Numerama+ is here. And it’s much more than Numerama in yellow.
It is with great pride that we present to you today Numerama+. Pride, because this project has been a guiding principle of our desires for many years and further amplifies our values and our principles regarding online information. We wish that Numerama remains free and prevent quality information from being found everywhere on the web behind paywalls. But we also want to offer something else for our readers who have followed us for years or who are just discovering and enjoying our media.
More than a premium or a classic subscription, Numerama+ is our way of responding to your requests: innovations at the heart of the Numerama experience, a concrete alternative to advertising, the pursuit of our requirements regarding the quality of information and features improving your reading comfort. With, at the heart of the offer, a first exclusive newsletter.
Numerama+, a subscription that evolves
Would you subscribe to Canal+ or Apple TV+ if the content was the same from month to month? Would you wait for an update to your operating system if it didn’t bring new uses? Would you stay on World of Warcraft without new adventures to explore?
If you answer negatively to these questions, you have understood the essence of Numerama+. A media subscription that gives you today access to content and features and which will be enriched year after year, update after update, season after season.
By offering you this offer inspired by the modern subscriptions to which you already subscribe, Numerama can continue to offer all of its articles free of charge.
This is one of our strong commitments, which we have been repeating for years: if the entire quality web is blocked behind paywalls, we will leave out those who cannot pay for these subscriptions. They will then be left exclusively with the content fast food amplified by algorithms having definitively put aside the claimed ethics of their creators. And we know that AI, in our sector, is a double-edged tool: the best is ahead of us, but also, probably, the worst.
Clearly, Numerama+ allows us to claim that free information has a cost. And that many articles, in the future, will exist thanks to members.
The Always More newsletter
If there is nothing less for all our readers, there is obviously more for Numerama+ members. After #Règle30, Watt Else and Artificielles, we are launching the Très Plus newsletter.
In the program ? An editorial by Marie Turcan, editor-in-chief of Numerama, on THE hot topic of the moment. It will be followed by a section “The + / The –”, presenting the pros and cons of the news of the weekin order to have the keys to debate in society.
Finally, this first Numerama+ newsletter will end with a single reading recommendation that meets simple specifications: sharing with you the article that the entire editorial team has read to be at the forefront of its monitoring.
Summary by AI, verified by Numerama
Our Artificial newsletter gave us another idea for Numerama+ members: let an AI summarize our articles in three points. But, unlike what we can see on a browser like Arc or directly in ChatGPT, we check in advance the veracity and relevance of each line of text written by our AI.
It is this collaboration with the machine that we consider lasting and creating value for our readers. : Studies have shown that summarizing news articles increases reading time. And it’s completely logical: if the summary interests you and attracts your attention, you will a priori want to know the details of the story.
These summaries in three bullet points therefore offer Numerama+ members a new hierarchy of information and another way of entering an article. In addition to allowing the association of generative artificial intelligence with the ethics of a media.
Numerama without advertising
Everything has been said: for years we have been keen to build an alternative offer to advertising, requested by the community. Numerama+ allows this and this functionality is at the heart of our offer. Between the ads and the temptation of an adblocker, you will now have a third way that directly supports the work of our team.
And obviously, Numerama+ members will have an exclusive theme in premium colors.
Zen mode, the comfort feature
How can we further improve the readability of our articles, after our 2021 redesign? Zen mode is there for that. He removes the colors, the right bar on the computer and redoes the layout for peaceful reading.
Our articles in a complete RSS feed
In 2018, a long-distance sailor asked us if it was possible to generate a complete RSS feed for him to continue reading us during his long stays at sea. He used to use RSS feed readers to read the online press, to limit its very expensive data consumption.
We responded positively to his request and this sailor became our first user of a complete RSS feed, containing all of our articles. If you use a feed reading application, Numerama+ offers all of our articles directly in your app, thanks to a unique personalized flow. It is even possible to choose which universes to receive as well as the quantity of articles (all or the essentials).
Exclusive promotional offers
For Numerama+ members, we obtain exclusive discounts from our partners, in the form of coupons or privileged access. At launch, NordPass and Canal+ have decided to offer you Numerama+ VIP offers to benefit from their services and content. As with the functionalities, we aim to enrich this section over time.
Numerama+, how much does it cost?
For this launch, a Founder’s pack allows you to benefit from Numerama+ for two years at the exceptional price of €69.90. If you want to support our media even more, you can adjust the price of this pack as you wish.
Normally, Numerama+ will cost €39.90 per year or €4.90 per month, without commitment. A Numerama++ support offer of €1,000 is also available and allows generous members to visit our Paris offices and have lunch with us.
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