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Moving Past the Fear of Paywalls: Lessons from Four Publishers
Launching a paywall for the first time can feel intimidating. This blog walks through how four publishers—each starting from a different place—faced the fear, took the leap, and found what works.
How One Publisher Turned a Quiet Calendar Launch into a Traffic and Engagement Engine
Salem Reporter added a local events calendar with no promo—and it quickly started driving traffic, surfacing community events, and saving their team time.
How publishers should set content restrictions to drive paid subscriptions
What’s the right way to gate your content? We break down smart paywall setups and show how publishers are using them to drive paid subscriptions.
Subscription Sticker Shock: Should you raise your prices?
Planning to raise prices? Here’s how to communicate it clearly and keep your subscribers on board.
The 10 Best Paywall Providers For Your Content Business in 2025
Monetizing your digital publication requires a crucial decision: Should I set up a paywall?
Black Friday Without the Profit Burn
A strong Black Friday doesn’t need to hurt long-term value. These Black Friday strategies protects your brand and builds subscriber trust.
A better email newsletter service creates growth for Mexico News Daily
Switching to Flowletter helped Mexico News Daily streamline their email workflow, improve reader access, and grow paid and free subscriptions.
18 Innovative Tactics To Grow Your Subscription Revenues
It’s time to consider adding revenue streams. Check out these new tactics that are actually working for our publishers.
Improving the website UI to boost subscriptions on The Boca Raton Tribune
The Boca Raton Tribune requested a critique of their subscription setup on their website. If you are looking to improve conversions, the video below should inspire updates to your own website.
How To Create A Paywall In WordPress (+7 Best Solutions in 2024)
WordPress paywalls can help generate revenue from online content, control access to premium content, and attract new free and paid subscribers.
Case Study: How Mexico News Daily took control of their data to grow revenue with Leaky Paywall
Data control leads to audience growth and increased paid subscription conversions.
Boosting Conversions and Enhancing Subscriptions: A Review of Bass Magazine’s Subscription Setup
Pete and Tyler from Leaky Paywall and the Paywall Project reviewed the Relevant Magazine website independently, coming up with three things that could help build paid subscriptions.
Case Study: Small Boats Nation Tackles Monetization and Content Organization
Small Boats, a digital magazine publisher, was grappling with monetization and content organization. They needed a robust subscription system and a way to streamline their content by issue.
Case study: Achieving a 20% Conversion Rate: The Local Publisher’s Winning Formula
Looking for the right approach to converting paid subscriptions in the local news space?
Developing a Winning SEO Strategy for Paywalled Content
Let’s explore how a leading publisher is future-proofing their traffic growth strategy in the age of paywalls
The Subscription Page Formula: Best Practices Blueprint
How do you build a compelling subscription landing page? We show off high converting examples.
From YouTube Ads to Website Subscribers: Strategies for Sustainable Growth
Learn how a YouTuber musician sends his audience to his website and converts premium subscriptions
Xendit now integrated with Leaky Paywall
Recurring subscription payments are now available in Southeast Asia with our Xendit integration for Leaky Paywall
Maximizing Non-Profit Revenue and Reach: How KBIndependent Achieves Subscription Growth
We take a deep dive into how the Key Biscayne Independant is surging audience growth, donations, and paid subscriptions.
Four ways to sell bulk subscriptions
Groups can be as unique as individuals. Find the four different ways to sell bulk subscriptions to different organizations.
The impact of accessibility laws on publishers websites and how to stay compliant
AI and social media concerns are ramping up for publishers. So what do you do? We offer guidance.
Decoding the Effectiveness of Newspack’s Paywall: An In-depth Review
Discover the benefits and considerations of Newspack and various paywall options for digital publishers.
How should publishers handle AI and social media today?
AI and social media concerns are ramping up for publishers. So what do you do? We offer guidance.
