SonyLIV’s paid subscriber base grew by almost 700 p.c between June 2020 and June 2021, its Japanese guardian firm Sony introduced in its quarterly earnings presentation on Wednesday. An precise paid subscriber rely for SonyLIV wasn’t supplied, although for what it is price, SonyLIV revealed that it had 5.5 million paid subscribers on the finish of April 2021. Additionally, SonyLIV had over 200 million month-to-month energetic customers in FY21, the Sony Pictures Networks India-run streaming service mentioned in July. Gadgets 360 has reached out to SonyLIV for remark and we’ll replace this story if we hear again.

“In Media Networks, our video direct-to-consumer (DTC) services are increasing their customer bases significantly, with paid subscribers since June 2020 increasing approximately 80 percent at our anime DTC service Funimation and approximately 700 percent at SonyLIV, our video DTC service in India,” Sony Group Corporation’s govt deputy president and chief monetary officer Hiroki Totoki said [PDF] on the corporate’s quarterly earnings name on Wednesday.

Interestingly, this 700 p.c progress comes on the again of SonyLIV growing its membership value by as much as 200 p.c in June 2020. That mentioned, it has launched extra reasonably priced plans with restrictions after. Still, that means audiences have discovered worth in its new providing. Naturally, SonyLIV owes a few of that to the success of its most-talked about unique sequence, Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story. A second anthology season, Scam 2003: The Curious Case of Abdul Karim Telgi, has been introduced with director Hansal Mehta to return. Beyond that, SonyLIV had the rights to the continuing 2020 Tokyo Olympics, UEFA Euro 2020, and a number of Test sequence with the Indian cricket group.

SonyLIV hasn’t solely gained plenty of new paid subscribers previously 12 months, however its subscribers have additionally spent extra time on the app than earlier than. In FY21, time spent went up 25 p.c to 75 minutes, with whole views of SonyLIV movies doubling to over 4 billion, per an exchange4media report from July. Alongside, SonyLIV started its worldwide enlargement (past South Asia) in July, with YuppTV launching the platform on its service within the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, and elements of Europe.