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The Athletic, a subscription-based digital sports media company, will begin experimenting with putting some of its audio content in front of its paywall in an effort to expand its audience, a source familiar with the plans tells Axios.
What's new: The company will start by offering one episode a week to non-subscribers in front of the paywall and one behind. The goal is to offer people who might be less likely subscribe to The Athletic the ability to sample some of company's content.
A small portion of the free audio will include advertising. While this is just an experiment for now, the source notes that the company is likely to ramp up advertising efforts in the future.
The company is also launching 40 new podcasts on Tuesday, bringing its total podcast count to around 80 podcasts. By years end, the company hopes to have around 120 podcasts in total.
Our thought bubble: It's hard to market products with hard paywalls because consumers aren't able to sample the product before committing to buying it. While The Athletic does offer free trials and sign-up discounts, this offering really goes after people who never were open to paying to begin with.
What's new: The company will start by offering one episode a week to non-subscribers in front of the paywall and one behind. The goal is to offer people who might be less likely subscribe to The Athletic the ability to sample some of company's content.
A small portion of the free audio will include advertising. While this is just an experiment for now, the source notes that the company is likely to ramp up advertising efforts in the future.
The company is also launching 40 new podcasts on Tuesday, bringing its total podcast count to around 80 podcasts. By years end, the company hopes to have around 120 podcasts in total.
Our thought bubble: It's hard to market products with hard paywalls because consumers aren't able to sample the product before committing to buying it. While The Athletic does offer free trials and sign-up discounts, this offering really goes after people who never were open to paying to begin with.
STATISTICS
| Team/Season | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | OFF | DEF | TO | PF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not AvilableX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| SuperXFactor | 3 | 4 | 69 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 67 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
ACADEMIC HONORS
University Academic Honors
Honors are bestowed as recognition of outstanding academic achievement and as a means to further encourage sound scholarship. They are awarded to every undergraduate student attaining the required proficiency. For some awards, students also receive certificates.
INTENDED MAJOR / AREA OF STUDY
Honors are bestowed as recognition of outstanding academic achievement and as a means to further encourage sound scholarship. They are awarded to every undergraduate student attaining the required proficiency. For some awards, students also receive certificatesd as recognition of outstanding academic achievement and as a means to further encourage sound scholarship. They are awarded to every undergraduate student attaining the required proficiency. For some awards, students also receive certificates.
ACADEMIC STATUS
GPA
9
out of 4.0
CLASS RANK
4
out of 4.0
NCAA ELIGIBILITY #
100
GRADUATION YEAR
2009
PSAT
READING AND WRITING
90
MATH
78
TOTAL
189
SAT
READING AND WRITING
MATH
95
TOTAL
95
SAT SUBJECT TEST
SUBJECT
- TEST1 SUB1
SCORE
- TEST1 SUB2
ACT
COMPOSITE
50
ENGLISH
96
MATH
98
READING
95
WRITING
88
SCIENCE
80
TOTAL
300
Extra Curricular Activities
Unfortunately, extra curricular activities for students are increasingly relegated to the backseat nowadays, due to highly sedentary lifestyles. The phenomenon is dangerous since a sedentary lifestyle can have a severe and adverse impact on physical and mental health.
If you wish to develop an active lifestyle and learn several essential skills, I recommend you to try out some good co curricular activities. You may find it difficult to choose an extracurricular activity to match your interests and age.
Community Service
Though not technically considered a requirement, many colleges include community service as an unofficial requirement for acceptance. However, some colleges prefer work experience over community service, and some require that their students also continue community service for some specific number of hours to graduate. Some schools also offer unique "community service" courses, awarding credit to students who complete a certain number of community service hours.
Some academic honor societies, along with some fraternities and sororities in North America, require community service to join and others require each member to continue doing community service. Many student organizations exist for the purpose of community service, the largest of which is Alpha Phi Omega. Community service projects are also done by sororities and fraternities.
Work Experience
Work experience is the short term placement of secondary school students, generally from Years 9 and 10, with employers to provide insights into the industry and the workplace in which they are located. It provides students with the valuable opportunity to:
develop employability skills
explore possible career options
understand employer expectations
increase their self-understanding, maturity, independence and self-confidence.
Students are placed with employers primarily to observe and learn – not to undertake activities which require extensive training or expertise.
Commitment
Recent advances in dynamic spectrum sharing have led to renewed focus on the structure of regulatory games between a primary user and a secondary user of a spectrum band. The primary user has to decide to what extent it invokes the services of the regulator, and the secondary user has to decide how to operate in the spectrum band. This paper builds on a mathematical model for light-handed regulation using “spectrum jails” to show that the order of play and amount of commitment matters. A primary that can commit to its strategy before the game is able to increase its equilibrium payoff, even when the secondary best responds to the committed strategy. We compare the ensuing Stackelberg game with the simultaneous primary-secondary game. We also introduce a new concept of partial commitment by which the primary can only commit to a range of strategies using a finite number of bits. We show explicitly that the more the primary commits to, the more it benefits, and that Stackelberg commitment can be understood as a limit of infinite “commitment bits”.
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