April 19, 2024
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Is part of the plan a backdoor Sunday paper/digital access new bundle? Three of the people I talked with on the day of the announcement had begun to run the subscribe-to-Sunday, get-free-digital access numbers in their head. At a $4-a-week ...
Here is the growing epiphany about these core readers: Not only do they pay you, they use lots more than the fly-by people, the non-core sent by Google, Facebook, Twitter and all manner of other referrals. More than 50% of the Financial Times ...
How big will the Morning News payoff be? Let's look at the emerging one percent rule here. If the Morning News were to get -- after some period of time -- one percent of its 4-5 million monthly uniques to sign up for a digital-only subscription, ...
Digital circulation money, though it may the highest profile part of this story, isn't the most curious issue involved here. There are at least three big issues for media companies -- and you can put Netflix, Hulu and Rhapsody in the mix here ...
Ah, but what kind of new face will AOL/HuffPost's be? It could be, simply, the anti-Murdoch. Sure, The Daily is "centrist," whatever that means in the world of 2011, but the right-leaning proclivities of Murdoch Media are clear. MSNBC has ...
What will The Daily do with Cairo's Time? Egypt is the story of the week. With The Daily planning on being a daily, not an instant, news product, its thinking and philosophy will be tested Day One. If it has yesterday's Egypt news, as the ...
Another way to look at it, at least for a moment, is through the eyes of these new owners. The owners are looking at their properties as the only advertising-oriented media that didn't make a comeback in 2010. With ad revenues down in single ...
Conventional Wisdom #1) Readers won't pay for non-business content. Yes, we know that readers will pay for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, and that Consumer Reports, which helps us save money, counts more digital subs than ...
Still, it will be an intriguing test. Beyond the immediate test, we're seeing how flexible news content delivery is getting to be. Demand Media is selling content to USA Today and Hearst papers, while Reuters and Tribune buddy up to Examiner. ...
On the numbers: It looks like 50,000 customers have paid a monthly price for ongoing subscriptions, according to the preliminary data. That's a quarter percent of its pre-wall uniques, suggesting two huge problems: 1) Reader revenue runs at only ...
