Thursday, July 3, 2008

An industry magazine reports that the Wall Street Journal online site's viewership has boomed since the takeover by the forces of evil despite much of its content being "pay-only." Mediaweek says wsj.com traffic is up 94 percent since last summer. A big part of the reason is attributed to the site having more free content; currently it's a mix of pay and free material. If I were a media executive, I'd be watching. For example, the Journal Sentinel's packer-plus area is pay-only. A model mixing pay and free content, it seems to me, could be a way to drive up online revenues.

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