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- B2B Publishing
- How Behavioral Targeting Can Increase Member Engagement for Subscription Sites
- TheStreet Makes $10.4 Million from Online Subscriptions
- Euromoney Institutional Investor Grows Group Subscriptions by 20%
- LinkedIn Acquires Pulse for $90M, Signals Shift to Publisher Role
- Don’t Lock Out Dual Logins — Upsell Group Subscriptions Instead
- Case Study Lessons: With Hard Paywall Sites, Use Downloadable Reports to Generate Traffic and Leads
- More Consumer Publications See Profits in Online B2B Space
- Case Study Lessons: How to Transition a New Niche to Subscription Billing
- Case Study Lessons: Display Ads Convert Better than Overlays for Lead Gen
- After 17 Years, 2 Million Subscribers, $100M in Revenue, Lynda.com Asks for Funding
- Financial Times Officially Up For Sale, Priced At £1 Billion
- Case Study Lessons: How to Convert Free Data into $12K/Year B2B Subscriptions
- When Monthly Subscription Plans Earn You More Revenue Than Annual Plans
- Case Study Lessons: Stanford Social Innovation Review Increases Revenues with New Subscription Plans & Pricing
- InfoCommerce Acquires Subscription Site Central and Subscription Site Insider
- 2 Killer Welcome Emails for B2B Subscription Sites
- Pinterest Adds Business Accounts and Tools, but Subscription Sites Should Beware
- LinkedIn Makes $50 Million from Individual Subscriptions
- Case Study Lessons: Multi-User Trials Help Convert Individuals into Site License Prospects
- Financial Times Hits 300,000 Digital Subscribers with 6% Conversion Rate
- Variety Sold for $25 Million to Penske Media Despite Poor Paywall Practices
- Access Intelligence Acquires 4 Properties while Infogroup, InvestCorp, UBM Put Services Up For Sale
- Do You Have a Designated Agent to Handle Copyright Infringement Claims?
- Why Software Companies Should Adopt a SaaS Subscription Model
- Backstage.com Garners At Least $4M from Online Subscribers, Launches New Site Highlighting Web Tools
- Bloomberg Tackles Legal Research Market With Subscription Model
- Nearly $38M in Subscription Revenues for LinkedIn
- Politico Charges $3K for Exclusive ‘Pro’ Subscription Plan for DC Insiders
- Protect Your Premium Content on Pinterest, Plus Tips for B2B Publishers
- Academic Journals Enter The Fray on ‘Fair Use’ & User-Generated Content
- How CreditRiskMonitor.com’s Internet Subscription Revenues Rose 9%
- Data Content 2011 Show Notes: Mobile, Mobile, Mobile & also Patrick Spain
- Case Study Lesson: Clever Email Campaign Your Subscription Site Can Adopt
- B2B Publishers Expect Double-Digit Revenue Growth From Online Media, New Site Launches & Events
- Case Study Lesson: Beer Business Daily’s Success in Paid Email Newsletter Publishing
- Case Study Lesson: Finding Internal “Champions” for Site License Sales
- Case Study Lesson: Low-Risk Growth Through Content Licensing
- Case Study Lesson: Compete.com’s Clever Homepage Design
- B2B Premium Niche News Publisher Says His #1 Subscription Marketing Tactic Isn’t Online
- Associations vs Membership Sites: Competition and Confusion
- Conversions
- Webinar Metrics to Help Subscription Sites Increase Engagement and Sales
- Subscription Site OKCupid to Start Accepting Bitcoins as Payment
- 76% of Subscription Sites Have Bad Call-to-Action Buttons
- Email Marketing for Subscription Content: Getting Past the Basics
- Newspapers Generate $10.4B in Circulation Revenue, Increase Due to Online Subscriptions
- How High Can Your Conversion Rates Go on Save Attempts for Cart Abandons?
- Online Subscriptions Generate $18B/Year Despite Low Conversions, Report Finds
- Webinar Non-Attendees May Be Your Best Leads for Subscription Sales
- Autoresponder Emails Get Highest Open Rates
- Boston Globe Sees 16.8% Lift By Changing One-Page Form to Multi-Stage Cart
- When to Include Telemarketing in Renewal Efforts
- Google Beta-Testing Newsletter Sign-Up in PPC Ads
- Find Keywords That Promote Lifetime Value, Not Just Subscriber Acquisition
- When Designing Subscription eCommerce Conversion Pages, Don’t Waste Space on One-Off Options
- Top 4 Reasons Subscription Sites Should Integrate Social Media Sign-Ons
- Spotify Makes $195M from Subscriptions by Converting 8% of Users
- The Guardian Gets 2.1% Conversion on iPad Trials: What’s Working and What’s Not
- Add Telemarketing Sales Efforts To Free Trial With No Credit Card
- What Size Discounts Work Best to Sell Online Subscriptions?
- Can Smartphones Reduce Card-Not-Present Fraud for Online Subscriptions?
