subscriptions

The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century, and is now used by many businesses and websites.

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DoorDash Launches Subscription Gifting to Gain Share From Rivals
DoorDash Launches Subscription Gifting to Gain Share From Rivals
November 21, 2022  |  Subscriptions

In a move to both grow its subscription program and capture consumers’ holiday spending, DoorDash has made its DashPass delivery subscription giftable. The aggregator announced...

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Subscription Challenges Await Iger as Former CEO Returns to Disney’s Helm
Subscription Challenges Await Iger as Former CEO Returns to Disney’s Helm
November 21, 2022  |  Subscriptions

While investors cheered Robert Iger’s return as Disney’s CEO, challenges at the company’s streaming media division will be front and center thanks to new competition...

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sticky.io Appoints WooCommerce Veteran Spencer Watts as CFO 
sticky.io Appoints WooCommerce Veteran Spencer Watts as CFO 
November 18, 2022  |  Personnel

Subscription commerce platform provider sticky.io has appointed Spencer Watts as its new chief financial officer (CFO).  Watts moves to the company from WooCommerce, where he served as both CFO...

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Streaming Subscriptions From Apple, Samsung and Xbox Will Test Cancel Trend
Streaming Subscriptions From Apple, Samsung and Xbox Will Test Cancel Trend
November 17, 2022  |  Subscriptions

Amid a broader trend of consumers trimming retail box subscriptions, streaming entertainment looks to be a defiant holdout. Not only has it held onto the...

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Is Data the Cure-All for Subscription Retention and Churn?
Is Data the Cure-All for Subscription Retention and Churn?
November 17, 2022  |  Subscriptions

As pretty much any retailer and brand can attest, acquiring and retaining subscription customers in a good economy — particularly high-value ones — is no...

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Subscriptions Front and Center of Consumers’ Essential Non-Essential Debate
Subscriptions Front and Center of Consumers’ Essential Non-Essential Debate
November 16, 2022  |  Subscription Commerce

Inflation is changing consumer behavior — and not just in terms of shoppers looking for bargains. Many consumers are on the verge of eliminating subscriptions...

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Musk: Twitter Blue ‘Probably’ Returning Within a Week
Musk: Twitter Blue ‘Probably’ Returning Within a Week
November 13, 2022  |  Subscriptions

Twitter Blue’s hiatus will be a short one, the platform’s CEO said, as the social media program looks to the subscription service to rescue it...

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Report: Twitter Paused Blue Subscriptions to Halt Fraudulent Accounts
Report: Twitter Paused Blue Subscriptions to Halt Fraudulent Accounts
November 11, 2022  |  Subscriptions

After days of users taking advantage of the blue check of Twitter’s redesigned Blue subscription plan to impersonate people and companies, the social media platform...

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Twitter Debuts and Quickly Deletes ‘Gray Check’ for Verified Accounts
Twitter Debuts and Quickly Deletes ‘Gray Check’ for Verified Accounts
November 09, 2022  |  Authentication

A new gray check that was deployed by Twitter to designate users’ accounts that had been verified as authentic by the social media platform was...

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