By Salamander Davoudi Published: March 29 2011 The Times and The Sunday Times had a combined total of 79,000 monthly digital subscribers at the end of February, up almost 60 per cent over the past four months, according to unaudited figures released by News International. The total was up from 50,000 last November and included subscribers [...]

Staci D. Kramer Mar 27, 2011 By now, we were supposed to have clarity about how The New York Times will use a meter to create a digital subscription revenue stream. After all, the plan went into effect in Canada March 17 and is supposed to start rolling out in the United States and globally Monday [...]

By Ken Doctor Digital news business models are playing out on pool tables these days. Break the balls and you have no idea where they’re going or how they’ll impact each other. We’ve got paid content models of varying kinds. We’ve got the new combining “free world” of AOL/Huffington Post+ taking aim at the emerging paid world. [...]

by Erik Sass Huh?  The New York Times is clearly struggling with the whole social media angle of its new online pay-wall — or rather, trying to have its online cake and eat it too. On one hand, the NYT wants heavy users to pay for access to online content, shelling out $15 per month for [...]

Peter Preston The Observer, Sunday 20 March 2011 The New York Times’s model for online charging will no doubt be widely copied. But according to one analyst, print will still be providing 86% of UK newspapers’ revenues even in 2017. So, at long, long last, we have the paywall policy all Americannewspapers – and many [...]

Nick Thomas Forrester ResearchMar 22, 2011 I’m often asked to name companies with a successful paid digital content strategy. It’s harder than it should be to answer that question, especially in Europe. In news, the FT still heads a small field, along with some B2B publishers while, in music, despite some innovative companies, the digital revenues [...]

David Kaplan @davidaKaplanMar 18, 2011 11:15 AM ET Media buyers don’t expect the New York Times’ online ad revenue, which was up double digits last year, to take a hit from the company’s new digital subscription plans. Some even see a scenario where the NYT will be able to charge higher rates—if the newspaper hits the expected number of [...]

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York Published: March 17 2011 The New York Times has launched its long-awaited model for charging for news online, with a “metered” subscription approach that will charge more than some analysts had expected, but ensure that most readers never encounter the paywall. NYTimes.com will become the largest non-financial newspaper to charge at [...]

The New York Times (NYT) primarily operates in the newspaper business, with ownership of The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, and About.com. It competes for online advertising dollars with hybrid publications like News Corp’s (NWS) The Wall Street Journal as well as internet-based outlets like Yahoo (YHOO), Google (GOOG) and AOL (AOL)…more

The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity – and generosity Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian, Monday 5 July 2010 If you are reading this article on a printed copy of the Guardian, what you have in your hand will, just 15 years [...]

Kantar Media’s Futureproof study of 2,400 adults reveals consumers are more willing to pay one-off charges for digital content than micropayments Rupert Murdoch has put an end to the culture of free by closing News International’s online content behind a paywall, believed to go live within days. The media mogul’s attempt to change consumers’ “online [...]

Lots of papers on a platform would mean lots more traffic – and income. But can we break the dish-the-opposition habit? Peter Preston The Observer, Sunday 27 June 2010 Those of us following the yellow brick road through Mr Murdoch’s imminent Times paywall know exactly what’s coming next. First we signed up for a free month’s [...]

Posted by Robert Eisenhart on March 22, 2010 at 6:18 PM A new website discovered by The Guardian‘s Digital Content Blog, BreakthePaywall!, has arisen to counter the paywalls that news organisations are investigating to increase their revenue from online news…more

Many websites already offer charging options – but few, as Rupert Murdoch seems to suggest, simply lock browsers out Charles Arthur, guardian.co.uk - Wednesday 2 December 2009 23.59 GMT From the hands thrown to cheeks at Rupert Murdoch‘s announcement that he’s looking to put paywalls up around his newspaper properties online, you might think that they’re the unicorns [...]