From the article:
“According to an analysis released Friday by the television analytics company Antenna, the streaming giant posted four of its best days of U.S. acquisition ever with nearly 100,000 daily sign-ups on May 26 and May 27, a few days after it started to curb password sharing. It netted 73,000 new daily sign-ups on average after the crackdown, marking a 102 percent increase over the prior 60-day average. The ratio of sign-ups to cancels also increased, Antenna found, indicating that new subscriptions outpaced cancellations.”
Emphasis mine
- OsrsNeedsF2P ( @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ) English5•1 year ago
Only goes to show these crackdowns, which are criticized by power users, work out against the normal population
For sure.
The last year of constant recession-expectation, and the tightening of lending/support for big tech is leading to a lot of circling of the short-term profitability wagons.
P.S - I have a subscription to WaPo that allows me to “gift” ten articles a month. I’m curious if the gift URL I used only allows one or a few people to access it, or if it opens the article up to everyone that uses the link.
Can a few people comment to tell me if that link bypassed the paywall to the article for them?
- sundaefundae ( @sundaefundae@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
I could read it and it said I was gifted the article by a subscriber.
- CaptManiac ( @CaptManiac@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•1 year ago
I also was able to access the full gifted article.
- speedrun ( @speedrun@lemmy.one ) English2•1 year ago
I was able to read the whole thing, so seems to be working! I also had the ‘you were gifted this article by a Post subscriber’ message at the bottom
In case it winds up paywalled for others: https://archive.md/qwwBa
Disappointing to hear of the success, but not entirely unsurprising. I imagine it’s a matter of time before all the other streaming giants follow the same path
- SugarApplePie ( @SugarApplePie@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
I was able to see the article in its entirety FWIW
- CCatMan ( @CCatMan@lemmy.one ) English1•1 year ago
Well that’s fine. I know what I did with my account and that was cancel.