By Lisa Richwine and Dawn Chmielewski

LOS ANGELES, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co DIS.N edged past Netflix Inc NFLX.O with a sum of 221 million streaming supporters toward the finish of the latest quarter and declared it will send off a Disney+ choice with publicizing this December.

Disney+ with promotions will cost $7.99 each month, a similar value the organization presently charges for the advertisement free rendition, Disney said in a proclamation on Wednesday. The expense of Disney+ without advertisements will increment by $3 each month to $10.99 as of Dec. 8.

Costs for Hulu, additionally possessed by Disney, will ascend by $1 to $2 each month relying upon the arrangement.

Portions of Disney, which had fallen 28% this year, rose 4% in night-time exchanging to $116.85.

Disney in 2017 marked its future on building a web-based feature to match Netflix as crowds moved to internet seeing from customary link and broadcast TV.

In the fair finished quarter, Disney added 14.4 million Disney+ clients, beating the agreement of 10 million expected by examiners surveyed by FactSet, as it delivered “Star Wars” series “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and Marvel’s “Ms. Wonder.”

Joined with Hulu and ESPN+, Disney said it had 221.1 million streaming supporters toward the finish of the June quarter. Netflix said it had 220.7 million streaming endorsers.

Disney posted changed profit per-portion of $1.09, up 36% from a year sooner, as guests stuffed its amusement parks. Working pay dramatically increased at the parks, encounters and items division to $3.6 billion.

Disney’s streaming exertion is as yet losing cash, revealing a deficiency of $1.1 billion for the quarter. That put a drag on the media and diversion unit, whose benefit declined by 32% to almost $1.4 billion.

By and large income rose 26% from a year sooner to $21.5 billion. An agreement of examiners surveyed by Refinitiv had extended income of $20.96 billion.