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  1. How Substack’s subscription model and product design dismantle guru culture and reward trust, long-form thinking, and peer-driven discovery. hackernoon.com/substacks-archi #subscriptioneconomy

  2. Black Friday deals are officially time-traveling! Apparently, Oura Ring 4 is already discounted for 2025's shopping madness. Get your health tracking on your finger, just remember many features are locked behind that $6/month subscription. What's your take on essential features being stuck behind a recurring paywall? #SmartRing #WearableTech #BlackFriday #TechDeals #SubscriptionEconomy
    Link: engadget.com/deals/oura-black-

  3. Looks like Amazon's wallet is $2.5 billion lighter after settling with the FTC for allegedly misleading customers into Prime subscriptions. Who knew unsubscribing could be harder than debugging a legacy system? What's been your trickiest online cancellation?

    #AmazonLawsuit #ConsumerProtection #BigTech #SubscriptionEconomy
    cnet.com/news/amazon-will-pay-

  4. Another Prime Day, another gadget deal! 💸 The Ring Battery Doorbell Plus is nearly half off at $80. Get that glorious 150-degree 'head to toe' view for spotting packages. Battery life sounds decent, but don't forget the monthly subscription for full features and video history. What's your take on required subscriptions for devices you already own?
    engadget.com/deals/prime-day-d
    #PrimeDay #TechDeals #SmartHome #RingDoorbell #SubscriptionEconomy

  5. Say goodbye to rigid commands! Gemini for Home is officially replacing Google Assistant, promising better context understanding and natural language automations.

    But, of course, the best bits like AI camera notifications and 'Home Brief' are locked behind a $10/month premium subscription. Worth it for a smarter home, or just another subscription trap?

    Read more: engadget.com/home/smart-home/g

    #TechNews #GeminiForHome #GoogleAssistant #SubscriptionEconomy #AI

  6. Breaking News: Your porch just got a whole lot smarter (and cheaper)! The Ring Battery Doorbell Plus is 47% off, boasting 'head-to-toe' vision so you can finally see *all* of your incoming packages.

    Just remember, true digital peace of mind often comes with a monthly 'unlock' fee. Are these smart home subscriptions a necessary evil or just plain extortion?
    #TechDeals #SmartHome #RingDoorbell #PrimeDay #SubscriptionEconomy
    engadget.com/deals/this-batter

  7. 1/ Horsepower subscriptions

    It is happening. Subscriptions for basic services are becoming more commonplace. Greedy companies keeping you out of something they have already sold to you. Physically, it's in your hands.

    They still choose gatekeeping through perpetual fees which they unilaterally control. The ethical and moral depravity is only comparable to what I have seen in software.

    autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/3

    #volkswagen #cars #subscriptions #horsepower #SubscriptionEconomy

  8. My Favorite #Subscription report is back! The Zuora Subscription Economy index reports "#Churn leveled off (in 2024) and declined slightly across industries in the SEI after spiking in 2023 due mainly to rising interest rates"

    Its my favorite because I created it back in 2016. Wow, time flies! #churnrate #analytics #subscriptioneconomy

  9. Truecaller launches real-time caller ID for its ~750K iOS subscribers, who contribute 40% of its revenue. With 2.6M+ paying subscribers, the app continues to grow. #Truecaller #CallerID #iOS #TechNews #MobileApps #RevenueGrowth #SubscriptionEconomy #TechUpdates #AppInnovation

  10. The ‘subscription economy’ sucks. Period. “…for better or worse, a subscription-based economy is here to stay,” David Arditi at the University of Texas at Arlington explains. Once the purview of magazines and newspapers, subscriptions are now required to extend the battery life of electric vehicles, play video games – and even use an app that manages subscriptions. “I do wonder if this rule is merely a Band-Aid on a broken leg,” Arditi writes, “particularly since more and more companies are starting to see value in making sure customers get locked into regular payments – and, in some cases, never fully own what they buy.” #Subscriptions #SubscriptionEconomy #Economics #Capitalism

  11. Hat die Aufnahme der Livesendung #Dinerpodcast vom #PodstockDE mit @meet_judith zur #SubscriptionEconomy bekommen. Jetzt muss ich wohl mal wieder ...