- Why a Two-Part Conversion Funnel is Best for Subscription Site Trial Offers
- How to Design a Navigation Bar That Converts Visitors to Paying Subscribers
- Overlays Make a Great Entrance But Controversial Exit For Subscription Site Conversion
- LinkedIn, Hs.fi Among Insider’s 2012 Testing Awards Winners
- Less is More When It Comes To Designing Call-To-Action Pages
- Subscription Price Testing Data From TED
- Social Logins: A ‘Foot-in-the-Door’ Technique for Gathering Opt-ins
- ConsumerReports Tests Different Home Pages for Search Marketing Traffic
- What Dating Sites Can Teach Other Subscription Sites: Testing, Testing, Testing
- New Technology Turns Webcams Into Credit Card Readers, Improves Conversion Rates
- Use Twitter Testimonials on Your Subscription Site
- What Subscription Marketers Can Learn from Netflix’s Homepage Evolution
- The Unintended Effect of The New York Times’ Paywall Button Copy
- The Daily Needs to Fix its Paywall Offer Screen: Two Suggestions
- Cart Abandoners Spend 155% More – If You Remarket to Them
- New (Free) Training Video for Newspaper Execs: How to Grow Paywall Sales by 25-150%
- Stats: Which Homepage Style Works Best for Membership Sites & Subscription Sites?
- Classmates Launches New Email Newsletter for More Prospect Touches With Less Annoyance
- Print Subscription Marketers Seeing ~35% Conversions on Trials Marketed Online
- Stats & Financials
- Hearst Hits 1 Million Digital Subscribers for Tablet Editions
- Netflix Tops $1B in Q1, Has 34 Million Paying Subscribers
- Hulu Up for Sale, Ex-News Corp President Bids $500 Million
- Looking to Sell Your Subscription Site? Make Sure to Court Multiple Buyers
- Hearst Gains 800,000 Digital Subscribers in 2012, 266% Growth from 2011
- Subscription Site Central’s Top 10 Stories of 2012
- Hulu Plus Makes An Estimated $287M in Subscription Revenues
- Is Wall Street’s Misunderstanding of Subscriptions Behind a Class Action Suit Against Zillow?
- LinkedIn to Add $600m to Subscription Revenues With New Premium Service
- Music Streaming Subscription Site Deezer Has 2 Million Paying Subscribers
- Anime Subscription Site Gets an Estimated $8.4M in Revenue
- Open Access Laws Threaten Online Subscription Business in U.K. & U.S.
- Netflix Gets 1M Subscribers in U.K. and Ireland, Likely to Earn €83M
- When Subscription Publications Go Free: A Post-Hoc Analysis of ‘Huffington’ and Time Out London
- Spotify to Earn Nearly $480M from Paying Subscribers
- Spin’s Subscription iPad App Acquired by BuzzMedia, Along With Other Assets
- With $78M in Subscription Sales, Angie’s List Expands Into SaaS
- Online University Grosses Over $1 Billion, But Online Student Churn Is At 84%
- Health Ratings May Be the Next Big Thing in Paid Content – and Great for Local Newspapers
- Subscription-Based Netflix Surpasses iTunes as #1 Online Movie Provider in the U.S.
- $14.5M in Digital Subscription Revenues for The Economist
- Compare Your Profits and Spending to Folio:’s 234 Survey Respondents
- Is Harvard and MIT’s $60M Investment in Online Ed Good or Bad News for Paid Content?
- Hulu Hits 2M Paying Subscribers, $192M in Subscription Revenues
- IPad Drives 90% of Mobile Revenues in March, Becomes a ‘Family Device’
- Reed Sells Subscription Powerhouse Variety, Focuses on Data Services
- Paid Content Popular With 50% of U.S. Tablet Owners, But Not for News
- Lessons from the Paywall2012 Conference in London
- GigaOM Buys paidContent Parent Company From The Guardian
- Only 30% of U.S. Consumers Willing To Pay For Cloud Storage
- Be Wary of Research Data on Print and Digital Subscriptions
- Why Up to 84% of Membership Site Acquisition Deals May Fall Through
- Adult Content Membership Sites Booming
- Apple Newsstand Boosts Digital Subscriptions
- Spotify Has 250,000 Paid Subscribers in U.S.
- The Daily Only Has 80,000 Paid Subscribers
- The Daily Not Hitting Target Subscription Numbers
- Subscription Numbers for Hulu, Spotify, The New York Times
- Publishing in the Face of the Internet’s Short Attention Span
- Stats: Is Your Subscription Site Demographic Active on Google+?
- Data: Acquisition Marketing Tactics to Gain the Most New Online Subscriber Accounts
- Are Consumer Magazines Making Money on Digital Offerings?
