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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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Apple’s Relaunch of Texture Magazine App Could Come Next Spring

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Remember the Texture magazine subscription app that Apple bought this spring for an undisclosed sum? According to a recent Bloomberg report, the “Netflix for magazines” app will be getting a refresh that could launch as early as next spring. The app will be a premium product within the Apple News app, and it will be available for a single price rather than the two-tiered plan that Texture had previously featured.

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Lee Enterprises Reports Earnings of $4.4 Million for Q4 FY18

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On Friday, media organization Lee Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: LEE) reported its fourth quarter results for fiscal year 2018, for the period ended September 30, 2018. Among the highlights for the quarter were earnings of $4.4 million, or $0.07 per diluted common share, compared to $3.5 million, or $0.06 per diluted common share, for the same period last year. For the full fiscal year 2018, Lee posted earnings of $47.0 million, or $0.82 per diluted share, an increase of $18.4 million compared to $28.6 million, or $0.50 per diluted share, for fiscal year 2017.

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Weekly Subscription News: Uber, Amazon and Abusive Ads

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In the subscription headlines this week, Lyft beats Uber to filing for an IPO, Camunda raises $28 million to grow its workflow automation platform, and Amazon Video Channels is estimated to raise about $1.7 billion by year end. Also this week, streaming subscription service Hulu is the first such service to accept Venmo as a form of payment, the value of Verizon Media Group (Oath) is drastically reduced, and Facebook emails reveal that insiders knew personal data was in danger and needed to be protected.

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DocuSign Reports Subscription Revenue of $169.4 Million in Q3 FY19

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DocuSign reported strong growth in its third quarter of fiscal year 2019, despite reporting a GAAP net loss of $0.31 per basic and diluted share. The eSignature solution provider had $178.4 million in total revenue for the quarter ended October 31, 2018, representing a 37 percent increase year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $169.4 million, a 38 percent increase over the same period last year, and professional services and other revenue of $9.0 million, a 17 percent increase year-over-year. Subscription revenue represents 95 percent of DocuSign’s total revenue.

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Five on Friday: FilmStruck, Fate and Funding

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In this weeks Five on Friday, The Guardians Guy Lodge shares his opinion that the discontinuation of FilmStruck spells doom for classic films, All Business discusses the subscribe & save business model, Investors.com tells us how the subscription model draws companies and customers closer together, Aria Systems raises $30 million in its latest funding rounding, and a new Pew Research report shows that social media has now outpaced print newspapers as a source for news among U.S. adults.

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Google Plus to Shut Down Sooner Due to Second Data Breach

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This is a tough time to be a tech giant if this week’s headlines are any indication. On Monday, Google revealed in a blog post that Google Plus users had been attacked again last month when a software update contained a bug that affected a Google Plus API. Though Google found and fixed the bug within a week of its introduction, it had still impacted approximately 52.5 million users. Google said its is still investigating the exact impact, and it has started notifying consumer users of Google Plus as well as enterprise customers who were impacted.

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Okta Reports Record Revenue Driven by Subscriptions in Q3 Fiscal 2019

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Last Wednesday, Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA), a San Francisco-based identity software provider, reported record revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019 for the period ended October 31, 2018. Okta reported total revenue of $105.6 million, a 58 percent increase over the same period last year. Subscription revenue was $97.7 million, also a 58 percent increase year-over-year. Subscription revenue currently represents 92.5 percent of total revenue for the SaaS company. Professional services and other make up the remaining $7.9 million of revenue, or 7.5 percent.

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Tacoma News Tribune to Eliminate 67 Print Jobs in 2019

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Employees of The Tacoma News Tribune are the latest casualties in an industry plagued with falling revenues, mergers and acquisitions, and employee layoffs. According to The Seattle Times, the 135-year-old News Tribune will cut 67 print and ad-insertion jobs next year, including 26 full-time staff and 41 part-time staff when the company shuts down its 45-year-old printing press next year. Impacted employees will receive severance pay, subsidized health care benefits and support in finding new employment.

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MoviePass Changes Pricing Again, Moving to Three-Tier Pricing in 2019

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MoviePass is ringing in the holidays with a new three-tier pricing plan starting in 2019. According to the announcement, MoviePass’s majority owner Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. (NASDAQ: HMNY) has been testing the new pricing plans for months, and the options will be effective January 1. With each of the plans, MoviePass subscribers can view up to three movies a month with multiple movie-going options. Current subscribers can stay on their existing plan, or they can move over to one of the new plans.

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Weekly Subscription News: Mixcloud, Malvertising and Martha Stewart

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As we enter the holiday season, there is plenty of subscription news and good cheer to spread around. This week, iOS users in the U.S. were targeted by a massive malvertising campaign, Yahoo Finance, Martha Stewart and BloomsBox.com announced subscription services and a Fox executive predicts that more subscription services will succumb to the pressure from competition and lack of sufficient subscribers to sustain and justify their services.

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