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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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Stripe Valued at $20 Billion After $245 Million Funding Round

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Web and mobile payments startup Stripe is in the news again this week, this time announcing a $245 million funding round, reports TechCrunch. This infusion of capital brings the company’s value to $20 billion. The latest funding round was led by Tiger Global Management. Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins and DST Global also invested during this funding round. Past investors include Visa, American Express, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. The company said it will use the new funding to expand internationally, including the addition of an engineering hub in Singapore. Stripe originally launched in Singapore in 2016, but it will now be adding a hub there. This will be its fourth after hubs in Seattle, Dublin and San Francisco.

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Five on Friday: Music and OTT Revenue Trends, Ads and Acquisitions

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In this weeks edition of Five on Friday, RIAA reports mid-year results, revealing that streaming music is dominating music industry revenue, a new report shows that over-the-top TV revenue will jump 26 percent this year to $28.8 billion, Bloomberg says that Google and Facebook will comprise more than half of the digital ad market in 2018, Adobe will acquire Marketo for $4.75 billion, and China has blocked Amazon-owned Twitch.

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Twenty-First Century Fox Sells Stake in Sky to Comcast for $15 Billion

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Yesterday, the Walt Disney Company agreed to allow Twenty-First Century Fox to sell its 39 percent share in Sky to Comcast for £17.28 per share, or more than $15 billion. This will reduce the debt Disney would inherit in its acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox. This investment will also help Disney in its strategy to develop and distribute direct-to-consumer streaming video like the new ESPN+ streaming service launched this April.

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ESPN+ Streaming Service Hits 1 Million Subscribers in Just 5 Months

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Since Disney-owned ESPN launched its ESPN+ streaming subscription service in April, the company has signed up more than 1 million paid subscribers. ESPN+ is a subscription service for sports lovers that offers content different than viewers will see on ESPN’s regular network. For just $4.99 a month, or $49.99 a year, after a free seven-day trial, sports fans can watch a daily selection of live sports as well as ESPN originals on-demand without a cable or satellite TV subscription. The service includes games from MLB, MLS and NHL, the PGA tour, boxing, tennis, college sports and more. The app’s goal is to stream 10,000 live sporting events in its first year, reports CNBC.

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Ad Blocker AdGuard Reset All User Passwords After Being Hacked

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After detecting an attack toward its servers last week, ad blocker AdGuard reset all users’ passwords. The company has 5 million users worldwide. AdGuard assured users that the company’s servers were not compromised, so the resetting of passwords was mostly a preventative measure. The company has since set stricter password requirements, and they have connected to HaveIBeenPwned API, a website that gathers data about all known compromised passwords. If a user tries a password found in this database, the user will receive a warning.

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Fitbit Launches Fitbit Care for Employers and Health Plans

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A week after Apple revealed the Apple Watch Series 4, Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) announced the launch of Fitbit Care, a program that combines the new Fitbit Plus app, Fitbit wearables and health coaching for healthcare plans, employers and health systems. The new program is made possible through Fitbit’s acquisition of Twine Health, a health coaching platform that helps users achieve better health outcomes, ultimately helping employer health programs lower healthcare costs.

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Weekly Subscription News: Content, Cars and Cannabis

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This week’s subscription news features a variety of subscription companies – news, fitness, cars, movies, payments and more. The Globe and Mail launches Canada’s first premium subscription news service about cannabis, Audi tests a car subscription service in Dallas, and according to CNBC, Netflix could lose one-fourth of its subscribers if it runs ads on the streaming video on-demand service. Also this week, celebrity fitness trainer Dana Perri launches a subscription service, Instagram Shopping gets a personalized explore channel and stories tags, and Snapchat partners with 25 media companies.

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Subscription Service “Rent the Runway” Opens San Francisco Store

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Rent the Runway is expanding, this time adding a standalone store in San Francisco, reports TechCrunch. This location will be in addition to stores in Woodland Hills, California, Washington, D.C., Chicago and its flagship store in New York City. The San Francisco store will be open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday as well as weekend hours. The stores, of course, supplement the company’s successful fashion rentals and subscription services.

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Five on Friday: Google AMP, Permission and Postmates

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We hope this weeks edition of Five on Friday finds you safe, dry and out of harms way. Today we have five subscription-related stories to kick off your weekend: the original Twitter feed returns, Google agrees to give up some control of its AMP publishing format, Stripe gives brick-and-mortar payments a try, Shopify explains how brands can get permission to use user-generated content, and Postmates raises an astounding $300 million in its latest funding round, as its CEO hints at a possible IPO in 2019.

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Lexus to Launch “Lexus Complete Lease” Subscription Service in Q1 2019

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Jumping on the car subscription bandwagon, Lexus plans to launch its Complete Lease program in four markets – Chicago, Miami, Boston and Los Angeles – in the first quarter of 2019, reports Digital Trends. The program will allow subscribers to lease a Lexus UX crossover for two years, and it will be available weeks before that model is available for purchase in the U.S. Like other car subscriptions, Lexus will test the subscription service in a few markets and make adjustments as needed before making it more widely available.

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