paywalls

Rouven Leuener: Paygates not Paywalls for supporting journalism Members Public

For all the praise heaped on the NYT, its paywall model won't work for smaller audiences. Switzerland's NZZ is trying something more sophisticated.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
news:rewired

Are we really going to do the "news bundle" conversation yet again? Members Public

Oh, look the "iTunes/Spotify/Netflix for news" idea is on its annual outing.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
bundling

Medium hunting for a magazine acquisition — and a sustainable business model Members Public

Is Medium slowly becoming the Huffington Post circa 2008? It's hunt for more content suggests it might be.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Medium

Talking Points Memo contemplates opening the kimono – for members only Members Public

Laura Hazard Owen of Neiman Lab has done an interesting interview with Josh Marshall of Talking Point Memo, in which he discusses the idea of putting some member-only content behind a paywall. But that content won’t be the liberal-centric reporting the site is best known for: it’ll be

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

Is The Times making its edition model work? Members Public

You may recall that a year ago, The Times did an unexpected thing: it backed away from 24 hour rolling news on its websites, and switched instead to an editions model [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/03/times-digital-editions-relaunch.html] . The big question: did it work? The answer, based on

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

Süddeutsche Zeitung: selling the agile paywall with the right content Members Public

Another set of liveblogged notes from Digital Media Europe 2017. Typos, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar and syntax probable. Stefan Plöchinger, Digital Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Editor in-Chief, SZ.de Who are Süddeutsche Zeitung [http://www.sueddeutsche.de]? They are the paper that got the Panama Papers [http://panamapapers.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

Amedia: how to turn local news readers into subscribers Members Public

Norway’s Amedia is successfully converting local newspaper readers into digital subscribers. Here’s how they do it.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
amedia

Ekstra Bladet plans for Freemium 2.0 Members Public

Another set of liveblogged notes from Digital Media Europe 2017. Typos, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar and syntax probable. Lisbeth Langwadt, Head of Paid Content, Ekstra Bladet – EKSTRA & Print Secrets to digital innovation… 1. You have to reorganise They used to have two silos at Ekstra Bladet [http:

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital strategy