and then on the flip side you had these failures quickly. Which entered twenty twenty swinging it was booking super bowl commercials. It was making it rain. All over hollywood paying stars tons of money to make these short form Cereal movies and chapters and Daily essentials and other things that if you could see me i'm making all these little air quotes but it totally flopped and it announced that it was completely shutting down just seven months after launching. So we've seen some really legendary story play out in the streaming world this year definitely and in between though we had a couple of those services. Hbo max peacock which all launched as well and lose a little bit quieter for them up until the end of the hbo. Max how did those two services fair out when they were they launched didn't do as well as disney plus but nothing has done is walls just pause. You really. nothing else compares to what they've been doing you know if if disney plus had it had the insane year that it did their launches would look you know pretty good all right. Hbo max is at you know. I have to check the numbers. But it's at i think. Eight point six million accounts and peacock has more than that because he got chasm free tier. Hbo max you have to pay fifteen dollars a month to access it or b a each b. o. l. subscriber That has a deal with. Hbo backs in order to get it. But the point is you know. They're doing fine sean. It's compared to a truly extraordinary. Unexpected success like disney plus that. It looks like they're really doing poorly and to be fair to you know. Hbo max with its high price. Point the fact that the fact that it was kind of a Confusing proposition two people and The fact that it wasn't on roku or fire tv the two most popular devices for months that also crimped it in particular its appeal. you know. They're like thirty some million people that can have. Hbo max basically for free because they are. They're already paying for hbo and of those were at or still at below ten million accounts. Right we are back so it's definitely struggled in some senses yet. It will disney plus held by a number of big cultural milestones the hamilton earlier this year. Of course mandalorian is back more baby love even new law which at that dollar premium charged pretty well. Hbo max is poised to have its potential big moment tomorrow with the release of what am nine hundred eighty four. I'm curious what you think. The impact is there and as we sort of look for. You know how that's going to help set the way movies are released. Well it cer- certainly gonna superchargers interest in hbo coupled with the fact that it max not only is releasing wonder woman On christmas day the same day that it's available to see in theaters on those that are open It's also making it. Its entire slate. The warner brothers. Entire slate of movies for the entirety of next year are going to be released the same way where there. It's available to stream on. Hbo max the same day. It's in theaters for a period of one month. So people have one month to to sign up for talks log into it if you already have. It watched like some of the you know wonder woman. Nineteen eighty-four dude matrix. Four tons of like huge movies and smaller ones that are also heading to spin. It looks like that's ever happened before people are really excited about it. It's gonna supercharge interest in the streaming service. But it also means that you know. It's kind of a crossing of the rubicon For decades theaters have had a seventy at least seventy five days where they get exclusive access to new movies and of course during the pandemic with these widespread theater closures senate as being closed a lot of companies have tried to figure out. How can you can't have a seventy five day window or something is only in theaters. When there aren't any theatres open and the ones that are people. Don't feel safe going to so we've seen a lot of experimentation about. What do we do in this situation. But this move by warner brothers. Hbo max are. They're making so many of these really big budget movies available. What's known as day and date or it's available for home video streaming the same day that it's in theaters. That's that's a point of no return like things are never. They might not look exactly like that once. The coronavirus and the pandemic are in our rear view window. But it's never going to be theaters and the transit. Never going to be exactly the same again. So the reaction will imagine for folks out there who are locked down this is. This is good news but not everyone has created this with open arms. Right number of directors filmmakers actors have been up in arms. Or who's been sort of speaking out against this. Practice will certainly christopher nolan. Who is a longtime warner brothers director. He's bamed all of his big films with warner brothers and most recently His tenant was released by warner brothers and not partly led to this decision. That warner brothers needed to figure out something other than purely theatrical premieres for films tenant was released it did tentative fine overseas it did reasonably well but in the us tanks. Like i he nolan is is a faint is fame Famously defensive of the theatrical experience. He's one of those ought autour filmmakers who treasures that big dark room and the hush crowd gasping all the same time like. That's that's is cocaine or whatever and he didn't want to give that up and they didn't make him and they released tenet where it had an exclusive period in theaters and it s than sixty million dollars at the box office. That you know. It's standard for one of his movies to make one hundred million plus in the us at the box office so the fact that they saw that it's just not tenable Just not tenable to have this sort of theatrical this preciousness around theatrical release at least during the pandemic they went a different route they. There's is the most extreme that any studio has announced so far a lot of other studios are trying to be a little more compromising and their decision was made largely without consultation with filmmakers. Which you know. It's one thing to up end. These long held norms. Some of which a lot of filmmakers really treasure like christopher nolan really treasures this theatrical the experience and protecting it but it's not always it's it's the medium not the message sometimes in the fact that they sort of dropped this bomb on these people without with wonder woman. There's a lot of consultation with those filmmakers but the entire slate like they couldn't reach out because people talk in hollywood if they reached out to some people get all over town so they basically maybe with a little bit of notice tried to get it out to some people but essentially shut. Drop this bomb on the filmmaker community and that in addition to the fact that it was such a dramatic change from what's baked into contracts and what people expected is it led to a really huge backlash and we're going to see if they're going to get sued or get sued. You might have to walk back many things. They might have to take something that were on the two thousand twenty one slate off the twenty twenty one slates and they don't fall under this so called hybrid strategy. That's something we're going to play out next year. Well curious if this is a a one off thing or is this this pandemic related that twenty one is like twenty twenty a bit of a lost year as be struggled to kind of get back enormously but once you get past it go back to normal. You mentioned the crossing the rubicon. How do you think things the changes that were saying. Now my kind of play out the long term or will there be more of a hybrid approach like what one of the things look like once we get to some semblance of normalcy again. It's never going back to the way. It was like the way the seventy five day ninety day window. That theaters get new movies. That's not coming back even after the pandemic because i think consumers for a really long time have wanted more options. Especially i mean. Young consumers don't understand even older consumers. Don't understand why you have to wait that long to choose where you get to watch your movie you know. Like the seventy five and ninety day window and theater followed by the dvd followed by online vod online rentals followed by a pay one window followed by a pay to win. Like there's going it's going to change but we can say for sure. Theaters are not going to be able to count on that sort of cushion. Seventy five day to ninety day window getting all new movies. They can't count on that because too many of these studios are owned by media companies that are also launching streaming services. I'm really want them to succeed. It's not just warner brothers on by. At and t. and also owns hbo. Max that is playing and experimenting with these new formats like you mentioned milan. That's disney disney decided disney of all studios. They build their franchises on theatrical release. That means a lots of them. But they're still even toying with things like you said they released hamilton which is supposed to be a big screen movie. Next year they released it more than a year in advance and put a totally free on disney plus for their big budget stuff. They're putting it on disney plus with this. What's not calling premier access which is basically when you pay a thirty dollar extra fee and you get movies like milan that you can stream day and date same day as in theaters next year. They're going to do that with riot. Dragon but even with dizzy. They've said they haven't defined what they're gonna do with marvel movies. It looks like they're gonna give marvel movies. Which are you know. Some of their biggest blockbusters that they still have on the