# The New York Times Company Adds 420,000 Net Digital-Only Subscribers in Q3 2026

By John Kim

Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/48964
Published: 2026-11-05T02:19:12.000Z
Updated: 2026-11-05T02:19:12.000Z
Section: Business

> Revenue rose 9.7% to $768.538 million, while digital-only subscription revenue increased 14.6%.

The New York Times Company added about 420,000 net digital-only subscribers in the third quarter of 2026, up from about 280,000 in the second quarter. At Sept. 30, the company had about 13.22 million digital-only subscribers and 13.76 million subscribers overall. The company released its third-quarter results Nov. 4.

The company reported $768.538 million in revenue for the three months through Sept. 30, a 9.7% increase from $700.821 million in the year-earlier quarter. Net income rose to $97.4 million from $81.6 million.

Diluted earnings per share were $0.60, compared with $0.50 a year earlier. Adjusted diluted earnings per share, a non-GAAP measure, increased to $0.68 from $0.59.

Digital-only subscription revenue climbed 14.6% year over year to $421.250 million. Average revenue per digital-only subscriber was $9.93 per 28-day billing cycle, up 1.4% from a year earlier. Digital-only subscriptions cover one or more of the company’s news, The Athletic, Audio, Cooking, Games and Wirecutter products.

Digital advertising revenue increased 12% to $109.853 million. Print advertising revenue declined 4.3% to $32.720 million.

Meredith Kopit Levien, president and chief executive officer, described subscriber engagement and retention as “strong” across the company’s portfolio.