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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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We're talking about Disney's pivot to streaming and the hurdles ahead for the legacy media company as new rivals emerge. We're joined by Parrot Analytics strategist Julia Alexander and comedian Chase O'Donnell.
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0:00.0 | Well, these are uncertain times if you're a major content producer. |
0:08.3 | If you follow entertainment news, you probably know about the big shake-up of the bobs over |
0:12.5 | at Disney's CEO Bob Chepek was ousted in November of last year and former CEO Bob |
0:18.2 | Eiger was reinstated. |
0:20.2 | We cover Eiger's maneuvering a lot in our upcoming series, Disney Pixar vs Dreamworks. |
0:25.9 | One of his guiding principles was, as Disney animation goes, so goes the company. |
0:31.4 | Eiger was a driving force behind the acquisition of Pixar, but his company faces different challenges |
0:36.9 | now than it did back then. |
0:39.4 | And also then it did pre-pandemic. |
0:42.4 | Disney's been pushing subscriber growth of its streaming service, amid mounting losses |
0:47.0 | to the tune of one and a half billion in its third quarter at reported last November. |
0:52.5 | Turns out running a streaming platform means constantly feeding a hungry and expensive content |
0:57.4 | beast. |
0:58.4 | Eiger has signaled that he's going to shift his focus from subscriber growth to profits. |
1:03.5 | The question remains, can streaming ever be really profitable? |
1:08.7 | Here to talk about all that strategist Julia Alexander and comedian Chase O'Donnell |
1:13.7 | will also look back at some of our stories from our sister's show Business Wars Daily |
1:18.1 | and look ahead to our next season, Disney Pixar vs Dreamworks. |
1:22.0 | Stick around for the best of Business Wars Daily. |
1:29.0 | Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondry's Business Movers. |
1:32.9 | In our latest series, after the death of Steve Jobs, Apple's chief operating officer Tim Cook |
1:38.4 | faces the daunting task of replacing the company's iconic co-founder and leading Apple |
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