Digital News Bundles: Analyzing Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Cross-Publisher Journalistic Bundles

Autor: Lukas Erbrich
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journalism and Media, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 1279-1296 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2673-5172
DOI: 10.3390/journalmedia5030081
Popis: The landscape of journalism is rapidly evolving, with bundled subscription offerings from the New York Times, Apple and Schibsted becoming increasingly important. These offerings allow consumers to access a wide variety of content in multiple formats, representing a significant shift in how news and information are consumed. However, the impact of these offerings on publishers’ revenues remains underexplored in journalism and media research. The results suggest that bundled offers generate higher revenues for publishers than individual offers. This supports the introduction of internal “all-access” bundles within the European journalism sector, as well as external collaborations between unaffiliated publishers. However, the relatively small differences in revenues suggest that there is limited strong evidence to support the adoption of a centralized, cross-publisher “Spotify for News” model.
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