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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!

Dana E. Neuts

Weekly Subscription News: Audi, Axel Springer and Ad Blocking

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In this week’s subscription headlines, Audi is the latest automaker to explore a car subscription, former Tronc chairman Michael Ferro sells his largest share, and the German Supreme Court finds in favor of Adblock Plus. Also this week, Amazon Prime finally reveals subscription totals, AT&T plans to launch a streaming TV service, and Google is launching outstream video ads to play on site other than YouTube.

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Five on Friday: Video Games, Fake Ad Blockers and Creating Press Kits

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It is hard to believe today is the last Friday in April, but here we are. To help you move smoothly into May, weve got five great subscription stories to share: PYMNTS explores how subscriptions are changing the video game industry, Digital Trends reports on how 20 million Chrome users got tricked into downloading fake ad blockers, MarTech Advisor shares why it believes subscription businesses will succeed in a data-driven world, Lenfest Institute tells us how Berkeleysides direct public offering raised $1 million to fund operations, and Shopify offers advice on how to create a press kit.

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Tableau Adds Three New Subscription Products to Reach More Users

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On Tuesday, Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) announced the launch of three new subscription products to reach more users, helping companies to tailor Tableau products and pricing to better meet their organizations’ unique needs. The new packages are called Tableau Creator, Tableau Explorer and Tableau Viewer, all available on-premises, in the cloud via Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, or through Tableau Online, the company’s fully-managed SaaS offering.

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Alpine Subscriptions Acquires Subscription Box Company InstaCandy

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Alpine Subscriptions’ portfolio just got a little sweeter. The Utah-based company just acquired InstaCandy, a candy and confections subscription box service with operations in the U.S. and Canada. Alpine Subscriptions acquired the monthly candy service to expand its foray into the consumer lifestyle arena, and its reach will branch out to thousands of new customers. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

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Alphabet Reports Strong Q1 with Revenue of $31.1 Billion

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Financially speaking, Alphabet is having a good year. On Monday, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced its financials for the first quarter of 2018, including total revenue of $31.1 billion, a 26 percent increase year-over-year, and operating income of $7.0 billion, a 22 percent increase year-over-year. Net income for the quarter was solid at $9.4 billion, or $9.93 earnings per share, beating analyst predictions.

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Investors Warm to Pivotal Software on Day 2 of IPO

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On Friday, Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL) debuted on the New York Stock Exchange at $15 a share, raising $555 million in its first day, reports MarketWatch. At the end of Day 1, Pivotal stock was valued at $15.73 per share. Despite the lackluster reception on Friday, investors warmed to Pivotal on Day 2, closing at $17.26 per share as of 7:22 p.m. EDT yesterday. Other tech companies who have filed IPOs this spring are Dropbox, Spotify and Zuora.

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YouTube and Hulu to Add Cheddar to Live and Streaming TV Line-Up

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Google’s YouTube TV is adding two streaming Cheddar channels – Cheddar, the company’s original tech-and-business news channel and Cheddar Big News, Cheddar’s brand new news channel with general interest stories – to its live 50-channel broadcast, cable and regional TV subscription service, reports Variety. These additions join Newsy as YouTube’s first digital-only channels for the streaming TV service, which launched in April 2017.

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Weekly Subscription News: Politico, Payments and Paid Content

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In this week’s subscription headlines, Samsung Pay adds Samsung Rewards to its payment service, another Uber breach reveals 25 million emails were hacked, and experts aren’t impressed with the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica apology tour. Also this week, Digiday reveals that half of Politico Europe’s revenue comes from paid subscriptions, MarketWatch says ESPN’s new subscription service is similar to its previously-free content, and Pivotal Payments announces a new mobile payments platform.

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Five on Friday: Marketing Trends, Twitter Bots and Top Jobs

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TGIF. You made it to the end of the week! Woo hoo. Kick back, relax and take a few minutes to skim our weekly Five on Friday. In this weeks edition, we bring you top subscription jobs, Pew Research Center shares the latest research on Twitter bots, Ann Handley talks about the trend toward long-form content, Digiday reports on news publishers seeing an influx of subscriptions from an interest in local politics, and Hubspot shares top marketing design trends for 2018.

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Apple to Launch New Apple News Product as Premium Subscription

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A month after disclosing an agreement to buy digital magazine app Texture, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced plans to create a new premium subscription Apple News product, integrating it with Texture. According to Bloomberg, the goal behind the strategy is to generate new revenue from content and services. Apple is in the process of acquiring Texture for an undisclosed sum. The magazine app, previously called Next Issue, gives subscribers unlimited access to up to 200 magazines for $9.99 a month.

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