Applications are currently closed, but please register your interest using the form below.
Who is the Programme for?
This is a hands-on three-day virtual programme with an optional fourth day for 1:1 consulting. The programme is designed for magazine publishers with an existing base of digital readers, typically >250,000 monthly unique viewers. Alternatively, if you already generate >10% of your revenue from digital readers, this programme is also likely to be suitable for you and help you to realise your D2C ambitions.
Each day will require 7 hours of dedicated time. You should assign 3-5 individuals to the team, with a mix of editorial and advertising / commercial departments.
We have now worked with 80+ publishers across nine previous editions. The programme has received consistently excellent quantitative and qualitative feedback from previous participants, achieving a 4.6 CSAT score (customer satisfaction score) on average in 2022, and publishers have seen a strong improvement in key subscriptions business metrics.
What is the outcome?
Publishers will leave with:
- An action plan to realise a key business ambition
- Key next steps with milestones, outcomes & owners
- Exclusive in-depth insights and feedback from FT experts across data, editorial and marketing
- Conduct in-depth impact / risk / effort assessment for their North Star objective, using the FT’s proprietary NS tool
- A network of peers and experts for support beyond the programme

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“Setting a North Star goal is a first step of streamlining all your efforts to grow towards a common goal as a publisher. This program offered us as a smaller publication the necessary insights to kick-start the development of our North Star goal. We for sure will be further implementing the hypothesis/experiment mindset to help figure out if a new idea is worth developing.”
Dorien Luyckx
Strategist, EOS
“In the rat race of journalism and media in a world of countless opportunities, the North Star Foundation Program helps to take a step back and focus on strategy. And it does so in a hands-on way. Don't hesitate...”
Koen Vlaeminck
Chief editor, Kerknet.be
“Finding a new North Star really helped us in developing a new vision and goals.”
Thomas Webel
Digital, Onetz.de