{"id":35746,"date":"2017-07-20T07:28:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T07:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=35746"},"modified":"2017-07-20T07:28:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T07:28:28","slug":"facebook-in-talks-with-publishers-on-supporting-subscription-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/facebook-in-talks-with-publishers-on-supporting-subscription-models.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscription models"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscription models<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Facebook Inc (FB.O) is in early talks with several news publishers about how its social media site can better support subscription business models, the company&#8217;s head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The statement comes a day after TheStreet reported that Facebook plans to launch a subscription-based news product, citing comments by Brown at a conference. Facebook will begin initial tests in October, TheStreet reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The feature is likely to allow publishers to create a paywall on Facebook&#8217;s Instant Articles and guide readers to a publisher&#8217;s home page to opt for a digital subscription, according to TheStreet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Instant Articles lets publishers post articles directly to the Facebook app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The idea for a paywall is based on premium and metered plans and has been in the works for a while, TheStreet said, citing Brown at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Facebook also started the roll-out of a new tool that allows publishers using Instant Articles to measure how those articles perform compared with their own mobile websites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Shares of Facebook closed up 0.79 percent at $164.14 on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">source:-http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-newssubscription-idUSKBN1A41EO<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/facebook-in-talks-with-publishers-on-supporting-subscription-models.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscription models Facebook Inc (FB.O) is in early talks with several news publishers about how its social media site can better support subscription business models, the company&#8217;s head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, said in a statement on Wednesday. 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