[gringoDan]

The NYT's main competitors aren't other newspapers. Their competitors are Substack, Candy Crush, and Netflix.

As Byrne Hobart points out,

> "in their latest quarter almost 30% of their new digital subscriptions were for games, cooking, and Wirecutter, rather than news."

And a bit more cheekily:

> "When there's a negative New York Times article about a startup, one of the not-uncommon Tech Twitter jokes is that this constitutes bullying from an established, profitable unicorn with over $1bn in annual recurring revenue."

https://www.thediff.co/p/the-nyt-dead-trees-and-disruption (paywall)

[bigmattystyles]

It still blows my mind that you have to pay for Wirecutter nowadays. They ultimately end their articles with an affiliate link to their recommendation. I guess perhaps requiring a paid subscription quells any question of incentives, as in they're in it for the subscription money rather than the affiliate links. Still, it's odd, you could say the same thing about Consumer Reports but for some reason, I don't equate them in my mind - maybe it's because of how Wirecutter came up and the fact they have a deals page. Ultimately though it doesn't matter. I'll never subscribe to any NYT service again until they make it easy to cancel. Talk about dark pattern... yeesh.

[joegahona]

Wirecutter has a pretty generous paywall -- I think 10 articles.