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I liked how this article described about monetization approaches and compared with other options (like Blendle). Any kind of content - be it writing or TV shows
by newscracker 10y ago
I liked how this article described about monetization approaches and compared with other options (like Blendle). Any kind of content - be it writing or TV shows or movies - will remain tough to sell individually because nobody wants to spend their entire pay check on all these. Only some kind of aggregation and advertising (consumer money flowing back to producing content without the consumers realizing it or directly paying for it) have proven to work somewhat well.
I'd be interested in ad-free and ad-tracking-free options that provide more of a buffet kind of system than an à la carte option (the latter is what Blendle is trying with micropayments that don't actually look micro enough). But scaling this with millions or billions of customers to reduce base costs is not easy, especially for written content, compared to TV shows or movies (like what Netflix, Amazon and others are doing).
- woodandsteel 10y agoThe article says the problem with Blendie is you have to make a decision for every article. What if the default was you paid a micropayment on an article if you just had it open for more than, say, 30 seconds, and in the relatively rare cases where you didn't want to pay you could hit a button to stop it. I think that would eliminate maybe 90% of the decisions and make it a lot more attractive.