Meanwhile, the prevailing talk among analysts is that Dish Network’s Sling TV ended its first quarter of 2017 with 1.3 million subscribers.įuboTV has been relatively quiet about its subscriber numbers since bragging about its growth rate last year, when it surpassed 71,000 paying U.S. Both had 400,000 subscribers as of March and were growing at a fast clip, according to Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav. He added that he felt “dragged into” repositioning Sling as a full cable replacement after AT&T’s DirecTV, which launched in November, and Sony PlayStation Vue, which launched in 2015. It’s the most recent data publicly available from the consumer analytics firm, but won’t be the last. “Based on results of similar high profile soccer contests, such as El Classico, we envision seeing concurrent viewership levels in the low six figures.”Īt the start of the last World Cup, in 2014, Nielsen released a report showing that an increasing number of television networks were carrying major soccer events. “We expect the World Cup to have a major impact, as the most highly-anticipated sporting events globally,” Gandler said. “Our goal is to use this investment to enhance the viewing experience with the addition of new content and development of key features directed at sports fans, and to greatly increase our marketing efforts,” David Gandler, fuboTV co-founder and CEO, told Fortune by email.Īlthough the startup has made a departure from its soccer-centric roots, it’s hard to ignore that the company is picking up steam amid FIFA World Cup Qualifier matches, the start of the Confederations Cup, and almost exactly a year before the 2018 World Cup kicks off in Russia. The service got its start by offering American audiences a way to stream international soccer. On Monday, the subscriber-based service announced it had secured $55 million round of Series C funding, which will help fuboTV appeal to a wider audience.
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