The Ad Trap: Why and How B2B Media Should Look to Subscription Revenue

Business-to-business media has traditionally shunned the use of subscription revenue in favor of paid print advertising. A decade of dwindling ad revenue has started to move publishers toward alternate revenue streams, and one of those is subscriptions.

In the quest to convince advertisers that they offer a large and desirable professional audience, some trade magazine publishers blast their publications to a circulation list that may include some who do not even want the magazine. Others use a "controlled circ" model that requires subscribers to directly request the publication, say annually. Even so, rarely does the audience pay for the privilege. These pre-Internet business models worked fine for a good hundred years or so, but they suffer t...

 


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