Subscription Economy News: Week of 08/31/20
Every week, we bring you the top stories and analyses from the global Subscription Economy. Walmart Is Launching Its Subscription Service September 15, Stepping Up Competition With Amazon Prime Excerpt from an article by Karen Robinson-Jacobs on Forbes Walmart Tuesday set a September 15 launch date for its much-rumored membership service, Walmart+, a nearly $100 a […]
Subscription Economy News: Week of 08/24/20
Every week, we bring you the top stories and analyses from the global Subscription Economy. Audible launches a cheaper subscription plan for access to its exclusive podcasts and audio content 9 Excerpt from an article by Ashley Carman on The Verge Audible, an Amazon company, is separating its exclusive audio content out into its own plan […]
Zuora and GoCardless Expand Partnership to Revolutionize Global Subscription Payments
Zuora, Inc. (NYSE: ZUO), the leading subscription management platform provider, today announced an expanded global partnership and new product integration with GoCardless to help companies across more than 30 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada process recurring payments faster and reduce payment-related costs and customer churn.
Subscription Economy News: Week of 08/17/20
Every week, we bring you the top stories and analyses from the global Subscription Economy. Life online: Subscribe to everything, own nothing Excerpt from an article by Nicole Lee on Engadget In March this year, we were told that the pandemic lockdowns would only last a few weeks. [But now,] the future has never been more […]
New Zuora Analytics and Zuora Billing Drive Agile Subscription Experiences
Zuora Billing and Zuora Analytics enable subscription businesses to monetize, orchestrate and analyze the success of their subscription experiences.
Subscription Economy News: Week of 08/10/20
Every week, we bring you the top stories and analyses from the global Subscription Economy. New York Times exploring a Wirecutter subscription Excerpt from an article by Sara Fischer on Axios The New York Times is in the early stages of researching a consumer subscription for its product recommendation site Wirecutter. A central part of The […]
Video Games & Subscriptions: A Conversation with Xbox’s Sarah Bond
Zuora’s newest board member Sarah Bond leads Microsoft’s Gaming Ecosystem organization, an integrated engineering and business unit. Her team’s mission is to empower game creators to conceive, build, launch, and manage games – using any and all of Microsoft’s software and services from Xbox to Azure. Over the past few years Sarah supported Global Gaming […]
What Can Restaurants Learn from Netflix?
The Covid-19 crisis has inspired a lot of creative financial thinking on the part of restaurants and small businesses, particularly when it comes to recurring revenue. That’s not surprising. Recurring revenue is the gift that keeps on giving — it’s money that is contractually obligated to show up, month after month, rain or shine. It […]
Subscription Economy News: Week of 08/03/20
Every week, we bring you the top stories and analyses from the global Subscription Economy. Digital Revenue Exceeds Print for 1st Time for New York Times Company Excerpt from an article by Marc Tracy on The New York Times Over a three-month period dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and a slowdown in advertising, The New York […]
Subscription Economy News: Week of 07/27/20
Every week, we bring you the top stories and analyses from the global Subscription Economy. Fidelity’s $3 challenge to Schwab: The latest twist in digital advice subscription pricing Excerpt from an article by Ryan W. Neal on Financial Planning Fidelity Investments is the latest brokerage firm to embrace a subscription fee pricing model for digital advice. […]
Subscription Economy News: Week of 07/20/20
Every week, we bring you the top stories and analyses from the global Subscription Economy. SoundCloud’s founders have launched an e-bike subscription service called ‘Dance’ Excerpt from an article by Sam Shead on CNBC The founders of music streaming service SoundCloud, Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss and Alexander Ljung, have launched a new electric bike subscription start-up called “Dance” […]
How Adobe Defined the Modern CFO
This is the second part in a two-part interview series with Mark Garrett, the legendary ex-CFO of Adobe. Under his guidance as Executive Vice President and CFO, Adobe completed the fastest transition to a cloud-based subscription in the software industry. In this section, we’ll hear Mark’s thoughts on the role of the modern CFO. […]