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Hulu is growing. By how much? Good question.

The video site’s future is up in the air, again. Meanwhile, some numbers, with some caveats.

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Hulu, the video site owned by big media companies, seems to always be going through a transition phase: Sometimes the big media guys love it. Other times they want to sell it — and then change their mind.

Now Hulu looks like it is headed for another change: If the Disney-Fox deal goes through, Disney will own a two-thirds stake in the business, and Disney CEO Bob Iger says Hulu will play a big role in his company’s future. (Though some industry observers think Comcast*, which owns a third of Hulu, will end up controlling it, perhaps because regulators will force Disney to sell it, and/or because it will be more important to Comcast’s digital plans than Disney’s.)

Anyway. How’s Hulu doing for now? Hard to tell: The company used to provide quarterly updates under former CEO Jason Kilar, but stopped doing that a while ago.

Today, though, it is showing a bit more leg: The company says it has 17 million subscribers, up from 12 million in 2016.

Make that a tiny bit of leg, because that stat comes with two big caveats:

So this chart is useful, but also misleading. Enjoy it with chunks of salt.

Context: Netflix told Wall Street it expects to add at least 4.6 million domestic subscribers in 2017, which would give it some 52 million subs in the U.S.

* Comcast is a minority investor in Vox Media, which owns this site.


This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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