Last month, Guardian Media Group used its annual financial disclosure to report it has, so far, attracted 17,000 paying iPad subscribers.
Friday’s full annual report adds there have been 804,000 downloads of that app. Together, this means The Guardian has converted 2.1 percent of users who have tried it to pay for it.
...After Apple’s 30 percent commission, those 17,000 iPad subscribers should yield around £118,830 per month, or £1.4 million ($2.1 million) per year, for The Guardian
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The apparent conversion rate is, so far, less than the 17 percent of the Guardian iPhone app users who pay £4.99 per year to subscribe (free in U.S.). There are currently 82,000 iPhone subscribers, the publisher tells paidContent.
But there is one major difference between the two – whilst the iPhone app goes on giving readers a few free stories forever, the iPad edition had given everything away for free for three months, and now gives a two-week free trial, before putting up a hard subscriber wall.
The Guardian had struck a luxurious marketing deal with Apple that made it a prominent feature of iTunes Newsstand.
Although 2.1 percent sounds low, it is not necessarily as bad as it sounds…
- The Times: By early 2011, just 0.82 percent of people who had taken a free trial with The Times had converted to subscribe to its iPad app, according to a marketer which did reach-out for the publisher.
- Future Publishing: The magazine publisher in January said it had clocked 75,000 iPad Newsstand subscriptions from 9.3 million downloads of its free taster apps. That’s 0.80 percent.
- Guardian: Although the app launched in October, the sales effort only got serious in January, when the lengthy free period ended.
- http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/10/guardian-sees-2-1-percent-of-ipad-readers-pay/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=3a365ffa2d-c%3Amed+d%3A08-14&utm_medium=email
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