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➽ In August, the start of a new multibillion-dollar deal gave Peacock streaming rights to Premier League soccer, likely attracting a slew of sports fans since many of its games are available exclusively on the platform. (Last spring, Peacock started streaming next-day episodes of all major Bravo series as well, allowing cord-cutters a level of in-season access to the network’s content they had never enjoyed previously.) It also clawed back thousands of hours of Bravo content that had been happily housed on Hulu for years in order to make Peacock the one-stop streaming home for Real Housewives, Below Deck, and other unscripted franchises.

➽ As had been expected since last winter, NBCU ended a decade-long deal that allowed Hulu to stream NBC network content hours after it aired on television, turning Peacock into the exclusive SVOD home for the programming.

Consider all the actions Shell’s underlings at NBCU and Peacock took over the last few months to goose the numbers, as well as some of the other factors that helped drive sign-ups: I don’t think they are.įor one thing, the streamer got those 2 million subscribers only after implementing what felt like an everything-but-the-kitchen sink strategy to boost its numbers following the disastrous second-quarter stall. “Up” is undoubtedly good, but the bigger question facing Peacock is whether these latest gains are good enough. That’s why it was a bit of a Peacocktober surprise when NBCU CEO Jeff Shell decided to go on one of his own cable channels Tuesday to let the world know Peacock’s paid subscriber base was once again growing, telling CNBC’s David Faber the streamer now boasted “over 15 million” paid users, 2 million more than the 13 million it claimed at the end of June. Peacock parent Comcast typically uses its quarterly earnings reports to issue performance updates on the NBCUniversal-run subscription platform, whether the numbers are good (like last winter’s big 4 million subscribers spike) or awful (July’s big fat zero). Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by Ryan Green/Universal Pictures Michael Myers of Halloween Ends, streaming soon on Peacock.

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