August 18, 2018

Weekly Subscription News: Cash, Creators and Conde Nast

On the heels of a fresh round of financial reports, subscription companies are saturating the news headlines. In this week’s round-up, DC Entertainment is opening its streaming subscription for pre-orders on Google Play, YouTube offers cash to creators to use and promote new features, Unified Payments launches a subscription-based payment processing service, and Spotify tests unlimited, skippable audio ads.

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Mission Impossible? Becoming a Trusted Neutral Source in Your Market

The opportunity for data companies to operate as central information exchanges is worth pursuing because they have a central position in their markets, and this neutral market position makes them trustworthy. Lots of sensitive market information gets exchanged through central data hubs. Companies routinely exchange credit data, pricing data, business metrics and much more. They do this because they know the data they submit will only be released in aggregate or anonymized form. As importantly, they do this because they need the answers that only data exchanges can provide. Is there an opportunity for your company provide this type of service?

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