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November 30, 2018

Five on Friday: Subscription Dental, Deals and Deceptive Practices

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We hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend! In this weeks Five on Friday, PYMTS reports that consumers are fighting “subscription friction” as retailers like Adore Me use deceptive practices to sign up subscribers, CNBC explores how media outlets are getting people to pay for news, Quip raises another $40 billion for subscription dental services, Google considers shutting down Google News in the EU to avoid being taxed on links and, as YouTube waffles on whether or not it should have subscriptions, it offers student deals on YouTube and YouTube Music.

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Shopify Merchants Made Over $1.5 Billion in Sales Thanksgiving Weekend

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Shopify merchants had an incredible Black Friday Cyber Monday (BCFM) shopping weekend, with more than 600,000 sellers from 175 countries generating more than $1.5 billion in sales. Among the highlights was the move to mobile shopping. Sixty-six percent of Shopify sales during BCFM occurred on mobile devices, compared to 34 percent shopping on desktops. Shopify said part of this was due to responsive themes and a variety of mobile-friendly payment options including Shopify Pay, Google Pay and Apple Pay.

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