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Disney’s Streaming Growth Comes to Near Halt

By Martin Peers
· · Source: The Information

Growth at Walt Disney Co.’s Disney+ streaming service slowed sharply in the three months to Oct. 2, as subscribers rose by just 2 million to 118.1 million compared with the previous quarter. That was the weakest increase since Disney launched the service two years ago. And Disney executives indicated on a conference call with analysts that growth wouldn’t pick up again meaningfully until the...

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