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Disney’s most massive acquisition 20th Century Fox film and television productions, National Geographic, The Simpsons, and FX Networks to Disney’s streaming properties, positioning it as a legitimate threat to Netflix in the streaming wars.
71 BILLION
BAMTech is a video streaming technology company which provided the back-end infrastructure for ESPN+ and Disney+. It’s now known as Disney Streaming Services.
2.58 BILLION
The network produced video content on YouTube, for channels like Timothy DeLaGhetto and Epic Rap Battles of History. It’s now known as the Disney Digital Network.
450 mILLION
4 BILLION
Disney has bet big on superheroes, and it’s paid off. Marvel movies and television series have been some of the company’s most popular work of the past decade.
4 bILLION
The other component of Disney’s short-lived Go.com project. Though Infoseek’s U.S. domain redirects and the brand is no longer used, it’s still operational in Australia and Japan.
1.77 BILLION
This acquisition made Steve Jobs, one of Pixar’s earliest backers, the largest individual shareholder of Disney with a holding valued at $3.9 billion. Since it was acquired, the legendary animation studio has won 11 Oscars.
7.4 bILLION
It took 14 years of negotiating, but now, the word “Muppet” is now a legal trademark of Disney.
75 mILLION
Formerly known as ABC Family (and Fox Family before that), this wholesome TV channel (the home for Harry Potter marathons) is now known as Freeform, part of Walt Disney Television.
2.9 mILLION
Like everyone else in the early 2000s, Disney tried to start a search engine. It acquired Starwave and Infoseek to develop Go.com. Though that shut down in 2001, the site is still live, serving as a web portal for Disney content.
400 mILLION
This gave the Mouse a suite of TV channels, including ESPN, ABC, A&E, and Lifetime, now known as Walt Disney Television.
19 BILLION
Mickey Mouse meets Marsellus Wallace. Disney snatched up the Weinstein brothers’ company in 1993, later selling it to Filmyard Holdings.
90.5 mILLION
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While Lucasfilm also came with Indiana Jones, it’s Star Wars Disney was really after. The development opportunities are endless—there are currently eleven new movies and TV series planned—as is theme park potential.
priorities in the 20th century, Disney’s recent focus has been on the production and distribution of online content. That focus is evident in the massive success of Disney+ and its acquired franchises—like Star Wars and Marvel—that now contain some of the most popular content on the platform.
30 years of disney acquisitions
If You Give a Mouse a Company...
Since the mid-1990s, Disney has spent over $100 billion snapping up companies all over the entertainment industry. And as technology has developed over that time, its purchases have changed, too. Whereas TV channels and search engine development were
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