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Dana E. Neuts

Dana Neuts is Subscription Insider's Editorial Director, covering our daily subscription news as well as member features, case studies, premium content, and reports. Dana is also a writer, editor, marketer and communications professional. Her work has appeared in AARP Bulletin, The Seattle Times, Seattle Business, 425 Business, 425 Magazine, South Sound Magazine, Northwest Travel and more. Her specialties include business writing, community news, senior issues, travel and, of course, subscriptions!

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Adobe Reports Record Q3 FY219 Growth But Stock Drops Anyway

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Cloud software company Adobe is on a roll with another strong earnings report. For the period ended August 30, 2019, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) had a record quarter with $2.83 billion in revenue, representing 24% growth year-over-year. Subscriptions revenue represented $2.5 billion of total revenue (89.8%), product represented $157.3 million (5.6%), and services and support represented $130.2 million (4.6%).

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Pocket Casts Launches a Freemium Model and Subscription Service

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Pocket Casts, a podcast aggregation app, has switched to a freemium model which includes a free version for listeners and a premium version, Pocket Casts Plus, for subscribers. Previously, Pocket Casts ranged in price from $4 to $10 to download from the Google Play Store or the App Store. Instead of a one-time download fee, podcast fans can listen for free, or pay $0.99 per month or $9.99 per year for the premium version. Pocket Casts Plus allows subscribers to listen from a desktop app. It also gives them exclusive app icons and themes, as well as 10GB of cloud storage space.

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Weekly Subscription News: Lapses, Shortfalls and Shopping Sprees

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In this weeks subscription headlines, Apple introduces a grace period for lapsed app subscriptions, it looks like Quartz is going to lose money again this year, while Bloomberg Media plans to double subscriptions next year. Also, Salesforce.com continues its shopping spree, Google and Facebook are expanding their news initiatives, and Nintendo is going to allow Switch online subscription upgrades.

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Amazon Adds High Quality Audio Streaming Tier to Amazon Music

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Amazon is stepping up its music game, adding high quality audio streaming to its Amazon Music subscription program. The new, premium tier is called Amazon Music HD, and it is available to current subscribers for an additional $5 per month. For a limited time, Amazon Music subscribers in the U.S., U.K., Japan and Germany can upgrade for free for 90 days. New subscribers can sign up now for a 90-day free trial. After the free trial, Amazon Prime customers will pay $12.99 a month. Other Amazon customers will pay $14.99 a month for the HD service. A family plan is also available.

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Spotify to Acquire Music Talent Marketplace SoundBetter

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In acquisition news last week, streaming audio service Spotify announced that it is buying SoundBetter, a music talent marketplace. Founded in 2012, SoundBetter connects musical artists with each other. To date, theyve helped tens of thousands of musical artists buy and sell services around the world. More than 180,000 artists, including singers, songwriters, producers, musicians, and mixing and mastering engineers, are registered on SoundBetter. The company calls itself the de facto LinkedIn for music professionals.

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Fair Buys Canvas Car Subscription Service from Ford

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Last week, vehicle subscription app Fair announced it is buying the assets of Canvas, Fords vehicle subscription. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. The deal will help the two-year-old Fair continue to expand into the vehicle subscription market. As a result of the acquisition, Canvas is no longer accepting new subscribers. Prospective customers can visit Go.Fair.com/Canvas to download the Fair app and get $100 off on Fairs start payment by using the code CANVAS (offer expires 12/31/19), according to the Canvas site.

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Walmart to Launch Unlimited Grocery Delivery to 1,400 U.S. Stores

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Walmart is ready to take on AmazonFresh with its new Delivery Unlimited service. Last week the retail giant announced its new unlimited grocery delivery service, expected to roll out to 1,400 U.S. stores this fall. In exchange for a $98 per year or $12.95 per month membership fee, after a 15-day free trial, members of Delivery Unlimited will receive unlimited free grocery delivery. Non-members can still get grocery delivery from Walmart, but they will pay a delivery fee of $7.95 to $9.95 for each order.

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Saturday Was Final Curtain for MoviePass Subscription Service

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Saturday was the final curtain for the MoviePass subscription service. The company called it quits after failing to recapitalize and revamp the company after a series of misfires over the last several years. In true MoviePass fashion, however, the company is officially calling it a service disruption. By all accounts, however, it looks like this is the end for the beleaguered company. MoviePass promised to issue refunds for subscribers for services for which they have already paid.

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Weekly Subscription News: M.I.T. Media Lab, Medium and Music

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This week, the subscription news headlines include everything from expansion and exclusion to new launches and legacies: Jeffrey Epsteins legacy ensnares the M.I.T. Media Lab, Medium launches a new publication for business, and Amazon expands into Brazil. Also, Apple News is excluding local newsrooms, a $5 billion fine wont fix Facebook, and paid streaming music subscriptions top 60 million in the United States, says RIAA.

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WWE Network Completes Major Overhaul to Upgrade Streaming Service

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WWE Network, one of the first niche streaming video on demand services, hit a wall earlier this year when Disney bought BAMTech, the platform WWE had been using to stream its shows. WWE Network needed a new solution to continue bringing fan favorites to subscribers. According to The Verge, WWE chose Endeavor Streaming and Massive Interactive to build its new platform. Fast forward to late July when WWE announced the launch of WWE Network 2.0 to fix bugs, add missing content and new features, and more.

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