What is going to be the winning monetization model of the online news industry?

The news publishers are the ones who gain the biggest profits on the introduction of… a paywall model.

  • This is an effective strategy to increase revenue based on restricting access to content via a paid subscription.
  • It is used by the most influential world newspapers, niche magazines, and WordPress publishers.

Newspapers subscriptions statistics show that paywall monetization strategy brings profit and increases the number of subscribers which become loyal readers.

Let’s look at this example.

  • In 2011, the “New York Times” introduced a metered paywall model. At the beginning, the readers were granted up to 20 free articles, then that number was reduced to 10 in 2012.
  • Making changes followed by the analysis of the paywall effects allowed them to generate more than one million subscribers in 2015 which made up more than 15% of the title overall revenues.

If you want to know more about paywall, read this article: Paywall, does it pay to use it? All you need to know about a paywall.

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Georgina Hunter-Jones, Helicopter Life Magazine
"Presspad works well for Helicopter Life magazine. We are a small circulation magazine about helicopters and have recently stopped having print issues, changing instead to digital. The App works well for us and subscribers are able to download it, and are reminded by a push notification every time a new one comes out."

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Paul Velasco - Publisher & Editor
"PressPad offers me a hassle-free, plug and play, cost-effective solution for delivering my Formula 1 news site on to mobile platforms. With over 1 dozen news posts every day the App handles it all without a fuss. And the support is fast and effective. 10/10 in my book."

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Corina Chirileasa, Romania Insider
"PressPad was an unexpectedly great solution for our Romania Insider news app. We've set it up quickly and then PressPad integrated rather fast all the features we needed, constantly offering us support in the meantime. Their response is fast and they have solutions for our requests, even without involving our agency. The app works well and the team at PressPad updates it when needed. We're very happy with their service."

— Corina Chirileasa Romania Insider about PressPad News for RSS feed


About PressPad

PressPad was established in 2011, just a few months after the inauguration of the revolutionary iPad by Steve Jobs during his unforgettable presentation on Apple Special Event in San Francisco.

iPad changed the way people perceived magazines publishing, and PressPad joined that revolution right away.

Our digital publishing platform for publishers is the answer for the rapidly growing mobile consumers segment and demand for easy-to-use digital publishing products.

We built PressPad as a software as a service solution with simplicity in mind delivering native mobile magazine apps, news apps, and digital newsstands for publishers base on a PDF format. Our customers are located mainly in the US, UK, Australia, and Japan. However, our apps support publishers scattered all around the world.

PressPad is a software as a service platform that is built around the publishers' needs. We speak human voice and understand that magazine apps or digital kiosks are must-have assets to win readers. Yet many magazine publishers need education in digital marketing and digital publishing. PressPad offers that level of commitment to help magazine publishers build necessary skills. So, we create magazine publishing apps and educate about digital magazine publishing.

PressPad is not another digital publishing platform because we closely work with publishers. Our one-on-one approach is well known and appreciated by many publishers. Especially those magazine publishers that are looking for a friendly digital publishing platform.

PressPad’s specialists become publishers’ advisors, trying to understand the publisher's unique needs. Thanks to that approach we can assess the marketing and sales processes of the publishers. That assessment makes us in power to adjust and optimize publishers' promotional processes. As an outcome, our publishers can earn more using the apps and marketing knowledge we share.

Every digital magazine is different and has a unique business environment. Publishers can read about successful magazine sales tips to build their skills too. Also, they can learn how to create an iPad magazine, and how to convert a magazine into a digital app available on the most popular mobile platforms.

Even skeptics who doubt bringing print magazines online admit that converting a print magazine to a mobile app is easy to do with PressPad.

We believe in PressPad, that even most niche publications can find their space and succeed online as digital magazines or mobile apps. Here is a case study to prove our stance.

Digital magazine publishing can be easy with PressPad. Try PressPad today. It costs you only time and a little bit of courage (smile).

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