Tag: Subscribers
Spotify Premium hits 3 million subscribers mark
Spotify have reached the 3 million Premium subscriber mark. 20% of their 15 million users are now opting to pay for the ad-free, unlimited service, showing that the streaming giant are well on their way to hitting the conversion figures…
Q&A: Netflix CPO Neil Hunt on LOVEFiLM, HBO disc deals, DVD subscriber fallout and avoiding the fate of Blockbuster
After a lengthy wait, the Netflix streaming service is now open for business in the UK, offering a robust catalogue of movies and TV shows onto a wide variety of devices, with an intelligent platform and UI that the company…
50% of iPad mag subscribers happy to share info with publishers
It seems that publishers' initial fears that iPad magazine subscribers would not be willing to share their personal info when buying digital reading content were ill-founded, as Apple have now confirmed 50% of all digi-mag subscribers happily offer their…
Spotify pass 750,000 paid users mark, US launch still on the way
Spotify have now surpassed 750,000 paid users on their Premium service. Shakil Khan, head of special projects for Spotify broke the news via Twitter, meaning that paid user numbers have almost doubled from the 320,000 noted nine months ago back…
Spotify announce big 2009 losses, but does it matter?
Spotify have revealed their financial accounts for 2009, and it makes for a very interesting read indeed. Spotify Limited, the UK based arm of the music streaming service which also acts as the company's main sales body, revealed 2009 revenues…
Sky offer old Sky TV Guide back to visually impaired viewers
The message boards over at our Shiny friends HDTVUK have been alight with readers venting their spleens over the new-look Sky + HD Guide, which completed its nationwide roll-out last week. Many of you have been complaining that the new…
World of Warcraft hits 11 million active subscribers worldwide
Belgium? Bolivia? Israel? Ireland? You’ve got nothing on World of Warcraft. Blizzard’s ultra-popular massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, full of orcs, elves, dwarves and undead, has hit 11 million active subscribers. That’s a shade fewer than the population of Greece, and means that one person in every 625 on the planet holds an active subscription…