{"id":319058,"date":"2025-10-20T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319058\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:10:11","slug":"disney-cancelations-spike-after-jimmy-kimmel-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319058\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ Cancelations Spike After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a>\u2018s short-lived suspension from ABC<\/a> may have had a significant impact on Disney+ subscriptions, according to new data from the subscription analytics firm Antenna, which tracks subscriptions and viewership data for major\u00a0streaming\u00a0services.<\/p>\n

\n\tAntenna on Monday released numbers showing that monthly churn rates for Disney+ and Hulu<\/a> surged from 4 percent and 5 percent in August to 8 percent and 10 percent in September, respectively. The doubling of cancelation rates stood out in a streaming landscape where churn rates typically remain somewhat consistent.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney+ churn rates had been steady at around 3-4 percent per month consistently this year, with churn rates at Hulu hovering at 4-5 percent per month. Peacock saw churn rates stable in the 6-8 percent range, Paramount+ in the 5-7 percent range, and HBO Max in the 6-9 percent range. Netflix is king of the hill, with a consistent churn rate of only 2 percent per month. Disney had been second, until September that is.<\/p>\n

\n\tA source notes, however, that the pending cancelations subsided quickly, and that while people tend to be loud when dropping a service, they often quietly return afterward. Ratings for Kimmel\u2019s show have also soared after the move.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Antenna data also carries some asterisks, a Disney source notes. It is not clear how Antenna views upgrades or downgrades as part of Disney\u2019s wholesale business, and that the numbers appear higher than Disney\u2019s internal data. It\u2019s also not clear how many subscribers left because of Kimmel and how many left because of planned price hikes that were announced amid the drama.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe elevated churn came amid Kimmel\u2019s suspension from his ABC late night show over a somewhat ambiguously worded on-air comment on the Sept. 15 edition of\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0about Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassin that could easily be read as suggesting the suspect was a MAGA conservative \u2014 despite evidence to the contrary. The quote went viral, sparking plenty of online backlash.<\/p>\n

\n\tABC ultimately returned him to the air<\/a> after less than a week, but his suspension sparked enormous outrage, with many users on social media urging followers to cancel their Disney+ subscriptions. In fact, Kimmel\u2019s friend, the influential SiriusXM host Howard Stern, said on his show<\/a> that he had canceled Disney+ in protest of the move by Disney.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe data from Antenna is the first real sign that the protest may have had an impact on Disney\u2019s bottom line, though we may never actually know for sure how impactful it was. As THR noted<\/a>, due to the timing of billing cycles, protest cancelations may not be reflected in Disney\u2019s next earnings report, and the company will stop reporting subscriber numbers in the following report in a previously announced decision.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, the new data suggests that churn doubled, which would be consistent with a loss of around three million subscribers.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel\u2018s short-lived suspension from ABC may have had a significant impact on Disney+ subscriptions, according to new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":271301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8811,13205,171,9925,11171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-319058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-disney-plus","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hulu","12":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115407606425906643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}