Paramount+ is climbing in the streaming world, adding a healthy 1.5 million new paying customers in the first three months of 2025: This surge, announced on Thursday, May 8th, pushes the platform to 79 million subscribers across the globe, an eleven percent increase compared to the 71 million it had during the same time last year.
The bigger story here, though, might be the money side of things. Paramount’s direct-to-consumer streaming section managed to shrink its quarterly operating loss significantly. It hit $109 million in the first quarter, a real step down from previous losses, with overall revenue hitting $2 billion. Getting those losses down is a key goal for pretty much every streaming service right now, and this report shows real movement toward that target.
Driving much of this positive financial picture was a healthy rise in subscription money. That revenue went up sixteen percent, hitting almost $1.6 billion compared to about $1.35 billion a year back.
While subscription numbers and people watching more shows helped boost the direct-to-consumer profitability by close to $180 million, not everything was sunny. Advertising revenue dipped nine percent, coming in at $473 million, down from $520 million. Still, Paramount+ were happy to point out that the service ranked second (behind Netflix) when it comes to original shows in the subscription video on-demand world.
