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<\/a><\/p>\nNaspers has released its financial results for the year ended 31 March 2018, which shows a big decline in MultiChoice\u2019s DStv Premium subscribers.<\/p>\n
Over the last year, MultiChoice\u2019s DStv subscribers grew from 11.942 million to 13.476 million \u2013 an increase of 13%.<\/p>\n
Most of this growth came from lower-end subscribers, which shows that MultiChoice\u2019s mass-market growth is continuing.<\/p>\n
MultiChoice\u2019s high-end subscribers \u2013 DStv Premium \u2013 have declined from 1.962 million to 1.921 million over the last year. This equates to a loss of 41,000 DStv Premium subscribers in one year.<\/p>\n
Naspers said its \u201cmass market growth trend continues, premium tier growth is declining and compact tier growth is starting to stabilize\u201d.<\/p>\n
This loss of high-end subscribers also drove down the average revenue per user (ARPU) from R353 per month to R344 per month.<\/p>\n
The image below shows the decline in DStv Premium subscribers over the last year. It should be noted that these figures reflect all MultiChoice’s subscribers, and not just South Africa.<\/p>\n
MultiChoice has lost over 40,000 DStv Premium subscribers over the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":228979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,12747,35,475,1643],"class_list":["post-265679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-dstv-premium","tag-headline","tag-multichoice","tag-naspers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265685,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265679\/revisions\/265685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nNow read:\u00a0How much South Africans are willing to pay for a DStv and SuperSport streaming service<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"