slate coming up. They're going to give them some time in the theaters because they know how important that is to building a franchise having that sort of mythic proportion in a theater is really important to a marvel movie whether or not black widow comes to streaming a lot earlier than it would have before in previous you know. In the olden days. A year ago it would've taken about six months to nine months for any theatrical disney movie to make the disney plus. Maybe that'll shrink. What we do know is that theaters are not going to be able to count on a seventy five day. Window consumers are going to have a lot more options about win and where they get to watch new movies and the theatrical spirits is going to have to change you know without having that really special treatment that kid gloves treatment of getting seventy five day window. You're going to see theaters having to adapt offering more food upgrading. The experience of going there They're gonna have to experiment with a lot of different payment models even maybe The point is movie. Theaters haven't really had to adapt or innovate for decades. Because i've had this protected window and that protected window is going to change. But it's never coming back the way it was and the theater. Experience is going to change too so that change is thrust upon them and they're forced to adapt. Do you think theaters are doomed to failure are they are they they are they screwed ultimately. Because i frankly i missed the theater experience but i can't see myself going back for while and so we'll we'll theater survive long enough to be able to adapt and change. Yeah the are going to survive like they just won't be as many and they won't look the same as they did. Which you know a natural thing movies have been around cinemas have been around for a really long time. It's one of. Its basically the first mass mass visual audio visual media You don't have theaters like the depression-era people's palaces anymore. we don't go to theaters. That look like someplace that would have a metropolitan opera in. That's what happened in the twenties thirties. We don't have that anymore because things change television happened. So that's going to be another change but what you're gonna see the the gigantic megaplexes. Amc's the cinemark probably going to get smaller because they can't if you don't have that exclusive access to something that people can choose whether or not they're watching it on that big screen or watching on their home screen where people are going to be able to. They're going to choose to watch it on their home screen and so you don't just need as many movie screens in america anymore. So we're going to see theaters close. We might see some chains completely. Go out of business. The thing that will be interesting to see is how smaller chains mom-and-pop theaters you know the local art house theater. The smaller chains like alamo draft house. We're already seeing that. Those are those are the theaters in cinemas that are more likely to adopt because they don't have a sort of mcdonald's mass market Happy meal mentality. they're catering to a local community. They're more likely to know the sort of things that would bring people into their theater if it's more than just movies it's easier for them to pivot in. Adopting alamo draft house was one of the first chains so to speak. That offered this rent a whole theater option. Which has become more popular during the pandemic instead of having to spend three hundred to a thousand two more dollars to rent entire theater. It's like look we can't can barely show this to people because of restrictions. Why don't you rent the theater for a hundred bucks and you can bring fifteen of your closest friends and you can all like sit apart from each other and you can be pretty confident that we're going to be sanitizing it because we don't or trying to stuff seats because we have to stuff seats. They were the first ones to innovate in that sense. And we start to adopt adapt that model so no like theaters. Theaters aren't going to die. They're just gonna look a lot different in the future
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Health Officials Urge Americans Not to Travel
"Be told not to travel there being told again, and they're still doing it. Susie Labor preparing to fly cross country from from L. L. A A X X to to Florida Florida for for Christmas Christmas and and traveling traveling to to see see my my Children Children and and my my granddaughter. granddaughter. And And so so and and to to spend spend two two days days in in Disney Disney world world and and then then sit sit back back and and get get back back to to work. work. Now Now she and all of us once again being urged not to do that by public health experts like Brown University's doctor, she's job given how full our hospitals are right now. I just think it's a very, very risky thing. He s a says more than a million people pass through airport security each day, the weekend before Christmas TBC Sherry Preston Despite
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Brightline Announces Plan Connecting Miami to Walt Disney World Stop
"A a stop stop at at a a major major Orlando Orlando attraction, attraction, Bright Bright Line Line and and Walt Walt Disney Disney World World Resort Resort have have entered entered into into an an agreement agreement to to construct construct a a train train station station at the shopping, dining and entertainment complex. Disney Springs. The station is intended to provide a convenient travel option between Disney and Bright Line stations and Orlando International Airport, Miami, Fort Lauderdale in West Palm Beach. And plan to stations in Evan Terra Boca Raton Import Miami Bright Lines expansion from from West West Palm Palm Beach Beach to to Orlando's Orlando's airport airport is is on on track track to to be be completed completed in in 2022. 2022. I'm I'm AL AL inspector inspector with with a a week week left left in in the the
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Dividend Cuts, Drone Deliveries, and Disney Plus
"Happy Monday. I'll believe you if you say it's Monday. They all do together as we have discussed before it's Day I know it's Day and I think it's not weekend. That's that's how I measure the days now not weekend day night. Three categories so Dan. Let's talk some. Gm less toxic dividends less toxic drones and as we wrap things up. Let's talk about something that you just wrote about Disney plus in whether or not it can save Disney stock but let's begin with the market now at the time of our taping here midday Monday all the major indices up slightly in this as part of a month Dan. This has just been an incredible month for the Dow. Snp THE NASDAQ ALL UP. Big having their best month in years so I want to start there as an investor. Are You thinking about this market? Because we have the market just chugging along this month and at the same time we have most states still under stay at home orders so I don't think about the market in the short term and right now. It's so emotional. So if there's a tiny little hint if like a village in Alabama says it's going to reopen a gym the market bounces up in and has a good day Which which I like that that there is sort of an appetite for optimism. Because we've been through such a miserable time that said I'd be looking at companies that are going to do well during this and after or companies that you really liked beforehand that you believe will bounce back when this is over. So I'm not looking to sort of ride out these trends or see what's going on or figuring out where the bottom is a. I think we've got some reckoning left to come but that's just a guess okay. So let's talk about some of those companies. Gm General Motors announcing its suspending. Its dividend and stock buybacks now shares. Gm down around forty percent for the year Dan. Gm has stopped producing cars. It has not yet announced a timeframe for when it will resume production. Gm is producing ventilators and personal protective equipment. What do you make them the GM news that it will suspend its dividends and stock buybacks? Yeah I think it's smart to preserve your cash when you're not selling any product. I understand I got some blowback on the live show from people saying Oh but you know we count on those dividends. I get it but you can't count on a dividend if a company goes bankrupt so I would rather GM stays in business longer puts itself in a situation where it has more cash long and a longer runway because eventually Americans will need cars this will end and people who were putting off a purchase will buy prices are really good so if you need a car it's actually a pretty good time to buy a car But I am in favor of taking being cautious as you can be right now. If you're a company okay. So along those lines I want to ask you about Disney. Disney has taken some heat for not suspending. Its dividend. What do you think yeah? I think it's a mistake. Look Disney's in a good position in terms of their available cash but they've also borrowed quite a bit of money. I mean. They borrowed the money for the Fox purchase. So to be paying cash. When you're not operating it seems like an artificial way to prop up your stock price. And I'm just not concerned about Disney's stock price in the short term. I'm I'm guessing. Executives are who often have bonuses tied to Stock Price? Okay well we're GONNA talk more Disney at a bit. But first I wanNA talk about a new development in the world of social distancing. Ups on Monday announcing that CVS and ups will start using drones. Yes drones next week to deliver prescription medication to the villages retirement community in Florida. Now Dan you are in