WWE Network Subscriber Count Revealed

This morning, WWE released their third-quarter earnings report. The entire report can be found here on WWE’s corporate page. 

In case reading corporate financial reports isn’t your idea of fun, here are some of the highlights of the report:

• OIBDA of $23.4 million increased $20.7 million from the prior year quarter
• Total international revenue increased by 43% to $119.0 million through the first nine months of 2015
•  WWE Network total subscribers increased 79% to more than 1.3 million from the third quarter 2014
• Network segment revenue reached a record of $145.8 million on a trailing 12-month basis

The WWE Network numbers and subscriber count are quite good. There has been noticeable increase in those numbers since this time last year. The WWE Network reached 1.233 million paid subscribers by the end of the third quarter, which is up from 1.156 subscribers from last quarter. There was an average of 1.173 paid subscribers during the third quarter.

Here are the highlights of WWE’s business report highlights:

• WWE Network premiered more than 85 hours of original content including the network’s highly rated programs, Beast in the East, NXT Takeover: Brooklyn, Swerved, and Stone Cold Podcast
• SummerSlam, Raw, and NXT delivered three consecutive sell-out events at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York (August 22 – 24)
• 37 new advertisers were secured for WWE programming following NBCUniversal’s Upfront
• WWE was the most-viewed channel on YouTube in August ranking above other popular channels such as BuzzFeed and Taylor Swift; WWE content (on and off-channel) garnered close to 7 billion views on a trailing twelve-month basis
• WWE exceeded 660 million social media engagements to-date in 2015 and continued to rank 6th on Sprinklr’s Social Business Index, ahead of the NBA, NFL, and other media properties