As before, legal publishers will increase prices yet again to compensate for
lost subscription revenue.
Not exact matches
Obviously, as print continues to drop, digital will become an even larger part of the Times «business than it already is (it accounts for about 42 % of advertising
revenue and about 25 % of
subscription revenue), and the amount of money being
lost on print every quarter will therefore continue to shrink.
Subscription, maintenance and support
revenue for the first quarter 2018 of $ 4.0 million, compared to $ 4.8 million for the first quarter 2017, was negatively impacted in the quarter by approximately $ 184,000 from the adoption of the new
revenue recognition standard (ASC Topic 606) as well as the loss of a large customer representing approximately $ 800,000 in
revenue in the first quarter which was previously announced as
lost in Q4 2017.
The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring
revenue bases — like a renewable
subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to
lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.
Even though it could point to a 15 percent quarter - over-quarter increase in digital
subscriptions (to 116,000 in total), it
lost revenues in digital content syndication.
«This means that the station is well placed to advertise their own online dating site in unsold ad slots no cost to them, making up for any
lost revenue and more through online dating
subscriptions.
The newspaper industry has
lost billions of dollars in the last 10 years in advertising
revenue due to Google and has seen a decline in
subscriptions.
Q. Are you saying that you could
lose money on the
subscriptions but make it up with other
revenue?
This seems to be the reason why Hearst Magazines forces readers to buy digital
subscriptions even if they are print subscriber — they want that reader to migrate to digital, and don't want to
lose the
revenue when they do so.
Though 73 % of papers have digital paywalls in an effort to capture
revenue lost by declining
subscriptions and ad sales, it's becoming clear that paywalls will not be enough.
If our processing vendor has problems with our billing software, or the billing software malfunctions, we could
lose customers who subscribe to our legal plans, registered agent services and other
subscription services, which could decrease our
revenues.