October 30, 2018
How Subscription Services Are Steering Consumers Away From Owning Possessions
To help consumers save on the costs of owning possessions, companies are offering more goods and services on demand with the subscription business model, long associated with periodicals and brought...
October 30, 2018
Deep Dive: Subscriptions To Make Digital Fitness Less Of A...
Connected devices are giving fitness buffs access to health data on a regular basis, fueling a market that’s projected to be worth $27.4 billion by 2022. The following Deep Dive...
October 29, 2018
Seven Big Threats Facing Seven Big Tech And Payments Players...
Halloween, the annual celebration of the spooky and supernatural, is just a couple of days away. For many in payments and the vast ecosystem that it powers, the scariest thing...
October 26, 2018
Small Business FinTech Takes Center Stage With VCs
Cybersecurity investment probably won’t let up anytime soon. Indeed, this week did see some cybersecurity funding action, with several big-name backers participating in the $85 million investment for Team8, a...
October 22, 2018
Teens Love Instagram More Than Snapchat
Instagram, the photo-sharing social media network operator owned by Facebook, has surpassed Snapchat as the most frequented social media platform among teenagers. CNBC, citing Piper Jaffray’s fall 2018 survey, reported...
October 18, 2018
Live Event Tickets, Subscription-Style
The subscription model has long brought consumers to movie theaters to spend a night out: MoviePass, for all of its recent challenges, has popularized the idea of movie-tickets-as-a-service available to...
October 17, 2018
Netflix Adds 7M Subscribers In Q3 Earnings Beat
With blockbuster subscriber gains, Netflix rocketed past its earnings estimates and met its revenue expectations. The movie subscription company posted $4 billion in revenue and earnings per share of 89...
October 16, 2018
Germany: Watchdog probes Sky’s Champions League streaming deal
Germany’s antitrust regulator announced on Tuesday, October 16, it was investigating whether Sky Deutschland’s streaming deal with DAZN to air Champions League soccer matches was in accordance with competition law....
October 15, 2018
Kitchen United CEO On Restaurants’ eTail Future
The digitization of the economy has been actively underway for the last two or so decades. In many regards, though, the digital age of restaurants has caught many restaurateurs off...
The “Subscription Commerce Tracker™,” powered by Recurly, explores how companies use subscription-based commerce to build long-term customer relationships and steady revenue sources. The report includes notable developments in the market and the companies that are rapidly innovating the space.