A combination of factors are bringing change to the subscription sector as pandemic living normalizes and more people engage with physical businesses, and inflation presses down. According to The Subscription Commerce Conversion Index, a PYMNTS and sticky.io collaboration, by March 2022, data showed that roughly...
There’s been a lot of talk about homes in the past couple of years, with people sheltering in place, working from home, remodeling their homes and watching the soaring value of their homes. This has highlighted — or driven home, if you will — the...
2021 proved a difficult year for meal kit subscription companies, with consumers’ return to lives away from home counteracting the boost they saw during quarantine. Now, after a period of difficulty, New York City-based meal kit company Blue Apron might be coming out of the...
Two words: Digital, English. Those are the strategies that France’s Le Monde, a dominant force in the local publishing space with 70% market share, is pinning its hopes on to secure its place in this new era of digital transformation. According to Louis Dreyfus, the...
WhatsApp is working on offering business subscription plans that would let multiple employees of the same company chat with a single customer simultaneously, publication WABetinfo reported Wednesday (April 21). Other likely features of the subscription plan, WABetainfo added, include allowing the linking of up to...
Maybe the title for Netflix’s latest report on subscribers, on the battle for video streaming, and the striving to monetize it all, might be “Don’t Look Down.” Losing 200,000 subscribers — as had been seen in the first quarter — is a big loss. Losing...
Netflix plans to roll out a mobile game and TV series from the popular Exploding Kittens card game, a company blog said. The game will debut on Netflix in May and the adult animated comedy series in 2023. The series will star Tom Ellis, Abraham...
Households in the U.K. are dropping steaming services in record numbers as runaway inflation eats away at already strained budgets, according to media reports on Monday (April 18). Streaming services experienced a major uptick during the pandemic, but the shift to a post-COVID world in...
Inflation is hovering around 8%, and the average consumer now subscribes to five different services. There’s also the factor of subscription fatigue weighing on matters. Given these variables, is this a good time to add or launch a new subscription offering? “Absolutely,” Sanjay Kamble, vice...
