Whats up, Each day Kos!
I’m blissful to announce that the Each day Kos subscription program is coming again in an enormous approach. A few of you might be longtime subscribers and revel in all the advantages of that—the most important one being a very ad-free expertise—and we tremendously respect your help over time. If you’re not at the moment a subscriber, I invite you to contemplate signing up at the moment!
Right now’s relaunch of Each day Kos’ subscription program is one thing we’re very enthusiastic about and have been working towards for some time. It’s a crucial element of how Each day Kos will survive and develop in a altering media and political surroundings.
Properly-publicized transitions within the media world—the rise of AI summaries in search engine outcomes, the declining worth of promoting, site visitors drops from social media—have brought on us to wish to evolve our enterprise mannequin. Shifts within the political world eradicated income from serving to allied organizations and campaigns construct their electronic mail lists. Two years in the past, our enterprise generated 25% of its income from group help. That quantity is 75% at the moment.
Weathering this alteration in Each day Kos’ operations has been a problem—nevertheless it has put us able to raised align our enterprise objectives with the expertise of our readers, writers, commenters, and group members. Once you instantly fund the group by subscribing to Each day Kos, you’re the buyer and we’re incentivised to make you—and never advertisers and purchasers—blissful. That definitely aligns with my values and makes me extremely blissful.
Thanks largely to present subscribers, we’re already implementing some much-needed upgrades to the positioning. We’re sending far fewer emails, and we’re about to take away (or have already got) a bunch of annoying advert items from the positioning, together with that “sticky” video advert all of us hate a lot. And subscribing to Each day Kos implies that after we start work on a brand new platform after this 12 months’s election, you can be concerned in serving to to develop its options and implementation. It additionally means I can be much more current and in additional direct dialog with you.
I’m excited for all this and to improve and modernize the positioning much more, however for these of you not already subscribing, we’d like your assist! (And for these of you who’re, we’re so, so grateful.)
So what does this subscription get you? It begins with an ad-free studying expertise. These of you with a subscription can attest to how a lot better Each day Kos is with out obtrusive promoting. That alone is definitely worth the worth! However we’ll additionally add extra perks down the road.
Subscriptions can be $90 yearly, however not instantly. We’re relaunching this system now with an introductory $60 $40 price (even higher than I initially thought!). This price can be accessible solely via the tip of November. So if you wish to benefit from a 12 months at that decreased price, now’s the time to behave.
Go to our subscription web page to see our subscription provides.
Coming quickly: the flexibility to present somebody a subscription even when they haven’t joined the positioning but!
Present Subscriber? No Worries
Should you already subscribe, relaxation simple figuring out your present price is locked in till your subsequent renewal. It is our approach of claiming thanks to your continued help.
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We might love to listen to your ideas on these modifications, each under within the feedback and via this brief survey. Your insights are invaluable to us.
Thanks for all the things you do for our nation, for our motion, and for Each day Kos.
