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Amazon Prime Improves Its Customer Retention Rate

May 31, 2016

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It's also comparable to the 9% annual churn for Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), which tops all streaming services, and much better than the 50% rate for Hulu, according to research from Parks Associates. Aside from Netflix, streaming services tend to have a more volatile churn rate because most make it very easy for consumers to join, cancel, and then join again. That's a pattern people are likely to follow as they join a service for specific content and then quit once they have consumed it.

From the article "Amazon Prime Improves Its Customer Retention Rate" by Daniel B. Kline.

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