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Bonus. The fun one Toilet paper Japanese snack boxes wine... The most surprising subscription models Bonus. The fun one Toilet paper Japanese snack boxes wine... The most surprising subscription models
  • Inspirations

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

A tour of subscription businesses outside of the media industry - why do people pay, and what can we learn from their products?
byMaxime Moné
28 May, 2026
Comment Le Nouvel Obs se transforme Comment Le Nouvel Obs se transforme
  • Inspirations

Fewer articles, more value: Le Nouvel Obs’ transformation to reconnect with its readers

byMarion Wyss
27 May, 2026
Broadsheet subscription Broadsheet subscription
  • Inspirations

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

byJohn Rahim
18 May, 2026
Newsletter open rates Newsletter open rates
  • Decisions

Why I don’t care about your newsletter open rates

byLennart Schneider
13 May, 2026
Poool membership Poool membership
  • Inspirations

Steal this strategy: 4 membership models succeeding for publishers (and how to learn from them)

byMadeleine White
11 May, 2026
Amedia Amedia
  • Decisions

Amedia ignored older subscribers to attract younger ones

byMadeleine White
6 May, 2026
  • Decisions

The reader who left your article early might be your most engaged user

byRegula Marti
4 May, 2026
Retention. The first 100 days are your only window Retention. The first 100 days are your only window

The first 100 days: why most of what we call retention is really just micro-conversions (again): episode 5

byMaxime Moné
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Obligatory registration at Radio-Canada: a successful gamble

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Audiencers' Festival Hamburg Audiencers' Festival Hamburg

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
21 April, 2026
  • Inspirations

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

byMadeleine White
15 April, 2026
  • Inspirations

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

byMaxime Moné
13 April, 2026
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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  • Inspirations

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
  • Decisions

Navigating subscriptions in Germany: topics, formats and willingness to pay

byPia Carron
30 March, 2026
  • Inspirations

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
  • Inspirations

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
  • Inspirations

How The Kyiv Independent is growing membership through relationship-building

byMadeleine White
NTM young subscription NTM young subscription
  • Inspirations

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

Lessons from Sweden’s second-largest local news publisher on building a subscription to acquire young audiences.
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
  • Decisions

Paywalls & SEO in the AI era

byMarion Wyss
26 February, 2026
Paywalls - The 6 levels of sophistication we identified Paywalls - The 6 levels of sophistication we identified
  • Operations

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

byMaxime Moné
26 February, 2026
Forum communications Forum communications
  • Inspirations

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

byMadeleine White
24 February, 2026
100 subscription businesses 100 subscription businesses
  • Inspirations

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

byMaxime Moné
  • Operations

Building resilience with registration

byMadeleine White
le Monde in English le Monde in English
  • Inspirations

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

Top Articles

  • Operations

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

byKhalil A. Cassimally
  • Decisions

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

byMadeleine White
  • Inspirations

Benchmarking donation and support models

byMadeleine White
  • Decisions

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

byJohn Rahim
  • Operations

How to build a referral program that drives subscription growth

byLennart Schneider
  • Inspirations

Benchmark ideas to increase newsletter subscribers

byMadeleine White
  • Inspirations

Subscription offer page benchmarks

byMadeleine White
  • Inspirations

Subscriber cancellation journey benchmarks

byMadeleine White
  • Inspirations

Subscriber onboarding journey benchmarks

byMadeleine White
  • Decisions

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

bySelma Stern
  • Inspirations

Leveraging editorial products for growth at Republik

byMadeleine White
12 December, 2025
  • Inspirations

Your media industry event calendar for 2026

byMadeleine White
12 December, 2025
  • Operations

7 ways media can build a practical, empowering data culture

byKhalil A. Cassimally
12 December, 2025
  • Decisions

Subscription Lock-In: Deconstructing Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Strategy

byDavide Liverino
12 December, 2025
  • Decisions

Why it’s time to update your subscription management system to accommodate consumer trends

byMorten Jørgensen Stald
11 December, 2025
  • Inspirations

When is a subscriber more than a subscriber? How Condé Nast is evolving its audience strategy with membership

byMadeleine White
8 December, 2025
Hero Framework, The Audiencers Hero Framework, The Audiencers
  • Decisions

Where publishers should be heading in 2026: the HERO framework

How can publishers find our way back to being audience-centric in order to (amongst other things) win against AI?
byMadeleine White
3 December, 2025
  • Inspirations

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

byLindsay Ederheimer
2 December, 2025
Wirecutter for you Wirecutter for you
  • Operations

How NYT Wirecutter shipped a personalized newsletter in 4 weeks

byAnil Chitrapu
25 November, 2025
Nat Geo Kids Cancellation Nat Geo Kids Cancellation
  • Inspirations

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

byMadeleine White
24 November, 2025
  • Inspirations

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

byJason Langsner
21 November, 2025
  • Decisions

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

byMarion Wyss
21 November, 2025
  • Inspirations

5 ideas of article formats where form follows function

byMadeleine White
17 November, 2025
  • Operations

How to stop subscription revenue leaks: technical and strategic solutions

byAli Mahmood
11 November, 2025
  • Decisions

Funding public interest: 8 common misconceptions about donations, debunked

byMarine Doux
4 November, 2025
  • Decisions

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

byDavide Liverino
3 November, 2025
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