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Publishers continue to invest in platforms, but research finds they get little in return

Digital Content Next (DCN) recently released findings from its second annual DCN Distributed Content Revenue Benchmark Report. The research provides marketplace intelligence on distributed content…

Schibsted’s success with its predictive subscriptions model

The company’s purchase prediction model has been able to identify groups of readers three to five times more likely than average to buy a subscription,…

New study: How to build revenue by connecting with your audience

From The New York Times to Honolulu Civil Beat, we see sites large and small pursuing multiple revenue sources. We set out to document this complicated calculus,…

German publishers concerned the EU’s ePrivacy Regs are putting digital ad revenue at risk

The Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ) found news websites expect their revenue from native and programmatic advertising, as well as digital subscription sales, to…

Publisher tips for creating sticky email content

Email continues to be a foundational tool for publishers, with signs pointing to this trend continuing not only in 2018 but well into the future. Taking this…

Do paywalls make content better? Wired thinks so

Wired’s paywall went up last week: Four free clicks, then $20 a year. Starting last Thursday at 9 am ET, Wired.com put up a paywall — although…

Condé Nast: more paywalls are ‘highly likely’

Fred Santarpia, Condé Nast’s chief digital officer, joined Digiday+ members to talk about the publishing giant’s paywall strategy, its plans to push further into e-commerce and…

Guardian US gains 300,000 paying supporters

Guardian US has racked up more than 300,000 paying supporters in the year since it began asking American readers to voluntarily contribute funds to support its…

How commerce publishers use their data to cozy up to retailers

Commerce-focused publishers looking to deepen their ties with retailers and limit their dependence on Amazon are delivering more than just interested audiences these days. Using conversion data…

Paywalls are back? For the FT, they never went away

The pink financial paper has used online subscriptions since 2002. After decades of diminishing ad returns, fellow digital publishers are finally catching on. Late last…

How The New York Times is using interactive tools to build loyalty (and subscriptions)

The New York Times’ lofty goal of getting to 10 million subscribers is an all-hands-on-deck mission — involving even its Interactive News desk, the group charged with…

News media lags behind TV, music and gaming digital subscriptions, says Deloitte

Only a small portion of digital media subscribers are currently paying for news media, showing that the industry has a lot to learn from the…

Near closing, this local site asked people to pay for their news. And they did.

In December 2017, the editor and publisher of Bklyner told readers that the 10-year-old hyperlocal site covering Brooklyn couldn’t make it on ads alone anymore. They needed…

10 most-read subscription trend reports in 2017

Subscription Insider has released its most read subscription-focused trend reports in 2017 including reports and research on retention, email marketing, payment cards and gift subscriptions.…

How reader funding is helping save independent media across the world

A number of small independent media startups all over the world are staging a fightback. And in many cases, the thing that keeps them going…

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