How publishers can make money from audiences in areas where they don’t market ads Imagine this: you draw a fence around your core ads or subscriptions market, be it a city, a region or a country, and everyone outside of it needs to pay in order to get access to…

Recently at the GEN Summit, I saw so much positive awareness about how different monetization models can complement subscriptions. Just like at INMA earlier this year, people are paying attention, listening to the arguments being made, and building their own opinions. …

At the beginning of May, The Guardian announced that it recorded its first operating profit since 1998 — £800,000 for the 2018–19 fiscal year, compared with a £57m loss over the course of the three previous years. This is, of course, all the more significant because the publication does not…

By Cosmin Ene, CEO and Founder, LaterPay The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, known more commonly as the EU Copyright Directive, has been making waves around the world in the past few weeks. …

The Internet’s Shift from Push to Pull Content Delivery Like many other kids growing up in the 1980s, one of my first jobs was as a paperboy, delivering the local news to my neighbors. It was a simple, honest job, for a simpler time. Where is the paperboy today? Nowhere…

Data and privacy concerns may usher in the next evolution of the internet, one that gives users a choice and maybe even a cut Starting in the late 1980s and ’90s with the rise of Internet Service Providers, the commercial exploitation of the Internet laid the foundation for incredible progress…

5 years ago we started off with the simple idea of a running tab for digital content and called it LaterPay. The user gets served immediately, and pays later. To unlock an article sold using LaterPay, you just confirm you will “pay later” and you are done - without advance…