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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!

Dana E. Neuts

Children’s Activity Subscription Service KidPass Launches in New York City

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KidPass, a children’s activity subscription service, launched last week in New York City, says The Wall Street Journal. The startup was founded by three New York-based technology executives to provide families with access to children’s activities like sports, music classes, camps, and museums via subscription. The company is backed by leading tech investors of Gilt Groupe, Warby Parker, ZocDoc, Artsy and SailThru.

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Dow Jones Announces Key Changes, Creates New Publishing Unit

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Last week Dow Jones CEO William Lewis announced major organizational changes, including the creation of a new publishing unit, Dow Jones Media Group. “I am pleased to announce some important structural changes to Dow Jones. These developments build on the excellent work already done over the past 18 months and will provide the platform the company needs to achieve our shared objectives,” Lewis said.

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Story Surprise, a Modern Day Subscription Book Club for Kids, Launches

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Last week Story Surprise, a modern day book club for kids, launched to deliver hardback children’s books to kids via subscription. Serving infants through teenagers, Story Surprise selects the books in five age ranges to be sent each month. Not knowing what book will be delivered is part of the fun, say the founders.   Subscriptions cost $6.99 a month for month-to-month plans, $6.25 a month for six-month plans, or $5.79 a month for annual subscribers.

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Starz to Go Solo with Stand-alone OTT Streaming Video Service

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Starz is the latest premium channel to go solo as a direct-to-consumer, over-the-top (OTT) streaming video service, joining competitors Showtime and HBO. Starz CEO Chris Albrecht made the announcement at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, said Adweek. “Yeah, we’re in the midst of doing it,” said Albrecht. “To have your own app is the opportunity to be distributed, either by our current distribution partners in different ways…or potential other portals. It is early days…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for Jan. 8

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In this week’s subscription news headlines, Apple humble-brags about a record-breaking holiday season for the App store. Adele resists the streaming music trend and the Arizona attorney general sues a telemarketer for a subscription scam. We’ve also got stories featuring Twitter, Dow Jones, the Washington Post, Netflix and Google.

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All-You-Can-Watch Comedy Subscription Service Seeso Goes Live

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Seeso, NBCUniversal’s comedy subscription service, officially launched this week, following a one-month, web-only trial. Unlike other over-the-top (OTT) streaming video services, Seeso is focused solely on comedies. Affordably priced at $3.99 a month, it is also ad free. Seeso’s website said the site includes “an extensive collection of hand-picked comedy comprised of hilarious, never-before-seen originals, quotable classics, next-day TV, hours of stand-up specials, bingeable library shows” and more.

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Home Delivery Debacle Plagues The Boston Globe

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On Tuesday, Boston Globe publisher John Henry apologized to subscribers for the home delivery debacle they experienced over the previous week or so. According to Boston.com, delivery problems with The Globe’s new circulation service impacted as many as 10% of subscribers, or tens of thousands of subscribers. “First, I want to personally apologize to every Boston Globe subscriber who has been inconvenienced. We recognize that you depend on us, and that we’ve let you down…”

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DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Refuse to Hear Apple’s Antitrust Appeal

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2015 ended on a sour note for Apple, as its antitrust legal battle continues. The battle began in 2012 when federal and state authorities charged Apple and five publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster) with conspiring to raise the price of e-books from $9.99 to $12.99 and up. In 2013, following a three week trial, the U.S. District Court in Manhattan ruled against Apple, stating that Apple was the ringleader in an industrywide conspiracy…

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GQ Says Turn Off Your Ad Blocker or Pay Up

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Last month we reported that ad blocking is a $21.8 billion problem. That’s how much money publishers lost last year in advertising revenue because of ad blockers, according to a report by PageFair and Adobe. The problem is estimated to grow to $41.4 billion in 2016. Publishers are having to get creative to address this growing problem. In December, DigiDay reported that Condé Nast is the latest to fight back against ad blocking. Condé Nast’s GQ…

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Is Microsoft’s Windows 10 a success? Business Insider thinks so.

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Is Windows 10 a success? Max Slater-Robins of Business Insider thinks so. In fact, he says it looks like Windows 10 is a “huge success” for Microsoft. That seems like an ambitious assumption five months after its July 28, 2015 rollout. Microsoft thinks Windows 10 is a pretty hot item too. In fact, in a 7:00 a.m. post today, Microsoft says it continues “to be excited – and humbled – by the incredible response to Windows…

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