The phrase "acquire subscribers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of gaining new subscribers for a service, newsletter, or platform.
Example: "Our goal this quarter is to acquire subscribers for our new podcast series."
Alternatives: "gain subscribers" or "attract subscribers."
Dish is also finding it more costly to acquire subscribers.
"It's very costly to acquire subscribers," said Chad White, the research director at Responsys.
Bereft of its prime-time platform, Ancestry.com may have to spend more of its precious cash to acquire subscribers.
Thereafter, because Sky Italia is not spending too much to acquire subscribers and is mostly managing to keep them, the firm should earn Mr Murdoch a lot of cash.
"In a bigger sense, what it brings to mind is that the satellite companies are spending huge amounts of money to acquire subscribers," said Richard Read of Crédit Lyonnais Securities.
Of course, AOL will continue to acquire subscribers.
Mr. Mason also defended the use of a controversial accounting formula that leaves out the cost of acquiring subscribers, equity compensation, interest costs and taxes.
EarthLink, for its part, is acquiring subscribers at a cost of roughly $80 each, just over half what the company pays to sign up new dial-up subscribers, according to analysts at Salomon Smith Barney.
They quickly acquired subscribers for their various CSA options, including produce, meat and whole-diet plans, but theirs is a geographically diverse membership, scattered throughout the Chesapeake region and the Washington area.
The company, after failing to find a media company to help defray the punishing costs of acquiring subscribers, has found a partner in one of the failed bidders for Chicago magazine, Joe Mansueto, the founder and owner of Morningstar Inc., an investment research firm.
Because he is convinced that walking as a pastime and as a form of exercise is about to boom, Mr. Raben is rushing to market his new entry, going to all-newsstand distribution at first (300,000 copies), with plans to begin acquiring subscribers later.
