OJR: Apps v eBooks – are we missing paid content opportunity?
In an interesting post on the Online Journalism Review website Robert Niles weighs up the opportunities for publishers investing in apps versus eBooks. In his post Niles says he would be surprised to...
View Article#wef11: Publishers share paywall strategies and lessons learnt
“Don’t be afraid” – this was just one of many messages given by a panel of publishers at the World Editors Forum today, who shared their experiences of erecting “paywalls” or what came to be termed by...
View ArticleSydney Morning Herald: The Australian to reveal paywall details this week
The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that News Limited (the Australian arm of News Corporation) will officially announce its paywall for the Australian this week, after it outlined plans for a...
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#news2011: Paywalls –‘the solution is going to be unique and individual’
In one of the first sessions at the Global Editors Network news summit today the panel discussed paywalls and paid-for apps. One of the speakers was Frederic Filloux, general manager of ePresse...
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Media release: Piano Media raises paywall price with ‘steady revenue’ in place
Piano Media has announced that it is raising the price of the national paywall it established in Slovakia last year, a move its CEO Tomas Bella says in a release had been the plan for once the...
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#paywalls12 – Niche content paywalls: three success stories
The journey from print to digital is “a bit like making trains that float, in case they need to go back on the canal,” Steve Hewlett, Guardian columnist and presenter of BBC Radio 4′s Media Show. His...
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#paywalls12 – Looking outside: five paid-content lessons from Denmark,...
Copyright: Dreamer, via Wikimedia Commons One of the sessions of today’s Paywall Strategies conference focussed on lessons from other countries, hearing from Berlingske Media, Denmark’s largest...
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#paywalls12 – The Economist: ‘We have doubled content in two years’
“Just putting print online was never going to be enough” said Audra Martin, vice president of customer engagement at the Economist, at today’s Paywall Strategies conference. And digital is driving...
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#wef12: 5 steps from New York Times Company on building digital subs model
The latest results reported by the New York Times Company showed a total of more than 500,ooo paid digital subscribers. This was an increase on the 454,000 paying subscribers recorded a year after...
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#wef12: WSJ’s Raju Narisetti on ‘copycat’ paywalls and the ‘golden’ future of...
Raju Narisetti from the Wall Street Journal, pictured speaking at the news:rewired conference, earlier this year Speaking at the World Editors Forum on Monday (3 September), managing editor for the...
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#wef12: CEO of Australia’s Fairfax Media encourages publishers to make ‘the...
The Sydney Morning Herald is one website which will see a paywall introduced Earlier this year Australian publisher Fairfax Media announced what it described as ‘landmark’ events, including the...
View ArticleBloomberg: US publisher Gannett trialing paid-content model
US publisher Gannett (which is parent company to Newsquest in the UK) is trying out a paid-content model at three of its newspaper websites while it considers a broader online payment model, Bloomberg...
View ArticleWill the Shropshire and Wolverhampton walls pay?
Part-paywalls have gone up at the UK’s biggest-selling regional daily, the Wolverhampton-based Express and Star, and at sister title, the Shropshire Star. Breaking news will remain free but other...
View ArticleSlovakian media goes behind the paywall
Yesterday nine news outlets in Slovakia joined together to put up a joint paywall in front of parts of its content – some more than others – as part of a new premium content subscription model by Piano...
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News International to rethink ‘iron-curtain’ paywall approach for the Sun
The Sun is to use a mixed model to charge for online content, according to News International head of marketing Katie Vanneck-Smith, although no date has been set for its introduction. Speaking last...
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