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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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Ecommerce & Subscription Billing Platform Avangate Acquires 2Checkout

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Yesterday subscription ecommerce and subscription billing platform Avangate announced its acquisition of 2Checkout, a global payment processor, allowing the company to expand its payment flexibility and broaden market reach. Avangate will take on the 2Checkout name and will be led by Avangate CEO Alex Hart. 2Checkout’s CEO Ken Benvenuto remain, serving as an advisor and a board member. The terms of the deal, including the sale price, were not disclosed.

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Digital Magazine Subscription Service Readly Announces Deal with AT&T

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Readly, an all-you-can-read subscription service for digital magazines, has just announced a new deal with AT&T. As part of AT&T’s customer appreciation program THANKS, eligible wireless customers will get exclusive access to Readly Select, giving them free, limited-time access to four digital magazine titles per month on up to five devices. Customers can choose from 2,000 U.S. and international magazine titles, and get access to both current and archived issues. Customers can also change their selection each month.

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This Week’s Subscription News: Spectator, Sister Wives and Strategy

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In this week’s subscription news, Digiday reveals The Spectator’s subscription strategy, a ‘Sister Wives’ star and Las Vegas local launches an online fitness program via subscription, and a major Tronc shareholder complains about poor corporate governance. Also this week, Workday’s new revenue recognition rules, a reinvented App Store for a new generation, buying baseball tickets with a subscription and Dutch import De Correspondent.

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Red Hat Reports Subscription Revenue for FY 2017 of $2.1 Billion

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Earlier this week Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), a provider of open source and enterprise IT solutions, reported its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017 financials, including fourth quarter subscription revenue of $560 million, a 17 percent increase year-over-year. For the full fiscal year, Red Hat brought in $2.1 billion in subscription revenue, an 18 percent increase year-over-year. Net income (GAAP) for the quarter was $66 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, compared to $53 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, year-over-year. For the full fiscal year, net income (GAAP) was $254 million, or $1.39 per diluted share, compared to $199 million, or $1.07 per diluted share.

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Five on Friday: Better Ad Standards, Attention Spans and Social Media

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Happy Friday! If you are reading this, you did, indeed, survive the week. Congratulations! Before you leave the office for the weekend, check out this weeks Five on Friday. In todays edition, we share initial standards released by the Coalition for Better Ads, Search Engine Watchs 6 (or is it 7?) tips for capturing readers attention spans, a theory on why millennials love subscriptions but Gen Xers and Baby Boomers dont, 5 common subscription commerce hurdles and overcoming them, and how to choose which social media platform to use and when.

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The Atlantic Goes Global with Plans to Open a London Bureau

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This week The Atlantic announced that it is going global, opening a London bureau to oversee global news reporting focused on Europe, live events, communications and marketing partnerships. The new London office will be led by national correspondent James Fallows, who has been with The Atlantic for 43 years, and staffed with 10 editorial and business employees. Fallows will be the magazine’s first Europe Editor.

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Medium Wants to Fix ‘Broken’ Media with a $5 Monthly Subscription

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Last week Medium’s CEO and co-founder Ev Williams invited readers to subscribe to a new and improved Medium for $5 a month. In exchange for a monthly subscription, Williams promised a better reading experience and even better content. For now, Medium is launching the subscription option to a limited number of readers “who meet certain criteria,” but the company will be rolling out the program to everyone in the next few weeks.

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Will Twitter Users Be Willing to Pay $20 a Month for Premium Features?

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Last Thursday The Verge reported that Twitter is surveying users to gauge interest in a premium product that would include advanced analytics, breaking news alerts, audience insights and more. The premium features would be available through Tweetdeck, Twitter’s professional management tool. The Verge quoted Twitter’s survey to users: “Twitter is considering offering an advanced TweetDeck experience, with more powerful tools to help marketers, journalists, professionals, and others in our community find out what is happening in the world quicker, to gain more insights, and see the broadest range of what people are saying on Twitter…”

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AMC is Working on an Ad-Free, Streaming Product for Pay-TV Subscribers

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According to Reuters, AMC Networks is working on an ad-free streaming product for cable and satellite TV customers that would allow them to watch “The Walking Dead” and other popular programs ad-free for $5 to $7 a month. Talking to anonymous sources, Reuters reports the product is aimed at millennial TV subscribers. Though the details are still being worked out, the idea is to offer the option as an add-on to monthly cable and satellite bills.

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This Week’s Subscription News: Netflix, News and The New York Times

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In this week’s subscription news headlines, Google wins publishers over, LinkedIn gets closer to becoming a CRM, and Discors wants people to pay for one low-priced subscription that crosses multiple publishers. We’re also reading about Apple Music’s saturation, or lack thereof, Netflix’s global growth and The Boston Globe’s use of Facebook for breaking news notifications.

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