August 25, 2011

DoubleRecall Offers Twist on Paywalls

Though here at Subscription Site Central, we mostly concentrate on using paywalls to convert free users to paid content subscribers, there are other options for paywalls — advertising and brand recognition. Gigaom* this week reported on new service DoubleRecall which inserts paywalls in apps and websites and allows access to protected content to users who reads messages from sponsors and type in a few highlighted words to gain access.This isn’t a totally new idea as there…

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Surprise: Three Local News Sites Increase Pageviews With Paywalls

“I can’t say anything bad about the paywall. I think it’s been the best thing, or one of the best things, we’ve ever done,” says John Winn Miller, publisher at The Concord Monitor. He’s one of three local news publishers/editors that Ellie Behling of emediavitals profiled in this story about local news sites where pageviews actually increased after paywalls were erected. Interestingly, Behling notes that three success stories she profiles all use metered paywalls (similar…

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