When Netflix first began talking about cracking down on password sharing in 2022, many claimed that the service would lose subscribers. As it turns out, Netflix's grand plan to squeeze more money out of its customers has worked, with the service gaining more subscribers than cancellations in the months following …
Read More »Netflix rebounds after ‘only’ losing 1 million subscribers in Q2
Despite the success of Stranger Things Season 4, there has been a lingering nervousness around Netflix's Q2 earnings report. In Q1, the streaming giant lost subscribers for the first time in a decade, putting an end to the non-stop growth Netflix had previously enjoyed. Over last quarter, Netflix did lost almost a million subscribers worldwide, which is actually much less than initially forecast.
Read More »Twitch is adjusting subscription pricing based on the user’s location
Up to now, viewers have been asked to pay $4.99/€4.99/£4.99 for a T1 subscription to their favourite Twitch streamers, regardless of where they live. For certain countries, this quantity may not seem much, but for others, it's more than the average hourly income. To prevent this from happening, Twitch announced …
Read More »Xbox Game Pass has reportedly surpassed 23 million subscribers
Microsoft started off the year with 18 million Xbox Game Pass subscribers and over the last few months, some major game additions have caused that number to spike up again. At this point, Xbox Game Pass has reportedly hit a new all-time high of 23 million subscribers. The addition of …
Read More »Netflix surges past 100 million subscribers
Back in January, Netflix sat at just over 93 million subscribers, with plans to spend around $6 billion producing new original shows and movies in an effort to boost the company over the 100 million subscriber mark. Now, that milestone has been achieved, with Netflix announcing that it now has …
Read More »Apple Music reportedly has 10 million subscribers
Apple Music seems to be doing quite well for itself according to new reports, with sources claiming that the service has already managed to garner up ten million subscribers. This is half that of Spotify, which is reported to have around 20 million paying subscribers though it has been around …
Read More »Apple Music now has 6.5 million paying subscribers
When Apple announced its music streaming platform, Apple Music earlier this year, many thought it might struggle, as it was entering an already saturated space. While iTunes was once the darling of the listening world, it had fallen behind the times and industry giants like Spotify and Pandora stomped around …
Read More »World of Warcraft down to 5.3 million subscribers
WoW has been one of the mainstays of PC gaming for a long time, consistently giving millions of people around the world a universe to escape into to fight, level, raid and explore. That's still the case over 10 years after its release, but following the spike of returning players …
Read More »Netflix has significantly expanded its subscriber base
Netflix has managed to add more new subscribers than it had anticipated during the fourth quarter, thanks to a constantly growing international user base. As you can expect, this has made investors pretty happy and shares rose swiftly following the announcement earlier this week. The company saw 4.33 million subscribers …
Read More »AOL still has millions of Dial-Up subscribers
Dial Up Internet still exists? Apparently so, as AOL's recent financial report has revealed that it is still making a fair bit of money off of its ancient Dial Up Internet service as 2.34 million people are still subscribed to it as of the second quarter of 2014. Which is actually …
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