Disney+ will reach 202 million subscribers worldwide by 2025, Digital TV Research analyst Simon Murray forecast in a Monday report.
That is up from his previous estimate of 126 million and his initial estimate of 101 million. "We have completely revised our forecasts for 138 countries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic," Murray wrote. "A major impact of lockdown has been a steep rise in SVOD subscriptions.” The analyst also boosted his forecast for how many global subscribers Netflix will reach by 2025 from 238 million to 258 million.
Total global streaming subscriptions will increase by 519 million between 2019 and 2025, or 81 percent, to 1.16 billion according to Digital TV Research's new projections.