October 30, 2018
How Subscription Services Are Steering Consumers Away From Owning Possessions
To help consumers save on the costs of owning possessions, companies are offering more goods and services on demand with the subscription business model, long associated with periodicals and brought...
October 30, 2018
Deep Dive: Subscriptions To Make Digital Fitness Less Of A...
Connected devices are giving fitness buffs access to health data on a regular basis, fueling a market that’s projected to be worth $27.4 billion by 2022. The following Deep Dive...
October 29, 2018
A Subscription Prescription To Boost Mental Health Accessibility
Mental illness affects roughly one in five Americans, but about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas underserved by mental health professionals. That's a problem that can take...
October 26, 2018
NEW REPORT: Can Subscription Services Meal Kit-ify Mental Health Services?
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October 24, 2018
Australia: ACCC concerned over Vodafone billing services
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has probed Vodafone about the telecoms company’s content services and billing, months after slugging competitor Telstra with a AUD$10 million (US$7.1 million) fine...
October 23, 2018
Helios And Matheson To Spin Off MoviePass
Helios and Matheson Analytics, the parent company of MoviePass, announced Tuesday (Oct. 23) that the board has signed off on a preliminarily plan to spin off MoviePass. Get the Full...
October 22, 2018
Apple’s Search Ad Business Could Hit Nearly $2B By 2020
Apple’s search ad business could be a money maker for the Cupertino, California iPhone maker in the years to come, with Wall Street firm Bernstein predicting it could reach $2...
October 22, 2018
Unattended Battery Rentals Keep Mobile Phones Mobile
Cashier-free stores are expanding, offering app-based checkouts and mobile order-ahead fulfilled by robots. However, for all the convenience, the stores can’t deliver the goods if consumers’ smartphones run out of...
October 18, 2018
Live Event Tickets, Subscription-Style
The subscription model has long brought consumers to movie theaters to spend a night out: MoviePass, for all of its recent challenges, has popularized the idea of movie-tickets-as-a-service available to...
Subscription merchants that fail to offer multiple ways for consumers to buy their products will see their sales take a hit, says Bean Box CEO Matthew Berk. Only giving consumers one way to buy and pay is a key driver of voluntary churn, especially in these times. Read the “Subscription Commerce Tracker®,” a collaboration with Vindicia, for more.
Retail subscriptions are changing the shopping landscape, and nearly one-third of subscribers purchase most or all items using scheduled or auto-fill subscriptions. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 2,011 consumers and 188 retail subscription merchants, “The Replenish Economy: A Household Supply Deep Dive,” a collaboration with sticky.io, details the replenish economy and its impact on in-store shopping habits.