Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button: Publishers can charge for access to online communities, but it’s hard There are dozens of ways for publishers to generate revenue these days, but if a media outlet rolls out any kind of paid subscription product, chances are the company has placed some form of content behind a paywall. After all, content is the core offering of most publishers, so it makes sense to position it as the main benefit for paying subscribers. Name any successful subscription publisher -- The New York Times, Netflix, Spotify -- and it probably charges users for access to content.
"Members of the community generate the vast majority of the forum discussion, and the publisher only needs to moderate and jump in from time to time to contribute."
I wish building and maintaining a community was this easy, unfortunately not so!
"Members of the community generate the vast majority of the forum discussion, and the publisher only needs to moderate and jump in from time to time to contribute."
I wish building and maintaining a community was this easy, unfortunately not so!
I put a thread together on other similar ideas related to the 'come for the content, stay for the community' thing - https://twitter.com/rosiesherry/status/1319675181284077569