Reader Revenue
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Grow reader revenue
Earn revenue from your audience with subscriptions, memberships, and contributions.
Sign up for Workshops
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Developing and communicating your value proposition
Learn how to strengthen your value proposition with journalism, differentiated membership benefits, and compelling messaging.
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Establishing your reader revenue foundations
Learn how to size your potential reader revenue opportunity and better understand your readers’ needs leveraging surveys, interviews, and audience analytics.
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Reader Revenue Overview
A summary of the best practices for reader revenue success and an overview of other workshops and supporting materials in the curriculum.
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Expert Panel: Best practices for growing, engaging and retaining your audience in the US & Canada (English)
Learn best practices from industry experts and publishers on growing a loyal audience.
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Expert Panel: Best practices for growing, engaging and retaining your audience in Asia Pacific (English)
Learn best practices from industry experts and publishers on building and growing reader revenue models.
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Expert Panel: Best practices for growing, engaging and retaining your audience in Spanish Latin America (Spanish, with English subtitles)
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Expert Panel: Best practices for growing, engaging and retaining your audience in Brazil (Portuguese, with English subtitles)
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Expert Panel: Contributions
Learn best practices from industry experts and publishers on building and growing reader revenue models.
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Optimizing the user funnel
Learn about the most important user funnel metrics for your reader revenue model, compare them with industry benchmarks, and identify tactics you can use to improve your performance.
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Planning for long-term success
Learn how to focus your organization on a high-level reader revenue strategy, and marry that with an operational plan to help you achieve your goal.
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Expert Panel: Subscriptions
Learn best practices from industry experts and publishers on growing a loyal audience.
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Reader Revenue Models
Suggestions on how you might grow your memberships and subscriptions, assess your consumer revenue options and communicate your purpose to your readers. The session will cover: Different reader revenue options and introduce the GNI Reader Revenue playbook and tools. Some of the options available when implementing a subscription paywall. How to explore what makes your digital offering unique and suggestions of how to communicate your purpose to your readers.
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Optimise Your User Funnel
Identify ways you can reach more readers and keep their attention, analyse your performance and optimise your strategy for long-term reader revenue success. The session will cover: Some of the options available to grow your readership and deepen reader engagement. Ways of tracking your organisation’s performance and identifying areas of improvement across the funnel. How to plan a long-term reader revenue goal, assign metrics to measure performance and implement tactics for success..
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Alternative Income Streams
Explore different income streams online, and how you might diversify your revenue options. The session will cover: How to consider your current methods of income and take inspiration from other publishers around the world. Considering different platforms and how they could impact your return on investment. Ways you could plan for future revenue possibilities.
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Assessing The Opportunity
Evaluate the size of your reader revenue opportunity and identify tactics and tools you may want to consider in order to meet your readers’ needs and keep them engaged. The session will cover: Ways in which you can estimate the size of your reader revenue opportunity. How you could use surveys and interviews to better understand reader needs. Some of the analytics you may want to consider in order to understand current readers’ behaviors.
Playbook
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Reader Revenue Playbook
Strengthen your reader revenue model with best practices and lessons from global publishers and industry experts.
Interactive Exercises
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User Funnel Diagnostic
Compare your performance across the user funnel against industry benchmarks. Identify tactics you can use to improve your performance.
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Opportunity Sizing
Size your reader revenue opportunity. Understand how changes in key variables affect your revenue potential.
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Goal Setting
Develop a set of tactics and activities to achieve your long-term reader revenue goals.
Labs
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Canada (Contributions) - Reader RevenuePartners:
News Revenue Hub, Membership Puzzle Project
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Latin America - Reader RevenuePartners:
Mather Economics, WAN-IFRA
Participants:Clarín, El Espectador, Estadão, Estado de Minas, Folha, La Nación, Nexo Jornal, Reforma
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North America - Reader RevenuePartners:
FTI Consulting, Local Media Association
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Latin America (Contributions) - Reader RevenuePartners:
Blacksip Digital, Mirum, Technology For Solutions, Iconosur, News Revenue Hub, Membership Puzzle Project, WAN-IFRA
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Europe (Subscriptions) - Reader RevenuePartners:
FT Strategies, INMA
Participants:Dennik N, El Mundo, Gazeta Wyborcza, Kurier, La Croix, MittMedia, RP Online, The Independent
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Asia-Pacific (Subscriptions) - Reader RevenuePartners:
FTI Consulting, WAN-IFRA
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Americas (Subscriptions) - Reader RevenuePartners:
Local Media Association, WAN-IFRA
Participants:Boone Newspapers, Corporación La Prensa (Panama), Editora Globo (Brazil), FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership, Jornal Correio (Brazil), Metro Market Media, O Tempo (Brazil), Rede Gazeta (Brazil), Startups.com.br (Brazil), SupChina, The Juggernaut, The Times-Picayune and Advocate, and Woodward Communications