Zipcar, the unit of Avis Budget Group, has launched a program in which commuters in cities pay for a monthly subscription to gain access to unlimited cars during a workweek. According to a news report in The Wall Street Journal, the move on the part...
“Click to subscribe!” The rally cry of YouTube personalities has now been appropriated by, well, pretty much everybody. In fact, subscription commerce seems to be the new “it” thing. It started with digital goods: Netflix, Adobe, Pay-Per-View. Then it moved into physical goods and real-world...
In an attempt to bring in new customers, Porsche is testing out a vehicle subscription service in Atlanta, where Porsche Cars North America, Inc. is headquartered. Through the Porsche Passport service, members can pay $2,000 or $3,000 for access to Porsche vehicles via a mobile...
Information technology firm Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. is seeing big returns on its $27 million investment in MoviePass, an online ticketing service. According to Reuters news reports, Helios and Matheson shares saw a 30 percent increase on Wednesday (Oct. 11). MoviePass is a movie...
In the 1970s, a date night at the movies was a relatively cheap affair. For just an easy $4 and some loose change, moviegoers could have two tickets and practically eat their weight in popcorn. Okay, perhaps a slight exaggeration there. But, fast forward to...
From groceries to high fashion, there’s no shortage of subscription commerce services today. When it comes to services that consumers prefer the most, though, it’s not the ones offering cheaper plans, but the ones offering the most plan options. According to data contained inside the...
MoviePass, the movie theater subscription service that is selling a majority stake to Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. (HMNY), announced Thursday (Sept. 14) that it now has more than 400,000 paying monthly subscribers, adding them in the past 30 days alone. In a news release,...
Over-the-top (OTT) media services started as an alternative for millennials who didn’t want to (and often couldn’t) pay $150 per month for a bloated cable package full of channels they didn’t want just so they could watch a few shows they cared about. Enter Netflix....
It only takes 127.6 seconds for a consumer to initiate a subscription, so what’s getting in the way of more merchants onboarding more subscribers? The inaugural PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Conversion Index™, a Recurly collaboration, presents more than 2000 data points across 176 subscription commerce merchants...
