A week after Disney+ launched to great fanfare and amid claims of security breaches, Kevin Mayer today pulled back the Mouse ears a bit on the subscriber tsunami that hit the streaming service on D…
. It was “a lot larger than we thought,” added the exec now widely pinned as a potential to Iger when the CEO exits in a couple of years, if he doesn’t ink another contract.
“We never had demand like we saw that day,” emphasized Mayer, making sure to note that it was “not Amazon” that was to blame. “We ran into issues with the architecture and we’re fixing that,” the known to be hard pushing Mayer declared, joking to the audience that he was “very measured” in his response to the crashes, freezes and customer service issues.
“Billions of usernames and passwords leaked from previous breaches at other companies, pre-dating the launch of Disney+, are being sold on the web, the company continued in its first major statement on the matter. “We continuously audit our security systems and when we find an attempted suspicious login we proactively lock the associated user account and direct the user to select a new password.
As for another peek into the future and with AppleTV+ already on the battlefield plus HBO Max and NBCUniversal’s Peacock to come in 2020, the Disney+ point man Mayer did venture that there will be a culling coming once all the new streamers launch. “I think somewhere between three and six” Mayer predicted would be left standing in a few years, noting that if finances were the main consideration for consumers then “those who decide to chord cut are freeing up a lot of money.
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