GB72
Money List Winner
Honest question here that I have thought about a little and sprung to mind with the thread on the new GM YouTube Channel.
In your opinion is there a danger of online content making the need to buy GM or other magazines redundant. Look at what is available for free online, you have the YouTube channel with gear reviews, interviews and tips, you have the forum, facebook at Twitter for opinion, comment, competitions etc and you have the internet in general for news as the company PR machines often have all of the pictures and information all over the interweb before there is any chance of a magazine article being written.
It is great that GM produce all of this content for free and that it is there at your fingertips but does it ever make you think about the need to spend your £4 a month or buy your subscription. After all, I no longer buy a newspaper as the content is all available for free and the content (other than opinion) tends to be out of date before it is even printed.
As far as GM is concerned, I am a luddite and I like to sit there with a magazine and read it but then again I am only just converting to e:readers etc. So, at my age I value the hard copy magazine and will continue to subscribe but I can also see younger or more tech savvy people being more than willing to get their dose of golf news and views online without the need to pay.
In your opinion is there a danger of online content making the need to buy GM or other magazines redundant. Look at what is available for free online, you have the YouTube channel with gear reviews, interviews and tips, you have the forum, facebook at Twitter for opinion, comment, competitions etc and you have the internet in general for news as the company PR machines often have all of the pictures and information all over the interweb before there is any chance of a magazine article being written.
It is great that GM produce all of this content for free and that it is there at your fingertips but does it ever make you think about the need to spend your £4 a month or buy your subscription. After all, I no longer buy a newspaper as the content is all available for free and the content (other than opinion) tends to be out of date before it is even printed.
As far as GM is concerned, I am a luddite and I like to sit there with a magazine and read it but then again I am only just converting to e:readers etc. So, at my age I value the hard copy magazine and will continue to subscribe but I can also see younger or more tech savvy people being more than willing to get their dose of golf news and views online without the need to pay.