August 12, 2017

This Week’s Subscription News: Financial Times, FireEye and FX

This has been a huge news week in the subscription world with Netflix’s acquisition of comic book publisher and producer Millarworld and Google’s offer to buy Snapchat for $30 billion. Also in the headlines this week, FX will offer an ad-free subscription service, the Financial Times returns to the App Store after a six-year break, and the new Time Warner chief says CNN is not for sale. We’re also reading about antitrust concerns over Amazon, Microsoft pushing hardware sales with a device subscription model, and how the pursuit of digital readers broke the New Republic.

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Quarterly Financial Round-Up for August 2017, Part 1

There are so many publicly-traded subscription companies that we want to cover each quarter, but there is never enough time to report on them all. In this round-up, we’ve chosen some of the companies we’ve covered in the past to update you on where they are now. In this particular round-up, we’re including Activision Blizzard, Alarm.com, CBS Corporation, Etsy and IAC. IAC isn’t a household name, but you’ll recognize some of its 150 subsidiaries including Match.com, HomeAdvisors and Tinder. Next week, we’ll cover five more subscription companies including Apple, Box, Onvia, SiriusXM and Tronc.

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