Paramount+, Showtime Top 62 Million Combined Subscribers

Paramount+ and Showtime topped a combined 62 million subscribers at the end of the first quarter, Paramount Global revealed along with its earnings report Tuesday. From that Q1 total, 6.8 million are Paramount+ sub additions, bringing that streamer’s solo tally to almost 40 million customers.Paramount’s total streaming base is up 6.3 million from the 56 million subscribers that the company reported it had by the end of 2021. In that fourth quarter, 80 of Paramount’s new streaming subs — or 7.3 million — were strictly Paramount+ additions.Click here to sign up for Variety‘s free Strictly Business newsletter covering earnings, financial and investment news, and more....