The former is firmly lower after first
quarter subscriber numbers failed to impress the Street with light guidance to boot.
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.
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.
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.
The
number of
subscribers is also down by four million to 72 million, as of the last
quarter.
In seven consecutive
quarters, the
number of Netflix
subscribers increased by at least 1 million.
The strong interest in made - for - Internet series is apparent: Netflix's
subscriber numbers have risen every
quarter since the beginning of 2012, tripling from 22 million to 65.6 million
subscribers.
Weight Watchers shares jumped in extended trade on Thursday after the Oprah Winfrey - backed company said it ended the
quarter with a record
number of
subscribers and boosted its full - year earnings outlook.
And these
numbers are expected to get even worse during the second
quarter, where the drop of TV
subscribers often accelerates due to college kids heading home for the summer (often without reconnecting when they return in the fall).
Its active
subscriber count stood at 98,000 for this
quarter — a relatively similar
number to last August «s figure of 98,600.
«By the end of the
quarter we began to see real improvements in a
number of our
subscriber acquisition.
Number of paid
subscribers registered to the match group from 1st
quarter 2014 to 3rd
quarter 2017 (in 1,000 s).
Compared to the same
quarter last year, revenue fell 3 percent while
subscriber numbers increased 3 percent.
Since this dating site was not referred to directly in
quarter 1, 2008 financial we can only assume Americansingles revenue and
subscriber numbers fell even further.
Of course this doesn't mean if you add up all the
quarters you would get the total
number of
subscribers for the year as the same person could be a
subscriber in
quarter 1 and in
quarter 2.
Every
quarter Match.com releases the
number of
subscribers they have, which lately has been from 1.3 to just over 1.4 million people.
Spark reported the
number of ChristianMingle paid
subscribers grew 89 percent for the third
quarter of 2012 vs. the period a year earlier.
Sony confirmed this during a recent financial call stating the
number of
subscribers has grown from 2.7 million from last fiscal
quarter.
Blizzard says this is «the last
quarter that [it] plan [s] to provide
subscriber numbers» because «there are other metrics» — so - called «engagement» metrics — «that are better indicators of the overall Blizzard business performance.»
After having such a successful second
quarter, Sony has released the
number of
subscribers to their PlayStation Plus services.
While the digital future of journalism — as a — has proven particularly challenging (with the New York Times, for example, trying app after app), the
number of Times»
subscribers has shot up by a
quarter of a million or 21 percent in the final
quarter of 2016.
Competitive pressure from cable and the increasing
number of over-the-top video alternatives resulted in a decline in video
subscribers, CFO John Stephens noted during AT&T's first -
quarter investor call.
To put that
number into context, Sprint announced that it lost 245,000
subscribers this
quarter, while AT&T and Verizon added 1 million and 1.4 million customers respectively.