Mather Report with David Clinch

Mather Report with David Clinch

Week 2 - February 2022?|?Mather: Insights

The Mather Report with David Clinch?features a weekly blog post about all things relating to subscriptions and consumer revenue. David is Mather’s newly appointed Head of Global Partnerships and Media Revenue Intelligence expert.

If you have any questions or comments about these updates,?please get in touch.??

Media posts of note this past week:

US newspaper circulations: America’s top 25 titles have lost 30% of print sales in two years

"The country’s top 25 newspapers now have a combined average weekday printrun of 3.1m, down from 4.4m in late 2019, according to the Alliance for Audited Media’s latest data, which covers April to September 2021."

Financial Times nears 1 million digital-only subscribers

"The Financial Times will soon reach 1 million digital-only subscribers...In total, the company has 1.17 million paid subscribers and will reach 1 million digital-only subscribers later this month, according to internal estimates. It's unclear how many of those subscribers are on promotional plans."

Barry Diller’s Media Group Ends Print Versions of InStyle, Entertainment Weekly, Others

"the company plans on investing in its 19 remaining print magazines—which include People, Better Homes & Gardens and Southern Living—by enhancing paper quality and trimming sizes. Dotdash Meredith also plans to invest $80 million in 2022 in content across all brands."

Wordle and the crazy world of subscription marketing

"Given that Wordle has an estimated?3 million daily users, that means?NYT?needs to convert just 0.5% in order to make the move pay off!"

Forbes Announces $200 Million Strategic Investment From Binance

"The transactions with Magnum Opus and Binance are expected to help Forbes maximize its brand and enterprise values and use its proprietary technology stack and analytics to convert readers into long-term, engaged customers of the platform, including through memberships and recurring subscriptions to premium content and highly targeted product offerings."

Subscription tech company Piano acquires SocialFlow

"The integration will help Piano's customers reach readers on social media who are willing to pay for subscriptions. Before the deal, Piano primarily helped publishers market to possible subscribers on their websites or apps."

Noom Settles Subscription Auto-Renewal Lawsuit for $62M

"Noom will pay $56 million in cash and offer $6 million in subscription credits to those who signed up for “risk-free” Noom app trials. Subscribers were allegedly forced into expensive automatic subscription renewals, and Noom made it difficult for subscribers to cancel..."

TelevisaUnivision Unveils Plans for Streaming Service in Spanish

"ViX+, the premium offering, will debut later in the year. It will have more than 10,000 hours of internationally produced content and more than 60 original productions within the first year. The company has yet to determine the cost of subscriptions."

Paramount Expects to Spend $6 Billion-Plus on Streaming Content in 2024

"Paramount...announced?Paramount Plus?and?Showtime?gained 9.4 million streaming subscribers, topping a combined 56 million subscribers by the end of last year"

NYT CEO Meredith Levien speaking at Pivot Conference in Miami

“I think subscriptions as a business model for journalism just makes more sense than advertising. It's a more direct reflection of the value that you're giving to people.”

Canada publishers want Google and Meta forced to pay for news ‘by the end of June’

"Canadian news publishers are anticipating the law could lead to Google and Meta paying them between CA$100-150m a year."

CNN’s Streaming Plans

“CNN source familiar with the plans tells The Hollywood Reporter that the company is conducting market research around forming a bundle with HBO Max”









David Clinch

#MediaRevenue Consultant at MGP. VP Partnerships - Mather Economics. #MediaRevenue

3 年

Regarding the news about print subscriptions...here is my comment: There is still a HUGE amount of revenue tied up in that remaining print subscription base and managing that revenue, while also managing digital growth, requires smart calibration and pricing. Intelligent Paywall?

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