How do you lose money per subscriber? Surely the subscription fee each subscriber pays is enough to offset the server, labor, etc costs, right?
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andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 4 months agoUnfortunately, no. They were already losing lots of money. They are now losing less money than they were before even after people left. Which is generally what happens if you’re losing money for every subscriber and then subscribers leave.
Cringe2793@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Silentiea@lemm.ee 4 months ago
By making up more costs.
More seriously, by evaluating what you could be making by letting someone else run the streaming service and pay you for the rights, instead. It’s still a pretty imaginary number, but it does come from something real.
Silentiea@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Also, for a business other than Disney, licensing fees for the content they show can be a pretty large cost that needs a lot of subscribers to offset.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
The yachts don’t buy themselves.
Oderus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Me no read good.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Not your fault, it’s a shitty headline
andallthat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“see this chart here? We lose money for every subscriber! We’ll never make any money until we get rid of all of theml”
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Found the Management Consultant
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Haha so true
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Might lose even less money if we started paying them to watch! Yay, math!
Fester@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Now we’re losing negative money