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How does Disney's income break down in terms of merchandise/parks/cruises vs. eyeballs paying to look at moving pictures? If most of their income is the former,
by santaclaus 9y ago
How does Disney's income break down in terms of merchandise/parks/cruises vs. eyeballs paying to look at moving pictures? If most of their income is the former, why does Disney care where or how people are exposed to their brand?
- Avenger42 9y agoTheir wiki page has some numbers for the last few years. Parks/Resorts (incl. cruises) made $3.3B in 2016; Studio Entertainment made $2.7B; Disney Media Networks (ABC/etc) made $7.8B. So if you put the TV and films together, that's roughly triple their parks & resorts. (Edit: changing revenue to income.)
- aidenn0 9y agoWhat about merchandising? [edit] about 1/3 of the parks: Studio: 9,441 Consumer Products: 5,528 Parks/Resorts: 16,974 Media Networks: 23,689
- TuringTest 9y agoYou need to cater to eyeballs so that people keeps buying the merchandise. Disney, together with Coca Cola, are the world leaders of creating a brand that feels like an essential part of your life; and it all depends on keeping the core product relevant.
- jcranmer 9y agoThe real cash cow of Disney is actually ESPN. Trying to break down the finances to that fine-grained a level is difficult, but the category of "TV networks" as a whole is ⅓ the total revenue of Disney (more than Parks & Resorts, and more than films and merchandising combined) and ½ the profit. Put another way, current sports is more valuable to Disney in terms of actual revenue and profit than every movie they've made in nearly 100 years of existence.