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yeah right BBC ,who told you that anyway ?

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[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i just want to point out that the claims in this article are from Netflix ,so take them with a grain of salt

[–] hh93@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they are in their official quarterly report and not in some press release though aren't they?

if they lie on that it could have some bad consequences

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

They also stated

While the company added subscribers, it said average revenue per member fell 3% from a year earlier. That was partly because many of the new sign-ups came in countries where Netflix charges lower prices.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/netflix-tops-wall-street-forecasts-with-password-limits-ad-option-2023-07-19/

[–] cnqr@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the people in this thread including (and specifically) the OP are worse than reddit at its worst in terms of confident ignorance.

They reported these numbers in their quarterly reports. A company that trades on a public stock exchange is required to release quarterly reports that accurately represent their business.

Yes, companies like to play around with which metrics to report on to paint it better than it actually is, but the numbers can not be made up. If they say new subscriptions, it had to be new subscriptions.