BBC’s new director-general Tim Davie is ‘open’ to replacing licence fee with Netflix-style subscription Davie, 53, has been ordered to come up with a viable funding model for the BBC Among measures floated is a subscription model similar to Netflix or Amazon Conservative minister said there is ‘real optimism’ about Davie’s pragmatism By Helena Kelly For … Read more
BBC’s new director-general Tim Davie is ‘open’ to replacing licence fee with Netflix-style subscription Davie, 53, has been ordered to come up with a viable funding model for the BBC Among measures floated is a subscription model similar to Netflix or Amazon Conservative minister said there is ‘real optimism’ about Davie’s pragmatism By Helena Kelly For … Read more
With more households signing up to streaming services like Netflix and ordering in meal kits during lockdown, Britain is now being dubbed a ‘subscription society.’ Households now typically spend £552 a year on sign-up services, new data has revealed. The subscription economy has grown to be worth £323million, according to research from Barclaycard Payments, with … Read more
Twitter surveys users about potential features for its subscription service such as undoing sent tweets and customizing profiles Twitter confirmed it is exploring a subscription model for its platform The firm is now surveying users to see what features they are willing to pay for This includes undoing sent tweets and customizing profiles There could … Read more
How we pay for consumables has diversified in recent decades, from monthly fees for mobile phone contracts to TV streaming services such as Netflix. And now you can pay a monthly subscription for an unlikely product – the tyres on your car. Tyre manufacturer Bridgestone and garage network ETB Autocentres have launched an ‘all-inclusive monthly … Read more
How have you spent the lockdown? For many people it’s involved a lot of TV. The market research company Kantar estimated in May a fifth of all UK households had signed up to a TV streaming service like Amazon Prime, Netflix or the newly launched Disney+ since the start of lockdown. Parents juggling working from … Read more
Would you pay for Twitter? Online job posting reveals the social media site is building a subscription service with a payment feature A job listing appeared on Twitter’s career page looking for an engineer The position requires them to help build a subscription platform for the app However, the post nor Twitter is providing any … Read more
Teens starting college or university in September? Cover their studying essentials with a Microsoft 365 Family subscription for just £50 on Amazon today By Corinna Burton For Mailonline Published: 14:07 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 14:07 BST, 2 July 2020 If you own multiple gadgets in your household or have teenagers starting college or … Read more
In the last few weeks, I’ve been on a cooking expedition. I am the chef of the house anyway, batch making meals for my young daughter and baking healthy(ish) snacks – but this has been a different style of cooking. I have been raiding the freezer and cupboards to knock up an array of tasty … Read more
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