“Retention is a key strategic element for all publishers”: European publishers focus on churn

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Digiday / Lucinda Southern / Feb 21, 2019

“Over half of respondents said that subscriber revenue will be their most important revenue line in 2019, ahead of native and display advertising.” —

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