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Trinity Mirror Tries Ad-Free Subscription Service for £2.99 a Month

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Trinity Mirror, the largest national and regional multi-media publisher in the U.K., is testing out an ad-free subscription offering, reports Marketing Week. For £2.99 a month, readers can access the Mirror’s website without annoying banner ads, video ads or pop-ups. According to Marketing Week, the new offering isn’t heavily marketed on Mirror.co.uk, and it is not easy to find. Instead, the message announcing the option appears every 10 articles and is served up to readers with and without ad blockers. We tested the site, viewing more than 10 articles, without an ad blocker, and we did not see the offer, nor could we find it on the subscription page.

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Shopify Reports Subscription Revenue of $56.4 Million for Q4 2016

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Last week Shopify* (NYSE: SHOP)(TSX: SHOP) reported its fourth quarter and full-year 2016 results, including total revenue for Q4 of $130.4 million, an 86 percent increase over the same period last year. As part of total revenue, Subscription Solutions revenue for Q4 was $56.4 million, representing a 63 percent increase year-over-year. Shopify also reported that there are now more than 375,000 merchants using the Shopify platform, a record number for the company.

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YouTube and Disney Bail on Megastar PewDiePie Over Anti-Semitic Jokes

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Last week YouTube canceled PewDiePie’s show because of anti-Semitic jokes and Nazi imagery from videos dating back to August 2016, reports Digital Trends. In a January 11th video, PewDiePie paid two Indian men he met through freelance site Fiverr to hold a sign that said “Death to All Jews.” The men were initially banned from Fiverr, says Digital Trends. The men later made a video apology, claiming they didn’t know what the sign meant, and PewDiePie helped to get them reinstated. PewDiePie has removed several of the videos on YouTube already.

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CBS Reports Lackluster Q4 Results But Strong Full-Year Financials

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CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) reported its fourth quarter and full-year 2016 financials last week. While the fourth quarter saw a net loss of $113 million and decrease in total revenue, CBS’s full-year financials were strong, with total revenue of $13.17 billion, a 4 percent increase over 2015, and net earnings of $1.26 billion. Ad revenue for the full year grew 8 percent due, in part, to ad revenue from the broadcast of Super Bowl 50 and record political advertising revenue.

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This Week’s Subscription Headlines: Shipping, Social and Snap

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In this week’s subscription headlines, WaPo and Snap (formerly Snapchat) sign a deal to reach millennials, Microsoft officially launches the Outlook.com subscription, and Digiday reveals how The Economist turns social visitors into subscribers. Also, this week we’re reading subscription news about platforms and publishers playing the access game, lower estimates for ad blocking the US, and new rules in the EU for online subscriptions.

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Anime Streaming Service Crunchyroll Reaches 1 Million Paid Subscribers

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Last week Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, announced that it has surpassed more than one million paid subscribers and over 20 million registered users. This milestone builds on the record growth the company achieved in 2016, growing paid subscribers by 36 percent in the last 12 months. Crunchyroll users stream over 1.5 billion minutes of anime per month to more than 1 billion devices around the world. According to Crunchyroll, the service is available in every single country.

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Five on Friday: Subscription Trends, CNP Fraud and Personalization

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Our popular Five on Friday column has returned. In our first edition for 2017, Recurly shares top 10 subscription trends, ThreatMetrix talks about the state of CNP fraud, Jim Dicso offers four ways to improve personalization as a marketing tool, Aria Systems shares 5 “wow” recurring revenue stats fro 2016, and we tell you about our next three events.

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WWE Network Reports 14 Percent Increase in Subscribers in Q4 2016

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Last week WWE (NYSE: WWE) reported its fourth quarter and full year financials for 2016 with impressive results, including fourth quarter revenue of $194.9 million, a 17 percent increase, and total revenue for the year of $729.2 million, the highest in the company’s history. Other highlights include net income of $8.0 million, or $0.10 per share, a big improvement over a $1.2 million net loss, year-over-year.

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Playboy Uncovers Again, Bringing Nudity Back to the Magazine

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Cooper Hefner, son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, announced on Twitter Monday that Playboy would bring nude photography back to the iconic men’s magazine starting with the March-April 2017 issue. Playboy had stopped including nude photos in the magazine in March 2016, after successfully redesigning a safe-for-work (SFW) website in August 2014 and a SFW Playboy Now mobile app.

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LinkedIn Announces New Premium Features for Subscribers

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Last week LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) announced new premium features to its two consumer subscriptions, Premium Career and Premium Business, in a blog post by Gyanda Sachdeva, senior director or product management. In addition to the new premium features, subscribers will receive unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and LinkedIn Salary.

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