- Our Publisher Responds to The New Yorker Article on Online Dating Sites
- Stats: Best Timing for Your Subscription Site’s Twitter Feed
- Get Your Free Executive Summary of the 2011 Online Dating & Matchmaking Benchmark Report
- Get the Executive Summary of Our NEW Dating Site Industry Benchmark Study
- What iPad Usage Trends Mean for Content Publishers
- Behind the Metrics: Gauging the Impact of Hulu’s Paywall
- Founders of Whitestone Communications & Peachtree Capital Advisors to Speak at Online Publisher Site Valuations Webinar
- Know Anyone Who Wants to Sell Their Subscription or Membership Site? Brokerage Offers a 10% Client Referral Fee
- Reed Business Info (RBI) Contacts At Long Last Returning Would-be Acquirers’ Emails
- Total US Online Content Subscription Sales 2009
- M&As in New Media: Avoiding the Tire-kickers & Romeos
- 34% of Subscription & Membership Site Benchmark Reports Are Sold Outside the USA
- MemberGate Sites Doing $70-75 Million Per Year in Total Subscription Sales
- $26 Billion B2B Trade Publishing Industry Grew 1.8% in 2008
- Drive Traffic
- Smart Suggest Lets Subscription Sites Set-Up Formal Refer-a-Friend Campaigns on Facebook
- ‘Dayparting’ and Other Ways to Time Your Content for Maximum Effect
- Online Publishers Can Boost Analytics and Advertising through Article Embedding
- Is Your Behavioral Targeting Following Best Practices and Legal Guidelines?
- Google News Won’t Index Sponsored Content
- Advanced SEO Tactics for Subscription Sites
- Using Public Data (and Great SEO) to Sell Prospecting Services
- SEO Tricks for Facebook’s New Graph Search
- More Consumers Discover Articles Through ‘Related Content’ Than Social Media
- Should Digital Newspapers Team Up With Streaming Music Providers?
- QR Codes Get Great Response Rate in Marketing Websites
- Paid Discovery Services Get Picky, Require Paid Content Sites to Improve Subjective Quality
- New Audience Development Tool Helps Newspapers Get Page Views and Money
- Use QR Codes with Direct Mail to Increase Online Subscriptions
- Twitter Cuts Off Service to LinkedIn, Will It Affect Your Site Traffic?
- WSJ.com Increases Referral Traffic by Letting Subscribers Share Paywalled Articles for a Limited Time
- Want More SEO and PR? Consider Donating Online Subscriptions to Worthy Individuals
- Social Readers Get Mixed Results For Driving Traffic and Consumer Satisfaction [chart]
- Education Week Engages Niche Audiences While Staying National
- Are You Optimizing Your Comments Section to Increase Site Traffic?
- Google’s New Search Algorithms & Why Subscription Sites May Not Need to Worry
- How To Get Member Site Traffic From Optimized Press Releases
- Paid Search Increases in 2011, Yahoo-Bing Alliance Gaining Ground on Google
- Case Study Lesson: Using Syndicated Content To Acquire Paid Subscriptions
- LinkedIn Becomes an Important Traffic Source for Online Publications
- Now A Way to Measure the Effectiveness of Google +1
- Does PR Drive Valuable Traffic for Subscription Sites? Should You Seek Major Media Mentions?
- What Subscription Site Audience Development Pros Can Learn From AOL’s Traffic-Source Plan
- Acquire New Subscribers (or Members) for 60% Less With Referral Marketing
- Why You Need Multiple Marketing Touches … Before They Visit Your Subscription Site
- ECard Holiday Card Campaigns — Great Word of Mouth Traffic Drivers
- eBook Publishing
- Are eBooks the New Subscription Revenue Product?
- Creating eBooks Out of Pulitzer-Winning Content
- Amazon Prime Reportedly Has 10 Million Subscribers, $780M in Net Revenue
- Audiobooks Switches From Unlimited Subscriptions to Pay-by-the-Book Plans
- Subscription Billing Can Work Around New E.U. Ruling on Download Resales
- Kindle and Nook Collect Customer Data, But Stingy About Sharing
- Build Your Presence on Amazon by Publishing Your Free Content on Kindle
- Business eBook Sales Booming to Young Men Online in India
- Enhanced eBooks: Great for Audience Engagement, Bad for Communicating Information?
- F+W Media Combines Several Profitable Digital Ideas in Niche Ebook Subscription Site
- Google Books Helps Paid Content Sites Sell White Papers and PDFs
- Amazon Tries to Cut Out Middle Man With New Kindle Terms
- Inkling Habitat Competes With Apple iBooks by Wooing Publishers
- Has Apple Gone to the Dark Side With iBooks 2.0?
