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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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Prime Day 2019 Was the Largest Shopping Event in Amazon History

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Once again, Amazon – and its Prime members – have something to smile about. Amazons Prime Day 2019, which actually stretched across 48 hours, was the most successful shopping event in company history, reports Amazon. Members in 18 countries bought more than 175 million items, including everything from clothing and electronics to groceries and beauty products. Prime Day, held July 15 and 16, was also the biggest sales event ever for Amazon devices, particularly the Echo Dot, Fire TV stick, Alexa voice remote and Fire TV stick with Alexa voice remote.

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Five on Friday: Discounts, Subscription Billing and Free Shipping

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This weeks Five on Friday is packed full of news updates, predictions, new initiatives and tips for growing your subscription business. We share what some experts are saying about Disney +s potential for success, Business Insider takes a look at why Roku is having such a great year, Etsys plans to grow its free shipping program to compete with Amazon and Walmart, we examine why offering discounts to unhappy customers can actually work against you, and Business2Community explains how subscription billing adds value to your business.

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Netflix Revenue Grows 26 Percent But Membership Adds Miss Forecast

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Netflixs second quarter financials for 2019 offered mixed results. In a letter to shareholders yesterday, Netflix revealed quarterly revenue of $4.9 billion, representing growth of 26% year-over-year. In the not-so-great-news category, Netflix only added 2.7 million new members during the quarter, compared to the 5.0 million new members forecast and the 5.5 million new members added in the second quarter of 2018.

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Charles Schwab Brings in $1B in New Assets with Subscription Service

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In March, Charles Schwab launched a subscription service that is already making a big difference for the investment firm and its clients. The subscription service, called Schwab Intelligent Portfolios Premium, has already brought in $1 billion in new assets under management. Schwab has had a 25% increase in new accounts, and a 40% increase in average household assets, compared to the months prior to the subscription launch. Total client assets managed through Schwabs digital advisory solutions now equal $41 billion, a 23% increase year-over-year.

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Starbucks Will Stop Selling Newspapers in September

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If you enjoy going to your local Starbucks and sitting down to read The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal or USA Today, you will have to bring your own, starting sometime in September. The Seattle-based coffee company is taking newspapers off the menu, reports The New York Times. Starbucks currently carries newspapers at more than 8,600 U.S. locations. This change will not impact non-company operated Starbucks stores, like those in hotels and airports, says Starbucks spokesperson Sanja Gould.

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FX Plus Streaming Subscription Service to Shut Down in August

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Effective August 21, 2019, the FX+ streaming video subscription service is no more, a victim of Disneys $71 billion acquisition of 21st Century Foxs assets. For $5.99 a month, FX+ subscribers had access to more than 1,400 episodes of popular shows including The Shield, Sons of Anarchy, American Horror Story, and Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. By shutting down the service, Disney is paving the way for potential subscribers to subscribe to Hulu, which will feature FX Networks content, or their new streaming subscription service, Disney+, set to launch this fall.

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Weekly Subscription News: Nintendo, Negotiation and Nordstrom

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In this weeks subscription headlines, Congress asks Facebook to press pause on its decision to create cryptocurrency, Nintendo Switch Online reveals it has grown to 10 million subscribers, and Amazon offers new customer pick-up locations at 100 Rite-Aid stores across the country. Also this week, subscribers feel like theyve been taken hostage by DirecTV and AT&T, Nordstrom teams up with Rent the Runway, and Google and the Associated Press are working on a tool to share more local news faster.

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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google to Face Congress on Antitrust Issues

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Next Tuesday, July 16, representatives from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will testify before the House Antitrust Subcommittee to discuss concerns that a small number of dominant, unregulated platforms have extraordinary power over commerce, communication and information online. The federal government is concerned that the dominance these companies wield over the marketplace hampers competition. The antitrust committee will conduct a top-to-bottom review, the first time Congress has undertaken such an investigation of this area.

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Five on Friday: Deals, Details and DocuSign

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In this weeks edition of Five on Friday, the ABA Journal looks at different types of law firm subscriptions, DocuSign expands its payment options in Europe by teaming up with GoCardless, the Calm App hits $150 million in annual recurring revenue, WarnerMedia reveals additional details about its forthcoming streaming subscription service, and the IBM and Red Hat acquisition is complete, as the two tech companies seal the deal.

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PlayStation Vue Raises Prices $5 a Month for All Multi-Channel Plans

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Sony announced Monday that it is raising prices for all of its multi-channel PlayStation Vue plans by $5 a month. PlayStation Vue is Sonys over-the-top streaming TV subscription service. The price increase is effective immediately for new customers and will go into effect July 31 for current subscribers. In a blog post announcing the change, the company cited rising costs as the reason for the rate increase. PlayStation Vues last price increase was last summer, also a $5-per-month increase.

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