- Magazines, Newspapers Push Cyber-Monday Subscription Deals
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Monday, November 26, 2018
Amazon has Cyber Monday magazine deals starting from $5 for subscriptions to various publications, including Meredith Corp., Conde Nast, Trusted Media Brands, Hearst and Bonnier. ...
- 'Guardian' Reveals It Has A Million Supporters
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, November 6, 2018
"The Guardian" has revealed, for the first time, that more than a million people have chosen to support its site financially and more than half a million do so ...
- Sovrn To Boost Publisher Options After Raising $25 Million
Publishing Insider, Melynda Fuller - Monday, October 22, 2018
The company wants to focus on durable subscription-based business relationships with publishers, since ad exchange accounts for less than 60% of its total business. ...
- 'NYT,' Scribd Partner On Bundled Subscription Plan
Publishers Daily, Melynda Fuller - Wednesday, October 17, 2018
For $12.99 a month, subscribers can access all of Scribd's content, including over 1 million books, audiobooks and articles - the entirety of the NYT's output. A digital subscription ...
- Poll Shows Free Trial Best Way To Convert Visitors To Subscribers
Publishing Insider, Melynda Fuller - Monday, October 15, 2018
'Time' magazine offers gift subscriptions, free issues of the magazine and annual subscription discounts to retain its audience. It's considered a successful retention model. ...
- Zuora, Amazon Pay Partner To Expand Subscription Billing, Launches With 'Seattle Times,' 'Telegraph'
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Thursday, October 11, 2018
When readers go to subscribe for the publications online, they can sign into their Amazon accounts and pay with their saved credit cards. They can also use Amazon Pay f ...
- Are Some SVOD Services Losing More Subscribers Than Gaining?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 2, 2018
The churn rate, or percentage of subscribers who cancel or don't renew subscriptions in a given time period, is growing for some popular services. Juniper Research says Amazon Prime h ...
- MoviePass In Lapsed Subscriber Email Flap
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 1, 2018
Movie ticket company MoviePass tells lapsed customers they have to opt out or they will be opted back in -- and charged. ...
- Washington Post's Arc Targets Advertising, Subscriptions
Publishers Daily, Melynda Fuller - Wednesday, September 26, 2018
New technology dubbed Zeus, expected to begin testing in 2019, will allow Arc clients to take advantage of more effective header bidding, among other ad-network based incentives. ...
- AdRizer Named One Of The Fastest Growing Companies
Publishers Daily, Melynda Fuller - Thursday, August 16, 2018
Today, 'Inc.' released the Inc. 5000 of 2018, ranking the faster-growing private companies in the U.S. Climbing toward the top is publishing and software company AdRizer. ...
- Tinder Doubles Subscriber Rate, Revenues
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Year-over-year, Match said total revenue grew 36% to $421 million, which it largely attributed to 27% average subscriber growth, along with increase of average revenue per user of 8%. ...
- UK Streamers Overtake Pay Services, Expect TV Ad Spending To Suffer
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, July 19, 2018
The UK has reached a tipping point and TV ad revenues could be the first victim. ...
- NBCUniversal Bets On 'Bluprint' To Boost Direct-To-Consumer Offerings
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Tuesday, July 17, 2018
NBCUniversal is rebranding its video subscription service Craftsy as "Bluprint," expanding from strictly crafty subjects like knitting into the lifestyle arena and adding original entertainment series
and live events. ...
- Netflix Testing Higher Pricing For Extra-Premium Plans
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Thursday, July 5, 2018
Users in Germany, Italy and other European countries have started to see a new subscription option for Netflix, sitting above the Premium tier that currently tops its product offerings. T ...
- 'Daily Beast' Offers Subscription Product
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Wednesday, June 27, 2018
'The Daily Beast' is launching a new paid subscription offering, 'Beast Inside,' to give members early access to stories, exclusive series and newsletters. 'Beast Inside' will cost members $100 ea ...
- As MoviePass Struggles, AMC Touts Its New A-List
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, June 25, 2018
The A-List officially debuts on Tuesday. A third movie subscription plan, called Sinemia, also emerged last month, offering a range of price plans. ...
- Facebook To Launch Paid-For Groups Option
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, June 21, 2018
Facebook will begin to allow groups to charge monthly membership fees, "The Telegraph" reports. The idea is that groups offering advice and insight could charge users for access. At prese ...
- Facebook To Group Admins: Test Paid Subs
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, June 20, 2018
With subscription groups, Facebook is offering built-in tools designed to simplify the process. The test ties into Facebook's broader efforts to lure content creators, influencers, and community leaders away fr ...
- Just 7% Of Brits Pay For Online News, Compared To 16% In The US
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, June 15, 2018
Brits are almost at the bottom of a league table for paying for news online published in the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018. "Press Gazette" reveals a mere ...
- News Publishers See Acceptance In Pay Models, Mainly From The Left
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Thursday, June 14, 2018
Driven partly by the so-called "Trump Bump," paid subscriptions to online news publishers appear to be growing in many markets worldwide, according to the 2018 edition of the Reuters Institute ...
- News Corp.'s Digital Subscriptions Up 20%
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Also, digital revenues represented 29% of the newspaper unit's revenues, compared to 24% in the prior year, due to paid digital subscriber growth. ...
- Auditor: 'Substantial Doubt' About Sustainability Of MoviePass
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Those doubts are based on the company's "incurring significant net losses" and its "working capital position," according to MoviePass' annual report. ...
- Streaming VOD Ousts Pay-TV
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Monday, April 9, 2018
2017 was a pivotal year in the media landscape, as U.S. pay-TV operators lost subscribers. Migration of subscribers is a global one, says the report, and analysts posit that ...
- Brown Bagging It: Jim Fosina On Email And Replenishment Marketing
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, April 6, 2018
Everyone need products they might be embarrassed to buy in person. Enter subscription marketing. ...
- Two Million Free Spotify Users Suppress Ads
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Friday, March 23, 2018
In other words, they were using software to effectively turn Spotify's free service into its premium, ad-free service. ...
- YouTube Will 'Frustrate And Seduce' Users To Entice Subscriptions
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Thursday, March 22, 2018
The company hopes to "smoke out" users using the free music site as a de facto streaming music service, letting music videos play one after another, according to YouTube's glob ...
- Discovery Eyes Direct OTT Offering, Legacy TV Firms Lock In Streaming Strategies
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, March 7, 2018
A Discovery OTT service would enter an increasingly crowded field. Viacom will launch a direct-to-consumer OTT offering built around library content later this year. Viacom CEO Bob Bakish, speaking ...
- The Athletic Raises $20M To Expand Sports Subscription Service
Publishing Insider, Melynda Fuller - Wednesday, March 7, 2018
The rounds of funding are allowing 'The Athletic' to set up a structure that is highly experimental. However, the site's subscribers are already in the six figures. Subscriptions cost ...
- MoviePass Sees Sharply Higher New Subscriptions From Price Cut
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Since December 12, the movie theater subscription service has added 500,000 new subscribers, now topping 1.5 million subscribers overall. In August 2017, MoviePass drastically dropped its monthly subscription fee ...
- 'Washington Post' To Expand Newsroom After Second Year Of Profits
Publishers Daily, Melynda Fuller - Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Digital subscriptions have tripled since 2016, and the newspaper now has more than 1 million paid digital subscribers. The newspaper also reports exceeding its revenue targets. ...
