Conference reports

Slovakia’s news payment system going large in July

Piano Media, the joint web news payment system operating in Slovakia and Slovenia, is...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Facebook’s Big Freemium Funnel Helps Spotify Et Al Find The Pay In Free
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
Video: Slovakia’s Paid Content System Plans To Launch In Bigger Markets
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Slovenia’s Big Pay ‘Wall’ Has Made €26,000
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Telegraph Puts Mobile App In Subscription Bundle
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
Germany Wants To Charge Search Engines To Use News Excerpts
By Robert Andrews  
BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
Company strategy
BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Yahoo’s Next Strategy: There’s Gold In That There E-Commerce
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Google Aims To Convince Mobile Game Makers On In-App Payments
By Robert Andrews  
USA – Technology – Apple iPad Release
Company strategy
Facebook TV Vote Slip-Up Earns Warning For Channel 5
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
Can A Fashion Blogger Make It Pay? Frockwriter Is About To Find Out
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
FT Digital Subscriptions Surpass Print In U.S. As Sign-Ups Slow
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
News Corp’s Times Hikes Digital Fee To Milk iPad Riches
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators

News Corp Sees Digital Payments Soften But Not Reverse UK Sales Decline

More than a year and a half after News Corp.’s flagship UK “quality” papers introduce...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Slovakia’s News Pay Wall Gets A Little Higher
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Google Set To Relaunch OnePass, Halting French Papers’ Kiosk
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
ITV Picks Its ‘Oyster Card’ For Online Programme Payments
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: ‘No Decision’ On Sun Paywall In Absence Of NOTW
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
UK’s Biggest Regional Newspaper Ending Web Fees
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
The Times Plans Social Sharing Upgrade, Real-Time iPad News
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Eight Slovenian Media To Start Charging For Some Online News
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Italy’s Paid Content Market Actually Seems Relatively Healthy
By Robert Andrews  
Mail Online Readers Say They Will Pay, But They Won’t Be Forced To
Company strategy
Mail Online Readers Say They Will Pay, But They Won’t Be Forced To
By Robert Andrews  
Updated: Newsstand’s Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
Company strategy
Updated: Newsstand’s Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
French Papers Buddy With Google For Kiosk Payments, Product Development
By Robert Andrews  
FT Digital Subscriptions Have Grown Through Apple Fall-Out
Company strategy
FT Digital Subscriptions Have Grown Through Apple Fall-Out
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

The Independent Launches Overseas Press+ Meter, Pricey iPad Edition

The Independent newspaper has redesigned its website, introduced a metered charging s...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Chart: Comparing The Two Timeses’ Subscriber Growth
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
The Economist Mistakenly Gave Away Free Digital Subscriptions
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
News Corp’s Sun Settles On Ads Over Fees, Rejigs Sales Team
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Ericsson Enables In-App Android Payments Via Carrier Bills
By Robert Andrews  
Stacks of Bundled Newspapers
Funding analysis
Slovakia’s Paid Content System Funded For European Expansion
By Robert Andrews  
Europe Probes Banks For E-Payments Monopoly
Company strategy
Europe Probes Banks For E-Payments Monopoly
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
@ pcAds: Hearst Wants Tablet Magazines To Adopt Movie, TV Pricing
By Robert Andrews  
M&A Round-Up: Zaypay, Wallaby, 49Games, JigoCity Get Snapped Up
M&A analysis
M&A Round-Up: Zaypay, Wallaby, 49Games, JigoCity Get Snapped Up
By Robert Andrews  
Alipay Buys Up More Of China’s Nascent Online Payments Market
Earnings analysis
Alipay Buys Up More Of China’s Nascent Online Payments Market
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Financial Times Apps Finally Pulled From iOS
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Scotland’s Herald-Times Website Will Charge On Metre
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Onion Testing A Metered Paid Model
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

