audience strategy
Friday night's fine for linkin'
Lots of good stuff to read – and think about – over the weekend
Future of Media Technology
Publisher retention strategies: keeping your customers happy
So, you have subscribers. How do you keep them? Panelists from across journalism discuss different approaches.
news:rewired
Subscriber revenue: what's the future — and the limit?
How do you win an audience. convert them to subscribers — and retain them in tough economic times? A news:rewired panel explores past sucesses and future strategies.
membership models
Journalism needs members, not readers
Members and subscribers are not the same thing. We're at a moment of inflection in journalism, and understanding the difference might be crucial.
newsletters
Engaged Reading Digest: the subscriptions edition
Five reads on subscriptions and membership models, to give you some hope about the future of journalism.
apple news
Apple News+: first thoughts
Quick first impressions of the launch of Apple News+
business models
New business models for journalism
Journalism needs a new business model. Hell, it need many new models. Here's a bunch of them from news:rewired
publishing strategy
The Spectator is harnessing digital to get record print sales
This is rather spectacular: Spectator subscriptions are at an all-time high, but not only that — print subscriptions are, too. Here’s how editor Fraser Nelson expains it [https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/02/the-spectators-print-sales-hit-a-190-year-high-thanks-to-digital/] : > Digital is behind the renaissance of print. The website brings millions of people to
business models
Compass News: the latest attempt to build a Netflix for news
There’s a new journalism aggregator in town, called Compass – and it’s attempting to be a Netflix for news [http://www.compassnews.co.uk/]. Isolde Walters spoke to Matilde Giglio about the subscription-based app [https://www.girlwithoutaniche.com/home/2017/3/13/w10i9y1x2vrkxbu17qgziqhg26ord7] : > It’s a bit like
business models
Coffee and newspapers: a business model blend
Richard Horgan [http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/toronto-star-headline-coffee/385236]: > From north of the border, a rather interesting new revenue experiment. Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, this week announced the launch of a new monthly in-house subscription service: Headline Coffee. Yup, a coffee subscription service from a newspaper
apple
Can we be honest about user data?
You know, the publishing business might not be doing itself any favours with its fervent opposition to the Apple subscription terms [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/02/a_little_devils_advocacy_on_ipad_subs.html] . The more posts like this [http://counternotions.com/2011/02/16/stores/] that appear,
apple
Some Afternoon Coffee Links
A couple of interesting links, that make an excellent *aperitif *to my last post: - [The Newsonomics of Apple/Press+/Google’s pay-for-all](http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/02/the-newsonomics-of-the-applegooglepress-pay-for-all/) – nice breakdown of the key issues around the Apple subs model, publishers’ reaction to it and the relevance of the