B
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30%
30% -- follower growth rate for Apple News publishers using FlatPlan (2023)
Existing Apple News publishers who join FlatPlan see a 30% to 40% increase in new followers within their first three months.
- Self-reported vendor claim without stated sample size or research methodology
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Value
30%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2023
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
FlatPlan
Primary
Tier B
https://flatplan.io/articles/welcoming-celtic-football-club-to-apple-news-giving-readers-access-to-a… ↗
Source Article
Welcoming Celtic Football Club to Apple News: giving readers access to a historic football club
Case Studies
October 26, 2023
Football is more than just a sport, it’s a way of life. It sounds hopelessly romantic but for Celtic Football Club, that romanticism has a charitable story behind it. Celtic FC was founded after an 1887 initiative pushed by Brother Walfrid to feed the poor and hungry in…
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FlatPlan
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Methodology
Vendor-reported range (30-40%) from FlatPlan's own customer data; midpoint 35% used. Increase in new Apple News followers attributed to inline Follow buttons during the first three months after publishers join FlatPlan. No sample size or methodology disclosed.
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Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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Apple News publishers using FlatPlan: 30% follower growth rate. Source: FlatPlan (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/flatplan-follow-button-follower-increase-2023
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