Category: Reader Revenue

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.…

After taking its paywall down 10 years ago, The Atlantic is bringing it back. Next month, TheAtlantic.com will launch a metered paywall allowing readers to access 10…

When ad revenue growth was strong, publishers could justify pumping up circulation numbers willy-nilly. With those days over, publishers like The Economist are turning their…

Wired is planning to introduce a paywall in January 2018, part of a business and editorial reboot that Mr. Thompson says will help protect the 24-year-old…

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Google is ending its “first click free” (FCF) program, which provides users access to content behind publisher subscription…

Although Foreign Affairs has found success monetising online readers, its first paywall iteration was a haphazard effort at best, explained Anique Halliday, senior product manager at Foreign…

Amazon is paying publishers and social media “influencers” to post to Spark, the new commerce-oriented social network the company launched Tuesday. Accessed through Amazon’s existing…

As the greatly hyped online platform Style.com ceases trading after just nine months, we investigate why it failed and how the new partnership with Farfetch…

Most news paywalls are full of holes. Publishers aren’t just offering a few free articles per month. They’re building in sweeping exceptions that allow tech-savvy…

For publishers, the fact that over 50 percent of adults in the U.S. this year are still paying for news products will come as a…