While revenue in HBO and the Turner division rose slightly, several analysts
said subscription revenue in these businesses were below their expectations.
Not exact matches
Janice Lee of PCCW Media Group
says the firm is using a dual
revenue stream model of an advertising - supported free tier and a
subscription - tier for its streaming service as it sees opportunities in both segments.
Facebook has not
said whether the company would share
revenue from the digital
subscriptions with news publishers and a source familiar with the proposal told Fortune that the specifics of the payment process have not yet been determined.
«The valuation for this kind of company is driven so much by
subscriptions — recurring
revenue is golden,» she
says.
Vistaprint has «hundreds of thousands of active registered customers,» Keane
said, and more than $ 50 million in digital
subscription revenues last fiscal year.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Google's head of news Richard Gingras
said Google would likely take a cut of less than 30 percent of
subscription revenues.
That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in
subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company
said.
The service continues to woo top - tier creators, Kilar
said, because it offers a cut of both advertising and
subscription revenues — translating to a $ 50 CPM, or rate of payment per 1,000 views, which is 20 times larger than average rates currently offered by YouTube.
Shopify
says the increase came as
subscription solutions
revenue grew 61 per cent to $ 100.2 million, while merchant solutions
revenue climbed 75 per cent to $ 114.1 million.
«Most of the consumers of Gaana, Wynk and Saavn are not paid subscribers [they use ad - backed free streaming] and the
revenue accrued from paid
subscriptions will be in single digits,»
said Jehil Thakkar, partner at management consulting firm Deloitte India.
He
said the shift to
subscription - based
revenues is a positive one that the company is convinced will help it to better position itself for new business in the near future.
«We continue to expect domestic
subscription revenue growth to accelerate into the low teens starting in the first quarter,» Chief Financial Officer Howard Averill
said on a conference call with analysts.
AT&T and Time Warner have
said there won't be any incentive for a combined company to threaten to withhold content or increase prices, because by doing so, it would risk distributors walking away, leaving the company out tens of millions of dollars in ad
revenue and
subscription fees — far greater than any
revenue AT&T might pick up from customers who would switch to its own pay - TV services in order to get Time Warner content back.
An upgraded Apple News app with the
subscription offering is expected to launch within the next year, and a slice of the
subscription revenue will go to magazine publishers that are part of the program, the people
said.
The company
said total
subscription and other
revenue surged 61.3 percent to $ 104.7 million, slightly above analysts» estimate of $ 104.6 million, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S.
«The media establishment is changing fast,»
said King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard, citing declines in the number of journalists, as well as changes in the business models of media organizations — including, for instance, shifts from
revenue generated through print advertisements to
revenue through
subscription paywalls.
It
says that monetisation from Tinder could become 5 % of IAC's
revenue in 2016, bringing in $ 121M from
subscriptions.
The U.S. online dating industry is expected to climb 9 percent year - over-year with
revenues of $ 516 million in 2005 coming from consumer
subscriptions alone,
said Nate Elliott, an analyst at Jupiter Research.
IHS is also optimistic about the PS4's overall profitability
saying that «lower research and development costs for PlayStation 4 hardware, additional
revenue streams from online service
subscriptions and a more aggressive transition to higher margin digital content sales are combining to strengthen Sony's games business outlook even in the face of increased competition from cheap Android consoles and alternative devices eating into consumers» gaming time, including smartphones and tablets.»
Together, he
says, publishers and these
subscription services have managed to create
revenue streams without cannibalizing existing channels, as is often the fear for publishers in the American and UK markets.
Q. Are you
saying that you could lose money on the
subscriptions but make it up with other
revenue?
«Publishers want to see new, strong players, and I think that they see
subscription as an opportunity to create a new large consumer platform and new
revenue sources,» Adler
says.
While the tiered pricing model could prove to be a better deal for publishers and authors, Stromberg
says his team tried to learn from existing digital
subscription services and put together a
revenue model that «really puts the rightsholder's interest first and makes sense over decades.»
«It's important to state that our decision to go with
subscriptions is not a referendum on online game
revenue models,»
said Firor.
Brill
said that writers will earn an average of $ 100,000 per piece, but suggested that they could stand to make even more than that by sharing in the
revenues generated by the project's
subscription business (this sounds a little like the model that crowdfunding platform Beacon Reader uses, where
revenue is pooled among all the writers, but I'm pretty sure they don't pay $ 100,000 per piece).
The founder of CourtTV and the paywall - management company known as Press + — which was sold to RR Donnelly in 2011 and later bought by Slovakian paywall operator Piano Media —
said that he expects
subscriptions will generate the majority of the company's
revenue, although both he and Abramson have
said that they are also looking for venture financing or other forms of financial backing.
All of the
subscription video on demand (SVOD) apps grew their
revenue by at least 10 percent year - over-year, the report
says, with UFC's app in last place with 14 percent growth in in - app spending, going from $ 7.7 million to $ 8.7 million.
Helios and Matheson
said the Moviefone acquisition is the next major step in building out its content - marketing strategy and advertising
revenue platform for MoviePass, which sells a monthly
subscription plan that lets customers attend one movie screening per day at participating theaters.
With the NYTimes.com's metered paywall having reached 1 million subs (281,000 paid) in Q2, and plans for the Boston.com paywall underway, New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) CEO Janet Robinson
said she expects significant
revenue to result from digital
subscriptions in the second half of the year.
In addition to revealing the international release news, HTC
said that developers bringing their experiences to the PC - based Vive headsets and the Vive Focus in China will receive 100 percent of the
revenue stemming from title sales and Viveport
subscriptions.
Facebook
says many of their partner publishers identified
subscriptions as a top priority, and especially requested the ability to maintain control over pricing, offers, and all the
revenue generated from each
subscription.
Amazon hasn't
said what, if any, cut it's taking of Sony's
subscription revenue.
Facebook in October introduced a new feature designed to let publishers sell
subscriptions to their news sites directly on Facebook, but the social network could not work out a deal with Apple, preventing the news
subscription options from being available on Facebook for iOS.At issue was Apple's demand for its standard 30 percent cut of any
subscription revenue brought in through the Facebook iOS app, while Facebook wanted all money to go to publishers.At today's Code Media event, Facebook executive Campbell Brown
said the dispute with Apple had been resolved, which means the
subscription service tool will launch on iOS devices on March 1.
Twitch
says that Affiliates will eventually gain access to other monetization streams, such as paid
subscriptions and
revenue from ads and on - site game sales.