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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!

Dana E. Neuts

New York Times Adds 308,000 Net Digital News Subscribers in Q1

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Yesterday, The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced its first quarter 2017 financials, including the addition of 308,000 net digital news subscriptions, a record for the news outlet. In addition, the Times reported diluted earnings per share of $0.08, compared to a loss of $0.05 diluted earnings per share for the same period last year. Operating profit was $29.0 million for Q1, compared to $27.9 million for the same period last year. Other financial and operational highlights for the first quarter of 2017 include…

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Shopify Reports Q1 Revenue of $127.4 Million, a 75 Percent Increase

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Yesterday Shopify Inc.* (NYSE: SHOP)(TXS: SHOP), a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for small and medium-sized businesses, announced its first quarter 2017 results, including total revenue of $127.4 million, a 75 percent increase year-over-year. Of this total, $62.1 million in revenue came from Subscription Solutions, representing a 60 percent increase year-over-year. Merchant Solutions revenue was $65.3 million, representing a 92 percent increase over the prior year. The company currently has 400,000 active Shopify stores with $34 billion in sales.

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Time Inc. Is Not For Sale, Pursuing Its Own Strategic Vision Instead

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Last Friday Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME), publisher of Life, Cooking Light, Money and Sports Illustrated, released a statement saying that, despite media speculation, the company was not for sale and would pursue its own strategic plan to affect a transformation. Time did, however, evaluate “a number of expressions of interest” with the help of external advisors as it considered its options. It did not name specific bidders.”Time Inc. is a reinvigorated company uniquely positioned to succeed in the multi-platform media marketplace with an exceptional set of brands and assets, tremendous scale and significant untapped potential…”

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Microsoft Reports $4.8 Billion in Net Income for Q3 Fiscal Year 2017

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Last Thursday Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported its third quarter financials for fiscal year 2017 for the period ended March 31, 2017. The company reported revenue of $22.1 billion GAAP, operating income of $5.6 billion GAAP, net income of $4.8 billion GAAP, diluted earnings per share of $0.61 GAAP, and a commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate over $15.2 billion. Microsoft returned $4.6 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends in the…

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This Week’s Subscription News: Google, Guidance and The Guardian

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In this week’s subscription headlines, Microsoft announces its first official integrations with the newly-acquired LinkedIn, Apple says it has fixed its cloud storage subscription bug, though the cause is still unknown, and publishers say Facebook can save Instant Articles with better data and subscription tools. Also, this week we’re reading subscription articles on OTT free trials, conspiracy theories on Google’s ad blocker and Salesforce’s revised guidance, thanks to deferred revenue.

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Hurting from Millions of Lost Subscribers, ESPN Lays Off 100 Employees

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On Wednesday, ESPN announced another round of layoffs, reports Yahoo Sports. This time about 100 employees will lose their jobs, including on-air talent. Yahoo Sports says the problem is not ratings, however. ESPN still has strong ratings which brings in ad revenue. The problem is subscriber loss. In the last six years, ESPN has lost 12 million subscribers, representing a 12 percent decrease. The lost subscribers are not necessarily ESPN viewers, however, but are more likely cord cutters who are canceling cable subscriptions altogether, which affects cable networks like ESPN.

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Five on Friday: Ad Block Demographics, SaaS Metrics & the New HuffPost

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In this week’s Five on Friday, Sitepoint shares three SaaS metrics that matter and how to improve them, PageFair identifies the demographics of people who are mostly likely to block ads, and Hubspot offers a character count guide for content marketing for blog posts, videos, tweets and more. Well also tell you about Huffington Posts redesign and new branding and how PayPal is succeeding in attracting new users and growing on mobile.

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Meredith Reports Record Digital Ad Revenue for Q3 Fiscal Year 2017

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This morning Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP) reported its third quarter results for its fiscal year 2017, including total company digital advertising revenue growth of 25 percent, a third quarter record. Meredith Corp., the publisher of well-known brands like EatingWell, SHAPE, Parents and Better Homes & Gardens, also reported total company revenue of $425 million and earnings per share of $0.87. For the first nine months of fiscal year 2017, Meredith reported total company revenue of $1.3 billion, a 4 percent increase year-over-year, and total advertising revenue of $704 million, a 3 percent increase year-over-year.

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Amazon Opens Self-Service Marketplace for Digital Subscriptions

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On Monday, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it has opened a self-service marketplace for digital subscriptions, including everything from Dropbox, Fitbit and eMeals to Sling TV, Legal Zoom and The New Yorker. The marketplace, called Subscribe with Amazon, allows consumers to discover new subscriptions through searches and recommendations and to manage their subscriptions directly from the Subscribe with Amazon portal.

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Match.com UK Launches Dating Bot in Facebook Messenger

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Match.com in the UK has launched a dating bot named Lara in Facebook Messenger, says Marketing Week. Lara can help users set up dating profiles without having to leave the social media platform. According to Marketing Week, the bot uses artificial intelligence and language processing techniques to interact with Facebook users. Match.com first tested the bot in France last year. UK is the next country to give it a go with the rest of Europe to follow. Lara is just one of 100,000 bots used on the Facebook Messenger platform.

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