Media Briefing: ‘Surveillance pricing’ laws are coming for dynamic subscription strategies
By Sara Guaglione This week’s Media Briefing looks at whether the era of quietly charging subscribers different prices for the same news subscription may be coming to an end, as a lawsuit over “surveillance pricing” and new legislation in New York put publishers’ subscription pricing tactics under fresh scrutiny.
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WTF is “surveillance pricing”?
Publishers may advertise a single subscription price on their websites, but in practice subscribers pay a range of prices due to promotional, introductory and retention discounts. Now some of the tactics behind those prices could be challenged by recent legislation in New York.This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. Continue reading it on digiday.com and subscribe to continue reading content like this. …read more
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