Category: Digital subscription
One tenth of Sweden’s population now has an audiobook subscription
In the mature English-language markets, where unlimited subscription is still a dirty word,...
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Japan’s biggest audiobook service now offers a tandem unlimited and credit model to appeal to more consumers
At the consumer level the unlimited consumption model for a fixed monthly fee has enormous appeal,...
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Nextory’s 69% subscriber growth in Q1 may not be as impressive as at first appears
Nextory is said to be considering an IPO for the company, although in the light of recent...
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Romania’s streaming start-up Voxa targets EUR 1 million and international expansion in 2022
If Voxa can expand its markets following its current strategies of pursuing both public and...
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YouTube plans “tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts”
For book publishers the message should be clear – audiobooks are a major asset but podcasts...
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Storytel streaming revenue hits $74 million in Q1, tops 2 million subscribers, but few signs for optimism globally
Unless a major opportunity to enter a mature market comes along akin to the Audiobooks.com...
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Substack poaches Patreon podcasts as it joins the race for a place in the paid podcasting arena
The one thing we can say with certainty is that paid-podcasting is here to stay, and is going to...
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Storytel launches in Indonesia with 150,000 titles – but is Storytel expansion now on hold?
Indriani Widyasari faces a challenge she could never have anticipated in January 2021 when she...
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Acquisition drives Nextory’s explosive percentage growth, but real numbers remain as elusive as ever
The Q1, Q2 and Q3 Nextory reports told of increases of 61%, 58% and 68% respectively, or an...
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Shakedown at Storytel: Tellander out as TNPS-predicted headwinds hit. A critical moment for global audiobook streaming as a subscription icon takes a back seat
In the publishing industry there are a handful of people who stand head and shoulders above the...
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BookBeat launches in Belgium and Netherlands
Since the Q3 results announcement BookBeat has been uncharacteristically silent about its Q4 and...
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“Nextory ex Youboox” – Nextory rebrands its French acquisition, but what does this mean for the global audiobook industry?
One significant difference between Nextory France and the other Nextory and Storytel markets is...
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