Ten Minute Mindfulness: A Chat with Headspace Founder Andy Puddicombe

      “Andy Puddicombe is doing for meditation what Jamie Oliver has done for food.”                                                                                                 New York Times   We’re very excited to be working with Headspace, a digital health platform providing guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training. Their hugely popular app features a free starter program called Take10, a set of ten-minute guided […]

Allez Le Subscription Economy: New French Consumer Trends

    Zuora loves France. We have two charming and brilliant French VPs, and an office in Paris just down the street from the Madeleine. France represents a huge growth opportunity for us. We’re very excited to be be helping stellar French firms like GDF Suez, Neopost and Libération reinvent themselves for the Subscription Economy, and […]

Upcoming Webinar: The New Media Experience & Building Subscriber Relationships

  Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director, FT.Com   When it comes to digital journalism business models, Zuora client The Financial Times is first among equals. Last year it became the first newspaper to earn more money through subscriptions than advertising.  It was also the first newspaper to earn more from digital operations than from print, as […]

Zuora Ranks #11 on the CNBC Disruptor 50 List!

  We’re very happy to announce that Zuora ranks #11 on this year’s annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list! We’re honored to be recognized along with such groundreaking companies as SpaceX, Warby Parker, Palantir, Spotify, Etsy and Uber, not to mention our friends at Docusign.   In the words of CNBC:   “In the second annual […]

The Subscription Economy Group of Death

      Gabe Weisert Content Marketing Manager   The United States is doomed. At least as far as the World Cup is concerned. Their three opponents in Group G are Ghana, Portugal and Germany. This is the Group of Death.   If you’re a casual soccer fan and the Ghana game strikes you as a possible […]

Amazon Gets Into Subscriptions: What Does This Mean For Zuora?

  Gabe Weisert Content Marketing Manager     Amazon recently announced that it hopes to manage third party subscription payments for a variety of services, including music streams, grocery deliveries, car services, even phone bills. Clients will take advantage of the company’s 240 million credit cards on file, and Amazon will charge a small transaction […]

Subscribed ’14 Insights

  We’re busy compiling and summarizing a vast amount of invaluable insight from last week’s Subscribed conference, but in the meantime here are some highlight quotes. Enjoy. “The winners of the new industries, the winners of the new world, will be the ones that reinvent their industry with a new subscription experience. An experience that […]

More Press Praise for Subscribed ’14!

  We certainly thought Subscribed ’14 went well, and the press seems to be agreeing with us. In addition to this week’s earlier pieces from Forbes and Beagle Research, here are a few recent reactions from Fortune, CIO and Strictly VC:   It’s A Subscription Economy, And You’re Just Living In It   By Michal […]

Subscribed ’14: Andy McAfee & The Coming Robot Apocalypse

    By Gabe Weisert, Content Marketing Manager   Subscribed ’14 continues to hum along, with plenty of packed panels and lively chatter in the hallways. After some festivities last night, the second day of the conference kicked off this morning with a smart, compelling keynote from Professor Andy McAfee that was equal parts fascinating […]

Introducing Entitlements & Guided Selling in Zuora

By: Nathan Creswell – Product Manager @ Zuora   Imagine this: You move to a brand new neighborhood and need to set up cable tv, internet, and voice services. After some research, you finally find a company called Cloudstream that has good reviews. The only problem is, you can’t find a single package on their […]

Subscribed ’14: The Verdict Is In!

    Subscribed San Francisco ’14 is in full swing! After a rousing keynote from CEO Tien Tzuo this morning, the hallways are buzzing, the booths are humming and the panels are standing-room only. But don’t just take our word for it. Here are two new pieces from Beagle Research Group and Forbes confirming what […]