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Amazon is simplifying the pricing structure for its Kids+ all-in-one subscription service
Subscribers to Amazon’s Kids+ multiplatform package have been notified about a price change, which will become effective on July 14. According to the email sent by Amazon, the company is simplifying
Paramount+ to include Showtime as company bets on streaming future
ViacomCBS, which will now go by the name Paramount, announced on Tuesday its streaming service Paramount+ will include access to Showtime programming in one integrated offering starting this summer. T
Walmart to expand InHome grocery delivery to 30 million US households in 2022
Walmart is expanding its service that will deliver your groceries directly to your refrigerator, the company announced today. First launched in fall 2019, Walmart’s InHome delivery service, as i
Bright Cellars lands more funding to personalize its subscription-based wines
Bright Cellars, a six-year-old subscription-based wine seller has, like many upstarts, evolved over time. While it once sent its club members third-party wines that fit their particular profiles, Milw
Twitter teases its upcoming ‘premium’ service, which it plans to release globally
Would you pay for an upgraded Twitter? That’s a question Twitter will soon answer when it rolls out a new subscription service that will present users with an expanded feature set available only
Barkyn, a wellness startup for pets in Southern Europe, hits a $9.6M Series A round
Barkyn, a European subscription service for pets that combines food with tele-vet services, has raised a further €3 million ($3.6 million) from food tech investor Five Seasons Ventures, extending it
Twitter survey reveals the subscription options it’s eyeing, including an ‘Undo Send’ button
Earlier this month, Twitter told investors it’s considering a subscription model as a means of generating additional revenue to support its business. Now we know what sort of value-add features
Video app Marco Polo adds a subscription option amid coronavirus-led boost in usage
The coronavirus pandemic has sent record numbers of new users to video chat apps. Now, video messaging app Marco Polo aims to capitalize on the increases it’s also seeing to launch its new subsc
NBA TV goes over-the-top to offer live games and original programming to cord cutters
Cord-cutting basketball fans now have a new option for their non-stop hoops coverage. NBA TV is officially launching a direct-to-consumer subscription service today, making it the first linear TV spor
GameClub offers mobile gaming’s greatest hits for $5 per month
Apple Arcade introduced the idea of all-you-can-eat subscription-based mobile gaming to the mainstream. Google Play Pass soon followed as a way to subscribe to a sizable collection of both apps and ga
Google Play Pass launches with 350+ premium apps and games, initially for $1.99 per month
Following the well-received launch of Apple Arcade, Google today is officially introducing its own take on subscription-based access to premium mobile games — or, in Google’s case, premium
Apple Music launches a public beta on the web
Apple Music is coming to the web. Apple today is launching a public beta of its popular music streaming service on the web, which will be available to all Apple Music subscribers worldwide. This is th
Subscription fatigue hasn’t hit yet
U.S. consumers are still embracing subscriptions. More than a third (34%) of Americans say they believe they’ll increase the number of subscription services they use over the next two years, acc
CBS says streaming services & Super Bowl helped it achieve record revenues in Q1
CBS credited its direct-to-consumer streaming services in helping it achieve double-digit revenue growth and record quarterly revenues in Q1, along with the gains that came from hosting Super Bowl LII
Walmart partners with subscription-based children’s clothing startup, Kidbox
Walmart is getting into subscription-based fashion with today’s announcement of a partnership with Kidbox — a sort of “StitchFix for kids” where parents receive a personalized,
BBC and Discovery team up on a new streaming service focused on factual programming
Discovery and BBC this morning announced an extensive,10-year content partnership deal for a new streaming service focused on natural history and factual programming. The subscription video service is
Apple to close Texture on May 28, following launch of Apple News+
A year ago, Apple acquired the digital newsstand app Texture to form the basis of its new subscription-based service, Apple News+, which launched on Monday. As some have expected, the standalone Textu
Foot Locker takes a minority stake in kids clothing subscription service Rockets of Awesome
Foot Locker is taking a stake in the subscription-based shopping service, Rockets of Awesome — a startup that’s something of a “Stitch Fix for kids,” in that it sends out a per
Pluto TV will expand its free service with paid subscriptions, says new owner Viacom
Last month, Viacom picked up free streaming service Pluto TV for $340 million in cash. This week, the company spoke in more detail about its plans for Pluto TV — including its potential for ad-s
Report: Apple’s news and magazine subscription service to launch in early 2019
Bloomberg today updated its earlier reporting on Apple’s plans for a news and magazine subscription service. Earlier this year, the outlet said Apple would relaunch the digital newsstand busines