What drives subscribing to premium in freemium services? A consumer value‐based view of differences between upgrading to and staying with premium

M Mäntymäki, AKMN Islam… - Information Systems …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fostering the conversion of free users to premium subscribers and retaining those premium
users are critical objectives for freemium service providers. Building on consumer value …

Service quality explains why people use freemium services but not if they go premium: An empirical study in free-to-play games

J Hamari, N Hanner, J Koivisto - International Journal of Information …, 2017 - Elsevier
During the last decade, the “freemium” business model has spread into a variety of services
especially online. However, service developers have faced a dilemma of balancing between …

Converting freemium customers from free to premium—the role of the perceived premium fit in the case of music as a service

TM Wagner, A Benlian, T Hess - Electronic Markets, 2014 - Springer
Freemium seems to be a promising solution for content providers to earn money now that
Web 2.0 users feel entitled to free services and content services like Spotify generally accept …

[HTML][HTML] " Why pay premium in freemium services?" A study on perceived value, continued use and purchase intentions in free-to-play games

J Hamari, N Hanner, J Koivisto - International Journal of Information …, 2020 - Elsevier
Freemium has become de facto business model for games and many other online services.
We investigate how consumers' perceived value is associated with their intention to use …

Comparing the perceived value of information and entertainment mobile services

M Pihlström, GJ Brush - Psychology & Marketing, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of perceived value in customer decision making is well known. However,
few studies assess empirically the direct effects of various perceived value dimensions on …

The effect of free sampling strategies on freemium conversion rates

OF Koch, A Benlian - Electronic Markets, 2017 - Springer
Freemium business models, where companies offer a free basic and a value-enhanced paid
version of a product, have become ubiquitous across software, games and a broad range of …

The zero‐price effect in freemium business models: The moderating effects of free mentality and price–quality inference

T Niemand, R Mai, S Kraus - Psychology & Marketing, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the digital world, many firms struggle in employing a freemium business model
(simultaneously offering restricted free options and full featured premium options). Although …

[图书][B] Freemium economics: Leveraging analytics and user segmentation to drive revenue

EB Seufert - 2013 - books.google.com
Freemium Economics presents a practical, instructive approach to successfully
implementing the freemium model into your software products by building analytics into …

Explaining and predicting the adoption intention of mobile data services: A value-based approach

MM Al-Debei, E Al-Lozi - Computers in Human Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
As mobile devices become more and more pervasive in our everyday life and their
capabilities resemble more and more of those of desktop computers with the added …

[PDF][PDF] From free to fee: exploring the antecedents of consumer intention to switch to paid online content

Z Li, Y Cheng - Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 2014 - jecr.org
As a hybrid revenue model seems better for generating revenue for online content providers
than purely either an advertising revenue model or a pay-for-content model, many online …