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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by naijaboiler on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:03PM (#34747859)
wrong. NYtimes revenue is growing after inclusion of a paywall. After initial years of decline at the start of the digital age, NYTimes finally have their revenue strategy right. It's actually the ad share of their revenue that is decreasing, while subscription is growing faster than ad share is decreasing. Print subscription is now stabilizing. So you are wrong, what the market has shown is that priced appropriately, people will pay for high quality content. Personally I am proof. I pay for both Nytimes, WaPo, and the athletic, and together they cost less than $20/mo
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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by zepolen on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:26PM (#34748048)
Revenue != Success

Priced appropriately is a key word, you're happy to pay $20/mo for 3 services but will you feel the same when it's $200/mo for 10 services?

Netflix was priced appropriately until it started getting some competition, we all see what happened there.

The irony of the entire situation is that real competition could have been medium, if they didn't fuck it up.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by yibg on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:38PM (#34749642)
Netflix has more subscribers and revenue now then it ever did when there was less competition, so unclear what “happened”
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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by zepolen on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:58PM (#34758255)
Short term, yes, but it's had a massive head start, these things take time.

Subscribers recently increased because account sharing was stopped but recently Disney has already passed Netflix in subscribers across all its platforms: https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/09/27/disney-surpasses...

Netflix revenue has started to decline and as they start increasing their pricing and removing shows to save a buck, more and more users will leave, it's already happening, just not reflected on the charts yet due to the aforementioned stopping shared accounts.

The Disney+ vs Netflix subscriber growth trajectory says it all: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/netflix-statistics/

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