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2.2. Small money, big impact? – Digital Tipping

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Tipping is often treated as casually as it is paid. What exactly tipping is cannot even be defined by a precise legal term, but is more akin to a “moral agreement”, as historian Winfried Speitkamp describes it, whose small volume Der Rest ist für Sie! is one of the very few German academic publications on the history of tipping. However, tipping is anything but a trivial matter: 10 percent on every “tipable” transaction, in a restaurant or in a cab, at least in Germany; in the USA, as is well known, it is even twice as common, around 20 percent. In economic terms, this adds up to astonishing sums – more than 2 billion euros per year in German restaurants alone – which are hardly regulated in Germany and, above all, do not have to be taxed.

In the digital context, the nature of the incidental, almost hidden micropayment has shifted. Will digital technologies give momentum to tipping or its decline? We explore this question in the second episode of our series on micropayments.

Digitalgelddickicht Season Small Money – Episode 2 (German only) | 28. Februar 2025

Guests

Sascha Hoffmann is Professor of Business Administration and Online Management at Hochschule Fresenius. One of his research focuses on digital product management. In 2021, he published an empirical study in which he reveals the correlation between smaller gifts in restaurants and larger counter-gifts (i.e. tipping).

Katrin Lindow-Schröder is a fundraising officer at the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau. She has helped to introduce digital payment options in the regional church community.

Further Information


The article on Uber’s “no-tip policy” quoted in the podcast can be read here. The studies by the two marketing researchers Hansen/Warren can be read here, as can the study by Jägermeister Mast. The “Swiss discussion” about tipping can be read in more detail in this NZZ article.

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2.1. Small money, big impact? – Micropayments in journalism

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Journalism has changed fundamentally with digitalization. In part in its content, in its formats, and also and perhaps especially in its infrastructure and the way in which it is financed. Traditional subscription models of daily or weekly newspapers, for example, have fallen behind, and the secure pillar of income from advertising has also crumbled. Although digital equivalents have emerged, they are far from being able to fully replace the old ones. Completely different business models are needed – and these have developed and continue to develop.

In this episode, we will ask: What role do small digital participation models play in journalism? Do small payments, does the idea of a “mini-payment” help to finance it into a new phase of serious journalistic work? Or are the effects of digitalization leading traditional and even less traditional media into precariousness, and are the payment models based on small payments changing them for the worse, towards pure entertainment? And what does “micropayment” actually mean in journalism – one-off payments, subscriptions or individual purchases?

Season Small Money – Episode 2 | February 28, 2025

Guests

Ann-Kathrin Liedtke is head of online payment strategies and memberships at taz, where she has worked since 2016. Before that, she was responsible for the taz blogs and program editor at taz lab.


Sebastian Esser is Managing Director of the Steady platform. He has also been co-chairman of the cooperative and editor of the magazine Krautreporter since 2014.

André Peschke co-founded “The Pod” with Jochen Gebauer, one of the most successful gaming podcasts in Germany, after being video editor-in-chief at Gamestar.

Further Information:

The Colombia Journalism Review article quoted in the podcast can be read here. A more in-depth interview with media researcher Christian-Mathias Wellbrock can be found here.

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2.1. Small money, big impact? – Micropayments in journalism

Cover Digitalgelddickicht Staffel 2 Folge 1

Journalism has changed fundamentally with digitalization. In part in its content, in its formats, and also and perhaps especially in its infrastructure and the way in which it is financed. Traditional subscription models of daily or weekly newspapers, for example, have fallen behind, and the secure pillar of income from advertising has also crumbled. Although digital equivalents have emerged, they are far from being able to fully replace the old ones. Completely different business models are needed – and these have developed and continue to develop.

In this episode, we will ask: What role do small digital participation models play in journalism? Do small payments, does the idea of a “mini-payment” help to finance it into a new phase of serious journalistic work? Or are the effects of digitalization leading traditional and even less traditional media into precariousness, and are the payment models based on small payments changing them for the worse, towards pure entertainment? And what does “micropayment” actually mean in journalism – one-off payments, subscriptions or individual purchases?

Season Small Money – Episode 2 | February 28, 2025

Guests

Ann-Kathrin Liedtke is head of online payment strategies and memberships at taz, where she has worked since 2016. Before that, she was responsible for the taz blogs and program editor at taz lab.


Sebastian Esser is Managing Director of the Steady platform. He has also been co-chairman of the cooperative and editor of the magazine Krautreporter since 2014.

André Peschke co-founded “The Pod” with Jochen Gebauer, one of the most successful gaming podcasts in Germany, after being video editor-in-chief at Gamestar.

Further Information:

The Colombia Journalism Review article quoted in the podcast can be read here. A more in-depth interview with media researcher Christian-Mathias Wellbrock can be found here.

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