Since last year, its Web site has amassed more than 100 million subscribers across 45 countries.
The company, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telecom, has a total of 2.9 million subscribers across Europe.
As of June the New York Times Company had 532,000 paying digital subscribers across its publications.
Its founder, Bill Rasmussen, wanted to show Connecticut sport to Connecticut people, but discovered a much larger market.These days ESPN boasts 96m cable subscribers across America.
The Guardian also has a further 150,000 people signed up as non-paying digital members and a total of 181,000 subscribers across print and digital.
Spotify boasts more than 10 million paying subscribers, across 58 countries, on top of the 30 million people who access the streaming service for free.
The now multi-platform business, which has more than 11 million global subscribers across sites including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube, uses the strapline "For Fans, by Fans".
Sonera, based in Helsinki, has more than 2.3 million wireless subscribers across Finland and operates more than 770,000 land lines.
In October the Guardian celebrates a milestone of 500,000 regular paying supporters, made up of members and subscribers across print and digital.
The company - which now employs more than 7,000 people and has 83 million subscribers across 43 countries - reported $644.7 million of revenue in the first quarter of 2011 alone.
The disruption affected Netflix subscribers across the United States, Canada and Latin America and blacked out various devices — including video game consoles and DVD players — that enable users to stream movies and television shows, the Netflix spokesman, Joris Evers, said.
