{"id":65635,"date":"2026-07-02T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/media-briefing-surveillance-pricing-laws-are-coming-for-dynamic-subscription-strategies\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:10:21","slug":"media-briefing-surveillance-pricing-laws-are-coming-for-dynamic-subscription-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/media-briefing-surveillance-pricing-laws-are-coming-for-dynamic-subscription-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Briefing: \u2018Surveillance pricing\u2019 laws are coming for dynamic subscription strategies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Briefing looks at whether the era of quietly charging subscribers different prices for the same news subscription may be coming to an end, as a lawsuit over \u201csurveillance pricing\u201d and new legislation in New York put publishers\u2019 subscription pricing tactics under fresh scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>WTF is \u201csurveillance pricing\u201d for subscription publishers?<\/p>\n<p>Google threatens to cut publishers out of new AI partnerships, New York Times amends lawsuit against OpenAI, and more.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WTF is \u201csurveillance pricing\u201d?<\/h2>\n<p>Publishers may advertise a single subscription price on their websites, but in practice subscribers pay a range of prices due to promotional, introductory and retention discounts. Now some of the tactics behind those prices could be challenged by recent legislation in New York.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/media-briefing-surveillance-pricing-laws-are-coming-for-dynamic-subscription-strategies\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">Continue reading it on digiday.com<\/a> and subscribe to continue reading content like this.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Briefing looks at whether the era of quietly charging subscribers different prices for the same news subscription may be coming to an end, as a lawsuit over \u201csurveillance pricing\u201d and new legislation in New York put publishers\u2019 subscription pricing tactics under fresh scrutiny. WTF is \u201csurveillance pricing\u201d for subscription publishers? Google threatens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}