Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
New York Times Q2 Digital Ad Revenue Slips as Online Subscribers Grow
thewrap.comThe New York Times Company said its digital-only subscriptions leaped 36% in the second quarter, offsetting a nearly 7% decline in print subscriptions over the past year, but digital advertising revenue slipped 2.4%.The company reported adjusted earnings of 24 cents per share, soundly topping the average 19 cents per share that analysts were expecting, according to Yahoo Finance.
Total revenue for the second quarter rose 11.5% to $555.7 million, from $498.5 million in the 2021 second quarter.That included a 13.1% jump in subscription revenue to $383.6 million, and a 4.1% gain in advertising revenue to $117.4 million.But digital advertising revenue fell 2.4% to $69.3 million, though it was up 3.4% from the first quarter.
The drop was offset by a 15% spike in print advertising revenue, to $48.1 million. Subscription gains were all on the digital side.The company ended the quarter with 9.17 million paid subscribers, up 30.9%, but that included just 760,000 print subscribers, a 6.7% drop in newspaper subscriptions from the 2021 second quarter.
Digital only subscriptions, however, surged 36% to 8.4 million, from 6.2 million last year. Compared with the first quarter, digital subscriptions rose by 82,000, while print subscriptions fell by 20,000.A bright spot in the results was the 26% gain in multiproduct digital subscribers, or those who sign up for The Athletic, games, cooking and Wirecutter products in addition to the digital news product.
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