Sentence examples for content acquisition costs from inspiring English sources

Pandora also reported a success in another closely watched figure: its "content acquisition" costs, which include royalties to music companies.

Its "content acquisition" costs in 2013 accounted for 53.8% of its revenues: more favourable than Spotify, but still not profitable overall.

In the third quarter, it paid $65.7 million, or about 55 percent of revenue, in "content acquisition costs," which include music royalties.

In its last four reported quarters, Pandora paid $202 million in "content acquisition costs," including licensing fees, and Spotify recently announced that it has paid $500 million in royalties since its inception.

At the same time, the company wants to keep its content acquisition costs under control.

Pandora's content acquisition costs were 55.9% of revenue for fiscal 2013 ending January 31, according to the company's annual report.

However, this is just a small acquisition and its benefits will be insignificant in the context of Pandora's overall content acquisition cost.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Pandora said it "believes that qualifying for [RMLC] royalty rates could provide the Company with modest savings (less than 1% of revenue) in content acquisition cost compared with the rates it is currently paying". The reaction to Pandora's terrestrial radio purchase was swift.

Pandora was nearly felled by content-acquisition costs in 2007, when the Copyright Royalty Board hiked reimbursement rates to a level that was unsustainable for the company and many of its competitors.

Two of the most interesting points were that we had no content costs and no customer acquisition costs.

And it's not just the cost of content acquisition they have to worry about.