In this week’s subscription news headlines, the Toronto Star ups its bets on its tablet app and line forums, Medium works on monetizing its publishing platform and Angie’s List abandons its membership model in favor of tiered subscriptions. In addition, this week’s subscription news features The New York Times, Facebook, Google AMP, IAB and Taboola.
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Earlier this week IAB Tech Lab released a primer for publishers on how to handle ad blocking. The 23-page report provides a comprehensive overview of various tactics publishers can use to offset revenue loss caused by ad blocking. While IAB does not recommend a specific tactic, it does recommend an approach it calls DEAL to help publishers communicate with and engage with readers who use ad blocking tools…
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Effective May 2, Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) will reduce its print schedule from five issues a week to just one. According to the March 3 announcement, the new and improved weekly edition will include “innovative and enhanced features to help investors prepare for the week ahead, while leveraging influential and powerful features like the IBD 50 and The Big Picture.” This reduction will allow IBD to shift its resources from its print operation to the digital…
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Vessel, an online video streaming service, announced this week that subscribers will now enjoy an ad-free experience, effective March 7. Vessel also launched a new annual subscription for those who prefer to pay $19.99 a year instead of $2.99 a month.
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Streaming music service Tidal faces a $5 million class-action lawsuit for allegedly not paying royalties to Yesh Music, LLC and John Emanuele from the band The American Dollar, says Digital Trends. According to the suit, at least 118 of the band’s songs were streamed on Tidal without proper licensing or royalty payments.
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Angie’s List, a contractor and service review and ratings service, announced that it will abandon its membership model and move to a tiered subscription plan this summer, says USA Today. Angie’s List (NASDAQ: ANGI) made the announcement on March 3, 2016 as it unveiled its new Profitable Growth Plan at Investor Day.
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A class action suit has been filed against Tidal, the value of Dropbox is in question, and ad block users are willing to disable them in exchange for content. In addition, this week’s subscription news headlines include paywalls, ad blockers, unpaid royalties, and payments as a service with stories featuring Shopify, Salesforce, Rocksbox and more.
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The April 2016 issue of “More” magazine will be the magazine’s last issue, reports the Wall Street Journal. “More” is no more. Meredith Corp. said it is shutting down the lifestyle magazine for affluent women because of unrecoverable advertising declines. The magazine had monthly circulation of more than 673,000, about half of its circulation of 1.3 million from December 2012. Started in 1997, “More” catered to affluent women ages 25 and up with median income just…
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Last week the Starz entertainment network (NASDAQ: STRZA and STRZB) announced its fourth quarter results for 2015. Sales were relatively flat for the quarter, but profits took a big hit as programming expenses rose, reports Motley Fool. Starz subscriptions grew 300,000 for the fourth quarter and 500,000 for the year. They are now at an all-time high: 23.6 million. Encore subscriptions, however, are down. They are now at 32.2 million.
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During a keynote discussion during Social Media Week in New York last week, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson spoke against the use of ad blockers, said Ad Week, likening their use to stealing a print issue of a newspaper. He wants readers to pay for the Times’ quality journalism…The CEO further pointed out that, as with many similar publications, the subscription model does not cover all of the newspaper’s costs, reported Ad Week. Those other costs are covered by advertising and sponsorship dollars, and those may be in danger as the usage of ad blockers grows.
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