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- The subscribe page has become a laboratory for news publishers experimenting with revenue stream options
- UK: Poll suggests increased digital readership will last beyond pandemic
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- It continues to be very good to be The New York Times
- UK: Weekly ends ‘pay if you can’ paywall amid plans for post-lockdown growth
- UK: Half of all print and online news subscribers are over 55, survey shows
- USA: 'Bloomberg,' 'The Athletic' Offer Bundled Subscriptions
- UK: Weekly ends ‘pay if you can’ paywall amid plans for post-lockdown growth
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- An open letter to the new CEO of The New York Times
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- South China Morning Post returns to a subscription model after 4 years
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- UK: Dennis sees subscriptions increase by 9% during lockdown
- NYT: A Look Back at Mark Thompson’s Eight Years as CEO
- USA: How Vox Media and The Atlantic are building reader revenue
- 2020 challenge: retain new subscribers in a post-pandemic world
- UK: Editors call for readers’ support as sister dailies launch paywalls
- 'Cosmopolitan' Introduces Paid Membership Program
- Why Skift is putting reader revenue in the pilot’s seat
- How German Publishers Drove Reader Revenue During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Ten years of the Times digital paywall: How Murdoch's 'big gamble' paid off
- Reuters plans to put many articles behind a paywall
- Don’t call them micropayments
- How The Economist built a successful global reader acquisition channel by bringing its content to life
- UK: Publisher to bring in paywalls at seven dailies as some staff pay cuts reversed
- What news giants are learning about subscribers during lockdown uptick
- Why micropayments will never be a thing in journalism
- More Americans are paying for online news — and a lot of them are branching out, too
- Can pay-by-text micropayments become a viable revenue source for newspapers?
- Canadian start-up Indiegraf offers new financial model for local journalism: Reader contribs plus pooled back-end services
- USA: How Environmental News Outlet Grist Is Growing Revenue & Building a Broader Audience
- Guardian gains 200,000 new supporters during coronavirus pandemic
- USA: The Atlantic’s executive editor talks conspiracy theories, journalistic norms, and new products for all those new subscribers
- SPH and Google join forces to grow subscriptions and ad revenue
- Americans support COVID-19 relief for local news
- USA: Tribune Publishing sees a 293% increase in digital subscriptions during the pandemic: How they achieved it and what’s next
- UK: Publisher brings in paywall option on dozens of weeklies’ websites
- YouTube plans to let news publishers sell off-platform subscriptions through their channels
- UK: Independent to join Google News Initiative Subscriptions Lab
- Guardian reports surge in readers’ support over past year
- UK: Daily says ‘real stories worth paying for’ as it launches paywall
- 'Bloomberg' Offers College Students 3-Month Free Subscription
- UK: Publisher introduces paywall option on all of its dailies’ websites
- Top 8 paywall models: What you can learn from Wired, Bild, The Athletic and Co.
- Wired Sees Subscription Bump Despite Lifting Its Paywall on COVID-19 Content
- Here’s how 15+ member-driven organizations are adapting membership appeals, events, and more for coronavirus
- Removing paywalls on coronavirus coverage is noble. It also makes no sense.
- Young people are twice as likely to pay for news in the U.S., U.K., and Germany (compared to those 55-plus)
- USA: McClatchy puts coronavirus paywalls back up
- Norway: ‘Opening the paywall is not an option’: Schibsted sees subscriptions mini-boom
- Slate launches a metered paywall to draw more membership revenue from readers, not just listeners
- USA: Local News Outlets Drop Paywalls for Pandemic Stories, but Gain Digital Subscribers Anyway
- Despite relaxing paywalls, publishers like Bloomberg and The Atlantic see subscription spikes
- USA: Gannett, McClatchy Drop Paywalls On COVID-19 Content
- “The appetite for news seems greater than ever”: As traffic surges, publishers see a spike in subscriptions
- Do news sites have an ethical duty to remove paywalls on coronavirus coverage?
