Posted on 04/30/2015 5:45:48 AM PDT by Drango
Ever notice how many lock you out from reading the article for “free” and then dont realize that the advertising is on the other side of the lockout...
ie. of course your ad revenue is being lost, if they dont subscribe to your adverts, they dont see your adverts and so what is the advertiser paying for?
the larger old press does this..
wall street journal, ny times etc.
(A few others ask questions and think that the answers are valid... like the one that asked me what christmas presents i was looking for this year for the kids i dont have, i said nuclear weapons... yeah, that will help the survey)
perhaps doing what trade magazines do is a way to earn ad revenue... ie write articles that people read so that advertisers will come and pay
oh.. and another thing.. news is not propaganda... news is not lies... news is not telling people what the politicos want them to believe and not the truth. all that are fictions and so, selling fiction as news is FRAUD...
people dont like fraud... they dont like paying premium for news and getting lies propaganda and bs... they can get that for free and keep their money.
news as fiction sucks compared to real fiction
so its not even competitive.
the more the people can read alternative press, foreign press and that all the press does not hide the same crap, we end up learning that the ny times is not worth the money.
given a choice of paying for a political message in the ny times and reading the same ap press rewrite for free from one of 50,000 papers, is a good way to avoid paying for crap.
the bigger thing is that the new york times thinks what it does is so great they dont get that what they do is crappy adn that the majority are not communist party aparatchicks who like to hear their ideas resonate... those are the noisy few and the young... the young dont buy papers.. the noisy few arent enough to sell adverts and they dont buy papers. conservatives buy papers more, and so, your target audience is a bunch of neer do wells with little money and who hate you for being a big company.
hows that working for you?
if you know how magazine distributors work, you would know why they are dropping their racks... ie. you want to get the 10 top mags, but since the distributors kit them into groupings you ALSO have to take 5 that dont sell and pay for them too, an then expend labor to return them for credit so you can get nore you dont want. magazine sellers dont get to choose the magazines they get to sell other than buying these lots. so when the value gets canceled out by the labor, and the losers, the owners decide why bother, or reduce to the smallest lot.... after all, selling 100 popular magazines isnt ballanced out by returning 200 ones that sat there and you had to take because they are grouped.
Where is that very tiny violin?
The New York times needs to just die already. They are a vile institution that has done nothing but support the spread of misery and bad policy.
Do you think Pravda or Isvestia cared about making money in the former USSR?
I can read the WSJ on line since it's free to subscribers. But it's not the same as holding the newspaper.
Start a tweet campaign claiming Conservatives did this by contacting their advertisers and threatening to boycott them for posting on that Liberal rag.
BTW, have you heard the news? Today is Hitler's deathday, 70 years ago of course.
Happy deathday, Adolph. BIH and all your buddies too. I hope the rallies are still fun, though.
Pravda never worried about making payroll. Money came in from the State to keep publishing propaganda.
That will happen in this case too.
Might be part of the reason but mainly it's because Dead Tree Media can't compete with digital internet media for speed and accuracy in reporting.
If its printed wrong it takes a day at least to fix the mistake. Digital internet media can be fixed and updated in seconds. AND the story can be reported immediately without rolling the presses and then delivering the copy via newsstand and newspaper home delivery.
While the on-line revenue increase is impressive taken as a % of the prior year, in actual $ terms, it’s not enough to offset the loss from print ads.
Yep, there’s nothing like newsprint and ink spread out on the table with coffee. As much as I like my iPad, nothing beats the real deal.
This is not April 1....but that truly would be a sign of the coming apocalypse.
Interesting. It sounds like cable TV bundles except Comcast doesn’t give me credit for the Vietnamese prayer rug weaving channel I didn’t watch this month.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.