How Publishers Are Dealing With Apple’s In-App Subscription Policies

Apple’s deadline for app owners to run content subscriptions through iTunes or not at...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Axel Springer Thanks iPad For 134,140 Daily Digital Customers
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Facebook Credits Will Fuel TV Reality Show Votes
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
World Of Warcraft Flips Freemium Tactic To Seek More Subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
La Tribune Starts Charging For More Online Content
By Robert Andrews  
The Times Will Allow PayPal Payment
Company strategy
The Times Will Allow PayPal Payment
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Why Apple’s Subscription Terms Are A Lose-Lose-Lose
By Robert Andrews  
Stacks of Bundled Newspapers
Company strategy
Slovak Publishers Have Made €40k From New Paid Content System
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Apple Lets Subscription Providers Hike iOS Prices To Absorb Its 30 Percent
By Robert Andrews  
Australian Publishers Will Keep Most Web News Free
Insights
Australian Publishers Will Keep Most Web News Free
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The FT Is Sticking It To Apple With A New Web-Based iPad App
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Haymarket Will Charge For Its Marketing Industry News Sites
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Paid Content Host SubHub Pivots To Be A Drupal ‘App Store’
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

FT Still Negotiating With Apple On iPad Subscriptions

With a month to go until publishers must either fall in with Apple’s new in-app purch...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
News Corp. Appears To Favour Softer Paid Model For Britain’s Biggest Paper
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Telegraph’s Digital Head: Open Mind On Web Fees
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
The Times Gains New Subscribers With Groupon Discount
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Why Subscription May Not Be The Panacea In Entertainment
By Robert Andrews  
UK Government Will Press Ahead With Giving Away Paid Content To Libraries
Company strategy
UK Government Will Press Ahead With Giving Away Paid Content To Libraries
By Robert Andrews  
Stacks of Bundled Newspapers
Company strategy
Slovakia Is About To Introduce Wide-Ranging Paid Content
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Publishers Plan To Charge For New Content
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
UK’s Biggest Regional Paper Goes Paid Online To Boost Circulation
By Robert Andrews  
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
Market indicators
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
UK Times Plans Upgrade To Its ‘Berlin Wall’
Conference reports
UK Times Plans Upgrade To Its ‘Berlin Wall’
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Mail Online Kicking Google OnePass’ Tyres
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
UK’s Mail Online Tinkering With Mobile Pricepoints
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Threatened Much? News-Subscription Vendor Tries To Stick It To Apple

In the fall-out from Apple’s recent subscription announcement, some vendors already o...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Digital Mag Vendor Exact Extends Its Own iPad Subs Option
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
‘Freemium’ Goes Freer As Rhapsody Tries To Fend Off Peers
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
UK’s Biggest Regional Paper Flipping The ‘Paid’ Web Switch
By Robert Andrews  
Market analysis
How UK Newspaper Subscriptions Stack Up
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: Rdio CEO Says Subs Will Boom (But First, That Apple Problem)
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Spooked Publishers State Their Demands To Tablet Platforms
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Apple Subs: Publishers Seek Clarity, FT Concerned, Some Sign Up
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
‘Apple Just F****d Over Online Music Subs’
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Apple Will Motor By Taking A Cut Of Renewals
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Google Pitches A ‘Flexible’ Paid Content System, ‘One Pass’
By Robert Andrews  
Apple Subs: Some Publishers Relieved They Dodged A Bullet
Company strategy
Apple Subs: Some Publishers Relieved They Dodged A Bullet
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Apple’s Landgrab Could Chill Or Cheer Content Subs
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Apple Wants Its Share Of Content Subscriptions

Confirming many recent reports, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) finally announced it wants to take...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
France’s Newpapers Team Up On Paid-Kiosk Initiative
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Telegraph Has Not Pushed The ‘Paywall’ Button; Options Remain Open
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
UK E-Tailer Hut Lands £14 Million For Buying Spree, Then IPO
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Just Three Weeks Old, SeeSaw Picks Its Payment Platform
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Visa Is Testing Mobile Payment Alerts For Cardholder Security
By Robert Andrews  
Pirate Bay Audio Reax: Elbow’s Manager, We7 CEO, Ajax Scott On Digital Music
Company strategy
Pirate Bay Audio Reax: Elbow’s Manager, We7 CEO, Ajax Scott On Digital Music
By Robert Andrews  
French Virtual Tickets Outfit Digitick Gets $11.23 Million Investment
M&A analysis
French Virtual Tickets Outfit Digitick Gets $11.23 Million Investment
By Robert Andrews  
Deal Or No Deal Bumps Up Premium SMS Revenue, Volume
Market indicators
Deal Or No Deal Bumps Up Premium SMS Revenue, Volume
By Robert Andrews  
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