- UK: Weekly makes e-editions free as more regional titles drop pay restrictions
- Australia: Subscribers only: Paywall virus news helps News to audience spike
- USA: How the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel drove subscriptions by asking journalists to promote the value of their work
- USA: McClatchy Initiates Company-Wide Effort to Move Subscribers Online
- UK: Newspaper drops paywall for coronavirus-related stories
- How the coronavirus could hurt the news business
- People pay for news that reinforces their social identities
- USA: Tribune Publishing, Lifestyle Frisco, The Seattle Times and Post and Courier create experiments designed to drive revenue
- UK: Weekly launches web paywall as readers demand more content online
- Popular news aggregators are now focusing on regional content, driving substantial traffic for publishers
- 'Fortune' Puts More Content Behind Paywall, Introduces Subscription Tiers
- USA: Online subscriptions to the Boston Globe see fastest growth in years
- Platforms offer olive branches with subscription initiatives and news payments to tempt publishers back
- Reality check: subscriptions are not going to work for everyone and here is why
- UK: Newspaper ends online paywall trial ahead of ‘Live’ expansion
- The New York Times increases digital subscription price for the first time
- USA: Thrillist becomes the latest publisher to launch travel packages in revenue diversification bid
- News Corp Announces Record-Setting Subscriber Performances at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal
- UK: Bauer tests bundled titles as a path to app profitability
- The New York Times is using The 1619 Project to market how “the truth can change how we see the world” (and subscriptions)
- USA: What The Athletic’s success teaches us about monetizing local news
- Canada: Gen Z not only loves content, they pay for it
- Publishers Sharpen Their Approach to Paywalls
- Why local news outlets struggle with digital subscriptions
- USA: “Bullish about the bundle”: The Information and Bloomberg trial year-long joint subscription
- 5 digital subscription trends for publishers, in charts
- How to build a good reader revenue model: lessons from Spain and the UK
- UK: Weeklies to launch paywall trials thanks to government-backed fund
- Germany: How Axel Springer is adapting its pricing strategy to grow reader revenue
- Why The Information’s paywall strategy is so successful
- Google to help publishers in Europe grow revenue, through their Subscriptions Labs program
- To Grow Revenue and Engage New Readers, Magazines Think of the Children
- Planning to launch a membership program? Let these 12 questions guide you
- Scroll promises a better Internet for users and more money for publishers, all for just five bucks
- Platforms offer olive branches with subscription initiatives and news payments to tempt publishers back
- Fortune adopts paywall in major redesign of site, magazine
- Business Insider’s fascinating approach to paywalls and free content
- Politico’s new FDA-focused subscription product costs as much as $75k a year
- Fortune adopts paywall in major redesign of site, magazine
- As publishers pivot to paid, newsrooms focus more on sales
- Prospect gambles on £1 trial to turn new readers into lasting subscribers
- Local news website apes Guardian with call for reader donations on tenth anniversary
- Readers With Ad Blockers More Likely to Keep Subscriptions, Medill Study Finds
- Time’s new invite-only membership program will cost up to $20,000 a year
- Publishers are joining the race for reader revenues, but there’s no silver bullet
- Fortune is rolling out a three-tier membership program
- From 170k to 200k subscribers in 2019: How Gazeta Wyborcza, one of Poland’s leading newspapers, did it
- Telegraph marks 'huge milestone' as number of digital subscribers surpasses print
- Micropayments for news? Axate's Dominic Young on the will of the wallet
- New Gallup/Knight study: Local news should be available to all, yet Americans divided on how to pay for it
- Why 'Membership' Is The New Publishing At Kalmbach Media
- USA: Paywalls can be a big lift for smaller publishers. Here’s how the Shawnee Mission Post is thriving two years in
- 'Quartz' Reveals Nearly 11,000 Paying Members
- UK: Telegraph reaches subscriber milestone as profits plummet
- The Economist is trying to convert its 1m YouTube subscribers into paying members
- The Financial Times is rolling out subscriber-only podcasts
- “Finishable news” worked for The Guardian on iPad for 8 years. Will it draw new subscribers on phones?
- UK: The i launches paid-for news app with three daily editions and live breaking news
- USA: Subscriber-only Newsletters Aim to Build Local News Loyalty
- UK: Independent rebrands content behind paywall as 'premium'
- USA: How are paywalled news outlets preparing to serve residents in California’s mega-power shutoffs?
- One subscriber or 48,000 pageviews: Why every journalist should know the “unit economics” of their content
- USA: Starbucks Offers Customers Free Digital Access To Newspapers, Special Subscription Offers
- No one expected The Athletic could get people to pay for sports news. Now it has 600,000 subscribers.
