The anatomy of a news article built to boost subscriptions
13 elements of a news article built to convert during big news moments, from a moment-specific pitch to a page that changes for each reader
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Guides to help you overcome a challenge, achieve a goal or simply impress your boss by better engaging, converting and retaining your audience.
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Benchmarking: how to turn an election into subscribers
Maximise the value of an election to attract, engage, recruit and convert audiences with these benchmarks from previous elections.
How to run a user needs audit with AI, in seven steps
How to audit your content against user needs with AI: a seven-step process, a rubric to copy and nine-in-ten agreement with human tags
Why your newsroom shouldn’t write its own user needs model, and what to do instead
Dmitry Shishkin on user needs: why “update me” stories underperform, the three tags to commission on and who should own your model
Subscriptions grow up: 7 reader revenue lessons from Innovation in Media report 2026/27
Subscription growth without traffic, bundles that cut churn, games for habit and membership for belonging - lessons from INNOVATION report
Why your most valuable app readers are probably invisible
News app engagement: why offline readers, household subscriptions and anonymous users are the retention levers publishers keep missing.
Metrics aren’t neutral: they reflect the interests of whoever built them
Why audience metrics reward whoever is already biggest — and what adopting platform analytics really commits you to.
Steal this strategy: paywall and subscription trends to test to increase conversion rates
The latest strategies being tested by publishers around the world to increase conversion rates to subscriptions
How newsrooms can learn from failure without failing in public
Journalism has to be right the first time. Product work doesn't, as long as you know where to draw the line.
Do you have enough recurring value to launch subscriptions? The questions to ask yourself
Subscription fatigue is the easy explanation when a paid product struggles. The more useful question is whether there was enough recurring value to begin with.