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Zooming in on those publishers who are active online, the table below shows the key revenue streams ranked by their predicted rate of growth over the next year. Generally, traditional site advertising is showing slower growth than other forms of funding such as email ads and sponsorship. Paid-for content is also showing strong growth, even though a later question suggests that the amount of paid-for content is not increasing significantly – a matter of leveraging more value out of existing content.

Over the next year, how do you see each of these revenue streams performing?

Revenue StreamGrowing Static Reducing TOTAL
Email advertising / email newsletters79% 19% 2% 100%
Paid-for online content77% 20% 3% 100%
Sponsorship72% 20% 8% 100%
Display advertising67% 23% 10% 100%
ecommerce (products & services sold from the site)65% 31% 4% 100%
Syndication of editorial content62% 34% 4% 100%
Subscription sales for print products59% 32% 9% 100%
Classified advertising58% 27% 15% 100%


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I know that we have to go more fully down the online route. But I would sleep better at night if I could see what the hard financial return was going to be.

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