9 Best Articles in 2021
Nieman Lab
One subscriber or 48,000 pageviews: Why every journalist should know the “unit economics” of their content »…
Nieman Lab
10 min read · 139 saves · 2019-10-07 · Matt Skibinski
startupresources.io
The $0 Subscription Startup Stack
startupresources.io
~18 min read · 108 saves · From 2017 · Want to run your startup without lots of SaaS subscription fees? Read this.
Frederic Filloux
How Facebook and Google could disrupt the subscription model for news
Frederic Filloux
6 min read · 61 saves · From 2017
The Verge
Twitter might build a paid subscription service for power users
The Verge
3 min read · 79 saves · From 2017 · Twitter is considering offering a paid subscription to power users, including brands and news organizations, The Verge has confirmed. Twitter users today began tweeting screenshots of the survey...
media.consensys.net
Subscription Services on the Blockchain: ERC-948
media.consensys.net
8 min read · 46 saves · From 2018 · Learn more about the groundbreaking token protocol proposal designed to connect subscription businesses with consumers
CNN
Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply
CNN
2 min read · 91 saves · 2020-07-23 · Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as Twitter suffers a sharp…
medium.com
Why we’re switching Ulysses to Subscription
medium.com
~15 min read · 43 saves · From 2017 · Today, we are switching Ulysses to a subscription model. The short story is this (tl;dr): Our users expect a continuously evolving high…
TechCrunch
Subscription hell
TechCrunch
8 min read · 85 saves · From 2018 · Another week, another paywall. This time, it’s Bloomberg, which announced that it would be adding a comprehensive paywall to its news service and television channel (except TicToc, its media partnership with Twitter). A paywall was hardly a surprise, but what was surprising was the price: the stand…
Trending
Craig Mod
Running a Successful Membership / Subscription Program
Craig Mod
20+ min read · 68 saves · Jan 28th · How to run a successful paid membership program in 2020
MacStories
Tweetbot 6 Moves to Subscription Pricing
MacStories
2 min read · 10 saves · Jan 26th · Tapbots, the maker of Tweetbot, has released version 6 of the app, introducing a new subscription pricing model along with a handful of timeline and design updates. The subscription costs $0.99 per…
paykickstart.com
How to Engage Your Subscription-Based Customers Better
paykickstart.com
5 min read · 10 saves · Jan 5th · Ann Smarty · Managing a successful subscription-based or SaaS business means having a very engaged userbase. Engaged users spend more money, never miss ...
The Wall Street Journal
WSJ News Exclusive | Axios Wants to Help Companies Write Like Its Reporters—for $10,000 a Year, or…
The Wall Street Journal
1 min read · 51 saves · Jan 14th · A new communications platform dubbed AxiosHQ is part of Axios Chief Executive Jim VandeHei’s desire to build a subscription business.
More like this
Benedict Evans
Apple Plus - brand versus subscription
Benedict Evans
4 min read · 43 saves · 2019-04-05 · We expected a TV event and got a subscription event - news & magazines, games, a credit card and Oprah. There are plenty of questions one could ask (especially on TV, where we still don’t know the…
fontstore.com
Fontstore: A font subscription service for designers
fontstore.com
1 min read · 26 saves · From 2017 · A font subscription service for designers
The Wall Street Journal
Publishers Chafe at Apple’s Terms for Subscription News Service
The Wall Street Journal
1 min read · 52 saves · From 2019 · Apple’s plan to create a subscription service for news is running into resistance from major publishers who are balking at proposed financial terms.
Bloomberg
Apple Is Planning to Launch a News Subscription Service
Bloomberg
4 min read · 47 saves · From 2018 · Apple Inc. plans to integrate recently acquired magazine app Texture into Apple News and debut its own premium subscription offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The move is part of…
pakman.com
Churn is the single metric that determines the success of your subscription service.
pakman.com
8 min read · 35 saves · From 2017 · A model to help you evaluate consumer subscription businesses (download here)
startupresources.io
The $0 Subscription Startup Stack
startupresources.io
~19 min read · 33 saves · From 2017 · Want to run your startup without lots of SaaS subscription fees? Read this.
VentureBeat
Liftoff: Mobile users are embracing subscription app economy
VentureBeat
4 min read · 10 saves · From 2018 · Dean Takahashi · Liftoff and Leanplum said data shows that mobile users are embracing the subscription model,