Digiday+ Research Professional Subscription Index 2024: Publishers tweak subscription, pricing strategies while shifting subscriber benefits

We’ve already established that 2024 has been a volatile year for publishers of all types, thanks to everything from layoffs to Google’s change of heart in its plans for the future of third-party cookies.

Against this backdrop, Digiday’s second annual Subscription Index examines and measures publishers’ subscription strategies across several different digital touch points to identify some common approaches and key tactics. This installment of the research series looks at an editorially-selected group of the top professional-focused publications in the U.S.

For a more detailed breakdown of the volatility publishers have faced this year, see the first installment we published that assessed news publishers’ subscription strategies. Our next installment of the Digiday Subscription Index will look at subscription strategies across lifestyle publishers’ subscription strategies.

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Media Briefing: Tech credits count for (some) compensation in publishers’ AI deals

This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers are receiving credits to use AI companies’ large language models as part of content licensing deals.

Cash or credits?

The Washington Post + Punchbowl News, The New York Times vs. Perplexity and more

Cash or credits?

Money is the main way publishers are looking to cash in on AI companies’ need for their content. But it’s not the only one.

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