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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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The Atlantic Fights Ad Blockers with Paywall: Whitelist or Subscribe

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The Atlantic is the latest online magazine to ask readers who use ad blockers to pay up, reports Media Post. The Atlantic gives ad-blocking readers three options: Whitelist the website to enable ads, or Disable their ad blocking software, or Subscribe to an ad-free version for $3.99 a month, or $39.99 a year. Will ad-blocking readers pay to play by either whitelisting the site to see ads or by subscribing, or will the abandon the site to find content elsewhere?

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Facebook Gives Publishers More Options for Monetizing Instant Articles

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Last week Facebook officially announced new ways for publishers to monetize Instant Articles, the social media network’s DIY publishing platform designed to create fast-loading, interactive, immersive articles on Facebook. To date, about 100 publishers have put their content on Instant Articles. Will these new changes encourage holdouts like the Wall Street Journal, ESPN and CBS News to finally try Instant Articles? Will the improvements act as an incentive to current Instant Articles’ publishers to publish more frequently?

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Not-Your-Mothers Subscription Box: 19 Subscriptions for Grown-Ups

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Since the early days of the Columbia House Record Club and the World of Beauty make-of-the-month club of the 1980s, the subscription box industry has exploded, with more than 3,000 subscription box companies trying to find their niche. Now there are subscription boxes for virtually every taste, budget and interest these days. As the subscription box industry evolves, more specialized companies are emerging, offering everything from beer, wine and spirits clubs to luxury watch rentals and marijuana subscription boxes. Here are some interesting offerings for grown-ups.

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Spotify Considers an Acquisition, Competitors Announce New Subscriptions

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The streaming music wars intensify as Spotify is reportedly in talks to acquire SoundCloud. Meanwhile, Pandora announces details of its upcoming service Pandora Plus, and Amazon officially launches Amazon Unlimited Music, its answer to services like Spotify and Apple Music. The competition heats up as streaming music subscription companies struggle to balance product offerings, income and expenses. Who will prevail and who will be acquired, absorbed or disappear in 2017?

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This Week’s Subscription Headlines: SaaS, Stories and Streaming

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In this week’s subscription news, Amazon attempts to undercut streaming music rivals, Google acquires FameBit to help content creators, the Wall Street Journal is reorganizing its newsroom and cutting down on ‘flabby stories, and the IAB’s new standards promise to create a major ad shakeup. We’ve got those subscription stories and more featuring Dialogic, Recurly, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and more.

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Hooch Raises $1.5M to Grow Members-Only Cocktail Subscription App

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Hooch, a featured-cocktail-of-the-day subscription app, has just raised $1.5 million in new funding, reports TechCrunch. This new funding brings the grand total raised to $2.7 million, and will allow innovative start-up Hooch to expand beyond its current 400+ venues in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami and Hong Kong. Hooch hopes to expand to 35 cities in 2017, adding San Francisco, Seattle and Houston and to raise $4 million to $5 million in funding in 2017.

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Bed Bath & Beyond Tests Membership Model to Boost Revenue and Loyalty

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Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) is testing a membership model to boost revenue, increase customer loyalty, improve profits and help it compete against ‘free shipping’ subscription programs like those offered by Amazon and Walmart. For $29 a year, plus applicable taxes and fees, Bed Bath & Beyond subscribers receive a 20 percent discount off all in-store and online purchases along with free shipping. Will this be enough to grow revenue and boost customer loyalty?

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JDM Accessory Vault Launches Subscription Fashion Accessories for Men

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Last week JDM Accessory Vault launched a fashion subscription service for men to offer affordable fashion accessories for upcoming young professionals. For less than $20 a month, subscribers receive three to five curated, matched male fashion accessories including watches, sunglasses, silk ties, pocket squares, belts, socks, scarves, cuff links and more to complete business, business casual and casual looks.

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Comcast Expands Internet Data Usage Caps and Penalties in November

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Last week Comcast (Xfinity) customers in more than two dozen regions across the U.S. will be automatically enrolled in the company’s new One Terabyte Data Usage Plan, effective November 1. For those customers, anyone who exceeds 1 TB of data usage each month from streaming music or videos, playing online games, downloading photos or surfing the Internet will have to pay for those data overages, and the penalties are steep – up to $200 a month! Why is Comcast doing this? How will it impact streaming and digital subscriptions?

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This Week’s Subscription Headlines: Comments, Competition & the Cloud

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In this week’s subscription headlines, Amazon gets in a publishing dispute in Japan over book subscriptions, the Daily Mail integrates its content with Amazon Alexa, Hulu drops it paid subscriptions to $6 a month and the Financial Times – finally – launches its speedy new website after months of beta-testing in the open. We’ve got those headlines and more featuring Microsoft, Google, programmatic and ROI.

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