December 30, 2016

This Week’s Subscription News Headlines: Google, Growth and Glitches

In this week’s subscription news headlines, Facebook and Twitter grapple with glitches, Hulu gets an exclusive deal with streaming rights for Disney flicks, and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com is hit with a data breach, affecting 55,000 accounts. Also this week we share what analysts are predicting for the digital ad industry next year, the latest acquisition news and how gamers are balking at Nintendo’s $10 paywall.

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Hachette Livre Acquires Major Stake in Subscription App ‘Peak’

Last week Peak, a best-selling, subscription-based cognitive learning app, announced that publisher Hachette Livre has acquired a major stake in the company, allowing Peak to continue to grow and develop the app named best of 2014 by the App Store and best of 2015 by Google Play. Peak will work independently, and its original team of founders will run the operation out of London. The news comes following a successful 2016 for Peak in which they released 10 new games, launched in seven new countries, and introduced Coach, a personal trainer for the brain, among other accomplishments.

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Member Picks: Our Most Popular Articles for 2016

2016 has certainly been an eventful year for anyone in the business of subscriptions and memberships! From products launches, M&A and partnerships are all a demonstration of how active and dynamic the $102 Billion subscription economy we work in really is. Keeping executives in-the-know is a top priority for Subscription Insider. Throughout 2016, that included our highly acclaimed boot camps and our premium articles. Our most popular premium articles? They are those that really supported executives with key issues running their subscriptions businesses. Here are our top five.

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