In this week’s subscription news, Conde Nast buys Pitchfork Media, the New York Times is offering digital access to newsstand buyers, Netflix raises its rates and the CIO of the Financial Times debates the pros and cons of being in the subscription business. We’ve got those headlines and others on paid marketing channels, SaaS, ad blocking and mobile payments.
Weekly Subscription News Round-Up for Oct. 16 Read More »
Earlier this week WalmartLabs (yes, that Walmart) announced that it will release OneOps cloud technology as an open source tool by year end. Jeremy King, CTO of Walmart Global eCommerce and Head of WalmartLabs and Tim Kimmet, VP of Platform and Systems at WalmartLabs explain in their October 14 announcement: “OneOps is powerful cloud technology we built ourselves that has transformed the way our engineers develop and launch new products to our customers. They deliver this with…
Netflix announced recently that its U.S. growth was lower than anticipated, due to the involuntary churn of customers from the re-issuance of credit cards to comply with the new EMV “chip card” standards. Subscription Insider spoke with Paul Larson of PLC to get his take on the story.
Involuntary Churn Will Impact All Subscription Businesses, Not Just Netflix Read More »
In this edition of Five on Friday, Diane Pierson looks at funding advice, improving survey results, Twitter’s removal of its public API, optimizing landing pages, and why subscription box businesses should offer unconditional free shipping.
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