‘Star Wars’ Day Was Disney’s Greatest Streaming Day of the 12 months

In 2025, the first Star Wars streaming show, The Mandalorian, crossed one billion hours streamed, and Might 4, Star Wars Day, was the busiest day of the yr on Disney+. These stats would lead you to imagine that Star Wars is dominating streaming and, therefore, the world. However not so quick.

This week, Disney launched a slew of self-congratulatory stats about its streaming providers. Among the many standouts are the 2 Star Conflicts-related ones talked about above. However, additionally, Bluey was the most-watched collection of the yr with 26.5 million rewatches. Moana 2 was the most important film of the yr, with over 80 million rewatches, and Alien: Earth was FX’s greatest premiere on streaming, racking up over 100 million hours of viewing whole.

However let’s give attention to Star Wars as a result of, at the very least for the previous six years, Star Wars has solely been a streaming franchise.

The Mandalorian was considered one of a number of big-name exhibits or films that reached a billion hours streamed this yr (The Golden Women, Encanto, Malcolm within the Center, Legislation and Order: SVU, Household Man, and Futurama are just some of the others). Nonetheless, it’s the one Star Wars present on there. Is that as a result of it has probably the most episodes and has been across the longest? In fact. However, you’d assume a franchise as huge as Star Wars would have somewhat extra illustration. They’ve made Boba Fett exhibits. They’ve made Obi-Wan Kenobi exhibits. However nothing touches the unique.

You’d particularly assume there could be extra billion-hour Star Wars streamers as a result of Star Wars Day, Might 4, was Disney+’s greatest streaming day of the yr. Disney didn’t launch any specifics of what, precisely, was streamed on that day (it did use Andor because the artwork, although), but it surely’s protected to imagine that a variety of it was Star Wars. Certainly meaning Star Wars exhibits, films, animation, every part, all wrapped into one. Which might be a giant purpose why, just a few years in the past, Disney introduced its subsequent Star Wars film is predicated on that content material: The Mandalorian and Grogu.

So, let’s take a look at The Mandalorian and Grogu. The movie opens on Might 22, 2026, and released its first trailer back in September. Since then, the official Star Wars YouTube model of the trailer has 10 million views. Which sounds spectacular till you take a look at one thing newer, like final week’s Supergirl trailer. That’s solely been out every week and has over 20 million views.

Is DC two occasions as fashionable as Star Wars? Clearly not. However followers may be two occasions as excited to see a brand new, big-screen DC journey than a film based mostly on a TV present they’ve already watched for, actually, a billion hours.

Mainly, what we’re saying is, Star Wars wants a lift, even when a few of its stats are spectacular. Will that be The Mandalorian and Grogu? Will we’ve to attend for 2027 and a brand new Star Wars film, in addition to the unique movie’s re-release? We don’t know. However perhaps as followers wait for brand spanking new Star Wars content material, they’ll circle again to issues they’ve missed. Issues that, we expect, are literally fairly nice. Reveals like The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew, or Star Wars Visions.

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