{"id":87611,"date":"2024-06-14T06:27:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T06:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/?p=87611"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:40:48","slug":"multichoices-shrinking-subscriber-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/multichoices-shrinking-subscriber-base\/","title":{"rendered":"MultiChoice&#8217;s shrinking subscriber base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MultiChoice has lost 11% of its total customer base, ending its financial year with 20.9-million subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group\u2019s South African subscriber base has fallen by 8% to 8.6-million, according to its latest results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The JSE-listed company has, until now, managed to consistently grow its customer numbers, holding steady through the trials of Covid-19. It blames the fall in numbers on a \u2018challenging consumer environment\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owner of DStv, Showmax and SuperSport, Africa\u2019s largest pay-TV operator stretches to Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria. Its Rest of Africa numbers are also headed downward, falling by 1.8-million subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its reported average revenue per user is a slim R170, with the Rest of Africa segment dropping by almost a third to R113. Although twice as firm in SA, local average revenue per user is now R254, a way off the R335 it hit in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group is currently in talks with France\u2019s Groupe Canal+ over a R30-billion takeover deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notebook<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoutlier.co.za\/surprise-me\/undefined\/86918\/television-in-africa\">Global TV companies battle for dominance in Africa<\/a>: The continent is split 3 ways along language lines between dominant satellite TV providers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/charts.theoutlier.co.za\/chart\/86951\">South Africa&#8217;s streaming wars<\/a>: Showmax is gaining ground on Netflix in Africa [chart]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/charts.theoutlier.co.za\/chart\/86952\">Local content production<\/a>: Showmax and Netflix have commissioned more than 70 shows in SA and Nigeria  [chart]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiChoice has lost 11% of its total customer base, ending its financial year with 20.9-million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s South African subscriber base has fallen by 8% to 8.6-million, according to its latest results.<\/p>\n<p>The JSE-listed company has, until now, managed to consistently grow its customer numbers, holding steady through the trials of Covid-19. It blames the fall in numbers on a \u2018challenging consumer environment\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Owner of DStv, Showmax and SuperSport, Africa\u2019s largest pay-TV operator stretches to Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria. Its Rest of Africa numbers are also headed downward, falling by 1.8-million subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[709,1387],"tags":[21,727,534,726,724,533,725,535,346],"newsletter-post":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-87611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-the-outlier","tag-africa","tag-business-news","tag-canal","tag-company-results","tag-mnet","tag-multichoice","tag-pay-tv","tag-showmax","tag-subscribers"],"acf":{"big_number":"","big_number_caption":"","big_number_link":"","big_number_background":"","big_number_text_colour":"#000000","big_number_icon":false,"featured_chart":{"ID":87614,"id":87614,"title":"Multichoice 2024-06-14","filename":"Multichoice-web.png","filesize":30115,"url":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Multichoice-web.png","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/multichoices-shrinking-subscriber-base\/multichoice-web\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"MultiChoice has lost 11% of its total customer base, ending its financial year with 20.9-million subscribers. Its South African subscriber base has contracted by 8% to 8.6-million, according to the group's latest results.\nThe JSE-listed company has, until now, managed to consistently grow its customer numbers, holding steady through Covid-19. It blames the fall in numbers on a \u2018challenging consumer environment\u2019.\nOwner of DStv, Showmax and SuperSport, Africa\u2019s largest pay-TV operator stretches to Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria. Its rest of Africa numbers are also headed downward, falling by 1.8-million subscribers.\nIts reported average revenue per user is a slim R170, with the rest of Africa segment dropping by almost a third to R113. Although twice as firm in SA, local average revenue per user is now R254, a way off the R335 it hit in 2018.\nThe group is in talks with France\u2019s Groupe Canal+ about a R30-billion takeover deal.","name":"multichoice-web","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":87611,"date":"2024-06-14 06:28:43","modified":"2024-06-20 08:19:44","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1080,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Multichoice-web-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Multichoice-web-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Multichoice-web-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Multichoice-web-1024x1024.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Multichoice-web.png","1536x1536-width":1080,"1536x1536-height":1080,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Multichoice-web.png","2048x2048-width":1080,"2048x2048-height":1080}},"flourish_chart_id":"","flourish_sub_title":"","flourish_chart_width":"medium","is_newsletter_post":"No","post_style":"owic","show_on_front":"Yes","link_through":"Yes","chart_url":"","background_colour":"#0089AA","text_colour":"#FFFFFF"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87611"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87626,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87611\/revisions\/87626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87611"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-post?post=87611"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=87611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}