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Why the best performers replaced the linear tunnel with an infinite cycle Why the best performers replaced the linear tunnel with an infinite cycle
  • Inspirations

Why the best subscription businesses don’t try to sell on day 1: episode 3

Figma, Miro, Calm, New York Times... they all have something in common. They focus on one goal at a time, and don't sell on day 1
byMaxime Moné
19 March, 2026
Audience segmentation Audience segmentation
  • Inspirations

Spektrum’s evolution of audience segmentation and testing

byMadeleine White
19 March, 2026
Mediahuis essential subscription Mediahuis essential subscription
  • Decisions

The essential subscription: how Mediahuis is bundling beyond journalism

byJohn Rahim
16 March, 2026
Hamburg Festival Hamburg Festival
  • Inspirations

The Audiencers’ Festival Hamburg 2026: presentation slides

byMadeleine White
12 March, 2026
The Kyiv Independent The Kyiv Independent
  • Inspirations

How The Kyiv Independent is growing membership through relationship-building

byMadeleine White
11 March, 2026
NTM young subscription NTM young subscription
  • Inspirations

Winning the young ones: how NTM grew its under-25 subscriber base by 500%

byMadeleine White
10 March, 2026
Poool x Darwin Poool x Darwin
  • Decisions

Darwin CX and Poool unite to build end-to-end subscription platform for publishers

byMadeleine White
4 March, 2026
The Guardian The Guardian
  • Inspirations

Behind The Guardian’s record-breaking US End of Year campaign

byMadeleine White
28 February, 2026
paywalls and SEO in the AI era paywalls and SEO in the AI era

Paywalls & SEO in the AI era

byMarion Wyss
Paywalls - The 6 levels of sophistication we identified Paywalls - The 6 levels of sophistication we identified

What’s free, what’s paid, and why it’s really an engagement trade-off: episode 2

byMaxime Moné
Forum communications Forum communications

Minor tweaks make all the difference: lessons on breaking the subscription plateau from Forum Communications

byMadeleine White
100 subscription businesses 100 subscription businesses
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100 subscription business, 15 industries, 1 moodboard: episode 1

byMaxime Moné
18 February, 2026
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Building resilience with registration

byMadeleine White
16 February, 2026
  • Inspirations

Profitable by 2026: the business logic behind Le Monde in English

byDavid Carzon
10 February, 2026
  • Decisions

Beyond the feed: mastering the 7 modes of next gen news engagement

Findings from the report that highlight 7 Modes of Engagement, distinguishing how "next gen" consumers discover, consume, & share news
byMadeleine White
2 February, 2026
communication communication
  • Operations

Improve how you communicate with colleagues: an AI method tested by researchers

byKhalil A. Cassimally
29 January, 2026
WAN-IFRA trends outlook WAN-IFRA trends outlook
  • Decisions

The state of play: What WAN-IFRA’s Trends Outlook 2026 says for your subscription model

byMadeleine White
26 January, 2026
  • Inspirations

Benchmarking donation and support models

byMadeleine White
22 January, 2026
  • Decisions

The Mill Media’s Simple Bet: Readers Pay for Quality

byJohn Rahim
21 January, 2026
Referral Referral
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How to build a referral program that drives subscription growth

byLennart Schneider
20 January, 2026
Newsletter benchmarks Newsletter benchmarks
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Benchmark ideas to increase newsletter subscribers

byMadeleine White
Subscription offer page Subscription offer page
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Subscription offer page benchmarks

byMadeleine White
Cancellation benchmarks Cancellation benchmarks
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Subscriber cancellation journey benchmarks

byMadeleine White
onboarding benchmarks onboarding benchmarks
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Subscriber onboarding journey benchmarks

byMadeleine White
Alignment Alignment
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Alignment as an extreme sport: 5 things effective subscriptions leaders do

Subscriptions sit at the exact intersection of business, product, editorial, and data!... So how can you be an effective player in this game of extreme cross-functional collaboration.
bySelma Stern
13 January, 2026
Leveraging editorial products for growth at Republik Leveraging editorial products for growth at Republik
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Leveraging editorial products for growth at Republik

byMadeleine White
12 December, 2025
Events calendar Events calendar
  • Inspirations

Your media industry event calendar for 2026

byMadeleine White
12 December, 2025
7 ways to harness data culture 7 ways to harness data culture
  • Operations

