{"id":133019,"date":"2024-12-04T00:36:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133019"},"modified":"2024-12-04T00:36:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:36:48","slug":"here-we-go-the-verge-now-has-a-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133019","title":{"rendered":"Here we go: The Verge now has a subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Okay, we\u2019re doing this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Today we\u2019re launching a <a href=\"http:\/\/theverge.com\/subscribe\"><em>Verge<\/em> subscription<\/a> that lets you get rid of a bunch of ads, gets you unlimited access to our top-notch reporting and analysis across the site and our killer premium newsletters, and generally lets you support independent tech journalism in a world of sponsored influencer content. It\u2019ll cost $7 \/ month or $50 \/ year \u2014 and for a limited time, if you sign up for the annual plan, we\u2019ll send you an absolutely stunning print edition of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/e\/24071581\">CONTENT GOBLINS<\/a> series, with very fun new photography and design. (Our art team is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/1\/25\/23571101\/homeland-anthology-magazine-preorder-buy\">delightfully good at print<\/a>; we\u2019ve even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/press-room\/2023\/2\/24\/23613507\/the-verge-wins-the-2023-asme-award-for-design-receives-two-national-magazine-award-nominations\">won a major magazine award<\/a> for it.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">A surprising number of you have asked us to launch something like this, and we\u2019re happy to deliver. If you don\u2019t want to pay, rest assured that big chunks of <em>The Verge<\/em> will remain free \u2014 we\u2019re thinking about subscriptions a lot differently than everyone else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">If you\u2019re a <em>Verge<\/em> reader, you know we\u2019ve been covering massive, fundamental changes to how the internet works for years now. Most major social media platforms are openly hostile to links, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/5\/14\/24155321\/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview\">huge changes to search<\/a> have led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24167865\/google-zero-search-crash-housefresh-ai-overviews-traffic-data-audience\">the death of small websites<\/a>, and everything is covered in a layer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/15\/24131162\/ill-see-your-shrimp-jesus-and-raise-you-spaghetti-jesus-on-a-lambo\">AI slop<\/a> and weird scams. The algorithmic media ecosystem is now openly hostile to the kind of rigorous, independent journalism we want to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">A few years ago, we decided the only real way to survive all this was to stand apart and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/13\/23349876\/the-verge-website-redesign-new-newsfeed-blogs-logo\">bet on our own website<\/a> so that we could remain independent of these platforms and their algorithms. We didn\u2019t want to write stories to chase Google Search trends or because we thought they\u2019d do well on social media. And we definitely didn\u2019t want to compromise our famously strict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ethics-statement\">ethics policy<\/a> to accept brand endorsement deals from the companies we cover, which almost all of our competitors in the creator economy are forced to do in order to run sustainable businesses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">So we decided to make our own site as valuable to you, our beloved audience, as we could. We bet that our redesign, and the introduction of Quick Posts and the Storystream news feed on the homepage, would let us stay focused on our readers and our work instead of traffic and metrics. Our goal was pretty simple: we wanted to make our site something worth coming back to over and over again. We wanted to be worth your time, every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">I\u2019m happy to say that this worked: we\u2019ve maintained a massive loyal audience despite industry-wide declines in Google referrals and big social platforms downranking links. <em>The Verge<\/em>\u2019s homepage has always been the most popular single page at all of Vox Media, and now the average time spent on our homepage is more than six minutes. Half a million people read <em>The Verge<\/em> at least once a week \u2014 and those people read an average of 14 stories a month. 55,000 of you have come to the site <em>every single day this year<\/em>. A lot of you really like <em>The Verge<\/em>, and we\u2019re eternally grateful for that \u2014 we intend to keep making this thing together for a long, long time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\"><em>So<\/em> many of you like <em>The Verge<\/em> that we\u2019ve actually gotten a shocking number of notes from people asking how they can pay to support our work. It\u2019s no secret that lots of great websites and publications have gone under over the past few years as the open web falls apart, and it\u2019s clear that directly supporting the creators you love is a big part of how everyone gets to stay working on the modern internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">At the same time, we didn\u2019t want to simply paywall the entire site \u2014 it\u2019s a tragedy that traditional journalism is retreating behind paywalls while nonsense spreads across platforms for free. We also think our big, popular homepage is a resource worth investing in. So we\u2019re rethinking <em>The Verge<\/em> in a freemium model: our homepage, core news posts, <em>Decoder<\/em> interview transcripts, Quick Posts, Storystreams, and live blogs will remain free. We know so many of you depend on us to curate the news every day, and we\u2019re going to stay focused on making a great homepage that\u2019s worth checking out regularly, whether you pay us or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Our original reporting, reviews, and features will be behind a dynamic metered paywall \u2014 many of you will never hit the paywall, but if you read us a lot, we\u2019ll ask you to pay. Subscribers will also get full access to both <em>Command Line<\/em> and <em>Notepad<\/em>, our two premium newsletters from Alex Heath and Tom Warren, which are packed full of scoops every week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">I\u2019m also delighted to say that subscribing to <em>The Verge<\/em> delivers a vastly improved ad experience \u2014 we\u2019ll get rid of all the chumboxes and third-party programmatic ads, cut down the overall number of ad units, and only fill what\u2019s left with high-quality ads directly sold by Vox Media. It will make the site faster, lighter, and more beautiful \u2014 more like the site we envisioned from the start, and something so many of you have asked us to deliver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Subscribers will also get access to full-text RSS feeds and early access to some big ideas about the future of media. Our vision has always been to build <em>The Verge<\/em> like a software product, and we have a big roadmap of features to come, like a true dark mode toggle, the ability to personalize the homepage feed, and a lot of wacky ideas about what it might mean to follow authors, topics, and streams across the site and \u2014 eventually \u2014 decentralized social platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads. We have big plans here, and we\u2019re excited to test them out with all of you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\"><em>The Verge<\/em> is 13 years old now, which feels remarkable to say \u2014 we\u2019ve outlasted a lot of our peers, and we\u2019ve mostly done it because we\u2019re stubborn as hell. We\u2019ve never chased metrics, we\u2019ve never taken money to say what other people want us to say, and we\u2019ve never shied away from caring deeply about technology and how it makes people feel. Launching a subscription is a big change, but it\u2019s the foundation of how we\u2019ll stubbornly make it another 13 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">I hope you can help support us \u2014 and if you can\u2019t, we\u2019ll do our best to earn your support in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component clear-both block\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--action-box action-box mb-20 border-t border-blurple px-12 pt-16 font-polysans-mono text-14 leading-130 -tracking-2 text-blurple md:text-15 md:flex md:flex-row md:items-start md:justify-between\">\n<div class=\"mb-14 md:mb-0\">\n<h2 class=\"inline font-medium\">Subscribe to The Verge<!-- --> <!-- --> \/ <\/h2>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup text-sm md:text-base inline font-light\">Get unlimited access to <em>The Verge<\/em>, read our subscriber-only newsletters, and cut down on the ads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup inline-block whitespace-nowrap rounded-sm border border-blurple px-18 py-12 text-12 font-medium uppercase tracking-12 no-underline hover:bg-blurple hover:text-white md:ml-28\" href=\"http:\/\/theverge.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/12\/3\/24306571\/verge-subscription-launch-fewer-ads-unlimited-access-full-text-rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, we\u2019re doing this.\u00a0 Today we\u2019re launching a Verge subscription that lets you get rid of a bunch of ads, gets you unlimited access to our top-notch reporting and analysis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133019\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8630],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}