In this week’s subscription headlines, AT&T bets on entertainment to keep its network busy, Dallas Morning News moves to a paywall (again), and the BBC is given a green light for a paid online subscription Service. In addition, we’ve got headlines on customer data, building trust, beating and exceeding customer expectations, beauty boxes and much more.
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On Monday, Adblock Plus announced that it now has more than 100 million active users. More accurately, that’s 100 million active installations. A user who has downloaded Adblock Plus to more than one device will be counted once for each installation. This is double the number of users reported by Adblock Plus at the beginning of the year.
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On Monday, the Washington Post announced that it is writing exclusive, unique content for Apple News, starting with Election Essentials, which publishes on Mondays. Election Essentials is a weekly news briefing for Apple News readers written by the Post’s emerging news products team, an innovative 20-member team that leverages various storytelling platforms and mobile-first news.
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Last week Oregon State University announced the launch of SQUAD, an on-demand membership model that makes tickets to OSU sporting events available to recent graduates via subscription. For $19.99 a month, or $239 per year, subscribers get access to an unlimited number of games and matches, including football, basketball, baseball, wrestling, volleyball and gymnastics, as well as the first opportunity to upgrade to better seats.
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Walmart is going head-to-head with Amazon – again – by testing a two-day shipping subscription service, reports the Wall Street Journal. This time last year, the world’s largest retailer started a three-day subscription service, ShippingPass, available for $50 a year. At launch, ShippingPass was available by invitation only and included only 1 million of Walmart’s 8 million online products. To facilitate the new service, Walmart will shift more inventory to eight U.S. e-commerce warehouses…
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In this week’s subscription headlines, This Old House plans to boost subscription revenue, Spotify is breaking into original content, SaaS companies are changing their growth strategies, and Cheddar (TV) – the OTT news channel for millennials – goes behind a paywall. We’ve got those headlines and more featuring Lands’ End, the New York Times and Sirius XM.
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Mic, the digital news outlet by millennials for millennials, is planning to experiment with paid video subscriptions, reports Ad Age. With a monthly audience of more than 30 million readers, perhaps the time is right for just such an experiment. Mic is looking at trying video subscriptions rather than trying a paywall for written content. Currently, Mic is funded through advertising dollars for branded content and the company’s Hero ad unit…
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Easy come, easy go. That’s what the publisher of Trinity Mirror is saying about its nine-week experiment with print-only tabloid, New Day, that launched earlier this year. After lackluster sales, the Trinity Mirror shut down New Day last Friday, reports the BBC. New Day was the first standalone national daily newspaper in the U.K. in 30 years. Targeting readers between the ages of 35 and 55, New Day was intended to be an upbeat, optimistic, politically-neutral…
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The competition between Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and YouTube is heating up as Amazon launches Amazon Video Direct, a new self-service program for creators to upload their own videos. Amazon made the announcement yesterday, revealing the new addition to its video offerings. Amazon Video Direct (AVD) will allow video creators and producers to get their work in front of tens of millions of Amazon Prime customers and to earn royalties based on the number of hours streamed.…
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Yesterday TheStreet (NASDAQ: TST) reported its first quarter 2016 financials, and they aren’t pretty. In addition to total revenue being down 5 percent year-over-year, the company’s consumer subscription revenue was $6.3 million, a decrease of 14 percent year-over-year.
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