The Athletic - Subscription - £1 per month for 12 months

Soarer · 09-09-2020 4:25pm #1

At this link.

Reverts to £7.99 afterwards.

Don't know how long this offer will last, but it's silly cheap at £1 a month.

Shred · 09-09-2020 4:51pm

That's a fantastic offer, I'm already a subscriber and pretty happy but at that price it's a no brainer if you're a sports fan imo.

Skud · 09-09-2020 5:16pm

great offer, is it an intro only offer?

dirtyden · 09-09-2020 6:07pm

What does it cover? Is it mainly US based sports?

bigron2109 · 09-09-2020 6:16pm

Thanks a lot . Signed up last year when this was half price . Cancelled my sub in September as it was due to renew in October for the full price .

Signed up using the link above and a new email address and went through fine. Just log out of the App or the Website if you have a account already if you want to get this offer.

martyos121 · 09-09-2020 6:32pm

Brilliant offer, thanks for posting. Like bigron, I signed up for the year at half price last September so I just signed up with a different email as well and cancelled my old one.

For anyone on the fence about signing up, it’s a fantastic site if you’re a football fan, well written and meaty articles covering every PL and Championship team as well as European leagues and a range of other sports outside football (their NBA and MMA writers in particular are top class).

maximoose · 09-09-2020 6:58pm

Just in time for renewal! Nice one thanks

mada999 · 09-09-2020 7:14pm

im already a subscriber of the Athletic.co.uk .... is this the same or just for american sports ?

martyos121 · 09-09-2020 7:17pm

mada999 wrote: »

im already a subscriber of the Athletic.co.uk .... is this the same or just for american sports ?

Same website entirely, you can use the same account for both US and UK domains.

mada999 · 09-09-2020 7:22pm

martyos121 wrote: »

Same website entirely, you can use the same account for both US and UK domains.

nice one cheers

Agent Coulson · 09-09-2020 7:48pm

Great deal thanks OP.

thenightman · 09-09-2020 8:00pm

Cheers for that. They have a great article about Ravel Morrison up at the moment that is worth this months €1.11 alone!

GalwayGrrrrrl · 09-09-2020 9:50pm

Is it a real magazine or online access?

FourFourRED · 09-09-2020 10:49pm

My £24 annual sub expires in December but I think it makes financial sense to sign up now with a new account, no guarantees it will be as cheap as this when I’m up for renewal.

franglan · 09-09-2020 11:17pm

FourFourFM wrote: »

My £24 annual sub expires in December but I think it makes financial sense to sign up now with a new account, no guarantees it will be as cheap as this when I’m up for renewal.

Yep I'm the same

torrevieja · 09-09-2020 11:47pm

GalwayGrrrrrl wrote: »

Is it a real magazine or online access?

Id Like to know too

shocksy · 10-09-2020 12:09am

Its online access only.

GDK_11 · 10-09-2020 7:37am

I’m not sure I would pay the 8 quid a month but £1 is value, signed up last night. There are some really good journalists like Rafa Honigstein, Daniel Taylor and Michael Cox and the American sports sections are excellent if that’s your thing.

Thanks OP

BKWDR · 10-09-2020 7:42am

Vpn gets you dollars off you visit in America. Same deal...

donnacha · 10-09-2020 8:05am

shocksy wrote: »

Its online access only.

Nope, you can use their app also. Sign up online, download the app and work away. I did this last night and it works for me.

JPA · 10-09-2020 8:09am

Does this give your access to their podcasts or are they already on Spotify etc?
Is there a big focus on the podcasts or is it primarily articles?

shocksy · 10-09-2020 8:26am

donnacha wrote: »

Nope, you can use their app also. Sign up online, download the app and work away. I did this last night and it works for me.

Yes and what's being on an app called? It's called being online. Christ almighty.

We weren't discussing web browsers or apps.

The posters asked was it a magazine to which the answer is no. It's ONLINE only.

Luckycharms_74 · 10-09-2020 8:46am

As posted above I signed up last year in Sept when it was half price . I cancelled the renewal this week and signed up to this offer.

Happy days

10-09-2020 10:26am

thanks OP great deal

BagheeraBlue · 10-09-2020 10:29am

Absolute rag with a clear agenda

dulpit · 10-09-2020 10:31am

Sweet, was waiting to see if there was going to be an offer like this. Thanks OP.

duffman13 · 10-09-2020 10:33am

Weirldy enough I was signed up for a year which actually already ended but I'm still a subscriber but haven't paid anything since Feb, only realised this when looking at my Google play account. Strange but I'm not complaining

duffman13 · 10-09-2020 10:33am

BagheeraBlue wrote: »

Absolute rag with a clear agenda

In what way and in relation to what? There's a huge number of contributors on the site so I'd find a specific agenda hard to fathom

Luckycharms_74 · 10-09-2020 10:34am

BagheeraBlue wrote: »

Absolute rag with a clear agenda

Thanks for the beautiful insight :rolleyes:

dubmick · 10-09-2020 10:35am

this is a great deal. I renewed for $40 during the summer.

Soarer · 10-09-2020 10:39am

duffman13 wrote: »

In what way and in relation to what? There's a huge number of contributors on the site so I'd find a specific agenda hard to fathom

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Thanks for the beautiful insight :rolleyes:

Just ignore it lads.

loyatemu · 10-09-2020 10:44am

dirtyden wrote: »

What does it cover? Is it mainly US based sports?

