Never saw anything mentioned about a 'free' month.
Article said '150,000 paying subscribers'.
Quite a few streaming services have a free month. You have to give your credit card, so you’re required to cancel if you don’t want to be charged for the next month.
Now I can see some executive claiming that “we’ve got 150k paying subscribers” even if most of them got a free month.
I’m guessing that’s what happened...I’m not sure though.