“Teen Wolf” will howl again.
27.01.2022 - 17:31 / deadline.com
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts reaffirmed the company’s approach to streaming on NBCUniversal’s Peacock, revealing new metrics and signaling a plan to boost spending on programming.
Speaking at the start of the media giant’s fourth-quarter earnings call, Roberts said Peacock’s premium tier now has 9 million stand-alone subscribers. Another 7 million subscribers come in via bundled offerings through Comcast’s platforms as well as a few other pay-TV distributors. Peacock Premium’s tier costs $5 a month with ads and $10 without, but bundled customers generally pay nothing extra. The service also has a free, ad-supported basic level.
The breakout of paid subscribers as a portion of the service’s 24.5 million monthly active users was the first offered by Comcast since Peacock launched in mid-2020.
Average revenue per user (ARPU) is approaching $10 when both subscriptions and advertising are combined, Roberts said. “We haven’t even focused on paid subscribers,” NBCU CEO Jeff Shell noted during the call.
“What we’ve learned so far is that we started with the right business model,” the CEO said. “With over 300 million hours of content consumed on Peacock per month, engagement with our platform has proved extremely valuable to our advertisers.”
Peacock sees the “vast majority” of subscribers opting for the ad-supported premium tier, as opposed to the ad-free version, per Roberts.
The service is riding a wave of increased viewing across the board, Comcast says. Roberts said annual video consumption is approaching 600 billion hours in the U.S., up from 350 billion hours in the 1990s, when broadcast TV was still leading the way. Streaming has boosted household spending 10% since 2014, he added.
Citing Nielsen data, he said 60 million U.S.
“Teen Wolf” will howl again.
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54 million signups by July 29, 2021, which was the day Comcast reported its second quarter financial results. At that time, Comcast also said the streaming platform boasted 20 million monthly active accounts.Conveniently, NBCU’s Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony took place on July 23, meaning we were nearly midway through the Games at the time of that update.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNBCUniversal’s Peacock, entering its third year of operation, dug deeper into investment-mode red ink in 2021 — with adjusted losses at the streamer more than doubling.Comcast, in reporting Q4 earnings Thursday, revealed that Peacock generated $778 million in revenue for the full-year 2021, with an adjusted loss of $1.7 billion. That’s compared with $118 million of revenue and an adjusted EBITDA (r earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) loss of $663 million in 2020.Comcast said Peacock had 24.5 million monthly active accounts in the U.S.