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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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Gamers ‘Jump’ for Joy with On-Demand Subscription for Indie Games

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Indie game lovers are jumping for joy over Jump, a new, unlimited, on-demand video game subscription for indie games. The new subscription app launched last week, offering subscribers more than 60 games from different genres, including The End is Nigh, Disco Dodgeball, Rashlander, Gunhouse and Astervoid 2000, for $9.99 a month following a 14-day free trial. No credit card is required to sign up, and players can cancel anytime. According to Jump’s FAQs, there are no in-game ads or microtranscactions.

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This Week’s Subscription News: Google, Gobbling and GoCardless

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There is never a dull moment in the subscription economy, and this week proves to be no different. In this week’s subscription news, Vimeo rolls out a livestreaming product for its pro members, Fintech firm GoCardless raises $22.5 million, and Google serves up ads in YouTube Red, even though it promised not to. Also this week, we are reading about AT&T losing its battle for subscribers, German publishers fighting ad blockers, and MealPal gobbling up $20 million in new funding.

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Adobe Reports Record Q3 Revenue of $1.84 Billion

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On Tuesday, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2017 for the period ended September 1. The company posted record quarterly revenue of $1.84 billion, a 26 percent increase year-over-year. Digital Media revenue represented the most significant portion of total revenue at $1.27 billion, a 28 percent increase year-over-year. Digital Media annualized recurring revenue (ARR) grew to $4.87 billion at the end of the quarter, a net increase of $308 million. This growth in net ARR was driven by strength in Adobe’s Creative Cloud and Adobe Document Cloud businesses.

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Five on Friday: About Us Pages, Pricing & Prime Day

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In this weeks Five on Friday, Business2Community shares different pricing models for SaaS, we offer advice on how to write an effective About Us page, Lifehack gives us 10 time-management tips to try, we learn more about Spotifys new self-serve audio ad model from Adweek, and Vindicia tells us what Amazon Prime Day has taught us about subscriptions.

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Patreon Raises $60 Million in New Funding to Scale Up Operations

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Membership platform Patreon announced Tuesday that it raised $60 million in Series C funding, which will allow the company to scale up its team and operations. This brings the company’s total funding raised to date to $107 million. This funding round was led by Chris Paik at Thrive Capital. Additional investors include CRV, Freestyle and Draper Fisher Jurvetson through partner Barry Schuler, according to TechCrunch. TechCrunch also said that the startup is valued at around $450 million.

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Pearson Tests Subscription Market for College Textbooks

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Economic textbook authors Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien have found a way to turn their $250 introductory economics textbook into a $90 per semester subscription, reports Quartz. Published by Pearson, the 800-page textbook isn’t just a digitized version of the hardcover textbook though. The new version of Hubbard and O’Brien’s textbook has about half the text of the original, and it includes videos and other interactive components, adapted to the way that college students learn today.

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Monetization Platform Aria Systems Raises $18 Million in New Capital

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Cloud-based monetization platform Aria Systems announced last week that it raised $18 million in new capital in a funding round led by Madison Bay Capital along with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, InterWest Partners and Venrock. The new funding, which will help fuel additional growth at Aria Systems, brings the total raised to date to $150 million. In addition, the company announced that Steve Reale, managing partner of Madison Bay Capital Partners, and Drew Harman, Director of InterWest Partners, will join Aria’s board of directors.

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Spotify and Hulu Launch Streaming Entertainment Bundle for Students

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To kick off the new school year, Spotify and Hulu have teamed up to offer a premium subscription bundle for college students. For $4.99 a month, students can listen to their favorite music on Spotify, and watch their favorite TV shows on Hulu with a single subscription. They are calling the bundle Spotify Premium for Students, now with Hulu.

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This Week’s Subscription News: Postmates, Publishers and Pros and Cons

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While Equifax and Amazon dominated subscription news headlines this week, other subscription companies had their time in the spotlight too. Medium added Bloomberg and other publications to its subscription service, Postmates expanded its Prime-style subscription to 250,000 merchants, and when it wasn’t busy with the launch of the latest iPhone, Apple worked a music deal with Warner. Also this week, Kobo challenges Audible, movie execs weigh their options, and Trinity Mirror is going shopping!

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FTC Takes Action Against Social Media Influencers for Lack of Transparency

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Two social media influencers, Trevor Martin, ‘TmarTn’ and Thomas Cassell of The Syndicate Project, settled with the Federal Trade Commission on charges that they failed to disclose their ownership in CSGO Lotto when they endorsed the online gaming company. According to the FTC, Martin and Cassell paid other social media influencers thousands of dollars to promote CSGO Lotto on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Twitch, but failed to disclose this in their social media posts. As part of the settlement, the FTC is requiring the pair to ‘clearly and conspicuously disclose any material connections with an endorser or between an endorser and any promoted product or service.’

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