7 lessons for publishers from 7 different subscription businesses
Learn from other subscription businesses to increase engagement, conversion and retention
From community to reader revenue: lessons to learn from The Independent and Reach PLC
Mark Zohar shares how community builds a valuable stepping stone between un-engaged users and subscribers.
Publishers: 10 ways to combat subscription churn
Retention is at least as important (if not more) than acquisition - so how do you increase subscriber retention rate?
Takeaways from INMA’s town hall, the world’s largest annual event covering news media subscriptions
From FT Strategies’ advice for setting up an effective framework for a subscription model, to case studies about experimentations from the Irish Times and audience diversification at the Hamburger Tageblatt, you have a lot to be inspired by!
Why people don’t pay for news: findings from a study and lessons for publishers
Price, access to free content, commitment & technical issues were the 4 qualitative reasons why people don't pay for news
How the experts do brand publishing: when digital marketers launch their own media
We speak to a digital marketing expert on how they successfully launched a media to support their brand.
Managing editorial production: giving an objective to each content
What is my content actually seeking to achieve? With 50 pieces of content produced each day across 14 sections, Elodie's team at Unify's women's brands need to make each content worth publishing
The hourglass technique: how to write for your paywall
Forget the inverted pyramid - the hourglass is your new best friend to successfully writing for paywalled content
Increase subscription conversion rates by 46% through optimizing each of these smaller steps by just 10%
Making small improvements on each step of the funnel will have a cumulatively greater impact on conversion rates than solely tracking and optimizing the performance of the paywall alone. Let's dive in Poool's exclusive framework.
1 subscriber or 48,000 page views? The question that should be on every journalist’s mind and why metrics matter
Metrics matter when it comes to subscription models, and Neiman Lab outlines two that should be at the forefront of every journalist's mind.