Semafor CEO Justin B Smith says start-up heading for profitable month in year one
Semafor claims to have an audience of about four or five million people per month so far.
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Research reveals most effective paywall marketing messages for news sites
The academics tested four different pitches to readers to see which, if any, convinced them to pay.
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Reach launches first metered paywall experiment on MEN app
Reach may "explore premium options" with more of its biggest newsbrands if the trial is successful.
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Acast launches new tech integrating publishers’ paywalls with podcast platforms
The technology means paywalled news outlets may more easily offer podcasts as a members-only benefit.
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UK’s paywall problem: Two-thirds say nothing will make them pay for news
Just 9% of people in the UK paid for online news in the past year.
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Trust and subscribers up, social overtaking TV: US news trends for 2023
Social media is set to finally become a bigger source of news for Americans than TV.
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Trust, paywalls and generation social: 2023 online news trends in six charts
Six charts that sum up the Reuters Institute Digital News Report's annual look at the global news industry.
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My Local: The Lincolnite’s radical proposal to bring control of local audiences back to local news
My Local hopes to fix some of the biggest commercial and editorial woes afflicting local news.
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