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Solving for subscriptions: How the Membership Puzzle Project addresses the paid vs non-paid divide
As revenue models shift from advertising to users, digital publishers today need to know more than ever what draws—and keeps—readers. Zeroing in on the 10% who are already the most…
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Earth Day at Chartbeat: Building a Culture of Environmental Engagement
A Chartbeat partner once asked us how we dispose of excess waste from our product. We excitedly responded that as a software company, our product does not manufacture excess waste—or…
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Channels, conversions, and churn: Why better mobile UX is key for subscriber revenue
Publishers attempting to unlock new sources of reader revenue (most notably through subscription models) are understandably honing in on device usage, particularly when there are an estimated 5.1 billion (via…
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Subscriber Analytics: Enhanced and Empowering Publishers in Real Time
Digital publishers are increasingly shifting toward subscription models to generate reader revenue. In fact, digital subscriptions were listed as the most important revenue stream for global publishers, according to a…
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A Chinese news app is quietly referring millions of pageviews — here’s how global publishers can take advantage
Referral traffic to your most engaging content can come from unexpected places. Case in point—Chartbeat’s data science team recently found that TopBuzz, a China-based news aggregation app from ByteDance, was…
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It’s all coming together: Introducing Multi-Site View
“I couldn’t live without it. If you need insight into multiple sites at once, you couldn’t live without it either.” — Daniel Bach Nielsen, Digital Editorial Director, Jysk Fynske Medier…
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New Feature: Faster User Management and Secure Permissioning
If there’s anything we’ve learned over the last decade, it’s that no two publishers are the same. Different sizes, different geographic reach, different internal structures and ways of working. We’re…
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The Most Engaging Stories of 2018
2018 saw familiar political and social themes rise to the top, including Brexit, the Trump administration, the #MeToo movement, and climate change. But it was the deeply investigated and deeply…
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Capitalizing on readership during major news events
What do reader trends during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Brexit vote tell us about how audiences tend to consume content during major breaking news events? While search, direct,…
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YouTube outage drives 20% increase in traffic
Last Tuesday, YouTube experienced an outage for about an hour and the internet got a taste of what would happen if the platform disappeared. The results were surprising: internet behaviors…
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What happens when Facebook goes down? People read the news
What would the world look like without Facebook? Chartbeat had a glimpse into that on Aug. 3, 2018, when Facebook went down for 45 minutes and traffic patterns across the…
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Research Study: Only 1 in 3 publishers see a clear traffic boost from AMP
AMP traffic in aggregate is increasing, but how widespread is the impact for publishers? Chartbeat, together with The Daily Beast, collaborated on a two-part research study to rigorously quantify the…
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