Obligatory registration at Radio-Canada: a successful gamble
The Radio Canada team share the results of the gamble that was blocking all users with a registration wall.
Case Studies
Case studies from digital publishing brands around the world to help you better engage, convert and retain your audiences in a reader revenue model.
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Stern+: How one of Germany’s biggest magazine brands rebuilt a subscription business from scratch
Johannes Vogel, Chief Product & Revenue Officer at stern, explains how the team rebuilt the digital operation of three major German brands around reader revenue, and why the hardest problem had nothing to do with technology.
How to use a “Customer Rail” to drive retention and habit formation, just like The Times
How a simple banner within the homepage helps to drive subscriber engagement and form habits
Beyond borders and between the lines: How swissinfo.ch engages a global audience in 10 languages
The challenges of adaptation over translation, the role of community engagement across borders, & product-building for different audiences.
Owning the community and gamifying loyalty: Inside Milenio’s engagement strategies
Conversational tools, gamified loyalty... Milenio shows how to cultivate a highly engaged community
Les Coops de l’information “Pay What You Can” Campaign
4.2% increase in subscribers and higher average price for the first 3 months of subscription thanks to a "Pay what you can" campaign
Spektrum’s evolution of audience segmentation and testing
How to get started with segmentation like Spektrum, who shared these recommendations at Audiencers' Festival Hamburg
The essential subscription: how Mediahuis is bundling beyond journalism
How Mediahuis is bundling hiking apps, e-books and masterclasses alongside its journalism, from Group B2C Strategy Director
How The Kyiv Independent is growing membership through relationship-building
The Kyiv Independent treats their audience as a community rather than a series of transactions, and is reaping in the benefits
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.