Growing Paid Subscriptions with Facebook Ads: A Small Boats Magazine Case Study
We dive into a successful Facebook ads promotion to build subscriptions
How to setup a successful holiday subscription promotion + results
We dive into successful holiday promotional subscription strategies for publishers
10 subscription promotions that actually work for publishers
We dive into successful promotional subscription strategies for publishers
Publisher Mastermind webinar: How to put subscriber Insights to work for your publication
Publisher Mastermind – How to put Leaky Paywall Insights to work for your publication
Publisher Mastermind webinar: How to easily set up your subscriber-only newsletter
Publisher Mastermind – Learn why and how to set up your free and subscriber-only newsletters
Unlocking Success: Salem Reporter’s 5-Month Journey to Audience and Revenue Growth
We dive into a case study on Salem Reporter, a local news publisher that has seen significant success in growing their revenue.
Publisher Mastermind webinar – How to nurture casual readers into paid subscribers
Publisher Mastermind with Q&A – Learn best practices for engaging and nurturing casual visitors on your website.
Piano.io alternative: How to migrate to Leaky Paywall
Get more control over your data, more flexibility with your subscription strategy, and better subscriber retention.
Special Episode: Pete stops by the Powered By Coffee podcast to talk paywall monetization strategy
Pete drops by the podcast Scale, from the Powered By Coffee team to chat about paywall monetization strategies with Stewart Ritchie.
How to create a paid newsletter in WordPress with Leaky Paywall, Newsletter Glue, and MailChimp
Easily create a paid newsletter in WordPress using Leaky Paywall, Newsletter Glue, and MailChimp.
3 ways AI will shake up your reader revenue
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How magazine publishers should approach reader revenue
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How to convert more readers with targeted messaging
How do you target different types of readers? What registration setups work better than others? Find out…
Motivate your readers to become paying subscribers with a drip email campaign
Have a free registration wall and want to improve paid conversions? A nurturing drip email campaign plays a key role.
Is Your Free Registration Hurting Your Paid Subscriptions?
In this videocast, Pete and Tyler discuss different types of free registration approaches and how some free registration setups work better than others.
Can a pay-per-article option actually boost subscriptions?
Pay per article allows readers to purchase single articles. Offering a pay per article option can help drive readers to subscribe if both options are shown in tandem with each other.
What percentage of your audience should be paid subscribers?
Paid digital subscriptions are becoming the largest share of revenue for publishers including the New York Times.
It’s your subscriber. It’s time to control your data.
It’s important to take control of data, be able to export it, transfer it easily from one system to another, etc., so that you have full access/control over your information & subscribers at all times.
Subscriber Behavior: What insights do you need?
It’s time to identify the articles that convert your new free and paid subscribers. By digging into this single metric, you can quickly learn more about what readers actually value and will pay for.
Hype alternatives: Replacing Pico in 2023
If you are looking for a native WordPress paywall platform to deliver a better subscriber experience, welcome to Leaky Paywall.
WP Publisher Sessions #1: Making Newsletters Personal
In this webinar Lesley Sim from Newsletter Glue provides newsletter tactics to help publishers that use WordPress succeed.
Improve your reader engagement on your publication’s website
Pete and Tyler from Leaky Paywall and the Paywall Project reviewed the Relevant Magazine website independently, coming up with three things that could help build paid subscriptions.
Do Flipbook E-Editions Really Work?
Flipbooks (or e-editions) were an early development in field of digital publications. It was a logical step: they were a perfect replica of the print magazine, right down to the flipping pages (and sound effect).
As the digital world has advanced, flipbooks have fallen out of favor for many good reasons. But that doesn’t mean that they are completely obsolete.
What are subscription retention best practices?
We received a question from Flyer Magazine on how best to handle subscriber retention emails. After reviewing the website, the video below turned into a retention and new subscriber generation session.
Subscription predictions for 2023
Tyler Channel and I talk about trends that we have seen put into action as well as what publishers said they were planning on in 2023. This episode turned into a ‘recommended major themes’ discussion… actions that you should consider adopting this year.
Improve subscriptions on Andover News with a Quick Registration
Want to improve the growth of your paid subscriptions? Pete from Leaky Paywall just reviewed the local news site AndoverMAnews.com.