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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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Postmates Launches Subscription Delivery Service to Rival Amazon Prime

Auto-renew Subscription, Business Strategy, Consumer Services, Customer Service, Industry Announcements, News, SaaS and Cloud Services, Subscription Apps /

Watch out, Mr. Bezos and Amazon Prime. There’s a new subscription delivery service in town. This week Postmates launched a Plus Unlimited subscription, an on-demand one-hour delivery service available in select U.S. markets to subscribers for $9.99 a month. For $9.99 per month, Postmates subscribers get free delivery on all orders over $30 from more than 3,000 Postmates Plus merchant partners. There are no service fees for restaurant or retail deliveries, sign-up on the Postmates iOS app is easy, and subscribers can cancel at any time.

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for April 1

Business Services, Business Strategy, Consumer Media and Publishing, Consumer Services, Customer Service, Magazines, Mergers and Acquisitions, News, Payment Processing, Revenue and Sales, SaaS and Cloud Services, Subscription Apps /

We bravely waded through the presidential campaign chaos to bring you this week’s subscription news headlines, including an IBM acquisition, Facebook video metrics, Apple Pay, CRM solutions, publishing platforms and ad blocking. We also have news featuring Alaska Dispatch, KidPass, Conde Nast, Civil Comments and MoviePass.

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Kevin Hart’s ‘Laugh Out Loud’ Is Latest Entrant in a Crowded SVOD Market

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We spoke too soon. Just yesterday we reported the streaming video on demand market is getting crowded with the addition of Fullscreen, a subscription service targeting 13-to-30 year olds. On the heels of that news, The Verge reported that actor/comedienne Kevin Hart is partnering with entertainment company Lionsgate to create a new comedy streaming channel, Laugh Out Loud.

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Youth-oriented Fullscreen to Join a Crowded SVOD Marketplace in April

Auto-renew Subscription, Business Strategy, Consumer Services, Entertainment and Streaming, Industry Announcements, News, Product Development, Subscriber Acquisition /

Next month another streaming video service, Fullscreen, joins an ever-crowded over-the-top (OTT) TV marketplace, reports Variety. Geared specifically toward 13-to-30 year olds, the new subscription video service will launch on April 26. “Our customers are saying, ‘I’m glad my dad has Netflix, but I want something for me,'” says Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos. For $4.99 a month, subscribers will get an ad-free experience and more than 800 hours of content, including movies, TV series and original content.…

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Meredith Goes ‘All In’ With Revamp of Allrecipes Online and Off

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Yesterday Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP) announced that Allrecipes magazine has undergone a revamp, which will debut with the April/May 2016 issue on newsstands now. Meredith said the revamped look includes a new logo, innovative layouts and enhanced editorial content and photography. Launched in 2013, Allrecipes magazine is published six times a year. According to Meredith, Allrecipes started with an audience of 1.3 million that has now grown to 7.6 million, and Allrecipes is the world’s largest…

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Pandora CEO McAndrews is Out, Founder Westergren is In

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Yesterday streaming music service Pandora (NYSE:P) announced that it was replacing CEO Brian McAndrews with founder Tim Westergren. “Tim is a visionary who forever changed how music is enjoyed by leading the development of Pandora’s Music Genome Project in the early 2000s. A seasoned entrepreneur, and former band member and composer himself, Tim is personally committed to advancing the careers of working musicians everywhere,” said the company in a press release. “Tim has been a strong and…

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Subscription Service KidPass Expands to Brooklyn and Manhattan

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Two months after launching in New York City, children’s activity subscription service KidPass is expanding this week into Manhattan and Brooklyn. As we reported in January, the subscription startup was founded by three tech execs to give families affordable access to children’s activities via subscription. According to KidPass’s email announcement about the expansion, moving into Manhattan and Brooklyn is a “huge milestone.” In the past few weeks alone, more than 1,000 activities have been booked through…

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Alaska Dispatch News Experiments with Civil Comments, a New Commenting Platform

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Earlier this week Alaska Dispatch News announced it is ditching Facebook-based comments in favor of a new comment moderation platform, Civil Comments. It is now the third media outlet to do so, joining alternative newsweekly Willamette Week and Register Guard, both Oregon newspapers. Alaska Dispatch News made the move after receiving nearly 900 reader comments with the common theme that comments are a problem. With hundreds of comments being posted to the ADN.com site per day,…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for March 25

Business Strategy, Entertainment and Streaming, Magazines, News, Revenue and Sales, SaaS and Cloud Services, Subscriber Acquisition, Subscription Boxes /

In this week’s subscription news, 1 to 1 Media talks about cracking the ad-free model, French news sites block the ad blockers, Aviation Week and Boeing partner to digitize 100 years of magazine archives, and SoundCloud is one step closer to a subscription service. Other subscription news headlines feature Google, Facebook and IAB.

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Micropayment Startup Blendle Brings Pay-As-You-Go News to the U.S.

Business Strategy, Magazines, News, Paywall, Subscription Apps /

Dutch startup Blendle is making its debut in the United States, bringing pay-as-you-go news to readers in exchange for micropayments. The idea behind Blendle is to bring content from major newspaper, magazine and online publishers to the Blendle news app where readers choose what content they want to consume.…

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