Piano Media, the joint web news payment system operating in Slovakia and Slovenia, is preparing to launch in a third, larger market this summer, after recently taking funding for globalisation. Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is rolling out a new product, “Google Consumer Surveys,” that lets publishers monetize content through “microsurveys” cr… Read more »
In the land of the freemium, how much free is enough to convince users to pay?
In the latest refinement to its market strategy, Spotify in… Read more »
The online news payment system introduced across Slovenian and Slovakian publishers in May and February wants to launch in three more countr… Read more »
Piano Media, the online news payment system which first launched in Slovakia last year, says it made €26,000 ($33961.2/£21616.4) in its f… Read more »
The Telegraph and Sky News may each operate subscription iPad outlets – but, with latest revisions to their mobile offerings, the two news p… Read more »
Germany’s government wants search engines and news aggregators to pay news publishers for using pieces of their material. Read more »
The BBC is developing a radical scheme under which UK viewers would pay to download new and old BBC TV shows from a service it hopes will co… Read more »
New Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson’s upcoming turnaround may centre on mining Yahoo’s green plains for different prospects, including… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will this week try to convince mobile game developers to adopt its improved in-app payments features, as it vies with Ap… Read more »
The UK’s media regulator will consider the reliability of social networks as premium-rate TV interaction mechanisms, after Britain’s first e… Read more »
Fashion blogging has grown from a few wannabe writers looking from outside in at the industry to an influential new media category that desi… Read more »
The Financial Times is still signing up new digital subscribers, but at the slowest rate since iPad lit up its business model in mid-2010. Read more »
With Rupert Murdoch in London to launch the Sunday Sun whilst grasping News International’s crisis for a second time, News Corp is doubling… Read more »
More than a year and a half after News Corp.’s flagship UK “quality” papers introduced new paid digital outlets, their effect is becoming cl… Read more »
The content payment system which signed up many of Slovakia’s leading publishers in 2011 is now adding two more. Read more »
Microsoft’s plan for Windows Phone 8–which appears to be moving in step with its overall Windows 8 launch strategy–has been leaked, and th… Read more »
paidContent understands Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is set to make some big first-anniversary upgrades to its OnePass paid content system in the nex… Read more »
It’s an election year, which means politicians are frantically trying to raise money for their campaigns. President Obama’s re-election camp… Read more »
Telegraph.co.uk reports the UK’s main commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster has delayed a programme under which it wants to charge online vi… Read more »
Mecom is to introduce digital pay models across its top newspaper titles, slash costs by €70m and potentially close or sell 65 free titles… Read more »
Losing your phone is never fun. But losing your wallet is much worse, and that’s one argument where those trying to roll the mobile-payments… Read more »
News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’… Read more »
The UK’s largest regional newspaper title, the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star, is ending the premium online payment tier it introduced i… Read more »
News International’s The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends. Read more »
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money fr… Read more »
(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT)
Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a pa… Read more »
Eight big Slovenian publishers are about to start charging for parts of their online content all at the same time, using a single payment ki… Read more »
Italians are twice as likely to pay for digital content as consumers in some other major nations. Read more »
A year ago, Forrester stated that 2011 would–finally–be the year that Near Field Communications (NFC) began to matter. We predicted that d… Read more »
TinyPass, a startup that aims to streamline the process of charging for content online by using existing platforms like Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read more »
Chicago’s second-largest daily newspaper, the Sun-Times, and its 39 affiliated suburban newspapers will all start charging for online conten… Read more »
For years, Google’s pitch for the Nexus class of Android phones has been that they offer the “pure Google” experience, a version of its soft… Read more »
“We’ve done qualitative research in the UK that did tend to indicate users of Mail Online would pay something for certain aspects of the con… Read more »
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products i… Read more »
Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data. Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has decided to fold Google Checkout into its newly launched Google Wallet, in what fits right in with the pare-down-and-… Read more »
The combined digital kiosk of eight French newspapers is adopting Google’s OnePass to facilitate all its customer payments beside iOS. Read more »
The Financial Times’ digital subscriber base grew by eight percent in the period during which it pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store, as our… Read more »
The Independent newspaper has redesigned its website, introduced a metered charging system for North American readers and launched a free tr… Read more »
