Macy’s isn’t spinning off its eCommerce division and Amazon is readying its first physical fashion store, Amazon Style, at L.A.’s Americana at Brand mall. Is this the beginning of the end for pandemic-era fashion subscriptions that seem to be everywhere? No. At least, not as...
Alaska Air Group on Wednesday (Feb. 16) rolled out Flight Pass, a new subscription service offering six, 12 or 24 round-trip flights for a fixed trip price, MarketWatch reported. Subscriptions will start at $49 per month. Flight Pass Pro will offer more flexibility and will...
Tried buying a car lately? Oh, that’s right — we’re fresh out of cars since the pandemic. An exaggeration, but not terribly far off the mark. Various media reports place used car prices 40% higher than before COVID-19, with the average new car price hitting...
Subscriptions are popular and growing, but consumers are past the novelty of new streaming channels and set to make some tough choices in 2022 on how to buy their streaming TV. Disney’s first-quarter earnings give a glimpse into gyrations within the streaming content sector as...
There are needs and there are wants. And in the wide world of consumer products, we often like to sample new things before deciding which items are keepers and which aren’t. Retail subscriptions are doing the job of helping consumers learn about products they’ve never...
If you have a sneaking suspicion that free TV fragmented into manifold paid services just to veer back and reconstitute around older network models, you’re not imagining things. As fun as streaming TV and gaming are, as much as they got us through two years...
In their 1997 marketing “Enterprise One to One,” Don Peppers and Martha Rogers zeroed in on the deeper connections possible for companies fostering close customer relationships rather than simply transactional affiliations. Long known as relationship commerce, it isn’t a new concept in the same way...
NextCar Holding Company, the FinTech and InsurTech vehicle subscription platform, is now called Autonomy, and will be an electric vehicle and zero emissions vehicle subscription program. The service will offer the Tesla Model 3 in California. It plans to expand to other U.S. markets “shortly.”...
Global payments processing firm Stripe is partnering with audio streaming platform Spotify to help creators monetize subscriptions, accept payments and launch recurring revenue streams, while also engaging on a deeper level with fans, according to a Tuesday (Jan. 25) press release. “Spotify Podcast Subscriptions make...