Florida. The villages is the biggest retirement community in the country now. The drones will drop off prescriptions to a location near the community and a truck will finish the delivery. So this isn't door to door but this is going from. Cvs to somewhere near where people live. Yeah I mean. They've been testing this it. I think it's actually in Virginia in some rural town with the idea that you could bring prescriptions right to the door and you're gonNA see combinations of this and Robo trucks and other things delivering but the villages a unique place. These are generally stand alone homes or row houses And it's an entire community over one hundred thousand people that are all at least fifty five plus generally a lot older. So there's a lot of reason to minimize contact for these people. But I'm not entirely sure how drone to a truck to the door. Minimizes contact that. That seems to be the same amount of contact of driving the truck to the community and bringing it to the door. I it's a little strange for me but that said I think you're GONNA see Niche use of drones doing things like this drone isn't going to like bring you a Burrito and put it in your hand but it might leave your cvs box at your door or on your balcony or some other location if you live someplace. That isn't densely packed city. Okay so when you look over the next five to ten years in someone who studies the retail landscape when you look at the role of drones are you bullish or bearish. I know you say they're not gonNA be delivering burritos. But what's the role going forward? It's going to be niche. It's going to be filling. It's going to be a supplement in rural places where it doesn't make sense to send a truck it might sense and it's obviously state ver- to send drones but I don't think New York City or Alexandria. Virginia wants a sky filled with drones. That seems like a recipe for disaster. So they will be used. They will have a place but drones are much more likely to be used and are being used by say Walmart in a warehouse to take inventory. That is a much safer. It's it's it's not gonNa hit a you know a random person walking by. There's going to be a lot of commercial uses for drones but it isn't going to be to replace the Pizza Guy. Okay and no beer and wine up. Maybe some here in wine but probably I don't WanNA drone delivering a wine bottle. Have you ever had to why not if you're stairs? It's not fun now. That just seems fraught with issues. I mean I don't. I don't think you could do that. You know what daretodream dare to dream of a day and let's Talk Disney. We talked a little earlier but I want to talk about a few different developments here including something you just wrote about but first Disney today announcing big plans for May fourth now may fourth They will begin. Streaming Star Wars. The rise of skywalker. That'll be two months earlier than they planned. And then Disney also announcing that the final episode of the Clone Wars and the first episode of the mandatory and documentary will be available on May fourth so with all that in mind. You just wrote a piece this weekend. Dan Entitled Canned Disney Plus Save Disney stock. So can it. Yeah and. That's a very melodramatic headline I will. I will put out that. The goal of headlines are to get readership because I actually believe Disney. We'll be fine. It's other businesses. We'll be okay but what I want to really point out is. People are underplaying. Just how BIG DISNEY CAN BE A? When they last reported they went from ten million to fifty million subscribers that wasn't even based on corona virus growth that was based on adding a few new countries like eight or nine countries. Netflixing one hundred eighty one hundred somewhere in that ballpark. Disney plus is probably at seventy five million. Now wouldn't shock me. If in year there at one hundred twenty five one hundred fifty million and their cost structure is dramatically lower than Netflix. Netflix has to produce like two hundred series of quarter and throw them at a wall. They have to pay huge money to comedians. A Disney can pick and choose a few series based on its named intellectual property. You're GonNa Watch the new show starring one of the avengers. You're going to watch a new STAR WARS SHOW. You'RE GONNA watch when rise of skywalker is released. They don't have to spend the money. Net flicks does. This thing is going to be a cash cow quickly. Okay so I want to ask you more about that. And specifically the net flicks piece of that when you talk about their cost structure. How long can net flicks play that game? They're going to have to play that game. It lessens as they get into every market and they've localized content. They don't have the expense of having to record dialogue and new languages. They'll have some shows in each market. Eventually they're in a position where they can may be cut their contents bent in half but their content spend six to eight billion dollars a year whereas Disney pretty much everything Disney puts out on Disney. Plus that's original to the service is going to be a guaranteed hit when when you're watching a show in the Star Wars universe. It is not a big surprise that star wars fans. Watch it So Disney is really in a position where they can keep costs under control there also in a position where they can raise the price pretty easily six ninety nine a month. That's a great introductory price. But do you really think families are going to drop it if it goes to nine ninety nine over the course of the next three years Netflix too. I think can go up to about nineteen ninety nine and that will help some of their deficit but these are the two winners in the space and for Disney this is going to be its biggest segment. Maybe as soon as as well this year it'll probably be its biggest segment because others are closed but in a normal year this will be Disney's biggest segment if not in two thousand twenty one possibly almost certainly by two thousand twenty two and Dan Netflix. Still growing like a weed for the last quarter. They added almost sixteen million subscribers. So one hundred eighty three million subscribers now for Netflix When you look in as we're talking here we're talking about Disney on Netflix. Do you think there's room for both Disney plus and Net flicks to succeed over the next five to ten years or if this were wrestling is essentially a cage match. Were only one of them. Comes OUT ALIVE? No these two already one. It's a case of whether there's a market for HBO Max and Peacock and all the other services out there. Those are going to be harder cells but remember as people cut the cord and they're still eighty something million Americans who pay for cable. That's a hundred to two hundred dollars comes available to some of those people already have netflixing Disney plus so they'll probably dabble in ad one or two secondary services. But I think right now. This is a battle for the bronze medal. I if somebody can establish themselves in third place. That's a strong position to be in. I'm SORTA not counting. Who which is a Disney owned property because who was gonNA get bondholders by a lot of people with Disney plus and it's probably going to do reasonably well and be a driver for Disney. There's not a of original content being produced on on who so it's not that biggest spend But Yeah Disney a net flicks have have already lapped everybody. What about Amazon? Should we include them in the Disney Net flicks discussion? How many shows do you watch Amazon? you know we. I think we we watch a fair amount on Amazon prime. I think really I forget it exists Amazon is the Ebay of streaming services. How you know you forget. They exist and a lot of stuff. That's really hyped. When you actually dig into the research and find out how many people are watching it. It's like three hundred thousand people and they have some shows I've been interested in. I hear good things about the boys. I think that's what it's called and generally I've tried a few things on Amazon and nothing has struck. You're not paying for it. I don't precisely see where it's a particularly big value add. Would you cancel prime if they got Yeah No. I'm not cancelling prime. Yeah it makes no sense to cancel prime because right now. I don't know I'm delivering getting deliveries from. I was like four times a day. Like that's I think of something. I go in and put an Amazon Order. And now you have this fun. Amazon of will show up as opposed to previously when it would come the next day so I just don't think it's a relevant service. I don't precisely understand why they pay for it. Frankly okay okay so. I'm going to count you skeptical of. Do you have a Netflix? Or Disney plus recommendation for me. Well if you haven't watched the mandatory and you should absolutely watch the delorean oriented so right that I also on Netflix. This is a bit of a sleeper but I really liked glow It's based on the eighties women's wrestling group very very campy. The original show actually a little dark and vicious really well done. It's one of those things where you could say. Well I'm not a pro wrestling fan. It's not really about wrestling. It's about the relationships between the people And my wife didn't like it so that that's I would say women would like it but in case of my life that wasn't true and my wife really really really likes ozark and I have not been able to make myself watch it yet. Okay Good Ozark and glow there you go okay for our desert poll as we wrap up here over the next five years. You're on a desert island and you have to you have to buy one of these stocks and hold it. So let's go. Gm Disney net flex. Let's throw in. Cvs and UPS Disney without a shadow of a doubt. Cvs would be attractive if they didn't just by a health insurance company which absolutely is is something that makes me a little bit nervous but Disney has the number one theme park brand families are GonNa come back to Disney up. Whenever they put out the next Disney movies avengers Pixar or whatever it is people are going to go see those. I'm not worried about that company in the long term at all. Okay well there. You have it Dan Klein. Thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me
