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Dana E. Neuts

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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Sports News Startup ‘The Athletic’ Raises $2.1 Million in Seed Funding

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Sports news site startup The Athletic believes so strongly in the subscription model that it launched as a subscription-only site with a hard paywall in two markets – Chicago and Toronto. Investors seem to think it is a hot ticket too. They’ve given $2.1 million to The Athletic in its seed funding round, including a $500,000 investment from venture capital firm Courtside Ventures, reports Forbes.

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Facebook Launches the Facebook Journalism Project to Please Publishers

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Over the last few years, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has created opportunities to partner with media companies to share content more easily while also generating mutually beneficial reader relationships and revenue. These partnerships with media companies are in jeopardy though as publishers try to navigate Facebook’s Instant Articles, questionable metrics and fake news. To try to regain credibility with media companies and to find more ways to work together, Facebook is rolling out the Facebook Journalism Project.

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Amazon Launches Anime Strike, A Branded Subscription VOD Channel

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Last week Amazon launched its first branded subscription video-on-demand channel, Anime Strike, available to Amazon Prime members in the U.S. The new, ad-free subscription service offers more than 1,000 episodes and is available for $4.99 a month, following a seven-day free trial. The channel includes a variety of popular series, exclusives, action series, top movies and dubbed series including.

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How McClatchy is Transforming to a Digital First Publisher with New Technology and Subscription Management

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Like many legacy publishers, the 160-year-old McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), the owner of 31 media companies in 28 U.S. markets, is doing a major transformation, moving aggressively over the last several years to become a digital-first company. Instead of fighting a changing tide, McClatchy is making sweeping, long-term changes that are beneficial to the company but also to its readers.

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SaaS Provider Workday Signs Its Biggest Deal Ever with Walmart

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Last Wednesday in an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, SaaS provider Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY) revealed that Walmart, one of the world’s largest private employers, had signed a subscription deal for Workday’s Human Capital Management, Recruiting, Learning and Planning products. In the filing, Workday said it was not updating its financial guidance for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year ending January 31, 2017 or the fiscal year ending January 31, 2018.

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Pandora Predicts Positive Q4 Revenue, But News Isn’t All Good

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If we learned anything from Pandora in 2016, we learned that they’re unpredictable. From replacing CEO Brian McAndrews with founder Tim Westergren to premium product changes and new licensing deals, Pandora is a moving target. This year is proving to be more of the same, just two weeks in. The latest Pandora news came from the company on Thursday when they announced that they would likely exceed guidance for the fourth quarter, due to strong advertising performance and a growing customer base of 4.3 million subscribers. Wall Street responded with a 6 percent increase in stock. On January 13, stock closed at $12.76. By comparison, Pandora stock was $9.90 on January 14, 2016.

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This Week’s Subscription Headlines: Millennials, Marvel & Meredith

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In this week’s subscription news headlines, Marvel announces it will give away back issues, PlayStation Plus subscribers get frustrated, and Meredith Corp. tries to woo Time, Inc. once again. Also, this week, we learn that millennials are watching YouTube ads, Pandora launches new features, and the App Store boasts a big uptick in subscription revenue.

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Cloud-based LiquidSky Game Streaming Service Adds Subscription Options

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LiquidSky Game Streaming Service is making it even easier to play Windows-compatible games online, by putting games in the cloud and adding subscription options, reports Tom’s Hardware. First, the service operates in the cloud, so gamers can save their game files to LiquidSky’s cloud and then play their games from any PC, laptop or Android phone or tablet. LiquidSky promises high performance hardware with high quality graphics, ultra-low latency and lightning internet speed (1 GB per second for uploads and downloads).

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Hulu Signs Deal with CBS for Live Streaming Content

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Last week Hulu announced that it has made a deal with CBSto offer live-streaming content to Hulu subscribers, along with CBS Sports Network and POP. Hulu said these networks will be available for live streaming. Much of it will also be available on-demand. The new service, coming later this year, will complement Hulu’s ad-supported and ad-free subscription video-on-demand services, giving it a competitive edge over Netflix who does not currently offer live-streaming.

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GM Launches Book by Cadillac, a Luxury Car Subscription Service

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Last week General Motors announced Book by Cadillac, a first-of-its-kind subscription service for luxury cars. In exchange for a flat monthly fee of $1,500, Book members get access to select Cadillacs and can even switch vehicles when needed to suit their various needs. Using the Book mobile app, members reserve a vehicle to be delivered to their location by a “white-glove concierge service.”

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