- Lessons from Sesame Street: Designing Digital Content for Children
- Apple’s New iBook Format Aims For Schools But Appeals To Many
- Louis CK’s Draws $500K Online, Making Paid Content Cool
- Amazon to Launch Subscription E-book Service
- $5 Kindle eBook of Free Online Content Grosses $15k in Under 24 Hours
- Consumer Reports Crowns Nook “Best E-book Reader”
- Top 4 Ways to Promote eBook Sales
- Kindle eBook versus Print Book Sales Data from MineThatData’s Kevin Hillstrom
- Why Publishers Should Design for the Thumbnail… Instead of Just Squishing “Regular” Cover Art
- Tech, Legal & Operations
- Court Rules Against ReDigi’s ‘Resale’ Model
- Intel to Launch Set-Top TV Box with Subscription-Based Service
- Two Paywall Software Providers Circumvent Cookies in Metered Paywalls
- FTC Cracks Down on ‘Up To’ Claims, Stating Most Customers Must Receive Maximum Benefit
- YouTube Video Shows iPhone Users How to Download Paid Content Without Paying
- Is Your Subscription Site Prepared for Outages and Other Disasters?
- Pulse v. Flipboard: Which is Better for Your Subscription Site?
- Counties in Ohio Ordered to ‘Cease & Desist’ From Selling Subscriptions to Public Records Online
- ICANN’s Top Level Domain Sale Threatens Independent Online Content Publishers
- After $9M Settlement, Netflix Agrees to Delete Ex-Subscriber Data
- Google More Friendly to Stopping Copyright Infringement Than You May Think
- Better Digital Rights Management for Paid Content With Watermarking and ‘Lightweight’ DRM
- Are Paid Content Sites Responsible for Libelous Comments by Users?
- Why You Should Never Say Your Subscription Site Is ‘Safe & Secure’
- SaaS Providers Respond to Paywall Proliferation With More Billing Options
- Thinkwell Re-Imagines Video Production for Online Education Courses
- How WSJ.com’s Court Case Affects Online Publishers
- Is AT&T’s Partnership With HoroscopeGenie Legal?
- Digital Goods Get Online Sales Tax in Maryland, Will Affect Paid Content & Dating Sites
- Ohio Cracks Down on ‘Data Passing’ by Online Membership Site
- Can You Sell Used Content Online? Capitol Records and ReDigi Battle It Out
- Amazon Backs New Video Format Aiming To Make Online Distribution Easier
- FTC Case Could Affect How Payment Processors Address Chargebacks
- Real-World Lesson: Get a Separate IP for Every SSL Certificate
- Sample Help Wanted Ad to Get Qualified Sales Reps for Your Group Subscription Offerings
- Publisher Settles Copyright Infringement Claims as Part of Aggressive Anti-Piracy Campaign
- The Cost of Customer Service for Digital Subscription Services
- Tech Reviewer’s Notes: How Paywall Plugins Are Marketed
- ICANN News: Subscription Site Owners Need to Think About Future of Domain Names
- How Online Publishers Can Protect Themselves From Social Media Liability
- Stick to Text-only Emails for Subscription Confirmation Receipts
- The Twitter Test for Hiring Online Journalists
- How Paid Content Sites Should React to Bloggers’ Lawsuit Against Huffington Post
- Legal Alert: California’s Strict Anti-Spam Statute & Your Affiliate Marketing Campaigns
- New Federal Law Concerns Online Subscription Sites & Paid Membership Sites: If You Do Recurring Billing or Trial Offers – Watch Out!
- Most Subscription Sites Are Breaking US Laws: The Perils of Autorenews and Trial Offers
- Why Recording Webinars as Paid Content is a Bad Idea
- Why WordPress Isn’t Great as a Membership Site’s Content Management System
- New Myths of Email Deliverability Busted: Publishers Are Not as Safe as Some Think
- BadCustomer.com – A Clever Way to Fight Subscription Chargebacks?
- Subscription Publishers – Should Your Staff Be Mainly Virtual or Mainly In-Office?
- Events
- 15 Talks to Improve Your Subscription Site Sales and Revenues
- TeamSnap Innovates Email Registration for Mobile Devices
- Ask Paul Larsen Your Payment Processing Questions at Subscription Site Summit
- Call for Speakers for the Subscription Site Summit in New York City!
- Forrester’s George Colony Predicts ‘Less Web, More Internet’ in Keynote at IIS
- Save the Date! Subscription Site Summit Is May 8-9th in NYC!
