Google says YouTube TV has over 2M paid subscribers

Google parent company Alphabet has provided a rare update on the performance of its virtual MVPD YouTube TV and other premium subscription services. During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai said YouTube TV now has more than 2 million paid subscribers. That reveal likely still puts YouTube TV behind Dish Network’s Sling TV – which ended the third quarter with 2.69 million subscribers – but ahead of AT&T TV Now, which finished 2019 with fewer than one million subscribers after losing another 219,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter. Pichai also said that YouTube now has more than 20 million music and premium paid subscribers, and that the overall business ended 2019 at a $3 billion annual run rate in YouTube subscriptions and other non-advertising revenues.