Disney+ mobile app records 22 million downloads since launch: Apptopia

in #zzan5 years ago

Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) Co's Disney+ has been downloaded 22 million times on mobile devices since the dispatch of the streaming service in November, according to a report by research firm Apptopia.

Disney had before said its new service had witnessed "phenomenal consumer request" upon the arrival of the dispatch, arriving at 10 million sign-ups.

The company currently serves about 41.5 million viewers in the United States, including subscribers for its other streaming businesses, Hulu and ESPN+, compared with around 61 million for industry pioneer Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX).

Apptopia said Disney+ competitors, including Netflix and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Inc's Prime Video, remain generally unaffected in terms of their exhibition during the same time frame.

While users in the United States spent around 200 million hours on the Disney+ app during the first four weeks of its dispatch, Netflix users have spent around 1 billion hours during the same time frame, according to Apptopia.

Disney+, which is presently live in U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the Netherlands, found the middle value of 9.5 million day by day dynamic users in the past week, Apptopia said.

Separately, Disney+ beat as Google's most searched word this year in the United States.