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Disney CEO Bob Iger Steps Aside; Bob Chapek Named New Head
"Let's move onto Disney some big news. Disney CEO BOB. Iger is stepping down as CEO but will remain executive chairman until twenty twenty one. Now Bob Chepe pack will take over. Chepe heck was the chairman of Disney parks experiences and products. He's been at Disney for a long time. Twenty seven years and we knew was going to step down. Yeah but still. This is a bit of a surprise in who the new CEO is. Yeah a lot of people thought you know be Bob. Eiger came out last year and he put something called the ride of a lifetime and he basically forecast that he was at the he was at the end of his time as CEO of Disney. The you know that he would be stepping down. It was not in the middle of the route of lifetime. This was kind of a a foreshadowing. The timing is really odd again. Given the corona virus and Disney Disney parks worldwide or about thirty percent of the revenue of the total profitability of the company. Like this is a big deal yet. A lot of people didn't realize you know the thought that the next leader from Would come maybe from Disney plus from the from the video side and they didn't they went and tapped a guy who's been at the benefit the parks. Yeah I happen to think. It's all a big conspiracy just to keep the Bob's in power feels like a snap. It feels like a snub to someone like Kevin Mayor. Who's been heading up Disney streaming service and Disney for so long has been saying streaming Disney placid future of Disney and to bring somebody in who has experienced running the parkside. The experience I've Disney is an interesting choice and the market doesn't seem to like it. But I I kind of do minus the Bob Bob thing strange but I think it's a good thing because as you said it's the parks in the experience that has been driving Disney throughout his entire history. And you don't want to put everything on streaming and ignore the extremely profitable important aspects. That is the Disney culture. That's created from experiences like parks the thing that's really interesting. And the Bob Eiger it. It's interesting to me that when Bob Eiger became the CEO. I don't know if you remember this but it was not a popular pick at all. It was not you know he was thought of as being the wrong guy coming from the wrong industry but what he has been. He's been a master capital alligator. Bought Pixar Lucasfilm's Fox Studios Marsa Marvel Marvel Tuck in acquisitions exactly exactly me transformational acquisitions. But people didn't realize you know people did not give him the credit in advance that that was what he was going to do. And I think one of the reasons that they went to the direction that they did is the thing that Bob Iger did that. People were surprised about is he really cracked the code on direct to consumer for Disney. Yeah and baby. Yoda and finally finally. We're going to see some BAYONA merchandise and other high not gonNA sell
The 3:59
Is Disney Plus one of the biggest launches of all time?
"Launched in November. We've seen a lot of hands of the service was popular last night. Though Disney laid out just how popular in less than three months Disney plus was hit. Twenty eight point six million members. Now I know nothing about streaming so just Joan had just. How big is that really. That's really big like bigger than Netflix. Not Not bigger than Netflix but Netflix has been streaming for a decade. Netflix says at one hundred sixty seven million subscribers so twenty eight point six you got a long way to go still but Disney plus just launch like less than ninety days ago. Okay so in three at that as well. How many how. Many months away already from Disney killing Netflix. That's a really good question. Everyone wants to know that and we don't really know exactly except that we know that Disney is already like so they said it will take them five years to get to like sixty to ninety the only and they're already almost halfway to the lower end of that threshold so they're growing much faster than they thought. They were better than any expectations. The other thing. That's interesting is even though Disney. He plus launched in November got like these millions of subscribers mostly in the US net flicks is still growing in the in the US. The managed in in the midst of all this competition. They didn't grow a lot. People were not real happy with how much they did grow. But you're still adding members even as Disney's vacuuming up all these other people for streaming services. So what's really really hurting is cable. Oh no poor cable giants. I really got to feel it. You know I feel really bad for them. Missile where where's Apple. TV Fin on all this so they launched around the same apple. TV launched on November first and Disney plus launched less than two weeks later. And we don't know like it's apple they don't say how big they are the things that we can kind of cobbled together. We can't even coupled governor any sort of numbers. We can generally generally estimate that they have a lot of subscribers in the sense that they basically gave away apple. TV plus to anybody. That's device since September. Anyone who has a new iphone. Anyone that got you know something under the Christmas tree or for a holiday or a president. Whatever during that holiday shopping season They also were able to just like flip. A switch basically internal probably means they have a lot but that's no not paying them so so what's next like when are we gonNA see Disney. Plus you know maybe have a eleven joining the avengers or something. I don't know if that's going to happen. That would be really interesting crossover but I mean we do know that Disney. Plus it's going to be launching into Europe watching the Europe Europe and India. They're gonNA lodging. Your Evan Indian March. They're going to be expanding. Hulu to international markets markets. Right now who is only in the US. They're going to expand that next year they as in Disney Disney Disney owns who also Ho boy. And then in terms of originals. We know that there's going to be the first marvel original original series that ties into the marvel cinematic universe. That's first one's coming in August. The next season the mandatory ends in October. And then they're gonNA have their second marvel original in December so there's a lot coming up this year all right well next up spotify. It's still in the lead of streaming music services This morning spotify. It has hit one hundred twenty four million subscribers and that twenty twenty two hundred seventy one million people that are listening to spotify total Joan. How's that stack up with competitors like title and Pandora It's funny title isn't really talked about much because no one. It's not really music so Amazon. Music says they have fifty five million people listening that's not necessarily subscribers. Because he Amazon music included they said there are fifty million listeners apple in June so that Apple Apple Music has sixty million and so obviously you know spotify double that number of subscribers not to mention the fact that like it has more than two hundred million people listening every month. It's just it's a lot. It's the biggest subscription music service and the reason that they think that they can become even bigger focusing on podcast today. They said they were going to buy bill. Simmons Ringer like network which is a website for news. But mostly our podcast network at this point. Because you know every single title title's it's actually an interesting example but Pandora Apple Music Amazon music. They all basically have the same catalog staff. Titles the one that has like these exclusives from it's owners but obviously that's not really really working really well for them so spotify thinks that in order to distinguish themselves they need to go after not necessarily music but podcast. Because that's not the Gimblett recently. They've given it last year. They bought anchor last year. They budgeted up to five hundred million dollars to spend on podcast. Acquisitions why does spotify care. So much about podcasts. Listen how much would they like to buy the daily charge they do. You have like five hundred million dollars budget you start the bidding there. They lay podcast because they think that. That's a way to distinguish themselves from everybody else. And you know. It's also going right after apple. PODCASTS are called podcasts because of the I pod like dominated rock for a long time. So it'll be interesting to see as everyone moves over to streaming instead of downloads if spike can eat apples lunch. Well Yeah I've seen that for Apple Apple Music. The the bigger draw for their PODCASTS. Live radio station stuff right because that's what I've been hearing about it because there's news that happens on those Nicki Menaj goes on some rant. Like Travis Scott's baby like on her life podcast hey like Dr. DRE will say something new right there. I mean is that Kinda what spotify is trying to go after radio one. You're talking about radio. One which beats radio and I think I whatever. I can't even remember what it's called but That's it's not part of their subscription. That's like that's something that anyone can listen to inc for free and so it is a way to like drop interest but the main reason apple music it's people to subscribe is because they're in a responses offenses because they're on iphones and it's the default saying