Football (soccer) coverage is international with excellent articles on English and European football and a number of writers formerly with the big English papers (e.g. Daniel Taylor ex of the Guardian).

Other than that it's mostly US sports, and Boxing.

I subbed on a decent annual deal last year but TBH I'm not reading it that much.

eclipsechaser · 10-09-2020 10:58am

BagheeraBlue wrote: »

Absolute rag with a clear agenda

I'm placing my money on this poster thinking it's "The Atlantic". Makes the comment even funnier.

Doodah7 · 10-09-2020 11:21am

eclipsechaser wrote: »

I'm placing my money on this poster thinking it's "The Atlantic". Makes the comment even funnier.

And why would a Trump lover get facts and accuracy in the way of a rant anyway...

Richard Roma · 10-09-2020 11:48am

Great deal, thanks!

ElNino · 10-09-2020 11:52am

Thanks OP. I had let my original annual subscription expire so I jumped on this. Their level of in-depth coverage of football is unrivaled.

Leslie91 · 10-09-2020 1:22pm

My sub was to renew in Oct at $59.99. I like the product a lot but assume I can get it a bit cheaper than that somehow. I paid $29.99 for first 12 mths and was happy to.

Asus X540L · 10-09-2020 2:00pm

So it's all weird yank sports like Gridiron, Baseball, Basketball etc?

Electric Nitwit · 10-09-2020 2:09pm

Asus X540L wrote: »

So it's all weird yank sports like Gridiron, Baseball, Basketball etc?

Nope, very good coverage of the Premier League. Decent for internationals, but not much on Ireland really. Not sure about other European leagues, but I think it's meant to be good

For a quid it's worth signing up, you can cancel anytime.

killbillvol2 · 10-09-2020 2:14pm

Asus X540L wrote: »

So it's all weird yank sports like Gridiron, Baseball, Basketball etc?

Given that you clearly can't read it's probably wasted on you.

fitzparker · 10-09-2020 3:03pm

I have it already. got it on black friday for €15 for the year

Really good for Boxing, MMA and Premier league/Scottish football.

I particularly like the interviews they do, im a newcastle fan so previous player ones have been good.

Their was a great one with Stephen Ireland last year also

Cape Clear · 10-09-2020 9:53pm

How good is their coverage of the Kilkenny Junior B football championship?

Esse85 · 10-09-2020 10:39pm

Is it access to all the sports and all articles?

s8n · 11-09-2020 8:50am

Cape Clear wrote: »

How good is their coverage of the Kilkenny Junior B football championship?

ridiculous question

ElNino · 11-09-2020 9:23am

Esse85 wrote: »

Is it access to all the sports and all articles?

Yes including their US sister site.

Oat23 · 11-09-2020 9:35am

The Athletic's business model seems to be seriously flawed. They are a step away from giving away subscriptions at this point. I've been subscribed for a few years now and every few months they seem to become more desperate to hold onto subscribers. Something's gotta give eventually but let's enjoy it until that day comes. This offer is unbeatable.

bugsyb4 · 11-09-2020 10:25am

Thanks OP great offer.

Was signed up until New Years for €26.99 but looked there and said renewal would be €64.99 which is way too much although excellent content on offer.

Same as other posters said signed up with different email to what I am using, will take the hit of paying for it twice for the next 4 months at an extra cost of €1.10 a month

:)

el Fenomeno · 11-09-2020 11:21am

Oat23 wrote: »

The Athletic's business model seems to be seriously flawed. They are a step away from giving away subscriptions at this point. I've been subscribed for a few years now and every few months they seem to become more desperate to hold onto subscribers. Something's gotta give eventually but let's enjoy it until that day comes. This offer is unbeatable.

I'd be interested to see the split between UK and US based services. In the US, it's big news if a good beat writer for a specific team or city is poached and people would legitimately pay to keep reading their work. Over here/in the UK, not so much. Paywall journalism is already barely keeping its head above water, there just isn't the same appetite for a specific reporter over here. Most people will just read the next (free) man up.

duffman13 · 11-09-2020 11:22am

Oat23 wrote: »

The Athletic's business model seems to be seriously flawed. They are a step away from giving away subscriptions at this point. I've been subscribed for a few years now and every few months they seem to become more desperate to hold onto subscribers. Something's gotta give eventually but let's enjoy it until that day comes. This offer is unbeatable.

They are flush with venture capitalist funds at the moment but even so apparently had 600k subscribers at the end of 2019. Even at the low intro price of 12 euro for the year thats 7.2million a year that would be loss making if that model was to stick around. Covid must be reducing subscriber numbers too

Electric Nitwit · 11-09-2020 12:20pm

duffman13 wrote: »

...apparently had 600k subscribers at the end of 2019

This offer is, apparently, to celebrate 1 million subscribers

ElNino · 11-09-2020 1:22pm

duffman13 wrote: »

They are flush with venture capitalist funds at the moment but even so apparently had 600k subscribers at the end of 2019. Even at the low intro price of 12 euro for the year thats 7.2million a year that would be loss making if that model was to stick around. Covid must be reducing subscriber numbers too

They have annual subscriptions of $60 million but are still not profitable. They have an interesting business model but I am not convinced that it will be sustainable in the long term with them doing such deep discounts.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/09/the-athletic-hits-1-million-subscribers-after-enduring-sports-shutdown.html

The Athletic - Subscription - £1 per month for 12 months

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