{"id":5503,"date":"2019-02-05T14:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocialelement.agency\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2023-08-17T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:05:00","slug":"pay-to-play-subscription-model-for-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocialelement.agency\/pay-to-play-subscription-model-for-social-media","title":{"rendered":"Pay-to-play: would a subscription model work for social media?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pay-to-play\"
\nIf we don\u2019t want to give our data to social networks, is it time they considered a different revenue model? <\/span>
\nThe popular saying is that if you\u2019re not the customer, you\u2019re the product. We know the drill: in exchange for our free use of its platform, a social network sells our data to its advertisers. We\u2019ve agreed to this, and many people have become complacent about what they share, who has access to it and what they can do with that information.<\/span>
\nBut then we saw the networks getting complacent with our data, too. In the wake of data scandals, there\u2019s a small but interesting demand for alternative social network models (that we\u2019ve talked about on this blog), such as: <\/span><\/p>\n