Vince Conference Call Notes - WM32, Total Bellas, Returns, Call Ups, etc

[SAIYANS]

Network Content

He said they had 19 hours of primetime premiere content during WrestleMania week and subscribers watched 22 million hours, about 12 hours per subscriber. They’re very excited about new content. He said Camp WWE is doing very well in their on-demand section. He also hyped Swerved season 2 and the Holy Foley show on the WWE Network

Subscription Count

WWE announced 1.469 million WWE Network subscribers the day after WrestleMania 32 with 1.357 million of those being paid subscribers. They announced a total of 1.824 million subscribers in today’s first quarter 2016 earnings report with 1.454 million of those being paid subscribers. This shows an increase of 355,000 subscribers from March 31st to April 4th.

Returns

He said they have several wrestlers coming back soon including Seth Rollins, Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt and John Cena. They were asked about injured stars returning and how it relates to business, and Vince said everything seems stronger than usual when it comes to the mix of returning stars and new talents.

New Talent

Vince said they have introduced 13 new stars recently, giving props to the NXT brand. He said they will have more talent on the roster in the next 30 days than they have ever had before.

Social Media

They now have 650 million followers on social media and 450 billion video views across all platforms. Between 70-80% of their social media is international. A caller asked about social media and why they should care about it if it’s not bringing in much revenue. Barrios talked about how it’s big to have their content seen by users and how social media helps push the Network growth. He said strategically, social media is huge for them and he doesn’t get when people don’t understand that.

Bella Twins

Total Bellas was not something in the original deals with E! or NBCUniversal. It’s a new concept they came up with together and Barrios said it’s going to be a lot of fun.

Shane and Steph

A caller asked about Shane McMahon returning to the company and Vince said he’s done extremely well as one of their talents now. Vince said the current storyline with Shane and Stephanie McMahon is doing really well.

WM 32 Buys

They did between 900,000 and 1.2 million buys for WrestleMania 32 on traditional pay-per-view.

The fact HHH and Reigns without any other really big matchup had 1.5mil network subscribers, another 900k-1.2mil traditional buys, set the attendance record, and made an all time gate record ... If I was Vince is say fuck you boo him, idc

 

[Dale]

Lol @ putting it down to Reigns and HHH

 

[Kiffy Lube]

The build up to Reigns/Trips was okay especially that referee gettin' his ankle split open was nice. However, this is just clearly name recognition of Wrestlemania at this point and nothing else.

 

[SAIYANS]

Lol @ putting it down to Reigns and HHH

People boo reigns but he's headlined the two most profitable manias ever. They boo him but his live event tour does better numbers than the Bryan/Punk tour. They boo him yet he was a top 10 march mover.

HHH and Reigns was the big match w/ Taker/Shane second. Brock was wasted on a clown who can't throw a punch and the rest was low card to unproven guys filling out 7 hours of programming. They get the lion share of credit

 

[Kiffy Lube]

PSYCH dude, it's called inflation. The numbers don't make it the best Mania unless you're an obnoxious business mogul and not an actual fan.

 

[Deezy]

First off......Psych you ain't dead

Second.....Reigns moving units like he a factory worker for Apple.

990k might be the actual number, but goddamn, that's a shitload for PPV. UFC wish they get that number for UFC 200.

When are people going to learn that Reigns putts asses in seat? This just negates everyone who ever threatened to cancel their subscriptions over the guy.

THE GUY