The increase in popularity for streaming and subscription services has created a culture of television binge-watching.
Subscription services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime offer relatively poor back catalog of popular content.
The site will face competition from a plethora of subscription services that already exist online.
That album is available on iTunes and subscription services, both as full-album and individual-song downloads.
Little expects to see the emergence of subscription services from both Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG).
There will be subscription services, plus some advertising, and various ways of paying on pay-per-view or micro payment basis.
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Xunlei (planned ticker, Nasdaq: XNET) provides digital media content downloading and online video streaming as well as cloud-based subscription services.
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Amazon, Google Compute, Rackspace and Logicworks offer transparent subscription services that allow users to compare apples to apples across providers.
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There are download-to-own music services, Internet radio services and subscription services that allow you to consume all the music you want.
Once the small names start leaving the all you can listen to subscription services, the services could easily loose their lustre.
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The rise of video on demand, TiVo, low-cost subscription services like those of Netflix and Wal-Mart all appear to spell Blockbuster's doom.
That said, even when paired with all of its compatible subscription services, it is not likely to fundamentally change the TV experience.
While we were getting subscription services up and running, we continued to press the majors to put download sales agreements in place.
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All these subscription services can add up, especially when you start throwing in additional charges for shows and movies purchased or rented.
The Sansa Connect has done more than any major portable digital music player to date to showcase the advantages of subscription services.
Yet the success of music subscription services is by no means guaranteed.
Tunecore, CD Baby and other music aggregators ingest audio tracks and populate them on music stores and subscription services and administer royalty payments.
There may even be subscription services, kind of like a magazine.
Also added were several subscription services: Rdio, Hulu Plus and Pandora.
Movie studios want consumers to buy more digital-movie downloads as DVD sales shrink and digital rental and subscription services, from which studios earn less, gain traction.
While some publications, including The Wall Street Journal, have had online subscription services for years, the industry as a whole has waded gingerly into paid content.
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The aim is to maintain editorial quality while increasing efficiency, because titles can share writers and articles and pool resources for functions, such as subscription services.
Competition in the on-demand space is already fierce, with free and subscription services from Netflix, Lovefilm, Virgin Media, BT Vision, YouView, BBC iPlayer and BSkyB already fighting for customers.
And now European telcos are launching innovative subscription services.
Subscription services also face competition from other online giants.
Kilar also said that Hulu Plus now has more than 1.5 million paying subscribers Kilar repeated his view that subscription services will be more than of overall revenue by later this year.
Instead, consumers are increasingly turning to the already popular disc-rental option, while consuming more and more on-demand video through both their pay-TV subscriptions and Internet-based subscription services like Netflix, Adams noted.
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Looking at those numbers, we see that this type of content is still difficult to get on subscription services (and getting progressively worse) but that availability on VoD services is pretty stable.
In the past three years Intuit has made a priority of replacing the no-growth packaged-software business with faster-growing online versions of its big hits and with subscription services such as online and mobile banking software.
The shows will be aired on Amazon's pay subscription services - Amazon Prime in the US, and Lovefilm in the UK - but Morris told the BBC they would be available to everyone and not just subscribers.
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