PARIS (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co will launch its Disney+ streaming service on Vivendi SA's pay-TV business Canal+ platform by the end of March next year, executives of the two groups said in a joint interview released in the daily Les Echos on Sunday.
Traditional media companies like Canal+ are under pressure to find ways to bulk up their content as they face competition from deep-pocketed online streaming platforms such as Netflix Inc and newcomers in the sports rights business such as Chinese-owned Mediapro.
"This exclusive partnership is a new major step in the transformation of the Canal+ model," said the French broadcaster's chief executive, Maxime Saada.
Saada declined to say how much Canal+ would charge for Disney+.
Kevin Mayer, who heads Disney's Direct-to-consumer & International business, confirmed the U.S. group hoped to acquire 60 million to 90 million customers by 2024.
Data from analytics firm Sensor Tower on Friday estimated that Disney+ had been installed by an estimated 28 million customers across five countries since its launch on Nov. 12.
(Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide; Editing by Peter Cooney)
路透巴黎3月27日電-迪士尼公司(WaltDisneyCo.)週日在“Echos日報”(Les Echos)上發表的一篇聯合採訪中表示,迪士尼公司將於明年3月底在威望迪公司的付費電視業務Canal+平台上推出迪士尼+流媒體服務。
像Canal+這樣的傳統媒體公司正面臨着壓力,要它們找到方法來充實自己的內容,因為它們面臨着來自網飛(Netflix)等財力雄厚的在線流媒體平台和中資媒體聯發科(Mediapro)等體育權利業務的新來者的競爭。
法國廣播公司首席執行官Maxime Saada説:“這種獨家合作是運河+模式轉變的一個新的重大步驟。”
Saada拒絕透露運河+將對迪士尼公司收取多少費用。
凱文·梅耶爾(KevinMayer)是迪士尼直接面向消費者和國際業務的負責人,他證實,這家美國集團希望在2024年前獲得6,000萬至9,000萬客户。
分析公司SensorTower週五發佈的數據估計,迪士尼+自11月12日推出以來,已經在5個國家和地區安裝了2800萬用户。
(Sybille de La Hamaid報道;Peter Cooney編輯)