What Meta's Canada news ban actually did to publisher traffic
Two years after links disappeared from Canadian feeds, the measurable result is a durable drop in social referrals — and a search-shaped hole most coverage never priced.
Amara Okonkwo
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Jay Douglas
What a free newsletter subscriber is actually worth
The honest answer is a range with a conversion rate in the middle — and the number only becomes real when you price the paid tier and count the churn.
Isabel Duarte
Service providers now field over a million DMCA notices a day
The six elements a takedown notice needs, why a platform needs a registered copyright agent, and what actually happens once a subscriber counter-notices.
Amara OkonkwoAnalysis & Opinion
What five years of product bundling did to The New York Times' subscriber math
Bundling news with Games, Cooking, Audio and The Athletic pushed The New York Times past 12.5 million digital subscribers — but the company's own numbers show the easy gains are already behind it.
Substack takes 10% of newsletter subscriptions; beehiiv and Ghost take none
A side-by-side of what the three platforms' own pricing pages say publishers actually pay, and when a percentage cut beats a flat monthly fee.
YouTube raises new-channel monetization to 8,000 watch hours
Starting February 1, 2027, first-time applicants to the YouTube Partner Program need double the old watch-hour total or a much larger Shorts-view count — current partners keep their status, per YouTube's own August 2026 update.
Why Substack keeps 10% of subscriber revenue and two rivals keep 0%
Substack, Ghost and beehiiv publish three different answers to what a publishing platform should take from a paid subscription — and their own numbers show which one is actually cheaper depends on how big the list already is.
Creators
More in Creators →What Patreon, Substack, Ghost, and YouTube actually take from creator revenue
Four platforms publish four different fee structures. Here's what each one's own documentation says creators keep, before payment processing takes its own cut.
Michael HayesTechnology
More in Technology →How ads.txt protects publisher ad revenue, and where fraud still gets through
The plain-text file every publisher is supposed to post now blocks casual ad spoofing at scale, but a 2025 fraud alert shows what it can't catch.
Tanya BrooksRevenue
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How The New York Times bundled its way past 11 million digital subscribers
Priya VaithilingamThe New York Times raised prices for loyal subscribers, and ARPU followed
A $25-to-$30 bundle price increase for tenured subscribers lines up with a 3.1% ARPU gain and 16.4% digital subscription revenue growth in the same quarter — one company, one pricing move, per its own disclosure.
Priya VaithilingamBusiness News
More in Business News →How Google Discover picks stories, and why publishers can't game it directly
Discover runs on the same ranking signals as Search, not a separate optimization channel — which is why the traffic it sends is real, personalized, and mostly outside a publisher's control.
Michael Hayes