After only adding 2 million subscribers last quarter, Disney+ beat projections for the first quarter of the fiscal year by adding 11.8 million subscribers worldwide to bring its total to 129.8 million.
The bump in subscriber growth comes in a quarter in which the streaming service released the first episode of the “Star Wars” series “The Book of Boba Fett,” as well as the Marvel series “Hawkeye.”
The company also released films initially screened exclusively in theaters on the service, including Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and Disney Animation’s “Encanto,” the latter of which CEO Bob Chapek teased in the company’s earnings call would be turned into the next Disney franchise.
Disney+ Revives Growth With 11.8 Million New Subscribers
Company breaks out U.S. numbers for the first time as global total nears 130 million subscribers
