Lots of people are paying for Paramount+ to observe and , even when neither sequence has been notably excellent. On Tuesday, Paramount Global (previously ViacomCBS) that it added 6.8 million new Paramount+ subscribers within the first quarter of 2022. With these additions, the platform has nearly 40 million clients. Among different content material, the corporate credited its unique programming, together with the aforementioned Halo and Star Trek: Picard, for the continued progress of Paramount+.

In flip, that subscriber progress contributed to a rise within the firm’s backside line, with income from the service rising by 148 p.c year-on-year to $585 million in Q1 2022. “The first quarter once again demonstrated the power and potential of Paramount’s unique assets and the company’s continued momentum,” stated Paramount Global CEO and President Bob Bakish.”

Paramount’s success is especially notable given Netflix’s latest struggles. Last month, the streaming large introduced that it within the first quarter of 2022, marking its first subscriber drop in a decade. The firm has since launched into a sequence of cost-cutting measures, canceling sequence like  and gutting the editorial employees of its fansite.