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
Only goes to show these crackdowns, which are criticized by power users, work out against the normal population
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?
I could read it and it said I was gifted the article by a subscriber.
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
I also was able to access the full gifted article.
