Peacock/Comcast recently changed its signup options and dropped the option to sign up for a free Peacock account. The free option had been in place since the service launched providing access to free episodes of a number of shows but limiting the seasons avaialable along with access to a number of movies and the “Channels”…
Peacock looks like it is really starting to work out for Comcast. The streaming service which is marketed as the home of NBC streaming has more than 20 million paid subscribers between its $4.99 and $9.99 plans. The company did not break down subscribers by tier, but keep in mind that the less expensive one…
At the height of the short-lived drama between Comcast and Google, it was reported that YouTube TV was going to encourage users to sign up for Peacock. Why? The perception was that the $4.99 a month service essentially offered everything that would be lost by not having a dozen channels including the flagship, NBC. Is…
OK, so you may have seen the headlines on some cord-cutting websites yesterday. Comcast CEO might want to buy Roku. This comes from a passage in an article from The Wallstreet Journal “Inside Comcast’s Plan to Become a Streaming Giant”. “Mr. Roberts, 61 years old and known as an aggressive deal maker in his two…
Is Peacock a successful service or not? By the numbers, Peacock has 44 million signups. But signups do not represent paid subscribers. Its one of those things. All subscribers are counted as activated accounts but not all activated accounts are subscribers. Peacock has a substantial amount of free content available that requires users to provide…
