Episode 43: Don’t Be Scared, It’s Just Content
It’s that time of the month when Matt and Jim revisit recent RevRec industry information collected, collated and, um, coddled for your convenience. Fun banter ensues among the topics of recent FASB recommendations, AICPA updates for new guidance and the fork in the road between a life of law enforcement or technology. Talk about a […]
WSJ: Subscriptions Will Feed The Internet and Media World
Technology strategist Michael Wolf presented on “The 9 Most Important Insights for Tech and Media in 2017” at WSJDLive, The Wall Street Journal’s global tech conference last week.
New CAAS (Chai-as-a-Service) Platform from Mumbai
The traditional Indian tea stall, an age-old cultural symbol, has taken a small but important step in the Subscription Economy. Mumbai-based Chotu Chai Wala allows offices in the business district of Bandra to subscribe to daily tea deliveries from their favorite local chai stands. Created by Zepo in a local ecommerce development platform, Chotu Chai […]
The Information’s Jessica Lessin on how she’s scaling an already-expensive subscription product
The subscription-only technology site The Information is a niche product, at $399 a year. An interview with Founder and CEO Jessica Lessin
Lyft’s co-founder thinks riders will pay for rides by monthly subscription in the future
Lyft co-founder John Zimmer spoke on autonomous cars, the future of car ownership, and the company’s plans in a recent interview with Bloomberg TV.
Amazon Comes for Spotify With Cheaper Music Subscriptions
Amazon has just launched its long-awaited Spotify competitor, Amazon Music Unlimited.
Oars + Alps launches men’s skincare subscription
Breaking onto the scene with a bro-tastic 2012 ad, Dollar Shave Club built a billion-dollar company on delivering men’s razors directly to their doorsteps. Chicago’s newest e-commerce startup, Oars + Alps, wants to bring the same level of convenience to men’s skincare products.
Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo’s Keynote at Dell EMC World
Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo delivered a closing keynote at Dell EMC World, 2016 in Austin last week where he explained how the social side and the technology side of innovation come together in practice.
Freak Out Because Doomsday IS Approaching
If you’re involved in corporate finance these days, scary times aren’t confined to the month of October. That eerily omnipresent sound you’re hearing isn’t slow footsteps creaking across floorboards as the grim reaper approaches, but rather the spine-tingling tick-tock-tick-tock of a clock counting down to the 2018 effective date for the new revenue recognition accounting […]
The Financial Times removed words from stories to convince readers to whitelist its site. 47% agreed
By Ricardo Bilton Hope isn’t lost for media organizations trying to get readers to stop blocking their ads. Maybe all they have to do is ask. In July, The Financial Times ran a 30-day experiment to see what it would take to get people to whitelist the site in their adblocking software. Fifteen thousand of its registered users […]
Episode 42: Simplify the Complexity
On this episode of “Ask the RevRec Experts,” Matt and Jim bring back RoseRyan’s Diana Gilbert to pose some questions generated by her recent discussion of “The Revenue Recognition Principle” on the podcast. Tackled queries include how to connect the dots to the new revrec standard, what is basic and what’s complex and the significance […]
2016: The Year OTT Video Won Over Sports TV
Sports television had long been the missing puzzle piece and Achilles heel for OTT video ascendancy, holding it back from taking over entertainment. Until now.