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Subscription churn is front-loaded: the first reorder matters more than acquisition

The wellness-ification playbook: why ‘functional’ products don’t make stickier subscriptions

Recurrence, not growth, is the consumer IPO qualifier

Supplement subscriptions have the leakiest first reorder (but investors don’t seem to mind)

Custom analytics reports: the 4 subscription reports worth building first

Shoppers said they’d gift a subscription for Father’s Day. The data says they didn’t (well, not really)

Health and wellness is the biggest category in subscriptions (duh), and the supplement boom is why

Shopify’s betting agentic commerce will become the default for product discovery. What does that mean for subscriptions?

Why “protein-plus” retains subscribers 36% better than protein alone

GLP-1s are quietly recomposing your subscription carts (and your topline revenue’s hiding how)

Creatine is booming, but its subscription prize is already being claimed

Meet the AI agents powering the next generation of subscriptions