7 ways media can build a practical, empowering data culture

byKhalil A. Cassimally
12 December, 2025
Netflix financial engineering Netflix financial engineering
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Subscription Lock-In: Deconstructing Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Strategy

byDavide Liverino
12 December, 2025
Subscription management Subscription management
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Why it’s time to update your subscription management system to accommodate consumer trends

byMorten Jørgensen Stald
11 December, 2025
Condé Nast funnel Condé Nast funnel
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When is a subscriber more than a subscriber? How Condé Nast is evolving its audience strategy with membership

byMadeleine White
Hero Framework, The Audiencers Hero Framework, The Audiencers
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Where publishers should be heading in 2026: the HERO framework

byMadeleine White
  • Inspirations

The power of puzzles: How The New Yorker approached a games paywall

byLindsay Ederheimer
Wirecutter for you Wirecutter for you
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How NYT Wirecutter shipped a personalized newsletter in 4 weeks

byAnil Chitrapu

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  • Inspirations

Easy cancellation is the new retention strategy: How Nat Geo Kids uses transparency to win beyond save rates

byMadeleine White
  • Inspirations

The Washington Post: how and why we built “Ask The Post AI”

byJason Langsner
  • Decisions

The media industry’s 5 toxic obsessions: no.2 refusing to interact with audiences

byMarion Wyss
  • Inspirations

5 ideas of article formats where form follows function

byMadeleine White
  • Operations

How to stop subscription revenue leaks: technical and strategic solutions

byAli Mahmood
  • Decisions

Funding public interest: 8 common misconceptions about donations, debunked

byMarine Doux
  • Decisions

Your subscription forecast is broken, and maths isn’t the problem

byDavide Liverino
  • Decisions

The homepage isn’t dead, it just stopped being a page

byHeiko Scherer
  • Operations

Subscription price increase: the 7 biggest mistakes to avoid

byLennart Schneider
  • Inspirations

Launching a weekday audio news briefing with AI at CT Insider

byMadeleine White
  • Inspirations

Build or buy: The technology decision that defines modern newsrooms

byAli Mahmood
13 October, 2025
  • Inspirations

How DER SPIEGEL uses its engagement score: our key use cases 

byAlexander Held
9 October, 2025
  • Inspirations

The Economist’s Substack experiment: building a newsletter product off-platform

byMadeleine White
7 October, 2025
  • Decisions

unfolded.news – rethinking the content architecture of news websites

byFabio Venneri
1 October, 2025
  • Decisions

The hidden cost of discount addiction: why 50% off promotions are killing your subscription revenue

bySuchit Patel
29 September, 2025
  • Decisions

The media industry’s 5 toxic obsessions: no.1 criticizing platforms

byMax Leroy
28 September, 2025
lequipe lequipe
  • Operations

L’Équipe: 12 projects to retain subscribers following the Paris Olympics

After the peak in acquisitions during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, L’Équipe identified four key moments to drive retention.
byMarion Wyss
27 September, 2025
The Telegraph App The Telegraph App
  • Operations

The Telegraph: retaining subscribers with a killer mobile strategy

byMarion Wyss
26 September, 2025
Telerama - Comment le magazine culturel a construit, marketé et monétisé son nouveau guide “Plateformes” Telerama - Comment le magazine culturel a construit, marketé et monétisé son nouveau guide “Plateformes”
  • Operations

3,360 new subscribers in a month: Télérama’s new streaming guide product pays off

byMarion Wyss
26 September, 2025
The Audiencers' Festival London Panos The Audiencers' Festival London Panos
  • Inspirations

IamExpat: Keeping users at the center when diversifying revenue

byMadeleine White
25 September, 2025
  • Inspirations

Doing User Needs right: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism share their secrets

byKhalil A. Cassimally
22 September, 2025
  • Inspirations

Subscription models live off habits: lessons from Duolingo’s retention success

byLennart Schneider
17 September, 2025
  • Decisions

Digital by design: How Irish News is growing from a strong print legacy

byMadeleine White
12 September, 2025
  • Decisions

Balancing acquisition and retention: lessons from pv digest’s Markus Schöberl

byMadeleine White
11 September, 2025
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Developing the middle of the funnel: how to turn fly-bys into loyal readers

byMadeleine White
8 September, 2025
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What your paywall says about your product (and why it matters)

byHeiko Scherer
4 September, 2025
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