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Walt Disney Co. s key streaming service Disney+ has surpassed 100 million subscribers in the 16 months since it launched, Chief Executive Bob Chapek said during the company’s annual shareholder meeting Tuesday.
Disney’s milestone is a heartening development for a company that has weathered extraordinary challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The subscriber count is up from the 94.9 million accounts Disney reported last month for the quarter that ended in January. And the surge fueled by hits such as “The Mandalorian” and “WandaVision” has encouraged the company to spend more on growing its streaming businesses. Disney in December unveiled an aggressive plan to ramp up programming for the service to 100 new titles a year.