Media Briefing: Publishers pump up per-subscriber revenue amid ad revenue declines
This week’s Media Briefing looks at the top trends to come out of publishers’ Q2 earnings.
- Digital subscriptions carry Q2
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Digital subscriptions carry Q2
Another round of earnings has come and gone and based on Q2 trends, publishers’ digital subscription businesses were the breadwinners compared to their digital advertising and commerce businesses. So much so that the achievement of having increased the average revenue per user (ARPU) for paid subscribers in Q2 was a top talking point for the chief executives from The New York Times Company, Gannett and News Corp during their earnings calls over the past couple of weeks.
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