March 25, 2016

Alaska Dispatch News Experiments with Civil Comments, a New Commenting Platform

Leave a Comment / Business Strategy, Industry Announcements, News / Dana E. Neuts

Earlier this week Alaska Dispatch News announced it is ditching Facebook-based comments in favor of a new comment moderation platform, Civil Comments. It is now the third media outlet to do so, joining alternative newsweekly Willamette Week and Register Guard, both Oregon newspapers. Alaska Dispatch News made the move after receiving nearly 900 reader comments with the common theme that comments are a problem. With hundreds of comments being posted to the ADN.com site per day,…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for March 25

Leave a Comment / Business Strategy, Entertainment and Streaming, Magazines, News, Revenue and Sales, SaaS and Cloud Services, Subscriber Acquisition, Subscription Boxes / Dana E. Neuts

In this week’s subscription news, 1 to 1 Media talks about cracking the ad-free model, French news sites block the ad blockers, Aviation Week and Boeing partner to digitize 100 years of magazine archives, and SoundCloud is one step closer to a subscription service. Other subscription news headlines feature Google, Facebook and IAB.

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