- AARP Launches Dating Site, Focuses On Offline Events
- Hybrid Business Models
- Politico Tests Metered Paywall in Six States, But Pledges to Remain Free in DC
- Subscription Model Unlikely for Indian Audiences
- M&A Highlights for Subscription Sites in Q1 of 2013
- Washington Post to Launch Paywall; Sullivan to Re-Adjust Meter
- NYT’s Ad Tool Lets Publishers Link Ads to Content Posted on Social Media
- IAC Acquires Subscription Site Tutor.com
- 2 Reasons Why Banner Ads are Great for Niche Subscription Sites
- Banner Ads That Actually Engage Viewers
- Amazon Prime Adds Monthly Subscription Plan, Competes With Hulu and Netflix
- Netflix Pushes International Growth, But Shares Fall as U.S. Subscriber Growth Slows
- Profitable Niche Membership and Daily Deal Site For Sale
- The Day Generates $100K in Revenue One Year After Launching a Paywall
- TheStreet Acquires The Deal for $5.8 Million [M&A News]
- Apple Likely to Compete With Subscription Music Services Soon
- Subscription Site Trulia Files to Become Publicly Traded Company
- Study Finds Paywall Resistance Decreasing, But Most Buyers Want ‘Freemium’ Model
- Match.com Finds New Revenue Opportunity with Offline Events
- Ancestry.com Upsells 1.8M Paying Subscribers and Gets New Opt-Ins With One Offer
- Lessons from iDate: The Rise of Mobile Apps and Offline Services
- Subscription Ideas That Will Probably Fail
- FT Sees Subscription Sales Beating Ad Revenues; Dodges Apple App Charge
- Local Newspapers Find New Digital Money Makers
- Boston Globe Paywall Strategy: Run Two Sites, One Subscription-Only
- DoubleRecall Offers Twist on Paywalls
- Hearst and Interweave to Launch Daily Deals Sites
- Do You Serve Your Readers … or Your Advertisers? The Glory of Paid Content Models
- Do Google AdSense Ads Signal “Crap Content” to Your Visitors?
- Magazine Publishers Say Paid Content & Blog Ads Generate Profit Margins Above 30%
- Online Subscription Game Site World of Warcraft Sponsored by Mountain Dew
- Launches
- Social Networks for Elite Adopt Paid, Subscription Models
- Vimeo and T-Mobile Launch Paid, On-Demand Streaming Video
- YouTube (Quietly) Launches Online Movie Rentals in India
- TED Launches Paid Membership Site to Watch Live Talks
- The Next Subscription Niche: Watching Others Play Video Games (Seriously)
- Membership Organizations Adopt Subscription Publications as Member Perk
- Microsoft Office Adopts a Subscription Model, Starting at $99/Year
- Redbox Gets In On the Video Streaming and Subscription Business
- Walmart Rolls Out $7 Monthly Food Subscription Service by Invite Only
- Chicago Tribune Launches ‘Paywall’ That’s More Like a Membership Plan
- The Globe and Mail Launches Dashboard With Paywall
- Online Subscriptions Spur Print Magazine Launch for Bloomberg
- Phone-Based Subscriptions May Oust Mobile App Revenues
- Piano Media Expands Into Poland With National Paywall System and SMS Billing
- Next Issue Launches iPad Subscriptions for Consumer Mags
- Suprise! HuffPo Enters the Subscription Business With iPad Magazine
- FarmVille Launches Subscription Service on Facebook
- The New York Times Expands Into Online Niche Publishing
- Launch News: Gannett and Delaware’s News Journal Put Up Paywalls
- Launch News: Verizon, Redbox, BSkyB, & Apple Get Into the TV Business
- Launch News: ‘The Daily Thrive’ Helps Women Balance Life & Work
- How to Make Subscriptions Work: ‘Be Better Than Free’
- Video Subscriptions Go Global While Warner Brothers Delays DVD Releases
- ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ Launches With Subscription Pricing
- Launch News: Slader.com Adopts Unique Subscription Model For Math Students
- British Online Men’s Mag Blokely Launches Paywall; Oddly Offers Weekly Memberships
- The Independent Launches Paywall for North American Readers
- Minneapolis Star Tribune Launching Paywall
- Microsoft’s Zune Pass Changing Subscription Pricing for Music
- Paywall Pioneer Salon.com Re-Launching Membership Program
- The Baltimore Sun Will Be First Tribune Newspaper to Erect Paywall
- How to Gather Opt-in Lists Before Launching Segmented Email Newsletters
- Subscription Site Trend: Expand Internationally
- Glenn Beck to Launch $4.95 per Month Digital Subscription Service
- Web Traffic Stats Reveal Good Topical Niches for Digital Subscription Launches
- Glenn Beck’s Post-Fox Career: Subscription Site Mogul?
- A Potted Financial Analysis of Murdoch’s Upcoming iPad Daily: 130,000 Paying Readers Needed Per Week?
- Highlights from WishList’s Membership Website Awards – the Wishies for Self-Publishers
- ConsumerReports Launches New Health Subscription Site
- New Data: Subscription & Membership Site Publishers Bullish on Launches & Acquisitions for 2010
- Mobile Publishing
- Google Play To Sell Paid Content in Taiwan Again After 20-Month Suspension
- Are International Markets Ready for Paywalls?
- ComScore to Add Mobile and App Viewing to Web Rankings
- Get More Customer Data from Your iPad Apps with ‘Bonus Time’
- Google Play Launches Web Reader for Subscription Magazines
- Google Lets You Create a Trial Subscription With Credit Card for Android Apps
- Are Plain Text ‘Mobile Version’ Emails Really Helping Your Conversions?