The Frame
Disney Plus Reaches 28.6 Million Subscribers, Hulu Hits 30.4 Million
"Hulu obviously does not have as many subscribers as Netflix expert has made some material gains. How has done over the last year or so in terms of subscribers and as clear what its identity is going to be within the Disney universe? It's double that subscribers more or less in the last three years it's now of thirty million subscribers which is much smaller than net flicks in the. US can about half half the size but still very strong and it's been growing more quickly than net flicks the past couple years because as Netflix since reached something of a saturation point who has seen an opportunity. Now some of that. It has been through investments in original programming. The popularity of a show like handmaid's tale Some of it is through really steep discounting. Who's done these black Friday deals where you can get a year's subscription for like a dollar a month and that's really helped as for and where it fits in Disney? I think it is both clear and unclear. I know that's sort of a cop out answer answer but look Hulu. Is the home for more adult programming relative to what is on Disney plot so all the shows from places like the FX cable network which has had more violent more mature themes those fit on Hulu? They don't sit on. Disney plus Disney is very protective of the Clinical Disney brand and that stands for family friendly entertainment. And there's a lot of programming that will work in a streaming environment that comes from different divisions of both Disney and Fox that might not work on Disney Disney plus but works quite well on Hulu but I think Disney will have these tricky questions with certain projects what fits wear. And it's why I assume the company company will really push this bundled offering. Where you you get Hulu and Disney plus together I'm curious how Disney looked at streaming as an overall business disney? The Essay Movie Studio has focused on brands like marvel and Lucas and Pixar how important is streaming going forward with Hulu Disney plus ESPN and in terms of the company's overall future strategy. It's it's really really important. Because Disney is a public company public companies ket measured by investors based on their future growth potential and Disney had run into this this tricky player. Even though it's movie business was dominating Hollywood the cable TV business which had been one of one of if not it's most important growth engine for many many years was starting to sputter because of cord cutting because of Netflix. In all of the all of this competition and so it has sold Wall Street on the idea that streaming is going to be that engine going forward much as net flicks has made made a ton of money or at least its market. Capitalization has increased by billions of dollars because of its growth. Disney now wants to draft off a similar phenomenon. And we've seen Zeenat. I mean every time Disney has reported its financial results in the past couple of years it has been able to sort of distract people from whatever the underlying numbers are about the business with some kind of shiny new toy about what's happening in streaming everything from the fact that there was going to be streaming service to some of the shows the fact that it was taking movies off of net flicks and this has really pleased Wall Street so far it's working because Disney plus seems like a big
The PHP: Perez Hilton Podcast
Prince Harry pitched Meghan's voiceover work to Disney CEO at 'The Lion King' premiere
"Talk about more Megan markle really. There's more my God. I did thirty minutes the other day. Oh boy there's way more of course and I'm sure they'll be even more. This is like an ongoing big story. All right as we spoke about and I mentioned I think. And and it's obvious one of the big motivators for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to make this shift in their royal life. Life is for money and to allow Meghan Markle to work and she's already got a job. You know what the rules of the crown there established for a reason and or multiple reasons queen. Elizabeth is a lot older older than prince. Harry like decades upon decades. She's seen it all and she knows how things work. Very and Megan have really opened up. The most massive acid can of worms because now everything that they do actually is gonNA come under greater scrutiny for for example doc over the holidays and actually still. They've spent time in Vancouver Island at the home of some really rich rich Russian person and they have refused to reveal the name of whom that is their new role. They want to take part in there not abdicating. They don't want to abdicate. They still want to keep their titles and they still want to be a part of the royal family. They still claim to want to go on engagements for Queen Elizabeth and represent her in the UK and abroad so I would think that they should still will be transparent right so right now. They're not even living up to what they say they want to do. They're not being transparent. They were flat out asked by the media to maim aim that rich Russian person and they refused so time that into what I was starting with. Meghan markle just got a gig with Disney. She signed in some kind of voiceover deal going to do some some voice over project with them in exchange for a donation to charity however however as soon as I heard that the biggest red bulb but that the expression red bulb is that is that a that mashing mall. Whatever it doesn't matter we know what you know what I mean right? The biggest the biggest light bubble the the biggest warning or whatever went off in my brain. I'm like let me break it down for you all yes Disney's Disney's GonNa make a donation to the elephant charity and they're GonNa pay her DA. It's like pay me but I come with strings. I'm not going to search for free. You pay me but you also have to give a big donation to this charity. And if that's the case if that's the case I think they need to be transparent as well right given how they are positioning their new role. I think they're still public. Figures like politicians and they need me to be transparent and if they don't and they're not and then if it does become public knowledge in the future because Disney is a public company. It will come to bite them in the but this is GonNa Backfire in so many ways. I cannot wait to see it all go down. I don't think it matters. They decided that they don't want to take the royal family money or money from the people there and they want to earn their own money and they're still doing a little bit of both. They're giving money and taking money at the same time. I'm not really sure the bites them. It sounds like they're being transparent. They're just not telling you everything as most people don't you don't tell us everything of how your money comes in nor do I I just think they wanna be more normal in that regard and yet they're still giving. They're also like a politician and if a politician straight up asked about something and then straight straight up refuses to answer that's not being transparent however they are being transparent because they're saying we're it's tit for tat. We are are not taking the money from the crown any longer but we are taking money from other people. We don't have to tell you. We'll continue to work for the crown. We just won't take their money. We'll just do it free when we want to do it. So they're just basically hired work while this also that does bring up other and this is why I I didn't even mention this last episode. This is why it is such a complicated issue. Because in America there are all sorts of rules around this. Can you see that with trump children. You know those that like like the Russian whomever or like Disney there could be undue influence and access us to the the the royal family to the crown to the Queen bought through Harry and Meghan. That's a stretch. It's not a stretch. It's it's it's absolutely Louis Accurate yeah but they're not Americans. I mean she's not filing taxes in America. She is not living here right is she. Thought they were GonNa live in Canada or something but she's still filing taxes in America she has to legally. She hasn't renounced her American citizenship. That's how being in America works. If you make money you have to report your money right. Yeah Yeah it's interesting. I also I saw this video. That was wild last year. What did that movie come out? I don't remember but whatever the Lion King movie came out Harry and Meghan went when the Lion King Premier in London and video just surfaced that a fan talk of prince like oh I got this is how successful people do shit and not even having to do with like being the one percent of the one percent which Prince Harry is but a lot of successful so people they just ask for things and your that successful when you're that privileged if you ask for things people don't want to tell you know so so at the Lion King Premier Prince. Harry had a conversation with the head guy at all Disney Bob Eiger and you could hear you're him say did you know she does voiceovers. He's like no. I didn't know that he's like you did it. No like he said it twice yes and then. He's like she'd love to do voiceovers servers like way before this is all announced they were already working on these things Ah I love it I love it. I love everything about it. I can't wait to see how this continues to play
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Quibi spending more than a billion wading into streaming wars. Luring subscribers will be key.
