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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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You Can Now Subscribe to Your Favorite Publishers on Snapchat

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Snapchat has recently redesigned its Stories page to make it easier to discover publishers’ content and perhaps boost their viewership, reports the Wall Street Journal. With the new redesign, the 20 or so publishers on Snapchat – including WSJ, Food Network, Buzzfeed and People – can now add an image and headline to promote their top stories of the day. Users can also “subscribe” to the publishers’ channels to get those stories placed under the updates from their friends.

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for June 10

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In this week’s subscription news, the New York Times begins exploring ad-free digital subscriptions, the Supreme Court rejects Google’s appeal in an AdWords battle, and Tinder hopes to double paid memberships to 2 million by the end of the year. In addition, we’ve got headlines featuring the Associated Press, Google AMP, Pandora and Facebook.

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Apple Sweetens the Deal for Subscription Companies by Changing Rate Structure

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On Wednesday, Apple announced it will sweeten the deal for developers and subscription companies by changing its fee structure, reports The Verge. The announcement comes less than a week before Apple’s 2016 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco where such news is typically revealed. App developers and subscription companies will still have to pay Apple 30 percent of monthly fees received from subscribers for in-app purchases for the first year, but after that, the fee drops to 15 percent.

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Winnipeg Free Press Reports Results One Year into Micropayment Strategy

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One year after adding micropayments to their tiered revenue strategy, the Winnipeg Free Press reports success, reports J Source. Publisher Bob Cox offered an update on the project at the Newspapers Canada 2016 National Conference at the end of May. According to J Source, Cox gave the following stats for the Winnipeg Free Press at the conference…

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CBS Launches Subscription Fitness Platform TrainerPass

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Getting in on subscription fitness, CBS Interactive Advanced Media has launched TrainerPass, a subscription fitness platform that lets subscribers stream workout videos from fitness pros like BEMax Fitness, Andrea Metcalf, Baron Baptiste, Ellen Barrett, and Ilaria M of Powerstrike for on-demand and personalized workouts.

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Tinder Hopes to Double Paid Members to 2M by Year End

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Seven months after going public, Match-owned Tinder predicts its paid subscribers will double by the end of the year. In the first quarter of 2016, paid member count (PMC) passed the one million mark, and Match (NASDAQ: MTCH) reported that it had strong PMC for Q1 2016 for both Tinder and Plenty of Fish, both dating apps in the Match family.

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Pandora Announces Big Changes for the Subscription Music Platform

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Today Pandora announced a partnership with Music Reports, a rights administration platform, to manage the company’s mechanical licensing and royalty administration for its new interactive streaming service. With the agreement, Pandora is hoping to provide some transparency to the streaming music industry which has been riddled with problems and class action lawsuits for copyright infringement and failure to properly track and pay royalties.

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for June 3

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In this week’s subscription headlines, Vanity Fair asks if anyone is saving the New York Times from itself, Apple contemplates a push into the media arena, and the NAA fights ad blockers with FTC complaint and an investigation request. Get those headlines and more featuring SaaS, faster payments, compliance management, digital payments, and subscription processors.

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Independence Marching Band Sells U.S. Flag Subscriptions to Buy Band Uniforms

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Just in time for the Fourth of July, a high school band in Tennessee is selling U.S. flag subscriptions to local residents to raise money for new band uniforms, a creative way to raise money. Residents can buy one or two-year subscriptions to have band students raise a U.S. flag at their home four holidays a year.

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Amazon for Laundry: Cleanly Launches Laundry Subscription Service

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Cleanly, an on-demand laundry and dry-cleaning start-up, hopes to become the Amazon of laundry. That’s why the 16-month-old company launched Cleanly Reserve, a membership program that offers discounts and other perks to monthly and annual members. As with their primary service Cleanly, Cleanly Reserve works via mobile app where members schedule pick-ups and deliveries. At launch of the membership service, there are two options – monthly and annual plans, following a 30-day free trial.

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