4815162342Jul 21, 2023

It looks like they also gained over one million subscribers in the quarter in the US/Canada, and average revenue per membership dropped from $16.18 to $16. It was technically a bigger subscriber gain this quarter than they had in 2021 and 2022 combined. (In 2021 they gained a little over one million, but in 2022 they lost nearly one million.)

Some people paying for the top tier for extra concurrent streams probably dropped to a lower tier. Then some of the people they shared with may have also joined at a lower tier. Both would drop the average.

Show threadBoondockJul 22, 2023

Just curious, are we sure the numbers reported are “net gain” and not “number of new subscribers”? Distinction being “number of new subscribers” would be all the people that signed up, and “net gain” would be all the people that signed up & subtract those that canceled?

Earnings reports are always full of word tricks to paint the prettiest picture so I’m just curious if we know the net number?

For example, all those articles that came out a week after the change went into effect were bullshit bc they didn’t take into account people who canceled and still had days left til their end of month, instead they only captured the 3 days after the policy change and Netflix got all the media to report this awesome stat for them.

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Yeah. If you check their actual released spreadsheets it includes losses and gains (some quarters are overall losses, some full years are overall losses). They also include the overall number of paid memberships which also reflects the same gain (or loss where it’s a loss). So like this quarter was up to 75.571 million from 74.398 million the previous quarter.
Netflix - Financials - Quarterly Earnings

Jul 22, 2023 at 9:10amWeb
Show threadBoondockJul 22, 2023
Cheers, thank you.