Robert Andrews
Jan 31, 2012 9:07 AM
paidContent understands Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is set to make some big first-anniversary upgrades to its OnePass paid content system in the next few weeks, designed to increase slow take-up among publishers.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 30, 2012 6:34 AM
Telegraph.co.uk reports the UK’s main commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster has delayed a programme under which it wants to charge online viewers for some content. But that’s not quite the case.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 18, 2012 7:54 AM
News International’s The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends.
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Robert Andrews
Nov 9, 2011 12:52 PM
The combined digital kiosk of eight French newspapers is adopting Google’s OnePass to facilitate all its customer payments beside iOS.
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Robert Andrews
Sep 13, 2011 5:07 AM
Brief news on several acquisitions from companies looking to expand in payment provision, Lat America, gaming and the daily deals space…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 25, 2011 7:40 AM
Here’s a significant bit of news that advances mobile operators’ master plan to become central players not just in provisioning data networks, but to have a hand in how people are using them to consume goods and services…
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Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
Aug 23, 2011 7:03 AM
BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p.
The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-demand app for Facebook that will allow users of the website to rent a limited number of Top Gear episodes using Facebook Credits.
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Robert Andrews
Aug 3, 2011 8:34 AM
German news publisher Axel Springer, whose own paid consumer content initiative launched before News Corp.‘s, has reported what it says are some promising figures…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 1, 2011 5:29 AM
Imagine a future in which Facebook, because it’s amassed a massive network of people engaging with entertainment brands, becomes the payment platform of choice for those interactions.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 17, 2010 5:20 PM
Updated: Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which had hinted for nearly a year now that it was working on building some sort of paid content system for publishers, is reportedly set to launch such a system by year-end. According to a report in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Google is now reaching…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 3, 2010 6:48 AM
We knew SeeSaw would soon charge for, as well as give away, streaming shows when it launched last month. Now a couple more details…
It’s picked online payment facilitator Neovia to manage the process via the Netbanx merchant gateway.
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Adrian Drury
Feb 1, 2010 11:34 AM
Adrian Drury is a principal analyst at consulting and research firm Ovum, covering media, broadcast and telecom… Media need a miracle in 2010, and many of the assembled crowd at Yerba Buena Cultural Center last Wednesday were hoping Steve Jobs would deliver one. What they heard amounted to a strong…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 9, 2009 7:31 PM
In June, the Newspaper Association of America went on a “paid content” info hunt, reminiscent of those fact-finding missions that Congress likes so much. In the end, 11 companies, among them Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and IBM, took part in the in-depth look at various ways to literally…
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Patrick Smith
Aug 4, 2009 4:28 PM
Not content with its position as the only UK newspaper to successfully monetise its online content to at least some of its audience, executives from Financial Times have been busy telling the world that charging for news does work and that it’s a big mistake for other newspapers to think…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 30, 2009 1:03 PM
Unlikely as it may seem, Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory wants to buy The Pirate Bay for SEK60 million (£4.7 million). At the MusExpo Europe ‘09 conference in London on Tuesday, I held the mic in front of some digital music industry figures. Here are the audio clips...
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