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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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Weekly Subscription News: Partnerships, Postmates and Product Reviews

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In this week’s subscription headlines, Microsoft makes its Office 365 subscriptions more versatile, MoviePass partners with Postmates to beef up its subscription offer, and ESPN kills Insider. Also this week, BuzzFeed launches a product review site, taking a cut of the profits, students can get streaming subscriptions for $5 a month, and Square’s value jumps 6 percent after named “best idea” in fintech.

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Sprint Offers Prime, Hulu and Tidal Subscriptions with Unlimited Premium

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Sprint is expanding its subscription offerings by including popular subscriptions to Amazon Prime, Hulu and Tidal Premium with its new unlimited data plan, Unlimited Premium. In addition to including these subscriptions, the Unlimited Premium plan includes Lookout Premium Plus, streaming in full HD, global roaming, Unlimited talk, text and 4G LTE data in Canada and Mexico, unlimited data, talk and text in the U.S. and other perks. Sprint’s Unlimited Plus plan also includes Hulu and Tidal Premium subscriptions, but you have to enroll in the Unlimited Premium plan to get Amazon Prime.

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Five on Friday: Tariffs, Countersuits and Top Subscription Jobs

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Summer may be over, but subscriptions are still hot. Weve got three publishing-related tidbits for you and everyones favorite feature – top subscription jobs! In the publishing world, newspaper tariffs have been reversed. What does this mean for the newspaper industry? Next, well share the latest merger feud – this time around Sinclair Broadcasting is countersuing Tribune Media. Also this week, Conde Nast will pay $14 million to settle a case involving the sale of…

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Mozilla Announces Anti-Tracking Features in Next Firefox Releases

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If you aren’t using an ad blocker, you may have noticed that when you surf the web you see ads for products or services you had looked at online. It’s annoying at best, creepy even, but Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox browser, hopes to change that with three new initiatives to stop unwanted tracking. Firefox users will see the new features over the next few months.

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Workday Reports 30.2 Percent Subscription Growth in Q2 FY2019

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Yesterday Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), an enterprise cloud application provider for the finance and human resource industries, reported strong subscription growth in its fiscal 2019 second quarter ended July 31, 2018. The company brought in subscription revenue of $565.7 million, a 30.2 percent increase year-over-year, and reported a subscription revenue backlog of $5.5 billion, a 26 percent increase year-over-year.

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News Corp to Acquire Real Estate Tech Platform Opcity for $210 Million

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Last week News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA) announced that its subsidiary Move, Inc. will acquire real estate technology platform Opcity for $210 million. Move, Inc. operates Realtor.com, and this acquisition will broaden that site’s lead generation product portfolio. According to a news release, real estate professionals can choose between using traditional sales leads and those generated by Opcity, which provides “highly vetted, transaction-ready leads.”

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Weekly Subscription News: Focus, Fox Nation and Facebook

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Summer is over, but subscription news is still hot with stories from top subscription companies. Fox News is already plugging its “Fox Nation” subscription service though they’ve revealed few details, MoviePass eliminates its annual subscription option, and Snap partners with Pandora and TuneMoji. Also this week, subscription watch club Eleven James seems to have disappeared, Tableau’s shift to subscriptions is paying off, and instantly-issued post-pay credit service Paidly announced an investment from Visa.

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Amazon Celebrates the Back-to-School Season with Prime Book Box Now

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Many kids are back in school already or are headed there soon, and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is celebrating the back-to-school season with a new offering – Prime Book Box Now for kids. With a Prime Book Box Now subscription, kids receive a curated selection of children’s books every one, two or three months for $22.99 per box, after a 30-day free trial. The subscription program is available to U.S. Prime members and, by subscribing, members save up to 35 percent off the list price of each book. The program was initially launched in May as a test, and it was available by invitation only.

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Five on Friday: Nintendo, News and Native Advertising

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Before you head out for the three-day weekend, check out this weeks edition of Five on Friday. Disqus explores why readers pay for news, Ad Week explains ways media companies can use native advertising to their advantage, a consumer watchdog group in the U.K. is monitoring social influencers who may not be disclosing paid promotions, YouTube is being strategic about its premium content and Shigeru Miyamoto urges game developers to embrace subscription-based services.

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Nickelodeon Launches SVOD Service ‘Nicksplat’ on VRV

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If you miss CatDog, Rocko’s Modern Life, All That and Kenan & Kel, you can get your fill of these Nickelodeon classics on NickSplat, a new streaming video on-demand channel on VRV. For $5.99, subscribers get full access to ad-free versions of 30 or so of their favorite Nickelodeon shows on VRV, following a free seven-day trial. NickSplat is also part of the VRV Premium bundle. For $9.99 a month, subscribers can access an ad-free streaming video on-demand channel with new episodes, exclusive series, NickSplat and more on VRV including HarmonQuest, Dragon Ball Super, Bravest Warriors and more.

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