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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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Five on Friday: Business Plans, Bike Subscriptions & Subscription Apps

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TGIF. Weve made it, and the weekend is just around the corner. To help ease you into the weekend, check out this weeks Five on Friday, sharable information and advice to grow your subscription business. In this weeks edition, Insight founder Justin Bariso shares advice from LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on the value of negative feedback, Business 2 Community details the pros and cons of subscription-based apps, Computerworld reviews four SaaS business plan apps, Swapfiets launches a bicycle subscription, and Hubspot offers 10 alternate email signoffs to make a bigger impact.

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Investment Group Beats Tronc in Bid to Buy the Chicago Sun-Times

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Last week the Chicago Sun-Times reported that an investment group led by former Chicago alderman Edwin Eisendrath has acquired the newspaper and the Chicago Reader. This ends a bid by Tronc, formerly Tribune Publishing, who tried to acquire the Sun-Times’ parent company, Wrapports Holdings in May. Tronc owns Chicago Tribune, the Sun-Times’ long-time rival, creating anti-trust concerns by the Department of Justice that Tronc would own both major newspapers in one of the few cities that still maintains two newspapers.

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Amazon Prime Day 2017 Surpassed Black Friday and Cyber Monday Results

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Last Tuesday Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) held its third annual Prime Day with 30 hours of special deals exclusively for Amazon Prime members. Amazon reports that it was the biggest day ever in Amazon history, surpassing previous records set by Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Tens of millions of Prime members made purchases on Prime Day, more than a 50 percent increase over the 2016 event. In addition, Prime Day 2017 grew 60 percent over last year’s event, and more members joined on July 11 than on any single day previously.

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Netflix Membership Grows to 104 Million Subscribers in Q2

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Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) released its second quarter financials yesterday, reporting total revenue of $2.79 billion, representing year-over-year growth of 32.3 percent. This includes Netflix DVD sales. Total streaming revenue was $2.67 billion, representing year-over-year growth of 35.8 percent. From a membership perspective, Netflix membership grew from 99 million members to 104 million with international members now accounting for 50.1 percent of total membership.

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Facebook is Testing Subscriptions for Publishers via Instant Articles

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Last week Digiday reported that Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is testing paid subscriptions for publishers through Instant Articles. While details have not been released publicly by Facebook, Digiday said that the paid subscriptions will likely support publishers who use metered paywalls or freemium models. The goal would be to support publishers like The New York Times, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal who would offer some content for free, and put the rest behind a paywall, requiring a subscription to access. According to Digiday, publishers will be able to control the pricing, and they will get access to subscriber data available in Facebook.

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This Week’s Subscription News: News, Netflix and Negotiations

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In this week’s subscription news, news outlets are trying to negotiate with Google and Facebook over ads, Jump launches a subscription service for indie games, and the number of Amazon’s U.S. Prime members could surpass total pay TV households next year. Also this week, PostUp is launching a dynamic paywall solution for publishers, Stripe is adding support for digital payment services in China, and the White House threatens that critical coverage by CNN might cost them the Time Warner merger.

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Microsoft Confirms Thousands of Job Cuts as Company Restructures

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Last week we reported Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) plan to reorganize the company to refocus its efforts on its growing cloud business. The announcement was made to Microsoft staff in an internal memo last week, but the memo did not include any mention of staffing changes, which had been rumored by news outlets including Bloomberg the previous week. Microsoft has now confirmed that thousands of employees will be laid off, reports TechCrunch.The restructuring plan will divide Microsoft’s customer base into two segments: enterprise customers and small, medium and corporate (SMC) customers.

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Five on Friday: Email Newsletters, NYT Cooking and Podcast Ad Revenue

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In this weeks Five on Friday, Ad Week reveals that Facebook Live will soon have a stand-alone app, Media Post and PostUp share how email newsletters can help publishers woo prospects, The New York Times monetizes NYT Cooking, an IAB study predicts podcast ad revenue will top $220 million in 2017, an 85 percent increase over 2016, and HuffPost offers four types of e-commerce business models for entrepreneurs to consider.

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Thousands of Companies Protest FCC Proposal to Repeal Net Neutrality

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In a large scale, online display of solidarity, dozens of online and e-commerce companies including Amazon, Vimeo, Reddit, OK Cupid, Mozilla, the ACLU, Etsy, AdBlock, Medium, Dropbox, Redfin, Spotify and Yelp banded together yesterday – July 12 – for an “Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality.” Business Insider reports that yesterday sites that joined the effort displayed prominent alerts on their homepage – banner ads, sidebar ads, videos, images, blog posts, etc. – to…

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Vitamin Packs Launches Personalized Vitamin Subscription Service

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Last week Vitamin Packs announced the launch of its personalized vitamin subscription service. Using a proprietary algorithm called Sage, the company customizes daily Vitamin Packs using subscriber input about their body, lifestyle and nutrition habits, health goals and current medications, aligning science, data and technology to provide a personalized solution to health-conscious consumers. The Sage algorithm considers more than 650 potential medical interactions to recommend supplements for individual subscribers.

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