Featured Blog
June 21, 2023
4 minutes
Digital Subscriptions
Unanswered questions about Twitter’s micropayments are plentifulIn light of peak subscriptions and declining advertising yields, harnessing complimentary monetisation...
June 1, 2023
6 minutes
Digital Subscriptions
Addressing micropayments skeptics, Ben Thompson and Joshua BentonA different breed of distributed micropayments aggregator has evolved. The ones like Fewcents, Zette, Axate...
May 2, 2023
4 minutes
Digital Subscriptions
These 4 data platforms are helping media ad teams monetise audiencesThere is a lot of literature about the advantages of first party data for digital publishers, but there is little information about the types of da...
April 25, 2023
5 minutes
Partners
AnyMind Group’s FourM and Fewcents Announce Strategic Partnership to Bring Micro Access to Japanese PublishersAnyMind Group’s Japan-based publisher trading desk subsidiary, FourM, and Fewcents have joined forces in a strategic partnership to bring a new innovation of micro access
February 27, 2023
6 minutes
Digital Subscriptions
Are brand sponsorships at an inflection point?It’s difficult to say whether sponsorships are worth it because their performance is hard to track. Ultimately, the worthiness of sponsorships boils down to the goals of the business
January 10, 2023
6 minutes
Digital Subscriptions
Are Media Micropayments Back?At Fewcents, we think it is the perfect storm for micropayments to finally take off. Of course, views are biased, but certain truths don’t go away: Users are ready to pay.
December 13, 2022
6 minutes
Monetization
What Publishers Can Learn From Independent CreatorsIndividual creators and journalists are the earliest movers breaking free from walled gardens and there are clear lessons for publishers.
October 26, 2022
4 minutes
Monetization
Tenting, metering subscription strategies have different pros, consEvery tentpole strategy starts with how the publisher decides its tentpole content. At its most basic level, data-driven publishers look at their last-touch attribution model to decipher which content categories led to new subscriptions in the previous weeks and months.
October 18, 2022
7 minutes
Data Strategies
Simple Data Strategies for SubscriptionsWe live in a world where there is no shortage of data: first party data, third party data, and zero party data. However, most publishing organizations run the risk of boiling the ocean
August 16, 2022
8 minutes
Digital Subscriptions
Global digital subscription trends suggest viability of pay-per-unit optionDigital publishers are striving to find the perfect balance between subscriptions and ad-supported business models. The struggle comes because ad yields have been falling for years, and there is a finite percent of any digital publisher’s users that will end up paying for a subscription.
June 6, 2022
8 minutes
Fintech
In A Globalised World, Localized Payment Options Reign SupremeAccording to a survey from multi-national professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), an average of 66% of respondents said they consume cross-border news on a monthly basis...
May 23, 2022
5 minutes
Monetization
Diversify Strategies to Survive “Peak Subscription”Once seemingly unstoppable, subscription-based digital media services like Netflix now look vulnerable. Netflix reported seeing a drop in subscribers for the first time in 10 years...
April 1, 2022
8 minutes
Monetization
4 Biggest À-la-carte Payments Myths DebunkedThere have been many proclamations about why a-la-carte payments (aka micropayments) for digital content just don’t work, and that this strategy directly threatens the success of digital subscriptions.
March 1, 2022
9 minutes
Monetization
Segment Your Audiences to Increase Overall RevenueReader revenue is among news executives' top priorities. In fact, 79% of news executives who participated in The Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2022 by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism...
February 14, 2022
9 minutes
Creator Economy
Borrowing a Page from the Creator Economy“Newsrooms stop mocking the creator economy and start learning from it… Creators and influencers have gotten this far for a reason. It’s time newsrooms played the game, too”, says Candace Amos, Director of Audience, The Daily Beast