While Spotify and Deezer are bigger in terms
of subscriber numbers, Rdio has been honing its offering to appeal to as large a demographic as possible.
This week's first - time disclosure by Chinese online video firm iQIYI
of its subscriber numbers and the confirmation that Alibaba will soon be ramping up its own subscription video service have put a new spotlight on the financial feasibility of China's video streaming sector.
Not exact matches
To be specific, Comcast's
subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the
number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.
Pay television lost a record
number of subscribers in last year's fourth quarter as more and more companies have opted to cut the cord.
While it remains far behind Verizon (vz) and AT&T (t) in
number of subscribers, T - Mobile, which makes its debut on the Fortune Best Companies list this year, has undeniable momentum.
«A domestic
subscriber miss two years ago would have caused the stock to trade down regardless
of the international
number.»
Netflix would not give a
number for how many
subscribers were lost because
of the change to chip cards.
«We believe that our
number of Premium
Subscribers is nearly double the size
of our nearest competitor, Apple Music,» the filing said.
Bark & Co. is mum about its
subscriber numbers, but Strife says the company has shipped a total
of over four and a half million boxes.
WHILE it's too early to gauge the long - term prospects
of subscriber - based online DVD rental companies, the increasing
number of new players entering the market suggests strong support for the idea.
If the actual content provider — say, HBO, for example — isn't happy with the
number of subscribers (and revenue) it's getting from a particular television provider, it may find it more worthwhile to go direct to consumers over the Internet through a Netflix - style streaming service.
As Northam cruised to his nine - point victory over Gillespie, I couldn't help but think that maybe it's time for newspapers to stop telling their dwindling
number of subscribers how to vote.
Says Brannon, «The total
number of subscribers leaving pay TV is going to be so low that increases in ARPU are going to make the transition
of these folks away from pay TV virtually a small blip on the radar.»
Whether Sportsnet Now will attract a substantial
number of subscribers at its price remains to be seen, but that's one
of the unknowns that come with being first.
An increasing
number of subscribers are re-evaluating their expensive cable packages as a result.
Some caveats to those
numbers: Netflix
subscribers use the service to get a variety
of programming, and might not have paid to go see «Bright» if it was only available at the theater.
ISIS (also known as the Islamic State) uses Telegram channels — which allow users to broadcast messages to an unlimited
number of subscribers — to spread its propaganda, including images, audio messages, videos, and official statements.
Integrating client testimonials, case studies or user metrics (e.g., the
number of subscribers / customers) can increase the power
of your ads exponentially.
While the media glommed on to a few snafus — such as T - Mobile's Sidekick service losing
subscribers» data when its cloud supplier's backup systems failed — it's not the
number of breaches and failures (which is small) but what it says about providers» practices that is worrisome.
So the firm took that figure and compared it to the total
number of Netflix
subscribers, to get the average
number of hours a
subscriber watches.
Barclays said, given the growth in Netflix's programming over the past year, the
number of hours viewed per
subscriber should arguably have increased, not held steady.
Pricing is generally billed monthly and is proportionate to the total
number of email
subscribers you have, Simms says.
For a retailer with scant discounting and zero debt, Nasty Gal has racked up some seriously drool - worthy
numbers: international sales
of $ 128 million in 2012, four times higher than the year before; 535,000 Facebook fans; 420,000 Instagram
subscribers; 68,000 Twitter followers; and more than 2 million monthly unique visitors to the website in September 2012.
Reporters and journalists are being filmed constantly and some
of them have a large
number of subscribers on their personal channels, as well as their news channel.
«A company like Match, they have the best potential to gain significant market share in terms
of the
number of subscribers,» Anthony said.
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subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability
of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is
numbered.
After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total
number of pay TV
subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate
of decline since the trend
of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.
One interesting aspect
of Comcast's results is that it said
subscribers weren't switching to so - called «skinny bundles» in very large
numbers.
«If they are brand new shows... if they are having to punch into the consciousness
of the consumer, they do not tend to draw new
subscribers in as great
of numbers as some
of our existing shows,» Wells said.
And, according to data provided to BI Intelligence, the gap between the
number of TV and internet
subscribers keeps widening, with more people opting for broadband - only packages.
As growing
numbers of TV watchers either cut the cord entirely or opt for what cable providers like to call «skinny bundles,» ESPN's iron grip on viewers and
subscribers is being questioned in a way it never has in the past.
In July, when Wind last disclosed the
number of subscribers, the company had not yet rolled out in Vancouver, and other cities had only limited coverage.
As Karl Bode at DSL Reports put it in his brief analysis
of the latest MoffettNathanson
numbers: «The bad news for cable is the majority
of them continue the slow trickling loss
of subscribers that, unless you work somewhere in the cable ecosystem with your head buried in the sand, nobody believes is going to stop any time soon.»
For instance, the company will send
subscribers who run a certain
number of miles each week items that are also based on the data it gleans from more regular customers as well as on e-commerce data such as what is bought more frequently and gets top reviews.
In an initial test market in the Phillippines, where Internet.org partnered with Globe Telecom to offer users free access to Facebook and messenger, Zuckerberg said, the
number of people using Internet and data has doubled, and Globe's
subscriber base grew by 25 percent.
With every passing quarter, however, that behavior becomes less
of a bogeyman and more
of a painful reality — and the latest survey
of cable
subscriber numbers has a little something for both sides
of that debate.
It also gives you recurring opportunities to reach out to an interested, dedicated lead pool, giving you compounding returns as your
number of subscribers grows.
While Amazon doesn't disclose the
number of Prime
subscribers, Fortune reported that there's an estimated 80 million members in the U.S.
It showed a 3 percent drop in the
number of paid TV
subscribers, compared to 2016 data.
Iger also reiterated comments he has made in the past to the effect that if ESPN wanted to, it could come up with its own over-the-top service similar to HBO Now, and that a substantial
number of subscribers would likely pay for it.
Roughly 300,000 new videos are uploaded to YouTube each day, and the
number of channels with more than one million
subscribers grew 75 % since last year.
Netflix said enthusiasm for new shows like Stranger Things is the main reason, but its
subscriber numbers were probably also boosted by the easing
of the «un-grandfathering» effect that hit it last time.
The
number of subscribers is also down by four million to 72 million, as
of the last quarter.
Using tools such as exit - intent popups and subscription bars can increase the
number of subscribers.
Spotify has struck a chord with 71 million worldwide
subscribers so far and is aiming to increase that
number to as many as 96 million
subscribers by the end
of the year.
His optimism stems from a few things, beyond the potential for BlackBerry 10: RIM continues to add
subscribers, the BlackBerry remains the most popular smartphone in a
number of big countries, such as Indonesia, and the company is still rolling out new BlackBerry 7 handsets across the globe.
Some
of the
numbers weren't a big surprise, given the company's financial forecast in March, when the company said it expects to hit as many as 96 million
subscribers this year.
While these aren't huge
numbers, Khan says 30 percent
of the $ 50,000 Linjer raised on Indiegogo in the first 48 hours is a direct result
of building its email
subscriber list.
Interestingly, although the total
number of premium
subscribers grew 7 % from Q4, the revenue from subscriptions only grew 2 % sequentially, to $ 1.04 billion.
In 2011, the sports giant rolled ESPN3 (which had existed in various forms since 2005, originally as ESPN360, then ESPN3.com) into its WatchESPN online platform, where
subscribers with access can watch everything from live sports happening across the globe to ESPN Classic games, all from a
number of ESPN's different channels and services.