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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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HTC Announces Success of Viveport Subscriptions before CES 2018

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At a press event yesterday, prior to today’s opening of the Consumer Electronics Show, HTC announced the success of its Viveport subscription service, Vive, noting that users are now downloading more VR titles via subscription than paid download, reports Variety. The company launched Vive in April 2017, offering room-scale virtual reality games and experiences for $6.99 a month, following a one-month free trial. Subscribers could download up to five titles each month, including TheBlue, Everest VR, Mars Odyssey, Apollo 11 VR, Hindenburg VR, and more.

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Amazon Shuts Down Anime Strike Streaming Subscription Service

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Less than a year after launching Anime Strike, a branded subscription streaming video on demand service, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has shut down the service, reports Kotaku. Amazon launched Anime Strike last January to Amazon Prime members in the U.S. for $4.99 a month, following a seven-day free trial. The ad-free subscription offered more than 1,000 episodes of popular anime series from Japan, as well as exclusives, action series, top movies and dubbed series, including Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, The Great Passage, Chi’s Sweet Adventure and Parasyte.

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Weekly Subscription News: Musical.ly, Membership and Metered Paywall

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We’re kicking off the New Year with some big subscription news headlines: Netflix plans to give top executives big raises to offset changes in the new tax law, Gannett focuses on membership and digital growth, and The Atlantic plans to add a metered paywall this month. We’re also reading about SourceMedia’s betting big on paid content, Stitch Fix’s IPO woes, and Musical.ly’s $50 million investment.

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Five on Friday: SaaS Mistakes, Privacy Tech and Retail Subscriptions

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In Five on Friday this week, The Next Web recommends that we avoid these six common mistakes when developing an SaaS product, Digiday tells us how The New York Times gets people to spend five minutes a day on their site, Tubefilter shares what did and didn’t work in terms of digital media and entertainment last year, big retailers are testing out the subscription model, and AdExchanger says privacy tech is on the rise as the GDPR deadline gets closer.

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Hearst President and CEO Reports Record Profits for Seventh Year in a Row

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In his annual letter to employees, Hearst president and CEO Steven R. Swartz reported that the company had record profits for the seventh straight year. Hearst’s biggest profit centers were Fitch Group, CAMP, an aviation safety company acquired in 2016, Hearst Health and Hearst Transportation. These businesses represented 28 percent of the company’s total profit for the year, a number that has more than tripled over the last 10 years, according to Swartz.

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Google Gives Developers of Subscription-Based Android Apps a Raise

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Following through on its promise, Google is giving developers of subscription-based Android apps and games a raise. During the first year of a subscription, developers share 30 percent of the subscription revenue with Google. After one year of a continuous subscription, developers only have to share 15 percent of their revenue, similar to Apple’s revenue share program. Google has not updated its In-app Subscriptions page to reflect the change yet.

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Food Delivery Service UberEats Considers Subscription Service in U.K.

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The only thing better than getting your favorite foods delivered right to your door is saving money while doing it. At least that’s what UberEats in the U.K. is hoping. According to Business Insider, UberEats, a division of ridesharing company Uber, is considering adding a loyalty program to reward customers who subscribe to its delivery service. With such a subscription program, customers could save on UberEats delivery fees and get access to promotions and exclusive menus.

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In One Week, 4 Million People Tried Amazon Prime This Holiday Season

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Online retailer Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) had another record holiday season, posting big numbers of shoppers and Amazon Prime members. During one week alone this holiday season, more than 4 million people started free trials of Amazon Prime or began paid memberships to take advantage of free two-day, one-day and same-day shipping and ‘ultra-fast’ one-hour and two-hour Prime Now delivery.

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Weekly Subscription News: Artists, Amazon and Affiliate Income

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In this week’s subscription headlines, artists are finding new avenues for income through Kickstarter’s Drip, Wirecutter plans for its affiliate future under the wing of The New York Times Company, and Amazon is retiring music storage plans. Also this week, we’re reading about Facebook, Chrome and YouTube.

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Top Five on Friday Articles for 2017: Content, Social Media and SaaS

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In this weeks Five on Friday column, we look at a few of the more popular Five on Friday articles from the last year, including the three types of news subscribers, differences between SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, social media sharing as a way to distribute content, how small digital publishers can compete with the big dogs, and how content errors can affect your brand and your SEO.

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