"QUBE was founded by former Disney Disney executive producer. Jeffrey Katzenberg Meg. Whitman is CEO. They gave a big presentation about the service last week at sea. Yes in yes Las Vegas. They've raised more than a billion dollars and signed up a lot of big name. Talent to create all new shows and movies but no video will be longer than ten minutes. At a time. I spoke to what minutes and she told me queries. Secret sauce is all new technology. I asked her to tell me how it works. Well the first thing is you know. People people are watching a video on on their mobile phone today but it's an uneven experience. Sometimes if you're holding the phone portrait it's a little postage stamp size than u-turn horizontally. It's got big black line. Some content is only available. Portrait sums only available in landscaping said for our use case on the go. Viewing we have to be able to have seamless portrait to landscape rotation with full screen video. And we figured out that it had to really be what we call script to screen innovation because the creators have to film a little bit differently. They have have to look at a shot and they have to say how will that shot looking portrait. How look landscape and then we make two edits of the movie? You Could Watch the movie and portrait or the whole movie and landscape but the gyroscope interscope in your phone knows which way you're holding the phone so we can show you the right editor of the movie and so we thought all right. We'll have the edit of the portrait the editor the landscape and we were going to run both in the background on your phone except for them. We figured out it would eat way too much bandwith and way too much battery life Susan. Okay got any other ideas us on how we can do this. And ultimately it came down to a kind of compression technology that when you are watching in portrait your landscape version is compressed and this is never been done before we have patents on it and that's why the experience is so seemless an so engrossing and then we shot obviously to the aspect ratio of the phone. Is there price pressure. Now I feel like Disney is putting a lot of pressure on a lot of services and you're launching at five dollars a month with ads eight dollars a month without. Yeah I'M GONNA have to come down. I don't know you know it's four ninety nine a month with ads seven ninety nine a month without ads we think that You know member we're going after millennial audience you know eighteen to forty four. We think that most will pick the ad-supported version because it's very light add load. It's only a two and a half minutes per hour of watching which is much less than prime time. TV which is seventeen and a half minutes of advertising for every hour that you watch and so for ninety nine we think is a good value for this premium content on their mobile phone and for those people who really don't want advertising. We felt like we should offer an ad free version Russian at seven ninety nine. Yeah so then. D expect that most of the revenue will be generated by the subscription We think that that will be obviously the base case. And we'll see how this works out. I think the majority will be subscription revenue But we'll see what made you sort of land on this idea of ten minutes for a long time in video radio. It was two minutes and then Youtube went to ten minutes for mid roll purposes. Is it for mid roll purposes. Like how did you sort of land on the part of this judgment but at the data that we used is it turns out that the average session length for the population worldwide except for China is actually six minutes so think about it to be spent five hours hours a day on your phone. You're picking up that phone a lot of different times and the average session six minutes. It's a little bit longer in China. So he said six minutes. So you know maybe our goodies. Abe's we call our content. Qubit should be between five and a maximum of ten. Can I watch on TV. You at launch. He will be able to chrome cast like you'll built casts is to your TV but we at launch will not have a unique apple TV or chrome. Google TV APP PER SE. Because really we think this is mobile. Only and when you think back to this portrait to landscape seamless full screen video. Think about it part of the joy of this. Is You get on the bus holding your phone portrait. Then you watch you know On the bus and horizontal then get off and you go back to portrait most people's. TV's are not going to go back and forth and So we think this is sort of an interesting thing new way to view and is uniquely suited to the mobile phone and then what about the content race. I mean that can be you know. I've been in content longtime. Yes it can be a little bit of money pit. Yes and you know and there's no built in library necessarily archive that you're working from. How do you win that battle? Yeah well you're right. There is no we will be the first streaming services that launches without a library. Because think about it. You can't take sixty minute television show and just chop it up into You know six ten minutes segments is all has to be shot for turnstile which is new and has to be written if it's a movie and chapters that has to be written in a chapter optimized version so it's all new which we think is actually exciting and fun but we have to make a lot of content. Because you can't come to see two or three things you have to field there's a world of richness and a lot of genres and you know we have quite a unique content strategy and so we have Maybe invested did significantly in content. And this is all about finding the great stories Attaching the great actors and actresses to it and getting them excited sighted about doing something entirely new so we will launch with In the first year. One hundred and seventy-five original shows every day we will will produce commission from our partners Three hours of new fresh content every single day which is thirty five five percent more than a network does in prime time so there's a lot of fresh daily new content on the on the APP which I think will keep people. We'll keep coming back for that. At least that's what we hope I mean I am listening to this as a person who does the daily show. And I'm thinking either your geniuses or you're crazy well here's the thing remember. We don't make any content ourselves. You make your own content for that I do. We have to pay for it. But we are leveraging leveraging the expertise of our craters studios were leveraging for our daily essentials where we curate news and sports and weather and lifestyle. We're we're leveraging the infrastructure of our excellent partners right and And so that makes a bit easier but but we have a budget. And we've we've planned for that and and you know we think that will Be The budget for the first year. Talk to me a little bit about the content. So do you anticipate that people will make short versions of things that they may be. Five years later turned into. Oh a longer project longer project. Let me give you an analogy in another medium that you will totally get Do you remember the Davinci Code. Yep The DAVINCI code is four hundred sixty four pages just one hundred and five chapters. Every chapter in the Davinci code is five pages because eighteen years ago. Dan Brown said people are not reading for forty five minutes now. They're probably not even reading for thirty and he said if you've got five minutes I want you to read one chapter got ten minutes. I want you to read two chapters but the thing I do not want you to do is stop in the middle of a chapter but nothing was lesser about the Davinci code other the length of its chapter so we like to say our movies. Nothing's lesser about the movies other than the chapter is the way we deliver them and then we have You know as I described our daily the essentials which we hope will create the daily consumption habit. We're going to curate. You know. Twenty five daily shows every single day From talk shows to horoscope go to news to whether to sports excetera and then The other kind of content we have is this unscripted episodic and documentary three shows and a perfect example. There is Chrissy. Teigen is doing a show her favourite show as it turns out of judge. Judy so she came to us and said I want to do Christie's Court and the tagline is no claim is too small and dumb and each claim will be ten minutes or eight minutes and And she's super excited about it and you by the way you can. You can't in our movies you've got to watch them. The episodes in particular order. But Christie's court you could watch in any order because they're not related to each other episodic so you really have like snack bowl and binge. Yes kind of covered exactly. Yeah okay why are you