Comments on: The NBR is in trouble – what should they do?

By: NBR's marketing fail | sy-ENGAGE

NBR's marketing fail | sy-ENGAGE — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:58:01 +0000

[...] More business model coverage from Lance Wiggs [...]

By: Paul Wiggins

Paul Wiggins — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:15:12 +0000

Thanks. I have a great respect for them, long back on the challenges they have had to steer themselves through.

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:43:20 +0000

I’m guessing they are probably doing better than they used to in pure revenue, but perhaps not making a profit. I’ve noticed a drop-off in online articles and it seems like a push to read the physical NBR rather than online. While they own the top end of the market they do need to make sure that it remains fun to read. The paper NBR is increasingly irrelevant to me, while the online was very relevant but is now losing it. Just getting my hands on the paper is difficult – I move around a lot and am often not at the location where it is delivered each week.

Ultimately we want to pay once and read in any form – be it paper, iPad or web.

By: Paul Wiggind

Paul Wiggind — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:35:01 +0000

Lance, what’s your assessment on how they are doing now?

By: What newspapers can learn from New Zealand’s NBR paywall – FAIL! | Breaking News Live

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:32:25 +0000

[...] drop in readership that they were expecting by the move. When it was happening New Zealand blogger Lance Wiggs wrote about it on his blog where he said This is an indication that the NBR leaders don’t really understand the current news internet [...]

By: What newspapers can learn from New Zealand’s NBR paywall – FAIL!

What newspapers can learn from New Zealand’s NBR paywall – FAIL! — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:28:33 +0000

By: NBR’s performance since the subscription wall was built « Lance Wiggs

NBR’s performance since the subscription wall was built « Lance Wiggs — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:35:55 +0000

[...] untrained unqualified bloggers that not only objected to being characterised as such, but was pretty scathing about the decision to lock away the content. NBR in turn referred I guessed to myself and [...]

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:33:29 +0000

By: Campbell Yule’s Blog » NZ Building Consent Process

Campbell Yule’s Blog » NZ Building Consent Process — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:13:28 +0000

[...] checking through the NBR Online the other day (no not the paid subscription – you can read here, here and here what Lance Wiggs has to say about that!) and I came across this article that caught [...]

By: The plunge - Idealog Blog - Jimungo

The plunge - Idealog Blog - Jimungo — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:03:24 +0000

[...] made it a certainty. There was some measured reaction too, notably from Bernard Hickey and Lance Wiggs. I thought I’d wait a week to see how the experiment [...]