Topic: subscriber growth

CBS has lofty subscriber growth goals for All Access and Showtime OTT and the company said it recorded some positive momentum toward that end.

Apple TV+ could close in on Netflix-like subscriber totals in just a few years following its launch.

Netflix investors are anxiously awaiting the company’s third-quarter earnings report next week, and hoping for a return to domestic subscriber growth.

Netflix posted a surprisingly down quarter this summer, which led to a stock selloff in the ensuing months. Now investors are anxiously awaiting the company’s third-quarter results.

Acorn TV, a subscription streaming service owned by AMC Networks, said today that it has more than one million subscribers in the U.S. and Canada.

A new lawsuit is alleging that AT&T inflated subscriber totals for DirecTV Now (which has been renamed AT&T TV Now) by creating fake accounts for the streaming service.

Disney+ has had the benefit of its parent company’s marketing muscle and massive fan base and that could translate into a lot of people signing up for the subscription service.

The decline of pay TV subscriber totals in the U.S. has been well documented during the past few years but that doesn’t necessarily mean the industry isn’t growing elsewhere around the globe.

DirecTV Now and Sling TV have already seen their subscriber growth stall or reverse in recent quarters, and now the virtual MVPD space in general could be facing a slowdown.

Netflix came up short of its own forecast for subscriber additions during the second quarter but the streaming company notched growth in revenue and operating income.