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Been doing it for 15 years.
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Been doing it for 15 years.
I think Sky should continue to turn a blind eye so far as account sharing goes for the minute. Their subs are still growing at a rapid rate, so they should just focus on repositioning their brand proposition and charting the course to sustainability.
Once they reach a sustainable point and growth stops then they can take another look at the account sharing issue.
NETFLIX have also started making noises about reviewing this. They have turned a blind eye from when they started because their subs kept up double digit growth for many years so it wasn’t an issue. After subs recently fell in the USA it has caused a bit of a rethink - though they are still yet to actively police it.
Sky are not at this point yet.
They have also had much less to say about piracy after winning the kodi box case. They do have a duty to their content partners to play a role in protecting copyright etc, but banging on about it in the media does not actually help Sky reinvigorate its brand.
I think new management have realised this - and even Sophie (who was heading up the legal team under John when Sky first came out swinging) has not made any more noises about actively continuing this fight. It’s a fight Sky will only lose anyway. They just need to focus on the product offerings and distribution model. If the user experience is great and the price is right, they will have no issue attracting more than enough paying subs.
The loss gets passed onto the content creators not the aggregator.
Maybe Sky loses a bit for original content, like Rugby.
They pick up extra adverting revenue though.
It's a good way to value add.
We wouldn't sign up to Sky movies but for extra $20 a month, every boxes gets it so it's good value.
There's a reason why they don't police it. They end up making more $$$
For example if one family members wants to cancel Sky, they end up not doing it, as they know it's only $25 per month. Hence more retention and less churn.
Likewise, if 3 family members have it, and another one is thinking about joining Sky but thinks it's too expensive, then for only $25 they might change their mind. Hence, Sky gets more revenue.
The only down side is when the Sky technician shows up to do the install you have to get all the boxes back to the same address for the one day....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUB-wjXUREE
Is it possible the price is being driven lower for this so called M&A?
It is good that the share price has remained pretty stable but wish/hope/want it to start trending back up. As we all do.
Well the Aussies certainly like this share more than the Kiwis, perhaps kiwi investors are turned off by history. Might be time for a rebranding.
Fraud? You mean like sharing Netflix accounts? Surely that's not happening here.
I believe it's the UBS trading desk selling the stock:
"Mr Derick Handley is stepping down? But he's a long term director? Looking at his Linkedin profile he must important. Quick, we better put the algo on sell mode and trade this down before the stock drops further...[a few days later] Yes old chap, great play, we knew a director leaving was a sell signal. The announcement is correct. He left because the business is on a down turn. All this rubbish's on this so called Shuretrader suggesting he's a total fraud and got pushed out must be baloney"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUB-wjXUREE
Fraud if the sellers are dumping shares to drop the price so that another organisation they are affiliated with can swoop in and buy the company cheaper - as seemed to be implied by the earlier poster.
That would be illegal and I think the odds of that happening here are zero.
I just can’t wait for the OSB sale to go through so that Ogg can start ‘working the phones’ to get a bidding war between Discovery, Comcast and Foxtel.
Then I can look forward to my $1B (or 60c per share) that he promised...
The odds of that not happening everyday is zero.
The stock will bounce soon when the sharesies users start posting about the half year results, which is only 4 weeks away.
Watch for the large pre orders at open. They should start happening in a couple of weeks time.
Thee sell bots will likely be caught by surprise. Will they push the stock sub 15 before it happens though?
I noticed more shiny new satellite dishes on rooftops in my fibre-only suburb during my walk today.
What do we reckon total subs will be as at end of December? I expect streaming grew too, so maybe around 1.1M?
If the average subscriber (streaming and satellite) pays sky ~$50/month that would be revenue of $660M. Add in some advertising revenue and it’s not far off projected revenue for the full year.
It’s a volume game now. Margins and much smaller than they used to be per customer, so gotta get the numbers up - and then keep them up (Sky Broadband should help a lot with the latter goal).