The Masked Tulip Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 Have to register and subscribe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 The content must be so good, if they think people will pay for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erranta Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 Have to register and subscribe. Timing is in perfect sync with switching over to digi terrestrial TV (coz they can now compartmentalize different regions and play them off against each other with different news stories/propaganda) Coz of the nature of digi signal there is no leakage of signal reception outside the transmitted area - unlike analogue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwin Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 I wonder how The Times is doing? Oh wait, what's THIS: Um. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw/public/home/ I can see this being a huge profit maker. The Sun site to follow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Lucky for you its not the Mail, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Monk Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw/public/home/ I can see this being a huge profit maker. The Sun site to follow? Why would anybody pay for this? News is available free all over the internet, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Home_To_Roost Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 The Times has seen its online popularity fall by 90%: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/has-rupert-murdochs-paywall-gamble-paid-off-2067907.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Lucky for you its not the Mail, eh? For complete trash the NOTW is amusing, although if the Mail went I'm not sure what I'd do for pure hysteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainlessSteelCat Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Soft porn and mainstream news can be found for free all over the net. I wouldn't mind betting that a good proportion of their readership don't have credit cards either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilltop Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Spoke to my Newsagent just now. Apparently, most newspapers have reduced their margins to reailers. ASDA refused to stock some News International titles in consequence. A deal was done to reduce their advertising rates but to accept the lower margin. Delivery costs to the retailer have also been increased by the wholesalers. My Newsagent says he is ******. Actually, I wish someone would, moaning twirp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R K Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Fingers crossed the Daily Mail and Telegraph follow suit........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Why pay for the news of the world when you can get something far better and more informative like the bbc world service for free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver surfer Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 The Times, Sun, and NOTW are all Newscorp papers. There's a stormy debate within the business at the moment (I work for them) about the effectiveness of the paywall, it seems to work for the WSJ (also a Newscorp paper) because it's a specialist publication with a wealthy audience, but it's also becoming clear that the Times is now suffering in an unexpected way from the paywall. Because total readership (digital and physical) has been cut so dramatically they are getting fewer exclusive stories from publicists, so their relevance is also in decline. It's a shit time for print media. In fact it's a shit time for pretty much all media apart from TV where ad spends seem to be bouncing back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver surfer Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Why pay for the news of the world when you can get something far better and more informative like the bbc world service for free? Spot on. Apart from a more populist and salacious slant on X Factor the answer is you shouldn't. And if NOTW goes behind a paywall the Max Cliffords of the world will stop giving the NOTW the inside story, so even that reason will disappear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 When I encounter a paywall I make my excuses and leave.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 The Times, Sun, and NOTW are all Newscorp papers. There's a stormy debate within the business at the moment (I work for them) about the effectiveness of the paywall, it seems to work for the WSJ (also a Newscorp paper) because it's a specialist publication with a wealthy audience, but it's also becoming clear that the Times is now suffering in an unexpected way from the paywall. Because total readership (digital and physical) has been cut so dramatically they are getting fewer exclusive stories from publicists, so their relevance is also in decline. It's a shit time for print media. In fact it's a shit time for pretty much all media apart from TV where ad spends seem to be bouncing back. Interesting, so Murdoch clearly feels then that the NOTW is a niche paper that people will pay for. It would be interesting to see what's happened to revenues at the Times since this happened. I really can't see this lasting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Monk Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 When I encounter a paywall I make my excuses and leave.. Very good, very clever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_duke_of_hazzard Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 The Times, Sun, and NOTW are all Newscorp papers. There's a stormy debate within the business at the moment (I work for them) about the effectiveness of the paywall, it seems to work for the WSJ (also a Newscorp paper) because it's a specialist publication with a wealthy audience, but it's also becoming clear that the Times is now suffering in an unexpected way from the paywall. Because total readership (digital and physical) has been cut so dramatically they are getting fewer exclusive stories from publicists, so their relevance is also in decline. It's a shit time for print media. In fact it's a shit time for pretty much all media apart from TV where ad spends seem to be bouncing back. Interesting post, thanks. Do you work at Wapping? I worked there years ago; if memory serves it was in the marketing/strategy department (1999-ish). Before that I wrote for The Times (briefly (1995)). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyoto Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 The Times has seen its online popularity fall by 90%: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/has-rupert-murdochs-paywall-gamble-paid-off-2067907.html But profits have probably risen based on them extending to NOTW. We don't really have a right to complain about this, running a newspaper and primary sourcing of mews does cost real cash money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 I rarely see HPCers link from The Times. It usually is from The Daily Mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 I rarely see HPCers link from The Times. It usually is from The Daily Mail. That's because the Times is now behind a paywall. I quite often used to post Times links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwin Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=152932&view=findpost&p=2750210 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Well not a popular move on HPC I'm sure, but I'm part way through my Times trial of £1 for 30 days access. However I normally buy the Times 3 or 4 times a week and the Sunday Times. The Sunday Times alone now is now £2.50, so not buying that pays for the subscription, plus I don't have tons of newspapers hanging around the flat for days. So if I continue with the subscription it would save me money, and I've quite got used to reading the papers and books on my netbook now. Its alright saying there is free news around the web, however news gathering costs money, and I happen to like some of the Times columnists. I'm well aware the Times is a Murdoch organisation, but I would rather read that, than BBC News (which is mainly recycled rubbish anyway) or any of the Mail or Express titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonunit42 Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 I was invited to participate in a YouGuv survey yesterday that looked to be on this very topic; gauging interest in The Sun going online amongst a melee of more general questions about readership patterns. Questions like: "Would you subscribe/purchase The Sun if articles were less sensationalised/more factual/family orientated…" and "Would you find it embarrassing to have a paper copy of The Sun in your household" come to mind amongst others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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