TikTok has announced a program to allow viewers to pay to subscribe to specific streamers, a report said Tuesday (May 24). Called Live Subscription, it will give fans access to features like a subscriber-only chat, creator-specific emotes and badges. Some creators have said they look forward...
Ecommerce platform sticky.io, which provides services for subscription management and recurring billing, will be offering its services with Shopify, a press release said Monday (May 23). The new app integrates with Shopify and will let merchants configure flexible subscription offers, with customizable billing and dynamic...
Costco has started selling discounted subscriptions to Apple TV+, Apple News+ or Apple Arcade at discounted yearly prices, according to a MacRumors report Thursday (May 19). Apple Arcade is available for $44.99 to Costco members, down from the standard yearly price of $49.99. The same...
Twitter is debuting a new subscriber-only element to let creators build their in-app communities with Super Follows Spaces, Social Media Today reported Tuesday (May 17). The feature will be available to Super Follows creators, and the report noted that this will let creators offer “an...
Netflix was liberal in its layoffs on Tuesday (March 17), cutting 150 positions out of its 11,000-strong workforce due to slower revenue growth, Deadline reported. The lost positions are mostly from the U.S. and a lot of them were from both film and TV creative...
Global technology provider and specialist distributor Westcon-Comstor is rolling out a flexible payment solution for the IT space to address the shift the tech industry has undergone from traditional resale models to subscription-based offerings, according to a press release Tuesday (May 17). The company said...
The PlayStation Plus subscription service will reportedly relaunch only in Asia for PlayStation and PC platforms for now, a report said, contrasting what the company initially said would happen. Other region relaunches will happen, though not until June. Sony has reportedly begun doing this in...
The average subscriber has dropped one of their five retail subscriptions since October, according to “Subscription Commerce Conversion,” a PYMNTS and sticky.io collaboration based on a survey of 1,919 U.S. consumers. Get the report: Subscription Commerce Conversion The average subscriber had four retail subscriptions in...
Looking for loyalty among millennial subscribers and their closest cohorts? Look to your feature set and make sure it’s flexible and delivers value to these choosy consumers. At a high level, PYMNTS found that estimated total monthly expenditure on subscriptions declined by 46% in March...