- How The Financial Times is pursuing subscribers still in their teens
- How publishers get their reporters to drive subscriptions
- To capture reader revenue and engagement, some Indian newsrooms are going back to the once-scorned comments section
- Monetising brands beyond print and digital: Seizing the Latin American opportunity
- The Guardian hits 1 million subscribers milestone on YouTube
- Who pays for local news in the U.S.?
- Bloomberg Media to double subscriptions this year
- Jim Brady: There’s a reader revenue revolution happening. Will legacy news miss it — again?
- UK: Daily brings in permanent paywall on website after sister titles’ trials
- UK: Telegraph signed up nearly 500 new subscribers every day in record August
- USA: The Atlantic (re)joins the metered paywall club, with digital subscriptions starting at $49.99/year
- How the Financial Times does it
- Beyond subscriptions: Redefining the value exchange between audience and publisher
- UK: Reach becomes latest regional publisher to launch online paywall trial
- FT puts massive profit growth down to digital subscription success
- UK: How The Sun’s fantasy football newsletter increased retention to 68%
- How publishers are cutting print days — and not losing (too many) subscribers
- The Athletic is experimenting with free content
- The New York Times is the latest publisher to put up a registration wall
- Canada: Toronto Star offers free digital subscriptions to all post-secondary students
- UK: Regional daily says online subscription move will ‘pay for quality journalism’
- USA: 'Atlantic' Revisits Paywall Launch After 18-Month Delay
- UK: The Telegraph is growing its subscribers base with WhatsApp audio briefings
- UK: Daily editor makes ‘no apologies’ for paywall launch as he thanks new subscribers
- UK: How The Times attracts and retains digital subscribers
- Vogue Australia revamps subscription offering with Vogue VIP loyalty program
- “Every week there are some sort of experiments going on”: How The Economist grows revenue by improving the digital experience
- UK: Publisher’s paywall trial to aid investment in ‘high-quality’ journalism
- Tighten up that paywall! (And some other lessons from a study of 500 newspaper publishers)
- To increase retention, The Financial Times is using newsletter polls
- UK: Times and Sunday Times pass 300,000 paid digital-only subscribers
- New York Times Up to 4.7 Million Subscribers as Profits Dip
- Why making content on the internet free was our biggest mistake… and how to fix it
- Facebook reveals early results from its subscription-focused local news accelerator
- “Is Google literally trying to kill off the fourth estate?”: Publishers react as metered paywalls come crashing down
- USA: The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers show the game’s not just about drawing in subscribers — it’s about keeping them
- Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30. This is what happens next
- USA: The Athletic Sports News Site Hits 500,000 Subscribers
- UK: Free news ‘not sustainable’ says editor as weekly brings in paywall
- USA: Digital news platform Patch pivots away from advertising to payments
- USA: Will enough readers pay for hyperlocal journalism — over text? Cleveland.com and Project Text will find out
- Rising reader revenues reinforce need for trusted, quality content
- Death of the metered paywall: Google makes it official
- Why it’s Time for Publishers to Offer a Pay-Per-Article Option
- UK: New European drops micro-paywall charging readers 10p for premium articles
- USA: Nearly 7,000 people threatened to cancel their newspaper subscriptions. Here’s what got them to stay
- USA: Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
- USA: The Atlantic restructures staff on the way to a subscription model
- How Newsrooms Can Drive Subscriber Engagement and Retention
- With sports, local newspapers try ‘unbundling’ the subscription
- Mozilla teases $5-per-month ad-free news subscription
- 77% of UK millennials don't pay for news finds Comscore study
- The Australian makes eight new appointments as it reaches digital subscription milestone
- WNMC.19: How Gannett drives digital subscriptions
- SmartNews has shown it can drive traffic. Can it drive subscriptions too?
