Peacock Signups At 15 Million, Up From 10 Million Six Weeks Ago — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts
CEO Brian said Peacock signups have surged 50% in six weeks and the app is the second most popular on its OTT product Xfinity Flex behind Netflix, and number three on Xfinity X1 behind Netflix and YouTube.
In an increasingly cutthroat media world, where entertainment and tech companies are starting to overlap in a major way, Roberts said Comcast’s ace in the hole is its large broadband footprint — expected to hit 500,000 net new ads this quarter and for the full year exceed the 1.3 million net new adds in 2019.
It’s about convergence, he said — big tech companies getting into media and visa versa. “And what’s at the center of that no matter where you come from is broadband,” he said. “We are there, we saw this coming [so] we are one of the best positioned companies to play offense” in the current media landscape.
Addressing sweeping management changes at NBC Universal in recent weeks and months, he said it aimed at cutting costs across the TV business and streamlining “how we think about it.” Starting in May,
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