- 2012 Mobile Marketing Guide Released by FTC in Time for Holidays
- 4 Mobile Strategies for Paid Content and Subscription Sites
- Are Subscription Music Services Better for Indie Labels Than For Mainstream Ones?
- How to Save Journalism – Great Ideas While Drinking
- Radio Aggregator Apps Compete With Music Subscription Services
- Scripps Newspaper Division Sees Drop in Digital Revenues in Q2
- The Pros and Cons of Responsive Web Design for Subscription Sites
- Launch News: ‘MLB At Bat’ Has In-App Subscription Plan
- Google Currents: A Mixed Blessing for Subscription Sites
- As Many as 60% of Membership Sites & Subscription Sites Aren’t Tracking Mobile Usage… Yet
- Why Subscription Sites Must Make Mobile Top Priority
- Financial Times Pulls App from iTunes Store
- Mashable’s 8 Tips for Launching a Top-ranked Paid Mobile App
- Apple’s New In-App Subscription Policy Is Good News for Subscription Sites
- Subscription Publishing Trends from SIPA Show: Mobile Publishing, E-Learning and Filtering Content
- Mobile App Sales to Rise 77% in 2011: The Goldrush Begins…
- 70% of iPad Apps Charge a Fee, With an Average Price of $5.36
- PCI Council De-Lists Mobile Payment Applications While it Formulates Standards
- Newspapers Online
- Cookie-Free Paywall Gets Around EU Regulations
- UK Audiences May Have Upper Limit on Subscription Pricing
- FT Focuses on UX with New iPad App, Promises Payment Innovation Coming
- Digital News Consumption Up, 450 News Sites Adopt Metered Paywalls
- Subscription Prices Rising, Article Count Dropping, Ad Revenues Steady at Metered News Sites
- New York Times Co. Puts Boston Globe Up For Sale
- New York Times Adds 74,000 New Digital Subscribers in Q4, $125M in Annual Revenues Expected
- Google to Pay $81M in Deal With French Newspapers Over Copyright Payments
- Boston Globe May Launch Stand-Alone Subscriptions for Special Sections
- News Site ‘Press of Atlantic City’ Up for Sale
- How to Bundle (or Unbundle) Print and Online Subscriptions in 2013
- Guardian Offers Special Christmas iPad Edition to Drive New Year Subscriptions
- The Houston Chronicle Launches Subscription Site With Teensy Tiny ‘Subscribe’ Button
- Should NYT and Local Papers Drop Their Paywalls for Hurricane Sandy?
- Paid Online Subscriptions Pay Off for Newspapers and Their Investors
- NY Times Launches Subscribers-Only Web-Based iPad App
- Boston Globe Offers 26-Week Online Subscription for $20 through Groupon
- No Revenue Decline in Decreasing Article Count on Metered Paywalls for News Sites
- Guardian Promotes Separate Tablet Subscriptions for Sports News
- Social Media Guidlines for/from Subscription and Paid Content Sites
- NY Times Offers 8-Week Digital Subscription for $1 Through Groupon
- U.K. Times Has 131,162 Digital Subscribers, Generating More than £13M
- The Guardian Earns £1.4M from Subscriptions to iPad App
- Why Retention is More Important Than Sales for Local Online Papers
- Subscription Service Lets Politico Expand Newsroom and Staff
- More Than £26.5 Million for News International in Digital Subs, Despite Murdoch Scandal
- Paywalled Aggregator Backed By ‘Big Newspaper’ Shuts Down
- Christian Science Monitor Makes Paywall Work With Analysis, Not Breaking News
- $5.8M for Dallas Morning News in Digital Subscriptions
- $3M in Subscription Revenues For BostonGlobe.com, But Site Still Struggling to Convert
- NY Times Subscription Model Hailed A Success: Fact or PR?
- Pew Study Highlights Search for Paid Content Business Models
- Video: Tomas Bella on Creating a National Paywall
- Digital Content & Paywalls: How John Paton Has It Right…And Wrong
- Piano Media’s National Paywall: Torch-bearer or Red Herring?
- A Tale of Two Ecommerce Sites: When They Work & When They Don’t
- Guardian Starts Charging while NYT and People Bundle Subs with a Nook
- Newspaper Shares Dive, Digital Revenues Up for Magazines
- Frosty Revenues? Try Bundling Up Your Subscriptions Like This Finnish Paper Did
- Comparing Paywalls of The Two “Times” Newspapers
- The New York Times: Page Views Grow Even With Paywall
- First General Newspaper Paywall to Go Up in Australia
- Knight Foundation, Press+ Offer Paywalls to College Newspapers
- Guardian to Charge $15.52 Per Month for iPad Edition
- E.W. Scripps Testing Two Newspaper Paywalls
- The Press of Atlantic City Erects Paywall
- Allentown Morning Call to Erect Paywall Oct. 10
- Are Comments Too Much Work? One Newspaper Group Thinks So
- Surprise: Three Local News Sites Increase Pageviews With Paywalls
- Should Online Publishers Launch (or Keep) a Print Versions?
