Tag Archives | business model

YouTube turns freemium

By 13 November 2015 0

On October 28th YouTube launched its new subscription service YouTube Red. So far it is only available for viewers in the United States, who currently can test the service in a free one-month trial. Afterwards, YouTube Red will be priced at $9.99 a month. What is YouTube Red all about? On its website the Google […]

Business models for digital goods: video games (episodic games)

By 25 March 2015 12

In a recent post on IPdigIT Paul Belleflamme raised the question of what might be appropriate business models for digital goods in the “culture of free”. This is the second post of a two-piece series in which I will have a closer look at the video game industry. Over the past decade many things have […]

Business models for digital goods: video games (free-to-play games)

By 18 March 2015 33

In a recent post on IPdigIT Paul Belleflamme raised the question of what might be appropriate business models for digital goods in the “culture of free”. This is the first post of a two-piece series in which I will have a closer look at the video game industry.  Over the past decade many things have […]

Will we all soon be hooked on MOOCs? (2) Business models

By 3 April 2013 3

This post is the second of a series of three posts written by Julien Jacqmin. Julien Jacqmin is a PhD student in Economics from the Economics School of Louvain, and is affiliated with the CEREC/Université Saint-Louis – Brussels. Julien’s dissertation is on the economics of education/science and on higher education policy. As an expert on these questions, he is well […]