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- ContentNext Founder Rafat Ali: Turning a Blog into a Business
- Wouldn't it be great to do what you love and call it work? Rafat Ali turned an "online resume" of his thoughts into ContentNext, an online media network spanning four websites, three continents and 22 employees. Now he's figuring out how to find good people, manage sales, and shift work...
- Videos 2007-09-04
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- SubHub Lands Equity Funding To Boost Its Paid Content Platform
- SubHub, a platform whose system helps niche publishers sell subscription content online, has secured first-round venture funding, partly from former Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Europe MD Simon Murdoch, who joins as chairman, paidContent:UK has learned.The round, of an undisclosed amount, goes in to the Cardiff-based company, founded by ex Excite...
- External links 2009-10-14
- Entertainment Spending Fuels Another Record Year for Paid Online Content According to Online Publishers Association 2005 Report; Annual Paid Content Revenues Jump to an All-Time High of $2 Billion, with Widespread Growth Across Multiple Categories
- NEW YORK -- The digital entertainment explosion that began in 2004 continued into 2005, fueling an all-time high for paid online content, according to the Online Publishers Association's OPA full-year 2005 Online Paid Content U.S. Market Spending Report. The Report, which is conducted in partnership with comScore Networks, showed a...
- Research articles 2006-03-14
- Indy's Aussie Wing Will Trial Paid Content, Member Clubs This Year
- APN News & Media, the Australasian publisher of which Ireland’s Independent News & Media owns 32.2 percent, is joining the crowd by giving thought to online income other than web ads. Announcing earnings on Friday, APN said its NZHerald.co.nz newspaper site grew January-to-June revenue 16 percent from last year,...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Murdoch: News Corp. Gets Paid For Its Content or Dies Trying
- News Corp.'s latest plan to charge for most of its publishing and video online content intensifies the festering free-versus-pay media debate, but doesn't come close to solving the industry's immediate revenue problems. While the Wall Street Journal's well-heeled business audience may be more willing than most consumers...
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- One Size Doesn't Fit All: Consumers Want Choice On Pricing, Delivery Of Content
- In the past year, we’ve seen a palpable shift from newspaper and magazine publishers with regard to paid content—while they still don’t know how to make paid content work, they know they want to try. A recent report from the American Press Institute underscores this trend: The API reports...
- External links 2009-11-16
- Linking and Free Content? It's the Old Features Vs. Benefits
- I had an epiphany while reading Virginia Postrel's New York Times Sunday Book Review piece on Chris Anderson's Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Postrel was going through what has become a fairly common discussion of the book and the ideas of cross-subsidy (giving away in one place to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Why Print Publishers Won't Charge For Online Content
- It has become all too clear that the retro-named Journalism Online, which is Steven Brill's latest attempt to suck dollars out of the troubled newspaper industry, is nothing more than a scam, pure and simple. So, in an effort to help my colleagues in that industry avoid...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- 80% of Consumers Would Not Pay For Content
- As you've more than likely heard by now, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in an interview last week talked about the possibility of blocking search engines from indexing News Corp. publications' content. While this may or may not actually happen, it is one of the latest and biggest examples of...
- News items 2009-11-16
- Can Virtual Currencies Help Bridge The Gap Between Free And 'Paid' Content?
- Virtual goods and micro-transactions have been driving the billion-dollar online games industry across Asia for years. And deals like EA’s $400 million buyout of social gamer Playfish, and Activision’s new virtual pets addition to World of Warcraft, show that virtual currencies have now evolved into a viable business model...
- External links 2009-11-10
- Spectator Hides Magazine Content Behind Paywall
- While some continue to talk about charging for online news content, others are busy doing it. The latest member of the paid content club is weekly public affairs magazine The Spectator, which on Thursday removed all current and archive magazine content from its website and launched a campaign to...
- External links 2009-09-21
- ChangeWave.com Ranks No. 5 for 2001 Consumer Paid Content Revenue in the Business Content Category
- Business Editors & High-Tech Writers POTOMAC, Md.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 19, 2002 ChangeWave.com, an online investment advisory service, ranked as one of the top 25 Web destinations for 2001 consumer online content revenue and #5 in the business content category, according to the Online Publishers Association's OPA Paid Online Content...
- Research articles 2002-08-19
- Online Content Spending On Rise
- Spending on online content grew 23 percent in the first half of the year to $748 million, according to a study conducted by comScore Networks for the Online Publishers Association. The company said Internet personals accounted for nearly one-third of all paid-content spending. Rounding out the top three categories were...
- Research articles 2003-09-25
- Online pubs explore models for paid content; specialty zines are thriving, but general interest category struggles.
- Online magazines are trying out subscriptions as a way to generate revenue, with specialty magazines making more moves than general publications. Brand strength and the ability to offer exclusive information are two important factors. Some on-line magazines partition some content and charge for that. America On-Line and Yahoo! may begin...
- Research articles 1998-01-26
- Earnings: FT Group Paid Subs Drive Slim Revenue Growth
- FT Group’s paid content strategy is steering the business back into revenue growth, as it announces a three percent sales lift for the first nine months of the year and a 10 percent revenue rise with the favourable dollar exchange rate.Parent group Pearson (NYSE: PSO) said in an interim...
- External links 2009-10-20
- Yahoo rethinks web content charges policy
- As publishers around the world explore ways of charging for their online articles to offset plunging advertising revenues, one of the only groups with experience of charging for digital content on a large scale is reviewing its stance.Two months ago, Yahoo dropped charges on its US Fantasy Football site,...
- External links 2009-09-16
- NYT "Deadly Serious" re: Paid Content? Prove it.
- Among the literally thousands of connversations I have had with media colleagues about how to induce people to pay for online content, one in particular stands out. It was with John Markoff, then and now one of the most talented reporters at The New York Times, way back in the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- FT Bosses Launch PR Offensive For Paid-Content Model
- Not content with its position as the only UK newspaper to successfully monetise its online content to at least some of its audience, executives from Financial Times have been busy telling the world that charging for news does work and that it's a big mistake for other newspapers to...
- External links 2009-08-04
- The 'WSJ': No Longer My Paid Content Provider, Now My Sommelier
- It's been an odd week for me and my relationship with the venerable Wall Street Journal: On Tuesday, I cancelled my online sub, which, at $150, seemed not worth the money I've been spending on it. On Wednesday, UPS delivered a box of wine from...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Content Payment System PaymentOne Gets $7 Million More
- PaymentOne, one of the vets in the content and services payment business, has received $7 million in new equity and debt funding, in its second round, led by AER Investments. The San Jose-based company, which has been around in some form since 2000, is known for it alternative content...
- External links 2009-08-20
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