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Frequency is the metric that matters most Frequency is the metric that matters most
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What the F Are You Doing? Why frequency is the metric that matters in the AI era

Why the "F" in RFV is the metric that survives the AI era, and how you can develop it
byMark Zohar
6 July, 2026
Project Syndicate Project Syndicate
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Project Syndicate’s registration strategy: refreshing the value proposition to engage and convert

byMadeleine White
2 July, 2026
Audiencers' Festival London Audiencers' Festival London
  • Decisions

The Washington Post tests flexible access models, addressing the gap between willingness to pay and willingness to commit

byMadeleine White
29 June, 2026
Le Monde in English Le Monde in English
  • Inspirations

Inside Le Monde in English: Four Years in and already profitable

byMadeleine White
22 June, 2026
Audiencers Festival London Audiencers Festival London
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Broadsheet’s path from reader to subscriber: The registration flywheel in action

byMadeleine White
16 June, 2026
WAN-IFRA World Congress 2026 WAN-IFRA World Congress 2026
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Inside WAN-IFRA Marseille 2026: the deals, the data, and the fight for what journalism is worth

byMarion Wyss
16 June, 2026
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Knowing the value of our users: Ringier combines revenue from readers and advertising to calculate holistic Customer Lifetime Value

byMadeleine White
15 June, 2026
The Sun Club The Sun Club
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Sun Club at One: what The Sun learned from a year of freemium

byJohn Rahim
10 June, 2026
Future newsroom study 2026 Future newsroom study 2026

Navigating the community era: key takeaways from the 2026 Future Newsrooms Study

byMadeleine White
Selma Stern Selma Stern

“Do something with your luck”: What German news brands are doing right

bySelma Stern

Steal this strategy: examples of publishers building relationships with readers (and how to replicate them)

byMadeleine White

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Toilet paper, wine, cars, and what they teach us about subscription: episode 6

byMaxime Moné
28 May, 2026
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Fewer articles, more value: Le Nouvel Obs’ transformation to reconnect with its readers

byMarion Wyss
27 May, 2026
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From Melbourne to London: how Broadsheet is scaling culture and reader revenue

byMadeleine White
21 May, 2026
The New York Times is becoming subscription infrastructure The New York Times is becoming subscription infrastructure
  • Decisions

The New York Times is becoming subscription infrastructure for other publishers

What FIPP's latest data reveals about who is winning the subscription race, and why (with NYT providing the infastructure)
byJohn Rahim
18 May, 2026
Newsletter open rates Newsletter open rates
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Why I don’t care about your newsletter open rates

byLennart Schneider
13 May, 2026
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Steal this strategy: 4 membership models succeeding for publishers (and how to learn from them)

byMadeleine White
11 May, 2026
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Amedia ignored older subscribers to attract younger ones

byMadeleine White
6 May, 2026
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The reader who left your article early might be your most engaged user

byRegula Marti
4 May, 2026
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The first 100 days: why most of what we call retention is really just micro-conversions (again): episode 5

byMaxime Moné
29 April, 2026
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Obligatory registration at Radio-Canada: a successful gamble

byAudiencers
28 April, 2026
Audiencers' Festival Hamburg Audiencers' Festival Hamburg
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Mastering audience segmentation with Selma Stern

byMadeleine White
Stern+ rebuilding subscription Stern+ rebuilding subscription
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Stern+: How one of Germany’s biggest magazine brands rebuilt a subscription business from scratch

byJohn Rahim
The Times The Times
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How to use a “Customer Rail” to drive retention and habit formation, just like The Times

byMadeleine White
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The subscription pricing page we’ve all built at least once: episode 4

byMaxime Moné
Audience segmentation Audience segmentation
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Guide: how to segment audiences for a dynamic paywall

A deep dive into the many ways that you could segment your audience in a dynamic paywall model
byMadeleine White
8 April, 2026
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Beyond borders and between the lines: How swissinfo.ch engages a global audience in 10 languages

byMadeleine White
7 April, 2026
Milenio community Milenio community
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Owning the community and gamifying loyalty: Inside Milenio’s engagement strategies

byMadeleine White
1 April, 2026
German news trends German news trends
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Navigating subscriptions in Germany: topics, formats and willingness to pay

byPia Carron
30 March, 2026
Pay what you can Les Coops de L'information Pay what you can Les Coops de L'information
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Les Coops de l’information “Pay What You Can” Campaign

byMadeleine White
24 March, 2026
Why the best performers replaced the linear tunnel with an infinite cycle Why the best performers replaced the linear tunnel with an infinite cycle
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Why the best subscription businesses don’t try to sell on day 1: episode 3

byMaxime Moné
19 March, 2026
Audience segmentation Audience segmentation
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Spektrum’s evolution of audience segmentation and testing

byMadeleine White
Mediahuis Mediahuis
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The essential subscription: how Mediahuis is bundling beyond journalism

byJohn Rahim
Hamburg Festival Hamburg Festival
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The Audiencers’ Festival Hamburg 2026: presentation slides

byMadeleine White
The Kyiv Independent The Kyiv Independent
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How The Kyiv Independent is growing membership through relationship-building

byMadeleine White

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

byMadeleine White
  • Decisions

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

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

byMadeleine White
  • Decisions

Paywalls & SEO in the AI era

byMarion Wyss
  • Operations

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

byMaxime Moné
  • Inspirations

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

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

byMaxime Moné
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Building resilience with registration

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

byDavid Carzon
  • Decisions

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

byMadeleine White
  • Operations

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

byKhalil A. Cassimally
29 January, 2026
  • Decisions

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

byMadeleine White
26 January, 2026
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Benchmarking donation and support models

byMadeleine White
22 January, 2026
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The Mill Media’s Simple Bet: Readers Pay for Quality

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

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

byMadeleine White
15 January, 2026
Subscription offer page Subscription offer page
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Subscription offer page benchmarks

A collection of subscription offer pages to help you convince readers of your product, and better convert them into subscribers.
byMadeleine White
15 January, 2026
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Subscriber cancellation journey benchmarks

byMadeleine White
14 January, 2026
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Subscriber onboarding journey benchmarks

byMadeleine White
14 January, 2026
Alignment Alignment
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Alignment as an extreme sport: 5 things effective subscriptions leaders do

bySelma Stern
13 January, 2026
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Leveraging editorial products for growth at Republik

byMadeleine White
12 December, 2025
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Your media industry event calendar for 2026

byMadeleine White
12 December, 2025
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7 ways media can build a practical, empowering data culture

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

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

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

byMadeleine White
8 December, 2025
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