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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The Athletic's subscription model is only successful because they consider 10,000 subscribers for the Toronto site to be a success.
In mainstream media, that number would be viewed as a bust. And that, in turn, is why subscription models are generally failures for those companies.
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10,000 in Toronto that are looking for hockey content isn't bad considering hockey will be far not be the biggest sport they cover. People looking for quality MLB, NFL, NBA & College Sports content will far outweigh those looking for NHL content.
People like Ken Rosenthal are joining their ranks as well which says a lot considering he is by far a top 3 MLB reporter, and has 25 plus years experience.
https://theathletic.com/86701/2017/0...-the-athletic/
Sure it could fail, but we do know that subscription news services are doing very good, and traditional media is failing.