A new report from the Motion Picture Association (MPA) showed that, although the pandemic decimated 2020 box office numbers, subscriptions for streaming services topped 1 billion for the first time. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Remember the old joke about how cable offered the opportunity to have over 200 hundred channels of nothing to watch? As of today, that joke seems to apply to the world of video-on-demand (VOD) streaming. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
We can’t say 2020 wasn’t a watershed for subscription models, as at least 75 percent of all U.S. consumers signed on for at least one of them as the year ended. This has led to a rush of all kinds of new subscription options –...
Disney+, the Disney-owned movie and TV streaming service, has surpassed 100 million subscribers as of Tuesday (March 9), CNBC writes, just 16 months since its launch. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
The pandemic period has acted as a powerful tailwind for consumer interest in subscriptions. Consumers are signing onto new subscription services by the day, and firms are working overtime to figure out how they can leverage the rising tide of consumer interest to expand their...
Will the boom in subscription growth during the pandemic lead to retention challenges — and a scramble to reduce churn? That growth, according to PYMNTS November Subscription Commerce Tracker, has produced 10 million new digital subscriptions in the first half of 2020. But only a few...
The great subscription rush is on. It seems like every day another traditional subscription-based business reports big numbers or there’s another big name making new subscription plays. Take, for example, Twitter. It has been the attention-getter in the crowd as the social media giant announced...
Subscriptions in the world of cars has had some trouble getting into gear. In 2018, both Audi and BMW announced subscription programs that would allow consumers to pay a monthly fee to upgrade their automobiles to the latest model (whenever they wanted, in BMW’s case)....
Ask Vindicia CEO Sharath Dorbala if he thinks the fast-growing and highly competitive market for digital content has become saturated, and he’ll tell you that it hasn’t. In fact, at a time when the disruptive over-the-top (OTT) media startups of yore (think Netflix or Spotify)...
