{"id":265333,"date":"2018-06-21T07:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T05:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=265333"},"modified":"2018-06-21T07:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T05:52:25","slug":"facebook-testing-subscription-fees-for-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/265333-facebook-testing-subscription-fees-for-groups.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook testing subscription fees for groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2018\/06\/introducing-subscription-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testing subscription fees<\/a><\/strong> for groups, where group admins can charge between $4.99 and $29.99 per month for membership.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook explained that group admins invest their time and energy to maintain their groups, and that some admins asked for tools to help them continue to invest in their community.<\/p>\n<p>To test paid group subscriptions, Facebook is piloting subscriptions with a small number of groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubscription groups were created to make it easier for admins with built-in tools, and to save them time so they can focus on offering members-only content,\u201d Facebook product director for groups Alex Deve said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor members, they\u2019re now able to sign-up and manage their subscription through the Facebook app for iOS and Android.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said it will use what it learns from this pilot to help admins offer more to their members and continue to invest in their communities.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/265331-mark-zuckerberg-close-to-leapfrogging-warren-buffett-as-the-worlds-third-richest-person.html\">Mark Zuckerberg close to leapfrogging Warren Buffett as the world\u2019s third-richest person<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook group admins will be able to charge between $4.99 and $29.99 per month for membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,51809],"class_list":["post-265333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-subscription-fees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265351,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265333\/revisions\/265351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}