Subscription Media
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Subscription Media
interesting thoughts from a creator - on why to paywall: "it is damaging to speak to people who are committed to misunderstanding you, or people you already know are incapable of receiving you. It is wasteful to give good things to people who will not appreciate them."
1/ I think Substack is in the process of deciding whether they want to take Shopify’s approach or Etsy’s approach, or some combination of both...
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I now pay for 4 @SubstackInc newsletters which is ~4x my annual @nytimes subscription.
2 realizations:
1) the medium (newsletters) is personal, provides discourse & connects creator & consumer. it's an ideal model
2) cost modeling, need for bundling will be tested very soon
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A week ago, OnlyFans posted that they had paid out $700M to creators lifetime to date. Now the headline image says $725M. At a 20% take rate and with the approx timeline, thats ≈$800m-1.5B GMV run rate and $150-300M revenue run rate. This is a billion dollar media company.