here. Yeah I mean considering your background ground what drew you to this. Yeah well I've been friends with Jeffrey. For thirty years. We worked at the Walt Disney Company together back in the day and then When I was at Ebay I sat sat on his DreamWorks Animation Board? So Jeffrey and I've been friends for a long time. And when he heard I was stepping down from HP after six and a half years. I told the board I would say five years. He called me and he said would you ever consider coming down and being the CEO of Qube. I said well I don't know I've gotta you know so. He came up and had dinner and at the end of dinner. Three hour dinner. I said this is a really good idea. It's a really good idea because what I look for in new consumer tech businesses. Is I look for other trends right. Trends are absolutely right is the market large. The market's gigantic back. And is there you know. Are you changing consumer behavior or are you just taking people to a premium level and is there a sustainable ainable what I call a sustainable competitive advantage. Meaning if we're successful and everyone else comes in how. How do we continue to win? And how how is that is that through the intellectual property. Well there's actually Largely through our relationships with our studios It is first mover advantage for sure and we have to learn how to how to create create this platform. And we've had to teach craters how to do it so we think we have A lot of barriers to entry because we will be out first by a pretty wide margin
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Quibi spending more than a billion wading into streaming wars. Luring subscribers will be key.
"QUBE was founded by former Disney Disney executive producer. Jeffrey Katzenberg Meg. Whitman is CEO. They gave a big presentation about the service last week at sea. Yes in yes Las Vegas. They've raised more than a billion dollars and signed up a lot of big name. Talent to create all new shows and movies but no video will be longer than ten minutes. At a time. I spoke to what minutes and she told me queries. Secret sauce is all new technology. I asked her to tell me how it works. Well the first thing is you know. People people are watching a video on on their mobile phone today but it's an uneven experience. Sometimes if you're holding the phone portrait it's a little postage stamp size than u-turn horizontally. It's got big black line. Some content is only available. Portrait sums only available in landscaping said for our use case on the go. Viewing we have to be able to have seamless portrait to landscape rotation with full screen video. And we figured out that it had to really be what we call script to screen innovation because the creators have to film a little bit differently. They have have to look at a shot and they have to say how will that shot looking portrait. How look landscape and then we make two edits of the movie? You Could Watch the movie and portrait or the whole movie and landscape but the gyroscope interscope in your phone knows which way you're holding the phone so we can show you the right editor of the movie and so we thought all right. We'll have the edit of the portrait the editor the landscape and we were going to run both in the background on your phone except for them. We figured out it would eat way too much bandwith and way too much battery life Susan. Okay got any other ideas us on how we can do this. And ultimately it came down to a kind of compression technology that when you are watching in portrait your landscape version is compressed and this is never been done before we have patents on it and that's why the experience is so seemless an so engrossing and then we shot obviously to the aspect ratio of the phone. Is there price pressure. Now I feel like Disney is putting a lot of pressure on a lot of services and you're launching at five dollars a month with ads eight dollars a month without. Yeah I'M GONNA have to come down. I don't know you know it's four ninety nine a month with ads seven ninety nine a month without ads we think that You know member we're going after millennial audience you know eighteen to forty four. We think that most will pick the ad-supported version because it's very light add load. It's only a two and a half minutes per hour of watching which is much less than prime time. TV which is seventeen and a half minutes of advertising for every hour that you watch and so for ninety nine we think is a good value for this premium content on their mobile phone and for those people who really don't want advertising. We felt like we should offer an ad free version Russian at seven ninety nine. Yeah so then. D expect that most of the revenue will be generated by the subscription We think that that will be obviously the base case. And we'll see how this works out. I think the majority will be subscription revenue But we'll see what made you sort of land on this idea of ten minutes for a long time in video radio. It was two minutes and then Youtube went to ten minutes for mid roll purposes. Is it for mid roll purposes. Like how did you sort of land on the part of this judgment but at the data that we used is it turns out that the average session length for the population worldwide except for China is actually six minutes so think about it to be spent five hours hours a day on your phone. You're picking up that phone a lot of different times and the average session six minutes. It's a little bit longer in China. So he said six minutes. So you know maybe our goodies. Abe's we call our content. Qubit should be between five and a maximum of ten. Can I watch on TV. You at launch. He will be able to chrome cast like you'll built casts is to your TV but we at launch will not have a unique apple TV or chrome. Google TV APP PER SE. Because really we think this is mobile. Only and when you think back to this portrait to landscape seamless full screen video. Think about it part of the joy of this. Is You get on the bus holding your phone portrait. Then you watch you know On the bus and horizontal then get off and you go back to portrait most people's. TV's are not going to go back and forth and So we think this is sort of an interesting thing new way to view and is uniquely suited to the mobile phone and then what about the content race. I mean that can be you know. I've been in content longtime. Yes it can be a little bit of money pit. Yes and you know and there's no built in library necessarily archive that you're working from. How do you win that battle? Yeah well you're right. There is no we will be the first streaming services that launches without a library. Because think about it. You can't take sixty minute television show and just chop it up into You know six ten minutes segments is all has to be shot for turnstile which is new and has to be written if it's a movie and chapters that has to be written in a chapter optimized version so it's all new which we think is actually exciting and fun but we have to make a lot of content. Because you can't come to see two or three things you have to field there's a world of richness and a lot of genres and you know we have quite a unique content strategy and so we have Maybe invested did significantly in content. And this is all about finding the great stories Attaching the great actors and actresses to it and getting them excited sighted about doing something entirely new so we will launch with In the first year. One hundred and seventy-five original shows every day we will will produce commission from our partners Three hours of new fresh content every single day which is thirty five five percent more than a network does in prime time so there's a lot of fresh daily new content on the on the APP which I think will keep people. We'll keep coming back for that. At least that's what we hope I mean I am listening to this as a person who does the daily show. And I'm thinking either your geniuses or you're crazy well here's the thing remember. We don't make any content ourselves. You make your own content for that I do. We have to pay for it. But we are leveraging leveraging the expertise of our craters studios were leveraging for our daily essentials where we curate news and sports and weather and lifestyle. We're we're leveraging the infrastructure of our excellent partners right and And so that makes a bit easier but but we have a budget. And we've we've planned for that and and you know we think that will Be The budget for the first year. Talk to me a little bit about the content. So do you anticipate that people will make short versions of things that they may be. Five years later turned into. Oh a longer project longer project. Let me give you an analogy in another medium that you will totally get Do