>>61306887
Pretty sure it's just the AI circular money bubble but done on a smaller scale between car rental companies, 2015 Chevy Malibu owners, and boomers that forgot they still had a subscription.
>Car rental companies get paid by Sirius to keep the radio in their car model SKU's they buy, increasing "subscriber count" and "listening hours"
>Second hand used cars sold from said rental companies still are listed as active users increasing "subscriber count" and "listening time"
>Boomers piss and shit themselves when they don't have radio or a station dedicated to the eagles. They don't use it, but are given free months of service whenever they try to cancel to increase "subscriber count" and "listening hours"
>Satellite radio has no proper attribution layer so all the "listening hours" are fudged and the "subscriber count" has been inflated by the above
>Advertisers then dump money in because the numbers seem good and their a fake department designed to light money on fire
Sirius can basically limp on indefinitely until advertisers stop dumping money into it.