Disney boosted its spending on content by 33 percent between 2021 and 2022. Disney's spending has been significantly higher historically, often double or nearly triple that of Netflix. In 2018, Disney's content spending was nearly 24 billion U.S. dollars, whereas Netflix spent 12 billion U.S. dollars on content that year. In comparison, Disney's content spending in 2022 was estimated to be 33 billion U.S. dollars, an eight billion dollar increase, while that of Netflix was projected to be 17 billion, the same as its content spending in the previous year.
Content spending of Disney and Netflix from 2018 to 2022
(in billion U.S. dollars)
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nScreenMedia. (November 29, 2021). Content spending of Disney and Netflix from 2018 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299571/content-spending-disney-vs-netflix/
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