you remember the Davinci Code. Yep The DAVINCI code is four hundred sixty four pages just one hundred and five chapters. Every chapter in the Davinci code is five pages because eighteen years ago. Dan Brown said people are not reading for forty five minutes now. They're probably not even reading for thirty and he said if you've got five minutes I want you to read one chapter got ten minutes. I want you to read two chapters but the thing I do not want you to do is stop in the middle of a chapter but nothing was lesser about the Davinci code other the length of its chapter so we like to say our movies. Nothing's lesser about the movies other than the chapter is the way we deliver them and then we have You know as I described our daily the essentials which we hope will create the daily consumption habit. We're going to curate. You know. Twenty five daily shows every single day From talk shows to horoscope go to news to whether to sports excetera and then The other kind of content we have is this unscripted episodic and documentary three shows and a perfect example. There is Chrissy. Teigen is doing a show her favourite show as it turns out of judge. Judy so she came to us and said I want to do Christie's Court and the tagline is no claim is too small and dumb and each claim will be ten minutes or eight minutes and And she's super excited about it and you by the way you can. You can't in our movies you've got to watch them. The episodes in particular order. But Christie's court you could watch in any order because they're not related to each other episodic so you really have like snack bowl and binge. Yes kind of covered exactly. Yeah okay why are you here. Yeah I mean considering your background ground what drew you to this. Yeah well I've been friends with Jeffrey. For thirty years. We worked at the Walt Disney Company together back in the day and then When I was at Ebay I sat sat on his DreamWorks Animation Board? So Jeffrey and I've been friends for a long time. And when he heard I was stepping down from HP after six and a half years. I told the board I would say five years. He called me and he said would you ever consider coming down and being the CEO of Qube. I said well I don't know I've gotta you know so. He came up and had dinner and at the end of dinner. Three hour dinner. I said this is a really good idea. It's a really good idea because what I look for in new consumer tech businesses. Is I look for other trends right. Trends are absolutely right is the market large. The market's gigantic back. And is there you know. Are you changing consumer behavior or are you just taking people to a premium level and is there a sustainable ainable what I call a sustainable competitive advantage. Meaning if we're successful and everyone else comes in how. How do we continue to win? And how how is that is that through the intellectual property. Well there's actually Largely through our relationships with our studios It is first mover advantage for sure and we have to learn how to how to create create this platform. And we've had to teach craters how to do it so we think we have A lot of barriers to entry because we will be out first by a pretty wide margin
Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
The Circle of Flight
"Is GONNA fly x wing fighter. Office yeah over over the park mark. Yeah this is like this is wrong and so many different levels wrong a so. What is this job you found the the story? What's this is? This is also on the drive dot com section a section called warzone wars. But all of that having been said Disney at Disney apparently both Anaheim in Orlando has a a An event that they are they built someone one built and is operating A A series and I don't know how many of these things there are But these are are basically drums multi-role drones that are designed And shaped to resemble the x wing fighter from the Star Wars Universe. Yeah aw and apparently there's you know a whole Butler these things. I am a do synchronized Flying and this Kinda anything at night with lights and you know they have lights in the cowing and all that kind of thing And it's a thing now I I did see something somewhere that whatever the show was that Disney was putting on its concluded. Yeah and The X wing fighter slash drone thing. He's have been packed up and have been delivered back to their creator. Something like I'm waiting for them to pop up on Ebay. I think that would be a thing that would be a fun now. I see now I would from. What were you by by one of the souvenir store so so just to show you my dedication to our podcast? All right I actually listened to the video. That's embedded in the middle of this video from as you probably well well no There's just a whole universe of people who do Disney watcher videos and blogs and It's quite a quite a little a cottage industry of people who are following what Disney's up to And this one is what's it called Mickey give us all things. Disney news is the Youtube Channel And so I actually listened to this video although I confess I only made it about halfway through before I couldn't stand anymore anymore. But he describes that very similar to what you just said. Is that this. If these were flown at all they were only flown once in a relation to this big press event that they did recently where they were introducing a new ride. That's part of the Disney the star wars world that's at At Disneyland and But he seemed to think that this could well become a regular thing that they didn't go away. I don't know uh-huh and there's so many questions here it's like so we got Disney flying large drones because these are not small drones. These are like drones the size of a compact car right so drones that can carry five hundred pounds. Yeah all right and so you're GONNA fly them. Low over are crowded amusement park venue. So it's like isn't it against the rules to fly anything over a crowd. There's nothing that gives the rules for Disney. They've got their own T.F. Are Okay Yep. That's sort of where I was going. Here Disney Disney controls. The Horizontal Disney controls the vertical end. Maybe I don't know I I kinda like this. I'm a little resist resentful of how much control control they have over the airspace. What you just alluded to On the other hand I you know and Disney. I was talking to somebody on on some social media twitter or something. Recently we were. We were bemoaning. The fact that that Disney has so messed up copyright in America Trade. You know because they've been desperately. We're trying to protect Mickey and not let me go into the public domain And as a result every copyright is messed up for everything. That's a bad thing but on the other hand Disney does a lot of interesting things in terms of fun entertainment and technology that they've developed in order to do that entertainment so you know I remember. They used used to have. They used to fly ultralights over. The Epcot yawned in the middle of Epcot. So they did a light show when fireworks and sprayed water and stuff like that over that that that pond each evening and for a while they had They actually flew ultralights as part of that that that that show. I'm pretty sure I actually saw was actually present to see the version of the show with the ultra lights and it was kind of cool. They apparently operated off of the legendary Airport there is down in Florida. VERSION ORLANDO And the legendary A. F C or or Disneyworld airport there. That's no longer an airport But I guess that's where they operated these ultralights they've done this in the past This story JEB alludes to them flying dragon over one of his saw. That and I I think now you mentioned it. I remember seeing video of this. Yeah Yeah but that's an interesting thing and And so now they've got a drone a multi copter x wing. That they're going to fly I over what's this. What's this star wars world? It's got a name now planking. It's call I'm sure it's in here someplace galaxy's edge galaxy and but And here we are given Disney publicity. That they neither need nor paid for. Yeah and I'm still in the I. Lean towards Disney is evil side of that coin. So okay all right. Well that's now but this this are is Orlando. They don't have a t of are over Anaheim. Do they think so. No they don't have the same kind of is it the airspace over the Anaheim facilities completely different. I don't know well. Of course it is. I mean it's like within its nearby if not within the The John. John Wayne Charlie I would you know. I don't think it's in it but it's close to it. Yeah that's a whole different kind of airspace. The L. A. Basin as opposed to Orlando. So so. Yeah they're flying these things over again you know. Maybe maybe we'll see him on on open open-market one of these days x wing