7 Reasons WWE Network Is Failing

The WWE Network should be performing better. Here's why it's not.

The much hyped WWE Network has been a disappointment at this point for World Wrestling Entertainment. While the company is saying all the right things and trying their best to grow the product, it's been difficult. Earlier this week we found out that WWE's subscription total as of September 30 was 731,000. They were hoping for something close to 1 million by this point. Obviously they've fallen short of that goal. What's sad about the numbers is that they only had a net gain of 31,000 in the last three months reported (June to September). Even worse, only 3,000 of those subscribers were from the United States with the rest of them coming from overseas expansion. That period was during the summer months when WWE was building to their second biggest PPV, SummerSlam. The big main event was a showdown with WWE Champion defending against Brock Lesnar and they only got 3,000 people to subscribe in the US? That's nothing to brag about. Those of us that have WWE Network like it. We're also the guys that the WWE Network is catered for. We watch Raw every week, we watch every PPV and when we're not watching wrestling we are probably looking up news about it on websites like this one. We're not the ones that WWE has to worry about. It's the casual fan that they are missing out on. Where has WWE gone wrong with the WWE Network? Here's a look at why this project has been failing so far.
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