Saints’ reporter Mike Triplett goes from ESPN to Nick Underhill’s NewOrleans.Football
Underhill has been running NewOrleans.Football since 2020 after leaving his job at The Athletic. He's now brought in another prominent writer in Triplett.
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The Athletic is increasing its annual subscription rate to $71.99
Previously, an annual subscription cost $59.99.
Spencer Hall and Holly Anderson, of EDSBS/Shutdown Fullcast fame, have started a new Channel 6 subscription site
"We missed this. The thing where you open a window, write some words, and send it into the ether for people to read."
Yahoo Sports is launching premium subscription product Yahoo Fantasy Plus, and adding a video “Draft Together” interface
Yahoo's next foray into subscription products comes in fantasy sports.
Matt Brown discusses merging his Extra Points NCAA newsletter with The Intercollegiate
"We're both vocal, we both care about off-the-field issues that shape college athletics, we both care about academic research. It seemed like we could do more together than apart."
Nick Underhill leaves The Athletic to launch his own subscription site in New Orleans
"I want to work for you. This thing is called New Orleans Football. This site, these words, are in essence, yours."
The Athletic’s Alex Mather says they have more than 500,000 subscribers, and “We’ll end the year somewhere close to a million”
The Athletic says they now have more than 500,000 subscribers, and they expect to almost double that by the end of the year.
Yahoo cancels planned Mets subscription site, but still has an “eye on the subscription space”
Yahoo's Mets' subscription site is no more. It was initially set to launch in March, then in June, and now it's been cancelled completely.
Yahoo Finance is launching a premium subscription service, which could be a “testing ground” for a sports equivalent
Verizon Media Group CEO K. Guru Gowrappan told Axios' Sara Fischer that Yahoo Finance Premium, set for launch in 2019, "is one example of the membership opportunities ahead for us." So other subscription services, possibly including a sports product, could follow.
Independent subscription D.C. sports site The Sports Capitol is closing, with its writers moving to NBC Sports Washington
"Let’s be honest: This is the only kind of offer that really gets us to abandon the project."
Pirates Prospects post shows challenges for subscription sites, need to deliver value vs. “support us or we’ll die”
Tim Williams' appeal at Pirates Prospects shows wider challenges for subscription sites, but also an important focus on how sites need to provide unique value.
After massive backlash to fee changes, Patreon reverses course and Jack Conte says “We f—ed up”
“There’s no excuse, at the end of the day. We f—ed up. that’s on us, and that’s on me.”
Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy says they’ll launch a premium service with “a bunch of extra shit” because Chernin wants them to
"It won’t be, we’re not going to put shit behind a paywall, but it’ll be new stuff. (The Chernin Group) wants us to do it, so it’s very important to the company, blah blah blah."
Kelly Dwyer talks Yahoo layoff and his new subscription basketball site, The Second Arrangement
"It just feels right. Everything feels like it's working and I can't wait to keep working."
Why content is king, and why you should pay for it
Dejan Kovacevic talks DK Pittsburgh Sports’ third anniversary and their differences from other local plays
The Athletic bets against pivots to video, scooping up laid-off writers with new funding
Other sites cutting writers to pivot to video sparked The Athletic to raise more funds and bring in laid-off writers.
