{"id":234650,"date":"2010-01-26T15:54:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T20:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001296"},"modified":"2010-01-26T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:32:37","slug":"after-3-months-only-35-paying-customers-for-newspapers-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/234650","title":{"rendered":"After 3 Months, Only 35 Paying Customers For Newspaper’s Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Newsday<\/em> is a Long Island newspaper. Some people bought it for $650 million and put it behind a pay wall. Three months later, they’ve got 35 subscribers. Yes, 35.<\/p>\n

From the Observer:<\/p>\n

“I heard you say 35 people,” he said, from Newsday’s auditorium in Melville. “Is that number correct?”<\/p>\n

Mr. Jimenez nodded.<\/p>\n

Hellville, indeed.<\/p>\n

The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they’ve grossed about $9,000.<\/p>\n

In that time, without question, web traffic has begun to plummet, and, certainly, advertising will follow as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course if you have a newspaper subscription you are allowed free access, and anyone who has Optimum Cable, which is owned by the same people,<\/a> also gets in for free.<\/p>\n

“We’re the freebie newsletter that comes with your HBO,” one reporter said.<\/p>\n

\nAfter Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday’s Web Site<\/a> [Observer]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsday is a Long Island newspaper. Some people bought it for $650 million and put it behind a pay wall. Three months later, they’ve got 35 subscribers. Yes, 35. From the Observer: “I heard you say 35 people,” he said, from Newsday’s auditorium in Melville. “Is that number correct?” Mr. Jimenez nodded. Hellville, indeed. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}