Star Tribune’s paywall is bringing in more money than it’s costing in ad revenue

MinnPost
The Star Tribune tells David Brauer how its paywall is doing a month after launch. Ad revenue will suffer from lower traffic, which is down 10 to 15 percent, depending on the metric. But the newspaper has 5,900 new digital subscribers, 1,150 of whom are now getting the Sunday newspaper, too. And more people are paying a bit extra to bundle digital access with their print subscriptions. “So in four weeks, the Strib has potentially reaped about $800,000 in new digital circulation revenue,” Brauer writes. || Related: Chicago Sun-Times to charge visitors, including subscribers, for online access starting Thursday (Chicago Sun-Times) || Earlier: MinnPost publisher: We won’t try to capitalize on Star Tribune’s paywall (Poynter.org)