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July Wrasslin’ |OT| The Ring’s a Field, the Field of War, That’s Where We Lay the Law

Phatmac

Member
Things are looking grim for World Wrestling Entertainment and its money-losing streaming video service, the WWE Network.

In a sign of how hard the company is working to sign up new subscribers, the WWE announced Monday it will once again offer a one-week free trial to anyone who wants it.

The offer, which doesn't even require people to provide a credit card number, is one of several recent indicators that the company isn't getting much closer to the 1.4 million global subscribers it needs to make the WWE Network profitable.
Should've just provided free PPVs. Think they thought getting to see older shows was a bigger draw than it actually is. Hopefully it gets more popular overseas.
 
The power of Cena

What?

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Things are looking grim for World Wrestling Entertainment and its money-losing streaming video service, the WWE Network.

In a sign of how hard the company is working to sign up new subscribers, the WWE announced Monday it will once again offer a one-week free trial to anyone who wants it.

The offer, which doesn't even require people to provide a credit card number, is one of several recent indicators that the company isn't getting much closer to the 1.4 million global subscribers it needs to make the WWE Network profitable.


Netflix offers free trials almost continually.
 

RP912

Banned
Things are looking grim for World Wrestling Entertainment and its money-losing streaming video service, the WWE Network.

In a sign of how hard the company is working to sign up new subscribers, the WWE announced Monday it will once again offer a one-week free trial to anyone who wants it.

The offer, which doesn't even require people to provide a credit card number, is one of several recent indicators that the company isn't getting much closer to the 1.4 million global subscribers it needs to make the WWE Network profitable.

Bad execution period. They put out the network at the most awkward time without no strong marketing compared to 2012. It's a good service but bad timing.
 

RP912

Banned
I just wanted superstars, wcw saturday night, and every ecw episode on the network. That's all I asked. Sure they doing it slowly but still...
 
Netflix has 25 million subscribers to work with.

Free trials and outright free subscriptions were a big part of getting Netflix to that number.

People forget that when Netflix streaming began, they gave the streaming service away for free to the millions and millions of DVD-through-the-mail service subscribers they already had.
 

Son Of D

Member
Likelihood of Seth winning clean? Cena loses nothing, and Seth gains viability. Surely it will happen...

When you go 1-on-1 with another wrestler you got a 50% chance of winning. But Cena is the ultimate underdog and he's not normal. So when you go 1-on-1 with him you have a 15% chance of winning plus an additional 1% chance of beating him clean. So therefore you have a 0.15% chance of beating Cena clean 1-on-1.
 
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