3 insights to kick-start your day, featuring Disney+Hotstar’s big loss

No Buena Vista In the news. Disney+Hotstar lost 3.8 million paid subscribers for the first quarter that ended on December 31, 2022. Hidden in plain sight. This is the biggest quarterly subscriber decline for the company since they started disclosing paid subscriber numbers in April 2020. The platform’s paid subscriber base has dropped by 6% to 57.5 million. Disney+Hotstar accounts for about 35.5% of the total paid subscriber base of Disney+.