{"id":45396,"date":"2025-12-20T00:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=45396"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:06:15","slug":"strava-puts-popular-year-in-sport-recap-behind-an-80-paywallutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/12\/20\/strava-puts-popular-year-in-sport-recap-behind-an-80-paywallutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Strava Puts Popular &#8216;Year In Sport&#8217; Recap Behind an $80 Paywall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-180425637\">\n<div id=\"text-180425637\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: <i>Earlier this month, Strava, the popular fitness-tracking app, released its annual &#8220;Year in Sport&#8221; wrap-up &#8212; a cutesy, animated series of graphics summarizing each user&#8217;s athletic achievements. But this year, for the first time, Strava made this feature available only to users with subscriptions ($80 per year), rather than making it free to everyone, as it had been historically since the review&#8217;s debut in 2016. This decision has roiled numerous Strava users, particularly those who have relished the app&#8217;s social encouragement features.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>One Strava user in India, Shobhit Srivastava, &#8220;begged&#8221; Strava to &#8220;let the plebs see their Year in Sport too, please.&#8221; He later explained to Ars that having this little animated video is more than just a collection of raw numbers. &#8220;When someone makes a video of you and your achievements and tells you that these are the people who stood right behind you, motivated you, cheered for you &#8212; that feeling is of great significance to me!&#8221; he said by email. &#8220;Our goal was to give our users ample notice before the personalized Year In Sport was released,&#8221; said Strava spokesperson Chris Morris. &#8220;With the relaunch of our subscription this year, we wanted to clarify the core benefits of Strava &#8212; uploading activities, finding your community, sharing and giving kudos &#8212; remain as accessible as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Strava #Puts #Popular #Year #Sport #Recap #Paywall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this month, Strava, the popular fitness-tracking app, released its annual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45397,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45396\/revisions\/45397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}