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Apple News+ in numbers, digital subscription lessons from Scandinavia, and more…
A postcard from Berlin.
This week’s Digital Innovators’ Summit in Berlin gathered 500 senior publishers from around the world. A common theme? Paid content is gaining traction, with an
And what is the average price of a digital subscription? According to FIPP, who released their Global Digital Subscriptions Snapshot report in Germany, the average price is $3.50 per week globally. These subs are currently dominated by newspapers but magazines are starting to make inroads, and Condé Nast’s paywall play will be a barometer for whether lifestyle subs can work at scale
But it was left to Switzerland’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung to land the knockout punch: higher priced offers perform better than lower price offers. And never, ever sell anything on a Saturday.
Jez Walters / @WNIP
What’s new this week
How Facebook’s pivot to private messaging might affect publishers
While it’s too early to tell how much Facebook user activity will shift from public posts to private messaging, we do have an idea of how one-to-one messaging impacts publisher traffic.
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| 50 ideas for making media pay: a definitive guide (Part four) This is the fourth and final part in a series, examining how different ways in which publishers are seeking to “make media pay.” |
| Spotify VP of EMEA Marco Bertozzi on Spotify’s evolving ad business Marco Bertozzi talks about the evolution of Spotify’s ad business, why they believe strongly in the future of podcasting, and what the audience’s relationship is like with ads in audio. |
| Revealed: Trends in The second Global Digital Subscriptions Snapshot report compiled by FIPP and CeleraOne has been released at this year’s Digital Innovators’ Summit. |
| “Never stop challenging yourself”: Lessons from Scandinavian publishers Newspaper publishers in Norway and Sweden have shared their experiences, successes, and failures in growing their digital subscription businesses. |
| Breaking up the tech giants? How that could affect publishers Let’s look at just how attractive this #BreakUpBigTech idea is to so many people in media and public policy – and how it even crosses ideological boundaries. |
| For publishers, Brand safety is not a one-dimensional issue. And, for many advertisers, it isn’t limited to these noisy consumer outcries and PR |
| Taking back trust in journalism through Financing news journalism in the digital age was a key discussion point during the recent Newsrewired conference in London. |
| How publishers can save the comments section from trolls, toxicity and threats Some publishers, including The New York Times, have been able to maintain vibrant comments sections with the help of robust moderation and technology. |
| New York Times’ innovations in the The NYT’s CTO Nick Rockwell explores the newspaper’s innovations in the |
| Six newsletter metrics that matter (that aren’t open rate) Open rate matters. But it isn’t everything. And if you’re too reliant on open rate as your north star, you might have problems in the long run. |
| $176B from ads, 60%+ market share: Duopoly’s “uneven balance of power” Looking only at the internet advertising market, the duopoly took over half (56.4%) of ad money in 2018, a share which WARC expects to rise to 61.4% this year. |
