News24's subscription service compared with other top publications

[Jamie McKane]

News24's subscription service compared with other top publications

News24 launched its new digital subscription service on 8 August, offering subscribers access to investigative reporting, opinions, analysis, and podcasts for R75 per month.

Subscribers also get access to magazines and newspapers, including City Press, YOU, Drum, and TrueLove.

 

[CTBP]

I want to share my thoughts but it will cost you R74.99 P/m.

 

[lexor]

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Unlimited access to 5,000+ magazines, newspapers and premium stories .

 

[Herr der Verboten]

News24's subscription service compared with other top publications

News24 launched its new digital subscription service on 8 August, offering subscribers access to investigative reporting, opinions, analysis, and podcasts for R75 per month.

Subscribers also get access to magazines and newspapers, including City Press, YOU, Drum, and TrueLove.

VS Hauwei P40 subscription?

 

[backstreetboy]

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Unlimited access to 5,000+ magazines, newspapers and premium stories .

Or only R45 p/m of you take up their annual offer https://www.magzter.com/magztergold/annualbestoffer plus you can share it with four family members. No brainer.

 

[Zuluzebra]

Or only R45 p/m of you take up their annual offer https://www.magzter.com/magztergold/annualbestoffer plus you can share it with four family members. No brainer.

This code will give you another R300 off. So R399 for one year gold subscription


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[backstreetboy]

This code will give you another R300 off. So R399 for one year gold subscription


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Thanks. Already paid for a year. Missed out on the R999 for 3 years special.

 

[Zuluzebra]

If anyone is willing to split it 4 ways seeing as you can share it with 4 friends and pay R100 for 1 year membership let me know.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Or just get Magzter for R99 p/m - https://www.magzter.com/?utm_source...4bGaPQFkNMUD8EVtwUOiRxDHXT-GTS18aAnA5EALw_wcB

Unlimited access to 5,000+ magazines, newspapers and premium stories .

MyExport says MyNews24 is better.

 

[Crumbl0x]

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Thanks for this! Really great stuff

 

[randomcat]

 

[ThinkCentre]

They must be crazy to charge money to watch news! Have they heard of the internet? Clearly not!

 

[JimM]

News24 at R0 was expensive!

 

[zippy]

They must be crazy to charge money to watch news! Have they heard of the internet? Clearly not!

Not that I pay for any news, but have you seen the garbage on the internet ? People actually believe this crap because its "not mainstream"

 

[krycor]

So how’s the change impacting you?

For me? Well.. I’d say 50% of what I want to read based on headlines(which means 40% as headlines are sometimes clickbait vs content ordinarily) is behind pay wall.

For opinion pieces.. meh ok, whatever. For news / breaking news where they have a source or something.. yea that’s a tad annoying.

Does it make me want to pay? No.. in fact what I observed with my general browsing is that I visit News24 lesser.. initially I’d still check out headlines.. but what I do beyond that is check iol, ewn and YouTube for local news.

So beginning of the day I might still launch News24.. but subsequent to that it’s not my 1st preference for news.

How pronounced of a change is it? Well.. News24 is cycling out of my Google start page! It use to occupy the most frequent page visited.

I suspect what happen is this.. ordinarily reading news via website is easier and faster as you can skip to the important bits. With the new subscription thing, I now need to also add a skip paid content/ads. Then there is the annoyance factor that something catches eye but u can’t read it.. so, I bypass the page entirely as I figure if it’s important it will be covered elsewhere. Opinion pieces were always nice and interesting but exactly that.. opinion, not news.

Then there is the fact that video consumption of news is the lazy way and when u have a fast network connection, no limit and stories are per news item, might as well watch it on there.

 

[Tabac]

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