Arianna Huffington: Only subsription that works is selling “weird porn.” With video (of the quote, not of porn weird or otherwise)

HuffPo:

The Huffington Post will not be seeking subscription revenues anytime soon, Arianna Huffington told Kara Swisher on stage yesterday at the All Things D Conference.
“Unless you’re selling porn — especially weird porn — I would not go the subscription route,” Arianna told the crowd.
It’s advice we think the woman sitting next to Arianna on stage, Katharine Weymouth of the Washington Post, will probably have to eventually ignore.
But then, Katharine’s media company has a different cost base than the HuffPo, spending $1 million dollars a year on a Baghdad bureau, for example.

Posted by on May 29th, 2009 at 10:25 am


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