i worked on a streaming product but not on the marketing/financial side but none of this sounds right at all. the biggest cost of a streaming service is paying

i worked on a streaming product but not on the marketing/financial side but none of this sounds right at all. the biggest cost of a streaming service is paying for the channel rights (if doing live tv) and for the vod/streaming rights. nothing else has that big of an effect. and having more customers gives you more leverage against the right holders since they themselves need eyeballs so they can tell their advertisers how many eyeballs are watching these streams. this allows them to charge advertisers way more.