Music fans, news listeners, and “cultural FOMO”: How KCRW built memberships around three audiences
How KCRW grew to 55,000 paying members: three audience segments, human curation, free registration and events that bring listeners together
Conversion
Conversion strategies to monetize your audience, by The Audiencers, the leading B2B community for publishing professionals.
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How we segmented our paywall audience to optimize ARPU
Why Handelsblatt's ARPU growth started with showing readers less, not charging them more, and why the winning paywall variant wasn't the one with the best conversion rate.
Reader revenue at Immediate Media: 1.2 million paid subscribers, and a custom model for almost every brand
Growing digital separately, utility over content & a different model for each brand. Immediate share how they're working to reach 3M subscribers
Why 1.4 million people pay The Guardian for something they could read for free
Emilie Harkin, SVP of Growth at The Guardian, broke down what actually motivates readers to give money to a publication with no paywall.
The subscription pricing page we’ve all built at least once: episode 4
Why you should acquire with one simple offer and retain with many, especially when it comes to the subscription pricing page
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
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
Behind The Guardian’s record-breaking US End of Year campaign
We discover the strategy behind The Guardian's 2025 marketing campaign that led to $3.1 million in donations
Building resilience with registration
By converting anonymous visitors into known users, you’re building the resilience needed for a privacy-first, platform-fragmented market.