Indiegraf is a 3-year old company that is having a positive impact for many WordPress publishers. They’re a WordPress hosting platform for publishers, in a similar space to Newspack, Paywall Project, Lede, and others.
WordPress has seen off another competitor. The Chorus CMS is being shut down. Vox Media had developed Chorus for its own websites. Vox owns a ton of news and culture properties including Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Cut,…
MediaNews Group is a major publishing group across the United States. They own over 100 newspapers and 200 other publications. Their newspapers reach from California (Orange Country Register and Marin Independent Journal) to Florida (Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel). They’re…
This week a small story led me to discover a big story about WordPress’ dominance in online publishing. The small story was about the launch of “Flow”, a new brand that’s part of She Media. First, I went to the…
Time.com is one of the most high-profile media sites in the world. You can see their listing on the WordPress showcase. At the beginning of June, Time dropped its paywall ,which means that everyone can browse over 100 years’ worth…
This is the fourt time we’ve hosted “WP Publisher Sessions”, where we explore how publishers can grow their audience and revenue. This week we invited Louis Nicholls of Sparkloop to chat with us about how Sparkloop helps newsletter publishers grow.…
Pluribus News is a new start-up which is aiming to cover every state government across the United States. Pluribus launches with 6 staff members. The founder Reid Wilson worked at The Washington Post and The Hill newspaper. The other staff…
Vince Dice is the editor of Gig Harbor Now, a nonprofit news organization in Gig Harbor, near Seattle. His publication is celebrating its first birthday this week and he has interesting story to tell, that sums up many trends with…
Since early in 2022, I’ve been blogging here on KinshiPress about the explosion in local news publishers. Initially that was driven by a gut-feeling that something exciting is in the early, formative stages. These publishers are mostly non-profit, mission-driven, and…
Over at LeakyPaywall, Peter Ericson has a great article on whether you should offer a subscription level that hides ads. His main example is Samsnytt, a WordPress-based publisher from Sweden. Samsnytt tries to upsell users to a special plan with…