Disney
Numbers
What the show said, with receipts
Every figure the hosts put on the record for Disney, with its source and the date it was captured. The audited statements from the company's own filings are under Financials.
Freshness
0
Current (≤6 mo)
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Recent (≤18 mo)
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Older
Freshness is measured from each figure’s capture date, not from the episode date. An older figure is not wrong; it is a figure that has had time to move.
Reported figures
Disney+ subscribers (2024 Q3)
2 yr~122M
plus ~116M Hulu + ~25M ESPN+; bundled across three services; profitability achieved Q4 2023
[Disney Q3 2024 earnings] · as of 2024-06
Pixar acquisition (2006)
21 yr$7.4B
all-stock deal; gave Disney the Pixar library AND the creative team (Lasseter + Catmull) that revived Disney Animation
[Acquired Disney+ episode] · as of 2006-01
Marvel acquisition (2009)
17 yr$4B
4,000+ characters; the MCU generated an estimated $30B+ in cumulative box office + merchandise + streaming by 2024
[Acquired Disney+ episode] · as of 2009-08
Lucasfilm acquisition (2012)
14 yr$4B
Star Wars + Indiana Jones; George Lucas sold to focus on philanthropy; Disney has made ~$10B at box office from Star Wars alone since 2015
[Acquired Disney+ episode] · as of 2012-10
BAMTech stake + full acquisition (2017)
9 yr$1.58B (majority stake)
MLB Advanced Media spinout; the streaming tech infrastructure Disney needed to build Disney+; the deal behind the deal
[Acquired BAMTech episode] · as of 2017-08
- David:BAMTech is what Disney actually bought when it bought a streaming future. BAMTech was Major League Baseball's streaming infrastructure — it ran every streaming service that ESPN was too slow to build.[Acquired BAMTech episode, ch. What BAMTech is]