{"id":134294,"date":"2025-08-06T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/hulus-days-look-numbered-but-theres-reason-for-disney-to-keep-it-around\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:01:00","slug":"hulus-days-look-numbered-but-theres-reason-for-disney-to-keep-it-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/hulus-days-look-numbered-but-theres-reason-for-disney-to-keep-it-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu\u2019s days look numbered, but there\u2019s reason for Disney to keep it around\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company, announced today that Disney will &#8220;fully integrate&#8221; Hulu into the Disney+ app in 2026. Although a company representative told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/hulu-app-phased-out-disney-plus-fully-integrating-1236480450\/\">Variety<\/a> that people will still be able to buy standalone subscriptions to Hulu, we can&#8217;t help but wonder how long that will last.<\/p>\n<p>A prim and polished app combining the catalogs, recommendations, and profiles for Disney+ and Hulu subscribers could make a standalone Hulu app redundant. In fact, the ability to successfully combine those two streaming services into one platform could, depending on how executives look at it, make the entire Hulu business redundant.<\/p>\n<p>Some are reporting that Iger\u00a0means that the Hulu app will be <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/hulu-app-phased-out-disney-plus-fully-integrating-1236480450\/\">phased out next year<\/a>, while others are saying that the death of the Hulu app is <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-hulu-app-may-not-be-long-for-this-world-2000639568\">likely but not yet guaranteed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/08\/hulus-days-look-numbered-but-theres-reason-for-disney-to-keep-it-around\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/08\/hulus-days-look-numbered-but-theres-reason-for-disney-to-keep-it-around\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company, announced today that Disney will &#8220;fully integrate&#8221; Hulu into the Disney+ app in 2026. Although a company representative told Variety that people will still be able to buy standalone subscriptions to Hulu, we can&#8217;t help but wonder how long that will last. 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