- First National Paywall Succeeding, More European Countrywide News Paywalls Come
- Paywalls Are Hot: Even The Onion Is Testing A Paywall
- New York Times Paywall Paying Off; 85% of US Print Newspapers Planning Paywalls
- Which is the Worst Online Newspaper Paywall? Our Little Internal Contest….
- Who Pays For News?
- 49% of Surveyed US Newspaper Publishers Think Their Content’s Maybe Not Worth Paying For Online
- Uncategorized
- Get Triple-Digit ROI With One-Page Websites
- Subscription Site Zacks Investment Research Looking for Marketing Manager
- Get a Free Website Critique With Justin Rondeau of WhichTestWon
- SIPA to Merge with SIIA — Could this be a Comeback for the Paid Niche Content Industry?
- U.S. Paid Content Sites Likely to See Same Increase in Credit Card Fraud as Europe
- Top 3 Questions to Ask Before Selecting Speakers for Your Events
- 1% Anxiety: When Chargeback Rates Can Be Higher for Subscription Sites
- How Prezi Can Compromise Event Revenues for Paid Content Sites
- How to Find Who’s Sharing Your Content On LinkedIn With ‘Signal’
- New EMV Credit Card Technology May Increase Online Fraud
- Google Starts Penalizing Sites With Too Many Ads Above the Fold
- PBS’s Smart Use of Facebook to Track Audience Viewing
- Breaking News: HootSuite’s New Apps Help Membership Sites Market Better
- Could the End of Credit Cards Be a Good Thing for Subscription Sites?
- Google+ Launches Brand Pages: Yet Another Social Media Page for Your Subscription Marketing Team to Handle
- Blizzard Entertainment Sells an Estimated $25 Million in Tickets to Its Annual Fan Event
- What’s The Benefit of A Facebook App For a Paywall Site?
- Online Publishers: Does It Make Sense to Segment Your Social Media?
- American Express, Verizon Wireless Join Forces on Mobile Payments
- Trend to Watch: Facebook Editions and “Google Editions” to Follow?
- Recurring Billing Provider Braintree Payment Solutions Raises $34 Million
- Twitter and Google’s Newest Social Media Buttons for Your Subscription Site
- Credit Card Data May Have Been Stolen in PlayStation Network Hack
- Columbia Journalism School Tests Twitter Marketing to Promote Event Ticket Sales
- Why the Epsilon Email Breach Might Hurt Online Subscription and Membership Sites
- How Wikipedia’s Missing Out on Substantial Funding
- 4 Common Recurring Billing Mistakes TechSmith Makes: How NOT to Handle Annually Charged Customers
- What Subscription, Membership & Continuity Merchants Need to Know About Recurring Billing Declines
- Soliciting Voluntary Contributions & Donations for Online Content: 2 Approaches
- Payments & Recurring Billing
- How VAT Eats Into Your Profits on Digital Subscription Sales
- Card-Not-Present Debit Spending on the Rise, as Interchange Fees Decline
- MerchantBidding.com Lets Subscription Sites Get Quotes from Multiple Payment Processors
- How Subscription Sites Can Get Account Updater Even When A Payment Processor Denies Having It
- Price Testing Lessons From Adobe’s Creative Cloud SaaS
- Forget Content Publishing – The Real Money in Subscriptions is in Payment Processing Services
- Google Wallet Experiments With Single-Article Paywalls
- California Enforces Online Sales Tax, But Most Subscription Sites Selling Online Content Do Not Have to Collect
- Facebook Opens Up Subscription Billing, But Paid Content Sites Should Think Twice Before Joining
- Google Wallet Likely to Hurt Subscription Retention, Skype Avoids Pre-Paid Problems With Its Own Cards
- Featured
- Retention & Renewals
- Year-End Sales Tip: Tie Your Gift Subscription Offers to Your Renewal Efforts
- Lesson from Hulu: Save Potential Cancels With a Great Landing Page
- Amazon Prime Keeps Stable Price, but Grows Subscribers and Service
- Add New Online Tools, Not Just New Content, To Retain Subscribers
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- How ExpertClick Increases Retention By Encouraging Member Activity
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- When To Offer Lifetime Memberships — And for How Much
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- Sell Your Mobile and Tablet App Through Your Website, Not Just App Stores
- Are Video Landing Pages Better For Selling Online Subscriptions Than Long-Form Letters?
