if Amazon is telling them about different tiers of subscription
Which, as I said, means it all comes out in the wash. If revenue is +100% here and -100% there, it's 0%. Either they are looking big picture, and that's what they see, or they're zoomed in and therefore in a scenario where they would ask the follow up.
They care about revenue going up. It doesn't go up, unless it does.
Right, but again, if they're that birds-eye-view, then the bump in subs in one spot is negated by the drop in the other and the net result they're looking at is what they care about.
I mean, do you have any examples of companies trying to pull this? Where they automigrate one base of users to another tier of whatever it may be, and then successfully pretend it was organic growth?
I've worked in many corporate settings where projects have to show their results and that sort of thing would never make it past the middlest manager.
Hmm, I'm not sure this is any evidence of that.