By: David Robins
Good article. I believe the future will be a hybrid model. Basic (free) service with ads, and paid service with enhanced features and ads free!
View ArticleBy: Rob
Great article. I am actually working on a start up right now with a hybrid free/paid model. MergeSkills.com is a start-up that addresses the need for skilled workers and entrepreneurs to respond to the...
View ArticleBy: Freemium and Freeconomics « Association of Free Community Papers
[...] Maybe “Paid” Is the Future of Online Business (gigaom.com) [...]
View ArticleBy: Roger Toennis
Another SNL skit I think applies is an old one from the 70s where Father Guido Sarducci boiled Business down to something that still applies. He said “Business? Itsa very simple. You buy something…you...
View ArticleBy: Sophie
I agree it is essential to make a distinction between Mass Marketing and those in specialized markets. However, I am not sure that Advertising works only with Mass Products, I have been successful in...
View ArticleBy: For Some Web Startups, Freemium Is the Way Forward
[...] Martinez | Wednesday, July 15, 2009 | 4:59 PM PT | 0 comments While web-based companies like Facebook and Twitter have yet to operate on earned income, a string of others have adopted the...
View ArticleBy: Mobile Devs: Install Rates of Free Apps Higher Than Paid Apps
[...] Martinez | Thursday, July 16, 2009 | 4:45 PM PT | 0 comments As web-based companies struggle to monetize their content, mobile application developers face the same battle. Since so many popular...
View ArticleBy: jlg
It’s been obvious for several years that no content site can get big enough to support the costs of producing the content only through advertising. The NYT site makes perhaps $150 million in ad money...
View ArticleBy: News Corp. and the Great Not-Free Experiment
[...] Rupert Murdoch is picking up his toys from the playground and going home, and kicking sand at the “free” model touted by Wired’s Chris Anderson on the way out. The News Corp. chairman has...
View ArticleBy: Mike
No startup can break the basic laws of economics, just like those startups claiming to break the laws of physics eventually fail. You use an oxymoron in your own comment, “near-zero” delivery costs,...
View ArticleBy: Rokhayakebe
Absolutely. And that is why they are mostly broke, and most free content (save PBS, NPR) sucks big time.
View ArticleBy: areyoukidding
Broadcast TV and radio broke? You don’t know what you are talking about.
View ArticleBy: Paul
Are we going to see this topic rotated contunuously on GigaOm now that you have started your own paid service?? LOL
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