Off recent radar has been bombarded with ads(you can’t blame them nah…, man must chop). But i’ve come to notice you dont get to see these ads on some popular site and forums i.e Quora. Codecademy is another one although, they do have the subscrition model. And talking about subscription, are the information on our local blogs worthy enough for you to pay a subscription fee every month?.
Just asking.
Quora does have ads. Nice ones, though.
Do you pay subscription fee to watch TV?
Most of the content on Radar are from the users. Having a subscription based model would be utterly useless as you’re basically just asking your users to pay for uploading content, reading the content they put there and commenting on the content. You be Jesus?
Its not about whether users would pay or not. But on sites like Radar, subscription-“anything” is a shitty idea.
shouldnt have included the forums part my focus is more on blogs.
To put content behind a paywall, it needs to be super useful, unique and from a very reputable publisher. Many publications have struggled with this online. Only unique and reputable publishers like the FT and WSJ have implemented them successfully.
Even books these days are not the revenue drivers they used to be, instead it’s an avenue for authors to get on the speaking circuit where they can charge tremendous fees.
Short answer hence to the question is no. I and most people wouldn’t pay for access to blogs or forums, unless it provides unique content that is central to how we earn money.
same here, NO!
It’s very hard to do except your article will be premium so much that they can’t find it somewhere else or that it takes the readers to their desired goal after interacting with your content. I know a time a popular fashion website wanted to do something similar, it didn’t work, they had to revert.
Sorry bro, for me its a no…
Possible if you av premium content that are beneficial to users…benefits must outweigh the price…I remember there’s a subscription based social media platform…and of course still has paying members bcos of its “exclusivity”
In the earlier days yes, but not anymore when free stuff is just a click away.
Except you have totally original and valuable analytic content for business intelligence like the FT, Economist, WSJ etc gossip won’t fly.
Same here NO, except you have classified contents
Depends on what you are offering, but it will take a lot for me to pay a monthly fee for a blog/forum no matter how inexpensive it is.
A possibly good example of a subscription based blog in Nigeria is Estate Intel. They are a real estate blog/data company that recently began a quarterly based subscription model. They first started out as a blog, got the audience (I guess), and are now charging for real estate data/reports. I guess some people may find the information on the blog useful enough to pay for it.