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What is defined as "previous period" on the Subscriber Growth Dashboard

  • March 30, 2026
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Whenever you add a custom range to the Subscriber Growth Dashboard, it says “vs previous period.” What is the previous period?

Is there a way to customize this so we could define the previous period? 

 

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Byrne C
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  • March 31, 2026

Hi ​@starfox221,

In this case, the previous period refers to the previous time frame the same length as the current time frame. For example, if today is 3/31, and you’re looking at subscriber growth over the last 7 days, the current period is 3/15-3/31 and the previous period is 3/18-3/24. If you’re looking to set up a custom previous period, you can set a custom date range, and the previous period will be the equivalent length of time that came directly before that date range.


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  • March 31, 2026

 

Hi ​@starfox221,

In this case, the previous period refers to the previous time frame the same length as the current time frame. For example, if today is 3/31, and you’re looking at subscriber growth over the last 7 days, the current period is 3/15-3/31 and the previous period is 3/18-3/24. If you’re looking to set up a custom previous period, you can set a custom date range, and the previous period will be the equivalent length of time that came directly before that date range.

Thanks Byrne. My goal would be to look at YoY comparsions--

so for instance, if I set the custom as 1/1/2026 - 3/31/2026, would it look at that as 10/1/2025 - 12/31/25 since that was the closest “previous period?”, not 1/1/2025 - 3/31/2025?