Enjoy weekly curated tech content and discounts: Introducing TIA Premium

Update – 26 September 2018: We’ve officially launched Tech in Asia Subscription. To support independent journalism and our work, you can subscribe here. Many thanks in advance! 🎉

Note to readers on 11 November 2013 when we first tried subscription:

Some of you told us you needed a more enticing reason to pay after we introduced our first voluntary subscription option back in March. We heard you, and now we’re announcing TIA Subscription, our revamped and much-improved subscription service! We’ve got a lot more to offer, and we think we’ve created a service that offers real value for anyone interested in Asia’s tech industry.

The idea behind the new TIA Premium is to not just give you news about Asia’s tech industry, but to actually help you get inside it by giving you discounted access to some of the coolest tech products and digital services available across the region.

In fact, we want to make sure that TIA Premium actually pays for itself. For just $9.99 per month (or $99 per year), TIA Premium subscribers will receive great deals for useful digital services, from big tech companies to the region’s coolest startups. Awesome brands that are already participating in TIA Subscription right now include Airbnb, McAfee, Qoo10, PiktoChart, VanityTrove, Pinch, Drive.sg, Freelancer, DropMyEmail, Learnemy, Snacktools, and Tuts+Premium. These deals and discounts already total up to $250 in savings, and each month our team will be bringing more brands and exclusive deals to TIA Premium.

Our weekly curated newsletter will remain a part of the TIA Premium package, because we know that’s something readers like. The exclusive newsletter is a convenient single-page email that brings you all the important tech news across Asia from that particular week, specially handpicked by our team. The email open rate for this newsletter is often as high as 75 percent, so that’s something we’re definitely going to keep doing for TIA Premium subscribers.

And that’s not the end of the TIA Premium story. We’ll be adding new benefits to the service as we go along, so subscribers should also be looking forward to even more exclusive savings, deals, and good content!

Of course, TIA Premium is also just a good way to support your friendly neighborhood tech blog. This additional income from subscriptions will allow us to do more with the blog without resorting to obnoxious paywalls or big noisy pop-up ads. We look forward to hiring more writers, covering more stories, and doing cooler things with our data. If you like what you read, join the club and be a TIA Subscriber today!