{"id":644312,"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.com\/index\/644312","title":{"rendered":"After 3 Months, Only 35 Paying Customers For Newspaper&#8217;s Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/1-26-2010%203-43-40%20PM-thumb-400x233-36371.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p><em>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&#8217;ve got 35 subscribers. Yes, 35.<\/p>\n<p>From the Observer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I heard you say 35 people,&#8221; he said, from Newsday&#8217;s auditorium in Melville. &#8220;Is that number correct?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jimenez nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Hellville, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they&#8217;ve grossed about $9,000.<\/p>\n<p>In that time, without question, web traffic has begun to plummet, and, certainly, advertising will follow as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Of course if you have a newspaper subscription you are allowed free access, and anyone who has Optimum Cable, which is<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cablevision\"> owned by the same people,<\/a> also gets in for free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re the freebie newsletter that comes with your HBO,&#8221; one reporter said.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2010\/media\/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site\">After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday&#8217;s Web Site<\/a> [Observer]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday is a Long Island newspaper. Some people bought it for $650 million and put it behind a pay wall. Three months later, they&#8217;ve got 35 subscribers. Yes, 35. From the Observer: &#8220;I heard you say 35 people,&#8221; he said, from Newsday&#8217;s auditorium in Melville. &#8220;Is that number correct?&#8221; Mr. Jimenez nodded. Hellville, indeed. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HC8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}