Subscription Media
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Subscription Media
Ugh, I can’t believe I had to live/work through the deaths of both print media AND online media and now possibly television and film too?? Can I just have a job?! Like, no offense to my beloved Butt News subscribers, but there’s no way that selling direct-to-consumer humorous movie reviews at a freelance tax rate and paying $600/month for my own... See more
Lindy West • Butt News #24: Never Been Kissed
sigh - this is true. There’s no way that any of us can afford to pay $5/month to access the work of all the writers, chefs, cartoonists, podcasters, etc... whose output we occasionally enjoy.
And you have to wrestle with the paywall and its very unfortunate trade-off. You want to share your work with the widest audience possible. But to any publication that’s too small for ads, free readers are simply not that valuable. For these reasons, I’ve always struggled with the paywall. Asking people to pay for writing is not a great way to make... See more
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek explains how the company plans to help artists (and itself) make money
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There should be a way to pay for individual articles without a monthly subscription.
descriptiontwitter.comwhile this podcast will 100% reduce my daily update open rates, it will also 100% increase my likelihood of retention to @stratechery.
subscription media models are masterful for aligning business and user incentives in a way that ad models are not.
@noahchestnut WDYT?
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