Business Model

Gannett will outsource 485 back office jobs to India next year. Affected employees will be notified by January 15 and can stop on til April.

Planet Fitness announces a digital-only subscription, Epic Games considers subscriptions, and Experian to include subscription payments in credit scores.

Skift, a business intelligence company for the travel industry, adopts a subscription-first strategy to get it through the pandemic and beyond.

Starting in 2023, Amazon Prime Video will become the exclusive home to the NFL's Thursday Night Football, a first for a streaming service.

In this subscriber-only report, we'll share the state of car subscriptions and the car subscription industry: who's succeeding and who's not.

Forbes is launching its Journalist Entrepreneurs subscription newsletter platform, where writers and Forbes share revenue 50/50.

WW ended its fiscal year 2020 strong with a 24% increase in digital subscribers and a total of 4.4 million, a record for the organization.

Gumroad launches monthly memberships, developers can now use subscription codes in their apps on Apple, and YouTube launches audio ads.

This extremely detailed subscription & membership financial model was developed as a tool for would-be subscription businesses who either are planning a new launch or an acquisition. It may also be useful for current publishers who are doing a minimum of marketing and who want to see how their cash flow might change if they ramp up marketing and/or ancillary product offers. Its purpose is educational and inspirational rather than strictly predictive . Everyone's business is slightly different, so it was impossible for us to create an easy-to-use model that would work with enormous accuracy for all. However, if you've not modelled this type of business extensively before, you'll learn a great deal from it!

In these trying times, subscription businesses need to ask themselves what their responsibility is to their customers. Do they suspend payments? Offer free subscriptions? How do they stay connected with their subscriber base during these times? Vindicia's Jesus Luzardo explores how to do the right thing by your subscribers.