    Ich denke ernsthaft darüber nach, das Schneiden bzw Kapitelmarken Setzen und Shownotes Schreiben auszulagern, damit ich wieder regelmäßig Episoden veröffentlichen kann. Das kostet zwar Geld, aber der Podcast hätte durchaus mehr Professionalität verdient. Hmmm ... #Podcasting

  12. #streaming #churnrate update: Netflix continued to dominate through the end of 2023! Just 2% monthly churn 😁 , with all others between 4% 😅 (Paramount+) and 10% 😱 (Starz) #subscriptioneconomy #churn #analytics businessinsider.com/netflix-wi

  13. #saas #churnrate's from The Tech Report: approx. 1/3 of companies have annual #churn <5% | 1/3 #churn 5%-10%. | 1/6 #churn 10%-15% | 1/6 #churn %15+ For companies with >$10M ARR average churn is 8.5%. Some other interesting #saas stats in this report too. #subscriptioneconomy. techreport.com/statistics/saas

  14. #streaming #churn up to 6% in this year, compared to 4.7% last year 😱 #churnrate 's for all the major services in this article. Spoilers: Netflix churn holding steady around 3% (31% annual), AppleTv the big loser at 6.4% (55% annual!!!) #subscriptioneconomy #analytics finance.yahoo.com/news/america

  15. #churn ALERT: I just saw this billboard near me. It’s amazing looking back and thinking I started analyzing #subscription #churn with #datascience and #machinelearning 10 years ago, and back then no one knew what it was. Now this! We’ve come a long way in the #subscriptioneconomy

  16. Recurly published a report with #churnrate 's for their customers : 6.7% average monthly (56.5% annual.) Thats high for #saas and even #streaming but I think these are primarily smaller/newer companies. Here's an interesting stat: the churn rate breaks down into 2.2% churn due to failed payments (AKA "involuntary churn") and 4.6% actual cancelations. (Don't ask me why it doesn't add up to 6.7 - look like a rounding error.) #subscriptioneconomy #churn recurly.com/resources/report/s

  17. #subscription billing app Recurly released an interesting #churn study: The Top Reason for #churn: "Wasn't using it" (34%), "Price increased" (34%), "Reduce expenses" (32%). This totally agrees with my own experience: It's all about customers getting value for their money. Everything else is secondary! recurly.com/resources/report/s #subscriptioneconomy

  18. What you consider a good #churnrate really depends on your vertical: Analysts bemoan Verizon #churn increasing from 0.83% to 0.9% - anything below 2% is an enviable #churnrate for #saas and below 3% is great for #streaming. #subscription #subscriptioneconomy #analytics

    fiercewireless.com/wireless/ve

  19. This is a nice discussion of different types of #churn in Adweek by Nii Mantse Addy: He points out that #churn may be due financial reasons, competition, seasonality, #churn post some event, as well as general "preventable" churn encompassing bad onboarding, weak product/content etc. #saas #streaming #subscription #subscriptioneconomy

    adweek.com/convergent-tv/today

  20. The new Zuora #subscriptioneconomy index is out - It shows #subscription #churn is back! The average #churnrate for 2022 returned to pre-pandemic level of 23% per year, after dipping to 20% in 2021.

    zuora.com/resources/subscripti.

    This index is dominated by #saas, but also includes a broad range of verticals and companies at all stages from #startup to public.

  21. #churn Alert! The FTC is making is easier to cancel! Personally I view this as a good thing for the #subscriptioneconomy and certainly the right thing to do.

    cnn.com/2023/03/23/tech/ftc-ca