David Farnor | On 08, Feb 2024

Disney+ dropped 1.3 million subscribers at the end of 2023, following its price hike last year.

The House of Mouse’s streaming platform became one of a growing number of services to introduce adverts in November, joining Netflix and Amazon Prime in a multi-tiered strategy that simultaneously brings in advertising revenue and ups subscription income. Previously, subscriptions costs £7.99 a month or £79.90 a year. Now, subscriptions cost £7.99 a month to avoid adverts, but cost £10.99 a month to also have 4K and HDR video, while an ad-supported tier costs £4.99 a month with up to 1080p HD video.

As a result, subscribers switched off to the tune of 1.3 million, bring its total subscribers to 111.3 million in the three months to December 2023 – down from 112.6 million in the preceding three-month period.

Nonetheless, the company forecasts adding between 5.5 million and 6 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2024. At the same time, it says it narrowed its streaming losses by $300 million in the last quarter of the year, which means its hoping to reach profitability in its streaming arm by the end of the current fiscal year.

However, this financial turnaround has come at a cost, with Disney+ removing original titles from its library across Europe, the Middle East and Africa this past week – a tactic first introduced by HBO as streaming companies seek to avoid having to pay money to the makers of programmes and write off titles as tax losses. The full list with thanks to Deadline for compiling it is below.

Indeed, last May Disney+ pulled a huge number of originals from its platform globally, including Willow, Dollface, The World According To Jeff Goldblum, Big Shot, Turner & Hooch, Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Y: The Last Man and more.

January 2024 removals

A Tale of Two Critters
America’s Heart and Soul
Angry Sky (ESPN)
Babes in Toyland (1961)
Because of Winn-Dixie (20th)
Believeland (ESPN)
Betty White Goes Wild (Nat Geo)
Big Shot (ESPN)
Bios: Andrés Calamaro (Nat Geo)
Brian and the Boz (ESPN)
Bride of Boogedy
Brink (Disney Channel)
Broke (ESPN)
Byron Bowers (FX)
Candleshoe (1977)
Catholics vs Convicts (ESPN)
Cheetah
Country Bears
Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
Deion’s Double Play (ESPN)
Den Brother (Disney Channel)
Disney’s The Kid
Disney100 | Special Look
Doug’s First Movie
Elway to Marino (ESPN)
Emil and the Detectives
Far Away From Raven’s Home (Disney Channel)
Fernando Nation (ESPN)
First Kid
Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)
Gus (1976)
Hacksaw
Hatching Pete (Disney Channel)
Heavyweights
Hello Dolly! (Rodgers and Hammestein’s)
Horse Sense (Disney Channel)
Hysterical (FX)
In Search of Derrick Thomas (ESPN)
In the Greek (ESPN)
Jaguar Beach Battle (Nat Geo)
Just Morgan Had A Horse
Kate Berlanti: Cinnamon in the Wind (FX)
Kings Ransom (ESPN)
Lolo (ESPN)
Lorenzo (Short)
Max Keeble’s Big Move
Miracle at Midnight
Motocrossed (Disney Channel)
Mr. Magoo
North Korea: Fire and Fury (Nat Geo)
Now You See It (Disney Channel)
Pixel Perfect (Disney Channel)
Qualified (ESPN)
Read It and Weep (Disney Channel)
Recess: All Growed Down
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish
Right on Track (Disney Channel)
Roving Mars
Run Ricky Run (ESPN)
Sacred Planet
Sammy, the Way-Out Seal (1962)
Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa (Nat Geo)
Shipwrecked
Shook (Disney Channel)
Shortsgiving with Big City Greens (2020) (Disney Channel)
Small Potatoes: Who Killed The USFL? (ESPN)
Smart House (Disney Channel)
Snowball Express (1971)
Stepsister from Planet Weird (Disney Channel)
Stuck in the Suburbs (Disney Channel)
Sultan and the Rock Star (1980)
Swiss Family Robinson (1940)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill
Teacher’s Pet
That Darn Cat (1965)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
The Adventures of Yellow Dog: Far from Home (20th)
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
The Bears and I (1974)
The Band That Wouldn’t Die (ESPN)
The Best That Never Was (ESPN)
The Birth of Big Air (ESPN)
The Biscuit Eater (1971)
The Boy Who Talked to Badgers (1975)
The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
The Cat from Outer Space
The Choe Show (FX)
The Christmas Star
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
The Gospel According to Mac (ESPN)
The Incredible Journey (1963)
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
The Legend of Jimmy the Greek (ESPN)
The Million Dollar Duck
The Prince and the Pauper (1962)
The Reluctant Dragon
The Sandlot (20th)
The Sandlot: Heading Home (20th)
The Shaggy D.A. (1976)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
The Two Bills (ESPN)
The Ugly Dachshund (1966)
The Ultimate Christmas Present (One of the DCOMs that DIsney+ uploaded with a butchered aspect ratio)
The Vanishing Prairie (1956)
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Those Calloways (1965)
Trail of the Panda
Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
Trojan War (ESPN)
True Life Adventures: Perri
True Life Adventures: Secrets of Life
Unidentified Flying Oddball
Up, Up, and Away (Disney Channel)
Yellowstone Cubs (1963)
You Lucky Dog (Disney Channel)
You Wish (Disney Channel)
Youngstown Boys (ESPN)
Zenon Girl of the 21st Century (Disney Channel)
Zenon (Disney Channel)

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