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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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EA Launches Origin Access, a Subscription Service for PC Gamers

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Earlier this month Electronic Arts Inc., or EA, announced the launch of Origin Access, a subscription service for PC gamers. For $4.99 a month, Origin Access subscribers get all-you-can-play access to The Vault, a growing collection of PC games, a 10% discount on Origin purchases, and the opportunity to try new EA games before their release. At launch, the service was made available in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Germany, and it includes 15 games…

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Netflix Grows to 75 Million Members, Sets Ambitious Goals for 2016

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Netflix reached 75 million members globally on January 1, said the company in a January 16 letter to shareholders. “Our quarter-end 74.76 million members put us at over 17 million net additions for the year, showing how much the world is embracing Internet TV,” said the letter. “We bring great stories from all over the world to people all over the world.” In the third quarter Netflix added 5.59 million members worldwide, exceeding its forecast of 5.15…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for Jan. 22

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In this week’s subscription headlines, The Nation erects a paywall and endorses Bernie Sanders for president, Lifesize splits from Logitech, and Apple promotes Meredith app inside the App store. We’ve got those headlines and more including stories about Recurly, SoundCloud, holiday subscription sales, ebooks, SaaS, digital publishing, ad blocking and more.

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Can Apple Music’s Subscriber Growth Last?

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In just six months, Apple Music has achieved a major milestone, surpassing 10 million paying subscribers, reports the Financial Times. It launched its streaming music service on June 30. In comparison, Spotify has over 20 million subscribers and 75 million active users. It took Spotify about six years to reach 10 million paying subscribers, so Apple is ahead of the game. Another advantage Apple has over Spotify is that Spotify is available in 58 markets, and…

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Spotify Hit with Two Class-Action Lawsuits Totaling $350 Million

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Sometimes more is better. In this case, two lawsuits are not better than one. In late December, Mashable reported that Spotify has been sued in a civil suit for $150 million over alleged copyright infringements. Spotify has allegedly been failing to properly track and pay royalties, said Mashable. The class action complaint for damages and injunctive relief was filed December 28 in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by musician, songwriter and producer…

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Recurly Reports Holiday Season Was Exponentially Successful for Subscription Companies

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This morning subscription management platform Recurly announced results of the 2015 holiday season, which was exponentially successful for subscription merchants. The results were drawn from a sample of 450 business-to-consumer subscription-based merchants who are clients of Recurly. The study period was two weeks long from Sunday, November 22 through Saturday, December 5, 2015, which included Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Recurly reported the following results: On Cyber Monday, subscription-based merchants experienced a 230% jump in sales compared to…

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WhatsApp Makes App Free, Discontinues Annual Subscription Fees

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Yesterday WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum announced that the company is discontinuing its annual subscription fee, reports the Wall Street Journal. While the messaging app is free for the first year of use, users must subscribe for $1 a year thereafter. With nearly a billion users, this change in strategy is significant. WhatsApp explains why on their blog: “…we’re happy to announce that WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees. For many years, we’ve asked some people to…

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Daily Paywall Relaunches, Offering 60K Free Articles from Paid News Sites

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After being shut down in 2014 for allegations of copyright infringement, Daily Paywall is up and running again, reports The Creators Project. On a safe new server, Daily Paywall has published more than 60,000 articles from 2014, originally published by media outlets like the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and The Economist. Daily Paywall also prints a free newspaper distributed in New York City. Shortly after Daily Paywall’s December 2014 launch, Daily Paywall came tumbling…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for Jan. 15

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In this week’s subscription headlines, Dow Jones announces key changes while creating a new publishing unit, Apple Music boasts more than 10 million paying subscribers, and Starz goes solo with its own over-the-top streaming video service. We’ve got those stories on publishing, payments and native advertising and articles featuring Quartz, Gatehouse and the Las Vegas Review Journal.

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The Nation Erects a Paywall, Endorses Bernie Sanders for President

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Earlier this week, executive editor Richard Kim announced that The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine, would erect a metered paywall. Effective Monday, January 11, regular visitors to the site will have to pay for The Nation’s content. “We’ll be using a meter system that will keep The Nation free for new readers, while also asking frequent visitors to help fund our important work,” said Kim. Specifically, here’s what will change: Everyone can read six articles for free over…

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