subscribers

Yes, exactly: most advertisers would want to reach the sort of paying subscribers who no longer see ads.

That would also provide a way to monetize, by giving out the metafruit bloom filter to subscribers only.

Not accounted for is how many of those subscribers has, like me, opted for a cheaper plan (e.g.

Data shows that new subscribers are signing up at an annualized growth rate of 480 percent each year.

Hi You missed a 5th method, another (very annoying) hybrid: Advertise to everyone, maybe less to subscribers.

And since your subscribers are probably more affluent, they're the audience your advertisers probably want to subscribe to anyways.

Or perhaps the free plugin can update its bloom filter once a day, but subscribers can update once per hour.

So, for most ISP's, the service was unusable, and only a small number of subscribers knew or cared about it.

And if you've got subscribers that don't see ads, that's leverage you don't have when you're trying to sell ads.

The subscribers in the ring would only be gaming its own payments, no one else's.

Actually, they started out as GNN subscribers, and just stayed when AOL purchased GNN.

Non-paying subscribers get complimentary copy and garish advertisements as a punishment to encourage subscription.

I don't understand how the list of highly ranked providers can be a "trade secret" of Angie's List if they make it public to their millions of subscribers.

"In short - what would you do?" I would try to talk to as many of those initial captured subscribers directly.

"'If you cut back on service, you are going to lose your subscriber base,' said Hank Breeggemann, general manager of Netflix’s DVD division[...]" I wonder what it cost them in subscribers when they ended Saturday deliveries a year.