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Somebody in the media industry tell me I'm wrong, but I don't think news companies (e.g. your customers) actually want this. If I subscribe to the NYT for $5/m
by drewcrawford 12y ago
Somebody in the media industry tell me I'm wrong, but I don't think news companies (e.g. your customers) actually want this.
If I subscribe to the NYT for $5/month, then in order to "get my money's worth", I use NYT as my primary source for news. I visit newyorktimes.com every day and see what today's stories are.
After 30 days of that, I am an NYT user "by habit" and thus a loyal customer. I'm not clicking through news aggregators as much anymore, because NYT.com is obviously better I tell myself, or else why am I paying $5/month for it? NYT wants customer loyalty to their brand so they get that consistent income and sign long deals with their advertisers.
This sounds a lot like cable "unbundling", which consumers want (or say they want) but Comcast will offer it over its dead body.
Now maybe you can sell this to independent blogs. But TipJoy (YC 08) tried that and went bust, so it's an uphill road.
- aronvox 12y agoWe were thinking about independent blogs, our thinking is very much on the unbundling lines. We are trying to build this around summarization tech (text, audio, images, video, etc), you see some quality of the good before you buy it. Sort of window shopping for content, like it then you read more. Thanks for you thoughts! Appreciate it :).
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