As if there wasn’t enough change on the Internet these days the Associated Press (AP) is now putting together a program that will cost anyone who uses anything that they publish a minimum of $12.50. While that may seem a bit much it gets even worse when you discover that that price is for using just 5 words or less of their material!
Disney Plans To Charge For Online Content
Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger says the company has plans to offer a variety of its content, including movies, TV shows and games online for a fee.
"The notion of going online at some point as a subscribe-to, robust entertainment experience is pretty attractive to us," Iger said. "We are developing such an experience."
Iger made the comments Wednesday at Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm: Tech conference.
ESPN The Magazine To Charge For Online Access
ESPN The Magazine has begun charging for access to its online content.
The magazine announced on its website that its online version, ESPNTheMag.com was merging with the ESPN Insider service, which is available for $6.95 a month, or $39.95 a year for premium sports content.
Newspaper Company Plans To Charge For Online Content
MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post and 53 other daily newspapers plans to start charging for online access to all its newspaper content on its websites.
MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton wrote a memo to employees saying, "We cannot continue to give all our content away for free."
Murdoch Says Newspapers Must Charge For Online Content
News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday that newspapers must find a way to charge for online content to make up for declining ad revenue.
"People are used to reading everything on the net for free, and that’s going to have to change," Murdoch told attendees at the annual Cable Show event in Washington, D.C.
Murdoch cited The New York Times as an example, saying it has a "very, very good Web site." He said he did not believe the paper would make any money online unless it changes its current business model.
Would Twitter Charge You for Friends?
Making money wasn’t always the greatest concern for the founders of Twitter. It’s success in terms of business interest practically came by accident, mirroring the thoughts of this post from Shomemoney.
Take Charge Of Your Online Life
You have a Facebook profile with a lot of connected friends. You share your interests and personal information with those friends. You also have a LinkedIn profile with just as many connected contacts with whom you share your job related information. All your pictures are in the hands of Flickr and your Twitter account tells your friends what you are up to on an hourly basis.
Google Complains About Censorship Charge
After blowing away ads aimed at criticizing MoveOn.org by name, Google’s public policy wonks fired back and asserted that trademarks, not politics, played a role.
Will AOL Charge More Now?
Nielsen/Netratings has just started ranking Web brands. It does this by measuring “engagement” by total minutes spent with the brand and unique audience. Brands that had a large unique audience spending a long time engaged had the highest score. AOL came in first, followed by Yahoo!, then MSN/Windows Live, with Google coming in fifth.
Google Says You Are In Charge
All the fears being sparked over Google’s dominance in search, along with its land-grab of DoubleClick’s data mined consumer information, are really just an illusion.