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Is Netflix on Disney’s hit
list?
With the Disney streaming service nearing closer to its
release, what will happen to its properties on other services
and what of the services themselves? By Oliver Bessell
The days where Net-
flix ruled the stream-
ing service arena
could be soon put to
rest as Disney’s new
service threatens to
add pretty heavy
competition. While it
will also affect other
services like Amazon
Prime or Hulu, it will
seemingly have the
biggest effect on Net-
flix, Which currently
takes top place in
terms of quality con-
tent and sales.
As the Disney service
isn’t going to hit the
U.K quite as soon as
the U.S we’ll measure
its monthly subscrip-
tion fee in dollars.
The standard pack-
age price of Netflix is
around $12, while
Disney’s is said to be
almost half at $6.99,
this in itself may buy
over a lot of potential
customers.
But it not only threat-
ens the sales of Net-
flix it also affects its
content. As Disney
will remove all Disney
owned properties
from Netflix, which
includes Marvel prop-
erties or Pixar films.
But the seeds of Mar-
vels removal from Net-
flix have already been
sown as Netflix has can-
celled all Marvel-Netflix
shows due to the dam-
aged relationship be-
tween Marvel and Net-
flix because of the fact
that new Marvel shows
will be created and
overseen by the Disney
streaming service going
forward. However, other
shows on Hulu like Run-
aways, or on ABC, the
longest running Marvel
show, Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D, are seem-
ingly safe for now.
The infamous
Netflix logo.
“I’m pretty op-
timistic”
says Robert
Iger, Disney
Chairman.
This means that
some fan favourite
Marvel shows like
Daredevil or Jessica
Jones and others
are cancelled. And
with the deal made
with Netflix disal-
lowing the charac-
ters from appearing
in other shows for
at least 2 years af-
ter cancellation, this
lowers the chances
of the titular char-
acters being seen
again for some
time.
While I doubt Net-
flix will begin to fail
altogether (they still
have over 139 mil-
lion subscribers) I
do think that the
competition will
cause a re-think
about how they will
combat Disney.
However Disney has
left a large area for
Netflix to continue
filling up, as they
are seemingly only
focusing on produc-
ing family orientat-
ed shows (for now).
So this will allow
Netflix to continue
shows like Black
Mirror.
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