- To Bundle or Not to Bundle: The Hamletian Dilemma for Paid Content Sites
- Get More Annual Subscriptions With Highbeam’s Simple Messaging Tactic
- Use Affiliates to Test Your Subscribers’ Interest in Offline Events
- Top 15 Lessons From Subscription Site Insider’s Summit in SF
- Less Text + More Visuals = Better Conversions
- Cross Sell Old Content With Timely Additions To Increase Revenues
- Combining Offline Expertise With An Online Subscription Model
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- Case Study Lesson: Using Overlays to Increase Free Registrations, Paid Subscriptions
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- Case Study Lesson: Lower App Prices to Gain More Marketing Traction
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- Case Study Lesson: Subscription Site Gets 16% of Paying Members from Customer Referrals
- Case Study Lesson: B2B Paid Content Site Tests Conferences vs Cruises
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- Case Study Lesson: Promoting Digital Subscriptions via Facebook Pages
- Case Study Lessons: How to Get Bloggers to Promote Your Subscription Launch
- Case Study Lesson: Browser-Based Mobile Publications – An Alternative to Subscription Apps
- Case Study Lesson: Profiting With Gift Subscription Offers & Groupon Campaigns Year Round
- Case Study Lesson: How to launch a Separately Branded Version of Your Subscription Service for a Different Target Market
- Case Study Lesson: The Drawbacks of PayPal for Recurring Billing
- Case Study Lesson: Mad Mariner’s User-Generated Content Tactics
- Case Study Lesson: Paywall A/B Test Helps Increase Paid Membership Sales by 51.8%
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- Behind-the-scenes Fastcase Subscription Site Case Study: Why They Don’t Hire Virtual Staff
- Christian Science Monitor’s Weekly Wins 60% More Paying Subscribers Than its Daily Newspaper Had
- Tablet Publishing
- Do You Know the Difference Between Native and Web Apps?
- Native Apps are Better for Engagement, Worse for Revenues and Retention
- Licensing Hurdles Remain for Online TV, But Subscriptions Better Than A La Carte Offers
- Should Your Tablet Magazines Move From Monthly to Weekly Updates?
- Subscription Sites Can Now Track Digital Edition Sales Across Platforms
- Subscription Sites to Benefit From New Google Wallet and Google Play Features
- Most Tablet Users Have Purchased Subscription Content, Ad-Supported Content Gaining Popularity
- Can Next Issue Increase Digital Magazine Subscriptions?
- 3 Ways to Make Paid Subscription iPad Apps Easier to Use
- Lessons From Glamour’s iPad Publishing Launch
- Popular Science Sells 10,000 iPad App Subscriptions
- Subscription Marketing
- How to Create Scarcity — and Importance — with Online Content
- Zinio Moves to Subscription Model, Making Magazine-Hopping Easier
- Bloomberg Businessweek Launches Metered Paywall on iPad App
- HBO May Offer Internet Subscription for HBO GO Separate from Cable
- Tablets Helps Grow Subscription Revenues for Consumer Magazines
- The Perils of Advertorials — or Native Advertising — for Subscription Sites
- LoveFilm Struggles to Maintain UK Market Share Despite Savvy Growth Strategy
- Newsweek’s Smart Animated Cover and Stupid Business Decision
- Wall Street Journal Agrees to Sell Subscriptions through Apple’s Newsstand
- The Economist Unbundles Print and Tablet Editions
- Piano Media To Screen Independent Film Behind National Paywall
- Subscription Publications That Go Digital-Only Face New Regulations
- Google’s ‘Not Provided’ Accounts for 40% of Organic Traffic for B2B Sites
- Time Inc. Adds 20 Digital Subscriptions for Kindle Fire
- Subscription Site EB Medicine Looking for Marketing Manager
- Sell More Gift Subscriptions to Your Site This Holiday Season
- Paid Content Sites to Benefit from New Web Markup Created by Google, Bing & Yahoo
- BostonGlobe.com Tests 99 Cent Trial Subscription Offer: Two Critical Mistakes
- $1 Trials Often Better Than Free Trials For Paid Content and ‘Freemium’ Sites
- ‘The Recorder’ Gets Paper-Friendly Audiences to Subscribe Online
- Offline Membership Events Fuel Online Subscription Site
- Social Media: Great for Customer Service, Bad for Marketing
- Getting Opt-ins With an iPad Sweepstakes
- Got Post-Holiday Marketing Blues? Start Prepping for Valentine’s Day!
- Subscription Sites Can Target Growing Hispanic Market Without Spanish Content
- Marketing Online Subscriptions as Gifts
- Case Study Lesson: Avoid a Groupon Nightmare by Starting Small and Local
- More Subscription Marketing Lessons from The NY Times and The Economist
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- Subscription Site Summit NYC Wrap-Up Notes: Top 25 Membership Site Marketing Action Items
- Paid Subscription Music Services Target Facebook’s Music Initiative
- Consider Adding Ratings and Reviews to Your Subscription Site
- Retaining Readership When a Publication Goes Digital-Only
- Navigation Links On Your Subscription Site: Less Can Be More
- Get Your Email List to Think Twice About Unsubscribing
- 6 Tips to Avoid a “Netflix-Style Backlash” From Price Increases
- Why Your Dating or Subscription Site Needs to Be Thinking About Text Messaging
- How Dating Sites Improve Subscription Conversions with Better Testimonials
- Should Your Subscription Site Offer Lifetime Memberships?
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