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Disney+, Hulu Merged App to Launch Next Month, Bob Iger Says (variety.com)

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Disney+, Hulu Merged App to Launch Next Month, Bob Iger Says::Disney will launch a beta test of an app next month that combines Disney+ and Hulu into a single experience, CEO Bob Iger said.

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[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I worked at Disney+ until a few months ago (got laid off after 5 years, how nice of them), everything was still segmented internally. Even a year or more after the Hulu merger we still operated essentially as two separate companies. They did their thing and we did ours, practically no communication between the teams.

[+] reddig33@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It all came from the Fox deal when Disney bought everything except Fox News for 71 billion. They needed content for Disney+ that appealed to adults. Hulu has also been rolled out to other countries and is known as Star,why the name change? Zero clue.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hulu has also been rolled out to other countries and is known as Star

That explains a lot. I have been wondering WTF that was.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

They may have given us an explanation for it, but I probably ignored it. Possibly something with trademarks and copyrights.

[–] sweetmartabak@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

TIL Star = Hulu. I thought it was just their more grownup-oriented channel

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 points 2 years ago

TIL.. I thought it was some low budget channel they'd bought the catalogue of

[–] StraightArrow@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a very reasonable point of view, but couldn't they still achieve this by creating some filter that says "family" within the Disney+ app so that they can still isolate toons and family movies and series?

However, it's also true that my experience with all these sites is that content is poorly arranged and searchable, so keeping them separate might have simplified this

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

couldn't they still achieve this by creating some filter that says "family" within the Disney+ app so that they can still isolate toons and family movies and series?

They could, they have, and so has literally every other major streaming service.

The rest of us are rightfully pissed off at the balkanization of content forcing us to pay for a hundred different subscriptions and this person is arguing that it must continue, lest easily filterable content exists on the same service 🤦

[–] surge_1@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There were some supremely dumb technical decisions made on the Disney side during that merger

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yup, they thought they were on the top of the world during COVID, and then once people got out of the house and stopped binge watching everything for days on end the revenue started falling and the investors started losing their shit.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So what causes the terrible UIs on these apps? Is it all just in the name of feeling different from the others?

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Probably, that and seeing how many ads they can cram in unobtrusively. I didn't work in UX I was a Linux SysAdmin/Eng

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can the FTC break up Disney already?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

There shouldn't be any big tech breakups until the ISPs get broken up and forced to compete, they can move up from there

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

What a terrible idea.

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

does this not just make disney+ like it is globally? where all the "hulu" content lives in its own section, just on ours its called Star

[–] DarkShaggy@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OMG the Hulu app is pure garbage why would you even want to be associated with it?!?!?!

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Have you used the Disney+ app? It's a pain in the ass to find anything because there are basically no categories and nothing is alphabetical.