Category: Digital subscription
Denmark’s podcast app Podimo launches in 20 Latin American countries as cash pours in
Podimo has launched across 20 Latin American countries – Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia,...
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Spotify rolls out across 80+ NEW countries as publishers continue to shun global subscription
This expansion will help ensure that sounds and stories that once remained local can reach a...
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Storytel aims to own 20% of the global audiobook market by 2030
Audible Unlimited in all markets? If it happened tomorrow publishers would squeal like pigs on...
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Macbeth… Voldermort… Subscription… Publishing’s “unspeakable” needs to be talked about. Consumers deserve the subscription option
Allowing that many may be multiple subscriptions by one subscriber, even so it’s hard not to...
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2020 was BookBeat’s “most successful year”. Revenue up 63%. Subscribers up 65%
The non-mention of BookBeat UK tells its own story. The UK and US are of course the mainstay of...
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Denmark’ bookstore Saxo into profit thanks to online sales and digital subscription
Regulars will know TNPS has been largely offline this past several weeks, and the disruption is...
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Draft2Digital drops a distribution outlet as 24Symbols admits to “cash stability issues”, but don’t write off 24Symbols just yet
“We do indeed have some cash stability issues, and for this reason Draft2Digital decided to remove...
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Netflix starts 2021 with 204 million subscribers. Publishers look the other way
…While many publishers are using their muscle to keep subscription at bay, consumers are...
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Sweden’s Nextory confirms Norway launch for April/May
Three subscription services competing in a market smaller than London? But perhaps we are looking...
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Sun rises in the east. Night follows day. Storytel beats forecasts
Storytel’s bigger challenges are that entry into most English-language markets remains unlikely so...
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Sweden’s Storytel to introduce global flexible holidays for employees. Western publishers currently in Christmas limbo might want to take notes
This is the 2020s, the industry is global, and our sacred western holiday is just another working...
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The subscription ascendancy moves closer as Disney premium content bypasses theatres. Publishers stand to lose twice
The transition from retail to subscription is now inexorable and inevitable. The challenge for the...
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