Most important revenue streams for news publishers in 2025

Subscriptions and memberships continue to be the main focus but most companies combine between two and four revenue streams.
Data from a survey of 326 media leaders in 51 countries for 'Journalism, media and technology trends and predictions 2025'. Figures compared with the survey for our report in 2020, 2023 and 2024.

Q4. Which of the following digital revenue streams are likely to be important or very important for your company in 2025? - choose all that apply. Base: Respondents from commercial publishers only (excluding publicly funded public broadcasters) = 270.
Source: 'Journalism, media and technology trends and predictions 2025'.

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