Over the past 12 months, we successfully demonstrated the value of our intellectual property, continued to attract the interest of operators around the globe to TiVo's advanced television solutions and TiVo's total subscription number moved to a strong positive trajectory.
ENGADGET: TiVo releases Q4 results, announces transcoder and IP set-top box on the way
Netflix offers a number of subscription packages that differ in the number of DVDs a customer can rent out at any given time.
FORBES: Netflix Erosion In Monthly Subscriber Fees Will Slow But The Stock Is Wildly Overvalued
The second challenge is the balance between the amount OpenGamma can charge for its subscription and the number of customers that will pay.
FORBES: Open Source for Vertical Apps: Is Wall Street Ready?
Our deals with iconic studios like Aardman make us the number one subscription service for films and TV series.
ENGADGET: LoveFilm / Aardman deal brings cheese-loving stop motion animation to Amazon-owned UK site
One idea is a monthly subscription, related to the number of named users.
The best-known example is Salesforce.com, which is licensed according to the number of users on a subscription basis.
To that end, Plum tried a monthly subscription fee that increased depending on the number of outfits ordered.
He divides the annual subscription price of a journal by the number of times its articles are cited in other journals.
After I got the email I made three calls to the New York Times toll free number in an attempt to restart my subscription (which I never cancelled) and get the 50% discount.
FORBES: 8 Million New York Times Subscribers Get Cancelled By Mistake
While details are being finished, people familiar with the matter said that a metered paywall meaning a website that allows casual readers to read a certain number of stories free before charging a subscription fee -- is likely to be rolled out in 2013, along with increases to the print newspaper's newsstand price.
This means that there will likely be a substantial number of loyal users willing to pay the subscription fee for content.
FORBES: NYT's Online Paywall Has More Ups Than Downs For Stock
As discussed in our previous analysis, although the new service will provide incremental subscription revenues to the company, the paywall could reduce the number of page views on its site.
The Post seems likely to emulate the metered model adopted last year by The New York Times, which permits users a limited number of free page views per month before requiring a subscription.
One solution might be to offer a variety of payment plans, to maximise the number of readers: eager ones might go for a subscription, while browsers might want to pay just for the occasional article.
People will still be able to read a limited number of articles free but will be asked to pay a subscription if they want to read more than 10 pieces in a four-week period.
VMWare has a monthly subscription model and should show an increasing return on investment as it spreads its costs over a growing number of customers.
FORBES: Alger's Dan Chung Explains The Delicate Art Of Buying Growth
Better Place's business model was based on car owners paying a fee according to the number of miles they drive, which Mr. Agassi likened to a mobile-phone subscription.
应用推荐