January 22, 2016

Weekly Subscription News Round-up for Jan. 22

In this week’s subscription headlines, The Nation erects a paywall and endorses Bernie Sanders for president, Lifesize splits from Logitech, and Apple promotes Meredith app inside the App store. We’ve got those headlines and more including stories about Recurly, SoundCloud, holiday subscription sales, ebooks, SaaS, digital publishing, ad blocking and more.

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Can Apple Music’s Subscriber Growth Last?

In just six months, Apple Music has achieved a major milestone, surpassing 10 million paying subscribers, reports the Financial Times. It launched its streaming music service on June 30. In comparison, Spotify has over 20 million subscribers and 75 million active users. It took Spotify about six years to reach 10 million paying subscribers, so Apple is ahead of the game. Another advantage Apple has over Spotify is that Spotify is available in 58 markets, and…

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Five on Friday: Improving the Subscriber Experience, the Media’s Reputation and More

This week’s Five on Friday explores improving the in-app subscription user experience, the perception of the media, instant gratification, unused marketing assets, and the opinion that the best managers are the most boring.

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