Disney+ has 26.5 million subscribers

So far, so good: Wall Street and analysts had expected Disney to report that it had signed up at least 25 million subscribers for the service, which has a list price of $6 a month but is available at discounted rates, or for free, with different limited-time promotions. (Disney’s earnings release, which came out Tuesday afternoon, reported that the company had signed up 26.5 million subscribers by the end of December 2019; in the company’s subsequent earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger updated those numbers and said the company had signed up 28.6 million people through Monday, February 3.)This is the first time Disney has provided numbers on its streaming service since the day after it launched, on November 12; Disney said then that it had signed up 10 million users for the service.By contrast, Netflix has 167 million paying subscribers worldwide and 61 million in the US.