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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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Twitch Launches New Subscription Program for Affiliates

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Earlier this week social video platform and gaming community Twitch announced it would make subscription options available to affiliates, so they can start earning recurring revenue from their subscribers. In addition to the Twitch Prime free subscription, affiliates can set pricing at $4.99, $9.99 or $24.99 a month. They’ll get one subscriber emoticon, subject to approval, for all subscriptions plus two more slots for $9.99 and $24.99 subscriptions. Like partners, affiliates will also be able to offer sub-only chat, says Twitch.

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Five on Friday: Search Results, Subscription Jobs and Summer Reads

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In this weeks Five on Friday, we share Bill Gates’ 2017 summer reading list, Search Engine Watch offers advice on optimizing for voice assistants, the Wall Street Journal and Google are at odds with each other over paywalls and search engine results, we learn more about Fullscreen’s social media strategy from Tubefilter, and employers post top subscription jobs to LinkedIn including jobs from Amazon, Apple, Red Hat, the Philadelphia Media Network and New Relic, Inc.

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Lindsay Lohan Launches Subscription-Based Lifestyle Website, Preemium

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Remember actress Lindsay Lohan of The Parent Trap remake and Mean Girls fame? She’s back, and you can get exclusive access to LiLo’s personal diaries, video updates, photos, news, fashion and beauty tutorials, behind-the-scenes footage and more for $2.99 a month on her new Preemium lifestyle website. So far there isn’t a lot of content. As of Wednesday afternoon, the 30-year-old actress had published nine posts to the site, including an iPhone video, selfies and other photos, says the Hollywood Reporter. Lohan announced the new lifestyle site on Twitter Tuesday.

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Pandora CEO Tim Westergren Steps Down, CFO to Fill His Shoes

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This is not a good time to be a CEO, if this past week is any indication. First, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was asked to resign by major investors, and now Pandora co-founder and CEO Tim Westergren is out. As he steps down from the CEO slot and off the board of directors, Pandora has asked CFO Naveen Chopra to serve as interim CEO. The search for a permanent CEO will begin immediately. Pandora also announced president Mike Herring and CMO Nick Bartle are leaving the company, and they will be appointing Jason Hirschhorn, the CEO of the ReDEF Group, a digital content curation company, to a vacant seat on the board.

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How Net Neutrality Impacts Your Subscription Business

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Net neutrality has been a hot topic of conversation for at least the last three years when President Obama urged regulators to protect net neutrality. Things quieted down in 2015 after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did just that, but there were opponents to the regulations. Now, under President Trumps administration, the topic is back in the spotlight, and it is an important one that impacts consumers and businesses alike, particularly subscription businesses who do most of their business via the Internet.

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Multi-Platform Health and Wellness Publisher Rodale May Be Up For Sale

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Last week multi-platform health and wellness publisher Rodale, Inc. announced that it was exploring a variety of ‘potential strategic alternatives’ for its future. This could include the sale of the company, or of individual segments of the business, as part of its long-term strategy. Rodale, a privately-held company, has engaged Allen & Company LLC as a financial advisor to guide the process. There is no set schedule for the strategic review, and the company said it will not disclose developments during the process.

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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Resigns Under Pressure from Investors

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Last Tuesday, under pressure from five of Uber’s major investors, company co-founder Travis Kalanick agreed to step down as CEO, reports The New York Times. The demand for Kalanick’s resignation was included in a letter titled “Moving Uber Forward” that was delivered to Kalanick in Chicago, said The Times. After consulting with a board member and investors, Kalanick agreed to leave his CEO position. He will, however, remain on the board of directors. Kalanick co-founded the innovative ridesharing service in 2009.

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This Week’s Subscription News: Tidal, Trouble and Temptation

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In this week’s subscription news, Hasbro launches a subscription box service for board games, AT&T tries to tempt cord cutters by offering a Roku box with DirectTV Now subscriptions, and Apple Music quietly adds a $99 annual subscription option. Also this week, Slack raises $500 million and attracts big buyers including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Salesforce, and Tidal uses Jay Z’s new album as an exclusive to attract streaming music subscribers.

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VidAngel Starts Subscription Service to Filter Offensive Video Content

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In December, a federal judge ordered video filtering service VidAngel to shut down its operations due to alleged copyright violations. Based in Utah, VidAngel’s mission is to help faith-based audiences bypass offensive video content including nudity and profanity. While VidAngel appeals that ruling, the Utah-based company has launched a new subscription service to help viewers screen content on streaming services including Netflix, Amazon and HBO through Amazon Channels, reports Variety. Additional services to be added will be Hulu, Apple TV, Vudu, Google Play and Showtime.

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Five on Friday: Audiences, the Adpocalypse and Nintendo’s About Face

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In this weeks edition of Five on Friday, MarketingProfs shares three strategic marketing and sales mistakes you should avoid in the second half of 2017, Search Engine Watch offers some ways to build a B2B audience for Facebook marketing, and Nintendo does an about face on its new Switch subscription. Also, this week we share how YouTube is addressing the adpocalypse, and social media expert Jay Baer shares some sage advice on how often to post on social media. The answer is much simpler than youd expect.

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