Who owns Disney+?
Disney+ is owned by Disney (the United States, NYSE: DIS).[1]
Evidence: The Walt Disney Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-13, SEC EDGAR, 13 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Walt Disney Company verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Burbank, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 2019
- Category
- Internet & digital › Streaming & media › Streaming video
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: DIS
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Disney+
Disney+ launched in 2019 and reached a hundred million subscribers faster than any service before it, by withdrawing the company's catalogue from Netflix and putting it behind its own subscription. It is now the second largest subscription streaming service in the world.
Ownership timeline of Disney+
Where Disney+ sits in Disney
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Disney
Disney controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Hulu (2007)
Other brands in streaming video, and who owns them
The 37 brands in streaming video on Brandtree belong to 25 owners. The largest is AMC Networks, with 5; Disney has 2.
About the owner: Disney
Disney is a publicly listed company headquartered in Burbank, California, United States, founded in 1923. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: DIS.
Disney was founded in 1923 by two brothers making short cartoons and is now the largest entertainment company in the world. Its purchases of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and most of 21st Century Fox mean a substantial share of the highest-grossing films ever made belong to one owner.
🇺🇸 Disney+ and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Disney+ is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Disney+?
The parent company of Disney+ is Disney, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Disney+ American?
Yes. Disney+ originated in the United States in 2019 and its owner, Disney, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Disney+ still owned by Disney?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Disney+ is still owned by Disney. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The Walt Disney Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-13 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 13 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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