- Why bundled subscriptions won’t save the news industry
- Publishers will soon no longer be able to detect when you’re in Chrome’s incognito mode, weakening paywalls everywhere
- Membership can create meaningful relationships with users
- USA: One California newspaper’s route to survival is an innovative ‘membership plan’
- UK: Cash donors save Jewish Chronicle from 'grave' closure threat
- The West Australian introduces digital subscriptions and paywall
- UK: Scotsman goes behind metered paywall
- WNMC19: Keep making 'em pay, even beyond the grave
- Even people who like paying for news usually only pay for one subscription
- Dutch news aggregate website Blendle ditches pay-per-article service
- USA: Be smart: How Axios drives engagement with its email newsletters through user-level data
- How newsletter innovations are driving publisher revenue
- The Economist is exploring how video can drive subscriptions
- Facebook is offering new subscription tools for publishers via Instant Articles
- Traditional business models aren’t working out. Maybe membership is the answer
- Publishers’ key tools for driving subscriptions in 2019: Dynamic paywalls, newsletters, and sports subs
- The Google News Initiative, WAN-IFRA and Mather Economics drive an ambitious program supporting digital subscriptions in Latin America
- Online news gradually shifts away from free content and towards pay models
- USA: The Seattle Times uses crowdfunding to stay independent as ad revenue dwindles
- UK: JPI Media reveals paywall trials at two regional dailies in response to falling ad revenues
- UK: Sun Savers reaches one million mark
- USA: A letter to subscribers [from the publisher of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette]
- Italy: Sustainable newsroom: relevance and trust are key for successful crowdfunding
- How The Guardian is looking to boost reader donations in the US
- Medium CEO Ev Williams Goes All-In on Building Subscription Business
- USA: The Boston Globe now has more online subscribers than print ones
- Winter may be coming for HBO’s streaming subscriptions, but it doesn’t have to for your news organization
- News Corp Australia passes 500,000 paid digital subscribers
- How Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter halved subscriber churn in 2 years
- Sweden’s MittMedia increases subscriber conversions by 20% with a ‘time wall’
- Quartz, built on free distribution, has put its articles behind a paywall
- Incognito no more: Publishers close loopholes as paywall blockers emerge
- USA: The Seattle Times asks readers to fund its future investigative journalism team
- Inside the Economist’s data-driven paywall evolution
- USA: News Corp says its digital strategy helped push revenue up 17%
- USA: Cleveland.com wants to text its readers (and to make money)
- USA: Tribune Publishing's Digital Subscribers Rise 45% In Q1
- Stop the presses: Canadian newspaper readership at an all-time high
- New York Times Company Continues to Add Online Subscribers as Digital Advertising Grows
- More publishers in Europe, US turning to paywalls: Study
- Mobile commerce to reach $319B by 2020: Publishers experiment for their slice of the pie
- UK: Daily pledges to recruit two journalists if reader subscription targets met
- How Publishers are Creating the Right Membership Model for Their Readers
- USA: Wired launched a paywall. It worked! Mostly
- UK: Revenue growth continues at Reach following Mirror, Express and Star takeover
- Why The Times Took Down Its Paywall for 3 Days
- USA: Gannett revenue falls, digital subscriptions rise as fight continues with MNG
- Guardian performs remarkable comeback, but at cost of 450 jobs
- How The Washington Post Made Its Publishing Platform A Revenue Driver
- UK: Why The Telegraph’s pivot to paid results in sales team shakeup
- UK: Telegraph Media to cut 50 jobs in shift to subscription model
- Scottish daily The National grows subscribers after campaign launch backing new indy ref
- India: The Ken introduces Patron-funded Subscriptions
- Mood analysis can be a powerful revenue generator for publishers, NYT’s “Project Feels” shows
- Introducing an expanded Digiday+
- Mapping the Brutal Subscription Battlefield
- In pivoting to paid, publishers run into tech headaches
- Why Apple News+ won’t cannibalize publishers’ paid subscriptions
- How memberships and subscription models drive business growth
- UK: Independent publisher introduces pay-as-you-go scheme for online readers
- How The Post and Courier grew digital subscriptions by 250%
- As it strives for 10m subscribers, The New York Times is expanding in the UK
- Apple launches news and digital magazine subscription service with more than 300 titles
- Public-powered journalism boosts media trust and newsrooms' revenue streams
- The Telegraph's roadmap to 1m paying subscribers and financial sustainability
- Medium eyes media partnerships in pursuit of 1 million subscribers
- 'HuffPost' Launches Plus Membership Program, Asks Readers To Support Its Journalism
- USA: GateHouse Launches Digital Subscriptions Lab With Google
- The drive for digital subscriptions hits a bump in the road: subscription fatigue
- India: Publisher drives 400K subscriptions and 5M page views via Whatsapp: Publishing’s next frontier?
- Guardian sets goal of 2m supporters in next stage of ambitious strategy
Consumer revenue in the news
Consumer revenue in the news
Article ID:
22399
Curated stories from around the web
Author
Neha Gupta
Date
2019-04-22 13:32
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