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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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Golf Digest Offers New All-Access Subscription for $9.99 a Month

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Last week Golf Digest announced the launch of Golf Digest All-Access, a premium subscription with more than 200 original video lessons and classics. For $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, golfers get a print and digital subscription to Golf Digest, and they can watch their favorite golf pros as well as twice-weekly, live, interactive clinics with Michael Breed, chief digital instructor. Content is available on phones, laptops and TV screens with more content added…

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Weekly Subscription News: Turner, Twitch and Test Drives

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In this week’s subscription headlines, Turner Sports takes a swing at streaming pay-per-game offering, Twitch announces layoffs as it plans aggressive growth, and Canopy raises $30 million in Series B Funding. Also, this week, Lincoln is testing out a used-car subscription, subscription dating service Raya prioritizes trust over quantity, and Porsche Passport draws younger drivers than expected.

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TuneIn Launches TuneIn Live for Live Sports on Amazon Alexa

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Alexa, play the Red Sox game,’ or ‘Alexa, turn on ESPN’ will soon be familiar choices for sports fans who are TuneIn Live subscribers. The company launched TuneIn Live, a premium radio subscription service available only for Amazon Alexa. With TuneIn Live, subscribers can play live broadcasts of MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL games, including play-by-play broadcasts, premium news stations, sports talk stations and more.

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Five on Friday: Marketing Tips, Digital Ads and Standing Out

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In this weeks Five on Friday, Entrepreneur magazine shares ways to become a standout in the subscription industry, FedTech News tells us why the Army Corps of Engineers is moving toward SaaS, Forbes explores whether the evolution of digital ads will eventually lead to better advertising, PYMNTS.com predicts that subscriptions are the future of fashion, and Tulsa Business & Legal News offers tips on how to effectively use your website as a marketing tool.

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DISH Network Lays Off Customer Service Workers in Tulsa

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Last October DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) told Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin it would add 250 jobs to Tulsa, a city that 600 DISH workers already called home. Last week, DISH shared that it would be cutting jobs in the customer experience center, not the sales center that opened last year, reports Tulsa World. DISH did not specify how many positions would be eliminated.

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Snap Cuts 100 Employees in Advertising in Third Round of Cuts

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The familiar Snapchat ghost isn’t smiling now. In its latest round of downsizing, Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) – the owner of the popular Snapchat app – is cutting 100 employees on the advertising side of the house, reports Bloomberg News. These employee cuts are in addition to the reduction of 120 engineers earlier this month and two dozen content employees who were let go in January. They are part of a restructuring the company started during the fourth quarter of last year.

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Red Hat Reports Subscription Revenue of $683 Million in Q4 FY2018

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Last week Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), an open source solutions provider, delivered strong results in its fourth quarter and year-end financials for fiscal year 2018 ended February 28, 2018. Total revenue for the fourth quarter was $772 million, a 23 percent increase over the same period last year. Subscription revenue for Q4 was $683 million, a 22 percent increase year-over-year. Year-end deferred revenue was $2.6 billion, a 25 percent increase.

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Major Microsoft Reorganization Shifts Focus to the Cloud

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In a memo to employees last Thursday, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella announced a major company reorganization that includes the formation of two new engineering teams: Experiences & Devices to be led by Rajesh Jha and Cloud + AI Platform to be led by Scott Guthrie. The reorganization shifts the company’s focus away from the Windows operating system and onto the company’s strongest business units, office productivity software, artificial intelligence and cloud technology. This is the biggest reorganization at Microsoft since Nadella became CEO in 2014, according to The Seattle Times.

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Weekly Subscription News: Pivotal, Pandora and Paid Subscriptions

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Need a quick break from your Sweet 16 bracket? We’ve got you covered with this week’s subscription headlines: the NBA is testing a stream that will let sports fans watch the last quarter of a live game for $0.22, SaaS-based Pivotal files for an IPO, and YouTube plans to push people toward subscriptions with annoying ads. Also this week, Dropbox, Spotify, Cheddar and Tronc are in the news.

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Salesforce Agrees to Buy MuleSoft for $6.5 Billion

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In merger and acquisition news, last week Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), a cloud-based CRM provider, agreed to acquire MuleSoft (NYSE: MULE) for $6.5 billion. MuleSoft provides platforms for building application networks that connect enterprise apps, data and devices, both in the cloud and on site. The company has more than 1,200 customers including Coca-Cola, Audi, AT&T, Unilever, Netflix, Intuit, Amtrak and Anheuser Busch. MuleSoft will be used to power Salesforce’s new Integration Cloud to offer and improve personalized, customer experiences.

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