Now they push ads to those subscribers who still come to play the check-in game.
Same-day streaming pulls in new subscribers, but it also allows those subscribers to cancel one they feel sufficiently steeped in a breakout favorite.
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For example, while Groupon lists 83.1 million subscribers as of March 31, 2011 (up from 152, 203 in June 2009), the company admits it sold just 28 million deals to those subscribers during the first three months of the year.
Pandora has over 65 million users, Spotify 29 million and Slacker, pre-relaunch had just four million (only 500, 00o those paid subscribers).
In any case, they are signing up more of those types of subscribers, while also adding HD services, with 10% more HD DVRs than previously, and double the amount in use compared to 2005.
That would imply that those were very important subscribers or a foreshadowing of a deterioration in a business model that has not yet been proven.
Subscribers to those packages consist equally of existing customers who upgrade their service, and new customers who are joining up with Cablevision for the first time.
The other 1.5 million households belong to a consortium called the National Rural Telecommunication Cooperative, which pays DirecTV a licensing fee to resell its services in certain areas and makes no marketing effort to draw more subscribers in those regions.
While there is value in having a lot of subscribers, how much is each of those free, not-very-sticky subscribers worth?
That is the main reason those 1.8 million subscribers paid for their Globe phones in the first place.
This has made the acquisition of new subscribers, especially those that pay for higher-margin data plans, tough for the wireless carriers.
This has made acquiring new subscribers, especially those that pay for the higher-margin data plans, very tough for the wireless carriers.
The actual profitability could be much higher since this calculation includes all marketing expenses such as those related to attracting new subscribers.
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This has made the acquisition of new subscribers, especially those that pay for the higher-margin data plans, very tough for the wireless carriers.
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This has made the acquisition of new subscribers, especially those that pay for the higher-margin data plans, highly tough for the wireless carriers.
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First, having a cell phone subscription is not a guarantee of use, and some of those classified as non-subscribers may have been cell phone users.
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This will in turn result in modest postpaid subscriber gains for the carrier, especially now that an increasingly saturated wireless market has made the acquisition of new subscribers, especially those that pay for the higher-margin data plans, very tough for the wireless carriers.
Its sales teams fan out across cities in search of tie-ups with local merchants, and those deals are then offered to subscribers through their website, emails and smartphone apps.
The company also added 800, 000 international subscribers, 290, 000 of those added in the latest quarter.
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One of those irregular verbs perhaps: We offer deals to subscribers, you enhance your circulation, they lie about the numbers.
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Those cheaper options are likely to narrow for new subscribers.
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If only a third of those buyers activate the satellite radio receivers in those cars, that portends 5 - 6 million new subscribers each year for the next several to be split between the two providers.
Initially, only cable companies could afford the huge antennas required to capture those signals , which they would then retransmit to fee-paying subscribers.
The satellite company added a million new subscribers in the quarter, with seven percent more of those being "high quality" than the same time last year.
That's pretty scary considering rival SK Telecom had 2.85 million smartphone subscribers in the same quarter, so good thing it had those 24 smartphones in hand that year.
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The largest impact may be in forcing those magazines to hasten their transition to digital media, pushing more of the subscribers to tablets, mobile phones, and web services.
Those contracts typically require that their channels reach 80% to 90% of their subscribers.
Available only to those in its (slowly) expanding FiOS network, Verizon is out to give subscribers a kinda sorta new way to watch television, and, of course, to cash in on the time-shifting craze while the window of opportunity is still open.
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That was around the same time the company outraged subscribers with a change that increased prices by as much as 60 percent for those who wanted to stream video and still rent DVDs through the mail.
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