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Dana E. Neuts

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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Weekly Subscription News Round-up

Business Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, News, Payment Processing, SaaS and Cloud Services /

Deals, launches, OTT and SaaS are all in the news this week. Here are those subscription industry headlines and more: Netflix and SoftBank May Partner for Launch in Japan VatorNews Salesforce, Inc. (CRM): Has SaaS Model Been Proven? ETF Daily News Pearson Sells Its Stake in The Economist for $730.7 Million Subscription Insider Tech Brands Can Learn A Lot About Subscription Models From Apple Music Media Post The Wall Street Journal’s ‘What’s News’ Digest App Launched Today NiemanLab Ashley Madison Execs Hacked Competitors, Emails Suggest Digital Trends Houston…

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Comcast to Launch Digital Video Platform to Rival YouTube & Facebook

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Comcast is getting ready to launch ‘Watchable,’ a new digital video platform, to rival YouTube and Facebook, reports Business Insider. Comcast has signed deals with Vox, Buzzfeed, Mic, Vice, The Onion and NBC Sports, among others. According to Business Insider, the publishers are signing multi-year deals to upload their unlicensed, original video content for users to watch on demand. When it first launches, Comcast customers with an X1 box can stream the new video platform. Currently,…

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Howl Launches All-You-Can-Eat Podcast Subscription Service

Business Strategy, Industry Announcements, News /

Podcasters rejoice! For the first time, podcasting has been brought together in one marketplace with Howl, a new app that allows users to listen to unlimited podcasts, says Fast Company. Launched in May by E. W. Scripps-owned Midroll, a podcast ad network, the free version of Howl features recent episodes of 35 comedy podcasts produced by Earwolf and Wolfpop. For $4.99 a month, subscribers get an all-you-can-eat version with unlimited access to all shows on the…

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Winnipeg Free Press: Is the Read-Now-Pay-Later News Model Working?

Business Strategy, Customer Service, News, Paywall /

Not yet. In May, The Winnipeg Free Press implemented a paywall, allowing readers to pay as they go instead of subscribing. In its second quarter financials, FP Newspapers reports that 1,300 Free Press readers have signed up to pay $0.27 a story so far. Though the Free press did not reveal how many articles were accessed via the pay-as-you-go model, 1,300 x $0.27 per article is only $351. Even if each reader averaged 10 articles per…

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Houston Chronicle Finds Success with Two-Site Strategy

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Hearst’s Houston Chronicle overshadows the competition in a big way, says NetNewsCheck. In a detailed analysis of the Houston Chronicle, NetNewsCheck’s Patrick Duprey explains how the Chronicle’s two-site strategy – one paid, one free – is winning website visitors and subscribers over. Chron.com, the newspaper’s free website, attracted 14.5 million monthly visitors between January and June 2015, while its paid site HoustonChronicle.com averaged one million visitors for the same time period. Considering Houston’s population is only…

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Pearson Sells Its Stake in The Economist for $730.7 Million

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First, the FT Group. Now, The Economist. Pearson, the world’s largest education company, has announced it will sell its 50% stake in The Economist Group to the remaining shareholders for $730.7 million, reports The Atlantic. Among the shareholders is Exor, an Italian holding company owned by the Agnelli family, the founders of Fiat. With its $446 million payment to Pearson, Exor will now own 43.4% of The Economist, an increase from its current stake of 4.7%.…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up

Business Strategy, Customer Service, Entertainment and Streaming, Mergers and Acquisitions, News, SaaS and Cloud Services, Subscriber Acquisition /

Netflix, Facebook and Microsoft are in the subscription headlines this week, along with audio subscriptions, ad-blockers and social media. Here are those headlines and more, in case you missed them: Report: More than 198 Million People Now Use an Ad-blocker The Next Web Microsoft to Abandon Free 1-Year with New Windows 10 Devices Inferse Facebook is Testing a Twitter-Like News App Subscription Insider Netflix Hikes Membership Fee for New Members in Europe Bidness, etc. Houston Sites Try to Grow in Chronicle’s Long Shadow NetNewsCheck Why Small…

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Spotify Users Outraged by New Privacy Policy

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Spotify users are outraged at changes to the company’s privacy policy, allowing the streaming music service to access photos, contacts, location, sensor data (about your movements) and other personal data from their mobile devices. The timing of the changes, announced earlier this week, comes on the heels of the disclosure of private data of Ashley Madison users.               Wired magazine takes a harsh stance against the policy in its August 20 article “You Can’t Do Squat about…

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Subscription Company Updates: Ashley Madison, The Economist & More

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Subscription-based companies are constantly changing and evolving. Here are updates on some of the stories we’ve covered over the last few months: Ashley Madison: Hackers follow through on threats to expose personal data, reports Digital Trends. Earlier this week the Impact Team released private data on the dark web, exposing the personal information of millions of customers. The data includes names, contact information, credit card data, and sexual preferences. While the information is currently only…

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Sesame Street Moves to HBO

Business Strategy, Entertainment and Streaming, Mergers and Acquisitions, News, Subscriber Only /

“Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?” Sure, turn on HBO. The popular children’s program is moving. Sesame Street is going behind a paywall with its move to HBO, reports The New York Times. Sesame Street Moves to HBO In an exclusive, five-year deal, Sesame Street will air new episodes only on HBO and its streaming services HBO Go and HBO Now. HBO will have exclusive rights to new episodes for…

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