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How many Americans would pay for online news? Under 50 percent
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article published on 17 November, 2009
According to a new multi-country study from the Boston Consulting Group, Americans are the least willing to pay for online news, with only 48 percent saying they would pay the premium.
The number was about even with the UK for the lowest figure, and far below most of the other seven countries studied.
In terms of how much they would be willing to pay, the US and Australia tied for ... [ read the full article ]
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spartybob
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17. November 2009 @ 12:47 |
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I don't see what the big deals is? I pay $25/Per month to breath air.
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17. November 2009 @ 12:48 |
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we go online to get free real non BS news from private news agency's.
what makes you think will pay for lies,fear and propaganda. i could turn my tv too 8,9,10,13 and get all of that i can handle.
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emugamer
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17. November 2009 @ 13:05 |
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Lies, fear and propaganda should be free.
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Cubz
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17. November 2009 @ 14:01 |
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Why do they even do studies and surveys like this? We all know what the outcome is going to be.
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slickwill
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17. November 2009 @ 14:15 |
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These studies are done to waste time and money. Basically doing something unnecessary and wasteful is profitable.
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windsong
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17. November 2009 @ 14:38 |
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Will be as successful as Napster was.
Which is to say, not much.
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DVDdoug
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17. November 2009 @ 17:12 |
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Consumer willingness and intent to pay is related to the availability of a rich amount of free content
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....with only 48 percent saying they would pay the premium.
Ugh... Riiiiight!!! Something's wrong with that survey! Who PAYS for news? Only people who subscribe to newspapers & news magazines. That's far less than 48% of the population, and most of those newspaper subscribers wouldn't be willing to pay for online news. Perhaps when the newspapers go out of business in a few years (or months), then their suscribers might pay for an Internet news service.
Broadcast TV is free. Radio is free. News comes at no extra cost with your cable TV subscription... There are no "premium" news channels that you have to pay extra for.
Plus, 20-30% of people in the U.S. don't even have Internet at home, and 20% of the population is too young to pay for news.
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beanos66
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17. November 2009 @ 17:52 |
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I wouldn't pay for online news like I don't pay for print "news"
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llongtheD
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17. November 2009 @ 23:00 |
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Everything you see in America anyway is at best an infomercial, or propaganda of some type. I don't mean to pick on Fox, but they even hype their prime time shows on their news channel as news??!!!
What's that about? I guess we should pay for their ads, so we have programming to watch. "Programming" being the key word.
CNN, MSNBC, and all of the other "news" organizations aren't any different.
We get the news THEY want us to hear, until that changes, why would anybody pay?
Maybe they should be thankful there are enough idiots that sit through this "news" and leave it at that.
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getanacct
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19. November 2009 @ 19:44 |
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I gave up on the US media networks years ago, when the Internet became popular.
I find more news info listening to podcasts from NPR, and tech stuff from various podcasts such as Maximum PC and so on that I don't need to listen to or watch it (news or information) when they want the consumer to.
Report the news, cut out the political BS, don't insult our intelligence, and then I'll go back and watch the evening news on TV. Until then, they can go the way of the 25 cent candy bar.
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avoidz
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22. November 2009 @ 08:30 |
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What a non-surprise.
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22. November 2009 @ 08:47 |
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its a stupid idea trying to make people pay for news.I buy a newspaper everyweek and read the news but i buy it for the tv guide& crosswords not the news.we have the news on 5 tv channels plus current affairs shows and world news plus news in various languages on tv.anyone can do a simple google search and find news articles to read so why on earth would anyone pay for the news.O and if you want to find out what the celebrities are up to theres twitter.
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